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2) Catch a fire
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The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
3) Skin
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When Sandra, a dark-skinned child born to white South African parents, grows up and falls in love with an African man, it causes turmoil in her community and within her family.
4) District 9
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Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
6) Primeval
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An American news crew is determined to capture the legendary 25-foot man-eating crocodile and stop his demonic rampage. They travel deep within the darkest reaches of Africa to hunt their prey. But Gustave, as the native call him, is also on the hunt - always on the move, always elusive, always hungry for human flesh.
11) Bopha!
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A sergeant in South Afrida's police force finds his world torn apart as his son discovers the impact of apartheid and his father's role in enforcing it.
12) Duma
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The powerful tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and a courageous young boy named Xan. Xan faces the true test of love when he must cross the wilds of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home.
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Perfectionist Nandi seems to have the New South African Dream life within her grasp, a promotion to partner in a major firm, an upcoming marriage, the perfect house. But it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly makes her happy and then fight to get it.
15) The forgiven
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While assisting in the investigation of a teenage girl's murder, Archbishop Desmond Tutu travels to a maximum-security prison to question a notorious murderer who may have witnessed the crime.
16) Endgame
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Working for P.W. Botha, Dr. Neil Barnard opens talks with imprisoned Nelson Mandela. But lesser known are the secret talks that take place in a rural English manor house. Both sides may win or lose all, including their own lives. Botha learns of the British talks and, with the inevitable demise of apartheid, he intends to control the endgame by using the tactics of divide and rule. Against all the odds, a precious arena of frail trust between the...
17) Red dust
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While successful prosecutor Sarah Barcant returns home to a rural town in South Africa, former deputy Dirk Hendricks is on the way to meet Alex Mpondo, a prisoner he tortured, and soon, the lives of these three people will be connected by the Truth Commission.
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Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up dead, Maria and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie,...
19) Invictus
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Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
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