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- DirectorOliver HermanusStarsKai Luke BrummerBarbara-Marié ImmelmanMichael KirchA young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
- DirectorDavid ListerStarsLeon SchusterBill FlynnCasper de VriesKwagga Robbertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Braddock D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Doon Robbertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their late father.
- DirectorTom CleggStarsJohn SavageWilliam HickeyMia SaraA veteran reporter is investigating the disappearance of a photo-journalist who was covering a civil war in Africa. The only clue is a roll of film he left behind. The reporter soon realizes he may have bitten more than he can chew.
- DirectorRegardt van den BerghStarsArnold VoslooEric NobbsFrank Dankert1980s South African action comedy shot mostly in Afrikaans, one of South Africa's 11 indigenous languages. The main character, played by Arnold Vosloo, is a spoilt young man from a rich family, just finished with school, and conscripted to two years' army service, as most defensible young men were forced to do in the '80s. The movie revolves around the young rebel's anti-establishment antics in frustrating his superiors, trying to avoid military service with his new-found comrades-at-arms, and charming an inquisitive spiky-haired reporter (Janie du Plessis).
- DirectorJames FargoStarsRichard HarrisRichard RoundtreeJoan CollinsThe South African businessman David Swansey (Richard Harris) is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes patriot Gideon Marunga (Richard Roundtree) an angry man.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsChase MooreMaria GeelbooiArie VerveenThe tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsStanley BakerStuart WhitmanSusannah YorkAfter a small aircraft crashes in the Kalahari Desert, one of the seven passengers decides that his survival chances would increase if he eliminates the other men in the group.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsRichard JohnsonHonor BlackmanJeremy KempA former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly being caught by the authorities in Malta, he is eager to recoup his losses. When a former colleague appears and tells a wild story about smuggling diamonds out of South West Africa, he sees his chance to make a lot of money. Accompanied by the wife of a diamond prospector and a few shady characters he embarks on a quest to retrieve the diamonds. The only problem is that nobody trusts anybody else and the only way to retrieve the diamonds is to navigate the dangerous waters of the skeleton coast, a place where few ships have ever survived. To complicate things further, he has some very good reasons for not going there related to a mission he undertook there during the war.
- DirectorCharles BurnettStarsMaria AbnerPaulina AkweneRod AlexanderThe fight for Namibias liberation after the colonialisation and the genocide commited by Germany and Britain.
- DirectorDesiree Kahikopo-MeiffretStarsGirley JazamaJan-Barend ScheepersSunet Van WykA story of hope borne from love grown in a forbidding time.
- DirectorTim HuebschleStarsElize de WeeArmas ShivutePieter GreeffDuring the dry and desolate Namibian winter a tough cop is hot on the heels of an ice-cold killer. Her investigations unravel when a reporter publishes dark secrets from her shady past. But the cop is determined to catch the killer, even if she has to break the law.
- DirectorHans WernerStarsBirge SchadeWalter SittlerRalf Bauer
- DirectorEgon GüntherStarsJacques BreuerEdwin NoelJürgen HoltzSet in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherGirley JazamaPeter SimonischekEnd of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony "German Southwest Africa" to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.
- DirectorGerhard UysStarsEddie DoreyRod AlexanderPaulus MasukuThe OvaHimba tribe of the Namib desert, descendants of the Ancient Egyptians from the era of Queen Nefertiti, and once the richest nomadic tribe in Africa, find themselves on the brink of extinction. Trapped in the 1904 Herero-Nama war, they flee and settle in the godforsaken wastes of Kaokoland. Weary of the name 'OvaHimba' - which means 'beggars' - Chief Nguzu has a strategy for resolving their plight.
- DirectorPerivi KatjaviviStarsGirley JazamaDawie EngelbrechtRoya DiehlIn the stark desert landscape of the Kalahari a troubled police officer battles to keep her small town from being ripped apart by a horrific murder and the ghosts from a colonial past.
- DirectorOshoveli ShipohStarsDavid NdjaveraClaudine De GrootMaximilian Kadeen KaosebHairareb is a unique portrayal of love and materialism in a time of devastating drought. An aging farmer weds a beautiful, and materialistic young bride, in a bid to save his farm from a devastating drought. Tragedy follows as the unlikely pairing struggle to untangle their growing feelings of love from their originally nefarious motives, both harboring secrets that can destroy the others' hopes and reveal their greatest fears. Set in a dry and harsh landscape, capturing the desperation and aching thirst of the land and the people that inhabit it, the story is brought to life by the delicate portrayal of uncontrolled greed and cunning, tempered by naivete and innocence, and ultimately the genuine affection that grows between the lead characters.