Best South African Movies...

In a future Earth in which aliens are isolated in a remote ghetto, a government agent finds himself banished there.

Meet Hanna, a teenage girl, and her unconventional family. Her mother is a painter; her father Gavin is a gay fashion designer; her stepfather Beyers is a seasoned actor and the father of Hanna's half-brother Tibo. Then there are 8-year-old Amos and 16-year-old Yann, compliments of Beyers and his ex-wife Margot. Hanna creates imaginary characters, a reflection of her alter ego and a family the total opposite of her own. Hanna's mother and stepfather take the family on their delayed honeymoon, which turns into a series of events, mishaps and family bonding. They end up stranded in a old country house with nowhere to go and no one else to turn to but one another.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

The past and present collide when a kid from the mean streets of Cape Town is inducted into the gravity defying world of flying trapeze.

It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school.

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.

The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.

After her fiancé commits suicide and she is raped on the night before their wedding, Tessa walks through the fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the eve of their would-be wedding day. Little by little, she gathers more information in an attempt to find the rapist's identity.

This affirming story of one womans struggle to free herself from the past, and how that affects the small fishing village where she lives, shows that faith can move mountains, or unmake them. When the seamstress Klara loses her father and her fiancé at sea, she decides she never wants to see the ocean again. She builds her house behind a huge sand dune, and even refuses to eat fish. Several years later, however, she receives news that makes her start carting away the dune, bucket load by bucket load. It turns out her boyfriend is alive, and that hes been living in Cape Town for the past six years. He ran off because he made a local girl pregnant a pregnancy attributed to the local schoolmaster. As the villagers watch Klara move the dune, they begin examining their own lives, and the entire community undergoes a wondrous rejuvenation.

A coloured woman in South Africa finds a white baby on her doorstep and raises him as her own. Nine years later, he is discovered and taken away.

Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working-class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their command insecurities, both physical and financial, the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Promised Land is the story one man's journey to find truth... and one community's desperate struggle to hide from it. The script is based on an award winning novel by Karel Schoeman.