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Jail Caesar

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors is joined by a cast of real-life inmates to tell t...

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Yesterday

Yesterday

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 7.5

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.

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Final Solution

Final Solution

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The indoctrination of Gerrit Wolfaardt is complete: his family traditions, history, culture- even his church-have taught him that black South Africans are a cancer in the land. Under the eye of promin...

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Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.4

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who...

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Otelo Burning

Otelo Burning

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.3

When 16 year old Otelo Buthelezi, his best friend, New Year, and his 12 year old brother, Ntwe, are invited to the beach-house of their new friend, Tau Modise, they step into a world previously closed...

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The Number

The Number

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.2

After a young protégé's murder confirms a prison gang leader's growing misgivings about his life inside, he joins a reform-minded warden's efforts to improve the prison, eyeing it as a path to early r...

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Life, Above All

Life, Above All

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.

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The Forgotten Kingdom

The Forgotten Kingdom

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and the land he h...

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A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

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Partition

Partition

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsi...

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