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1) District 9
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
3) Beast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
4) Rogue
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Team leader O'Hara leads a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O'Hara's squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebels, and the horde of ravenous, enraged lions they encounter.
5) Blended
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren and Jim agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again. But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Afrikaans
Description
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, and emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage, and parental...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Southern Sotho
Description
2020 Sundance Winner: World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking, 2019 Venice Film Festival, MUBI selection. In the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow named Mantoa eagerly awaits her son's return from working in the South African mines, only to learn of his demise instead. Yearning for her death after the loss of her last remaining family member, she puts her affairs in order and makes arrangements to be buried in the...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story about the origins of Ebola, a highly infectious and deadly virus from the central African rainforest and its arrival on U.S. soil in 1989. When this killer suddenly appeared in monkeys in a scientific research lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., there was no known cure.
Series
Criterion collection volume 953
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Xhosa
Description
"Brimming with sex and violence, The Wound, is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa's Xhosa culture. Every year, the tribe's young men are brought to the mountains of the Eastern Cape to participate in an ancient coming-of-age ritual. Xolani, a quiet and sensitive factory worker (played by openly gay musician Nakhane Touré), is assigned to guide Kwanda, a city boy from Johannesburg sent by his father to be toughened up,...
11) A united kingdom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
An African Prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. Akeem's regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a ₁Joe job₂ at a fast-food restaurant.
13) Africa
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented look at the continent of Africa, as seen through the eyes of the African people. Experience the skills needed to survive, not only the climate, but the social and economic conditions as well.
14) Touki bouki
Series
Criterion collection volume 685
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Wolof
Description
Anta and Mory are young lovers fed up with Dakar and plan to escape to France, which they imagine to be paradisiacal, but reality and surreality place obstacles in their path at every turn.
15) U-Carmen
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Xhosa
Description
The story of the doomed affair between Carmen, a cigarette factory worker, and a police sergeant, set in the pool halls, bars, courtyards and barracks of South Africa.
16) The oblong box
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Coffins, blood, and live corpses! A gasping, gnawing, heart-stopping evil lies buried in The Oblong Box. Do you dare unearth its wrath? Vincent Price and Christopher Lee are at their terrifying best as a plantation owner with a shocking family secret...and a wealthy doctor desperate to continue his morbid experiments on human flesh in Edgar Allan Poe₂s classic tale of the living dead! Price returns to his English manor from an African trip with...
17) Fried Barry
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Barry is a drug-addled degenerate who, after yet another bender, gets abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as his alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as Barry's alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.
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