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Supporting actor, onscreen from the '80s. ~ All Movie Guide more
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Cast: Hilary Swank Chiwetel Ejiofor
Tags: Political Drama Drama
Length: 110min
A dedicated human rights lawyer and a political activist who suffered at the hands of South African police officer with no regard for human life finds that the only thing more dangerous than standing up for your beliefs is the discovery of the truth...
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 119min
The title of this South African submission for the foreign language Oscar translates as "magic," or the ability to set things right. The story takes place outside rural Toorwater, where railroad-depot manager Hendrik MacDonald (Marius Weyers) lives...
Cast: Morgan Freeman Danny Glover Alfre Woodard Malcolm McDowell James Horner David Watkin Arsenio Hall
Tags: Message Movie Drama Police Drama
Length: 122min
This 1993 film adaptation of Percy Mtwa's South African play +Bopha was rendered anachronistic by late-breaking events, though it still contains plenty of food for thought. Danny Glover stars as a black police officer in the waning days of apartheid....
Cast: Kerry Fox
Tags: Political Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 105min
Friendship, politics, violence, and personal responsibility meet head on in this drama. In the late 1980s, three young women who are completing their college education share a house together in Johannesburg, South Africa. Aninka (Michele Burgers) is...
Cast: Brad Pitt Patrick Dempsey Mel Damski Helen Slater Barbara Babcock
Tags: Romance Comedy Teen Movie Romantic Comedy
Length: 102min
A college student clashes with his co-ed roommate, then falls for her in this omantic comedy. Sheltered freshman Chris Wooden (Patrick Dempsey) arrives at his university ready to hone his writing skills. His hard-partying roommate, however, proves to...
The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 (1988)
Tags: Slapstick Adventure Comedy Farce Comedy
Length: 97min
This sequel to the enormous international hit The Gods Must Be Crazy isn't quite as fresh and enchanting as the original, but it is still a garden of small delights. N!Xau, the Kalihari bushman who starred in the first film, is separated from his...
Length: 97min
The heavy fighting at the turn of the 20th century between the Dutch settlers in modern South Africa (Boers) and the British colonists is featured in this drama about a young British widow who had been married to a Boer. Between 1899 and 1902, the...
Cast: Claude Brasseur Dominique Lavanant
Length: 96min
In this French drama, a Secret Service agent becomes a novelist after he is forced to retire. He writes about experiences he had as a spy in his novel. Adventure ensues when he and his editor, also a writer, whom the ex-spy regards as too stuffy for...
Cast: N!xau
Tags: Adventure Comedy Slapstick Adventure Comedy
Length: 109min
Kalahari bushman Xi (played by genuine bushman N!xau) is as surprised as the rest of his tibe when a Coke bottle, thrown from a passing plane, lands in the middle of their village. This "gift from the gods" proves to be a mixed blessing when the...
The Guest at Steenkampskraal (1977)
Cast: Athol Fugard
Length: 114min
The Guest at Steenkampkraal is based on the controversial writings of South African playwright/activist Athol Fugard. Cast in the lead role is Fugard himself, playing a scientist in the field of evolutionary studies. Unfortunately, Fugard's...
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