Popular + South Africa

5 Best Movies From South Africa

On-brand anxiety-inducing thrills from the Safdie Brothers

Uncut Gems (2019)


The true, transfixing story of a musician who lived his life without knowing he was famous


Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

The Siege of Jadotville (2016)


Quite literally a no-words documentary on the ever-turning wheel of life.


Samsara (2012)

Tsotsi (2005)

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Spanish

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German

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Japanese

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Portuguese

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Italian

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Arabic

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Korean

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Swedish

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Turkish

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Aboriginal

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Albanian

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American Sign Language

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Armenian

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Bambara

Belarusian

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Bengali

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Bosnian

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Bulgarian

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Cantonese

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Catalan

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Chichewa; Nyanja

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Corsican

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Cree

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Croatian

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Czech

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Danish

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Dari

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Dutch

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Dzongkha

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Egnlish

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Esperanto

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Estonian

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Faroese

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Finnish

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Flemish

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Galician

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Georgian

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Germany

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Greek

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Haitian; Haitian Creole

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Hausa

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Hebrew

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Hiligaynon

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Hindi

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Hmong

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Hungarian

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Icelandic

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Indonesian

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Inuktitut

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Inupiaq

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Irish

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isiZulu

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Lingala

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Mongolian

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Norwegian

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Polish

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Romanian

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Saami

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Serbo-Croatian

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Sesotho

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Setswana

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Somali

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Swahili

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Tagalog

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Telugu

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Thai

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Ukrainian

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Ukrainian Sign Language

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urdu

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Uncut Gems (2019)

7.9

The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

8.0

Tsotsi (2005)

7.0

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5 Best Movies From South Africa

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5 Best Movies From South Africa