Zulu (2013)

Director: Jerome Salle

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Orlando Bloom

Ali Neuman survived the violence that rocked Apartheid era South Africa when he was a child to become head of the homicide branch of the Cape Town pol... Read more

Yesterday (2004)

Director: Darrell Roodt

Starring: Leleti Khumalo, Kenneth Khambula, Lihle Mvelase, Harriet Lenabe, Camilla Walker

The first major feature film to be made entirely in the Zulu language, writer/director Darrell Roodt returned to his homeland to tell a truly African... Read more

White Lion (2010)

Director: Michael Swan

Starring: John Kani, Jamie Barlett, Thabo Malema

Filmed on location and and starring 'real' untrained South African Lions, White Lion is the story of a young Shangaan named Gisani who finds himself d... Read more

We Are Together (2006)

Director: Paul Taylor

'We Are Together' tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who overcome hardship and loss with music. Filmed over a period of thre... Read more

Wah-Wah (2005)

Director: Richard E Grant

Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson, Julie Walters,...

South African-born actor Richard E Grant makes his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical comedy/drama set against the colonial British wit... Read more

U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha (2005)

Director: Mark Dornford-May

Starring: Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Lungelwa Blou, Zweilungile Sidloyi, Andries Mba...

A vibrant and cinematic re-telling of Bizet's famous opera, set in modern South Africa, and starring the sublime Pauline Malefane as the eponymous cig... Read more

Tsotsi (2005)

Director: Gavin Hood

Starring: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto, Kenneth Nkosi, Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Ngqobe, Z...

Tsotsi, (a slang word for 'thug'), is a Johannesberg delinquent whose life has been a series of abandonments and abuse, resulting in a young man alrea... Read more

The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)

Director: Ralph Nelson

Starring: Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Rutger Hauer, Saeed Jaffrey, Sidney Poitier, Pr...

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine deliver powerhouse performances in this provocative thriller set in Apartheid South Africa, where racial tension is a... Read more

The Salvation (2014)

Director: Kristian Levring

Starring: Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt

1870, America. Danish immigrant Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) has been waiting for years to bring his wife and son to the United States. When he finally succee... Read more

The Pirates of Somalia (2017)

Director: Bryan Buckley

Starring: Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Evan Peters, Barkhad Abdi

In 2008, rookie Canadian journalist Jay Bahadur's impulsive plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia provides the first close-up look at who... Read more