Best award winning movies with historical interest from South Africa
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with historical interest from South Africa! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with historical interest from South Africa, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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- 2004-12-22 | Drama / History
Cast
- Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo
Rating
7.719
2 My Octopus Teacher (2020)
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.
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- 2020-09-04 | Documentary
Cast
- Craig Foster, Tom Foster
Rating
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7.888
3 Fried Barry (2020)
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an 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 our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.
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- 2020-03-06 | Horror / Comedy
Cast
- Gary Green, Chanelle de Jager
Rating
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4.923
4 Gaia (2021)
In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.
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- 2021-06-18 | Horror / Fantasy
Cast
- Monique Rockman, Carel Nel
Rating
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5.9
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5 I Am All Girls (2021)
A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
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- 2021-05-14 | Drama / Mystery
Cast
- Erica Wessels, Deon Lotz
Rating
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6.587
6 Tsotsi (2005)
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.
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- 2005-12-23 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Presley Chweneyagae, Jerry Mofokeng
Rating
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6.949
7 Remember (2015)
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
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- 2015-10-23 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Christopher Plummer, Bruno Ganz
Rating
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7.342
8 Triggered (2020)
Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with suicide bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can 'take' one another's time by killing each other.
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- 2020-08-28 | Horror / Action
Cast
- Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart
Rating
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5.297
9 Moffie (2020)
A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
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- 2020-03-13 | Drama / War
Cast
- Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers
Rating
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6.8
10 The Wound (2017)
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
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- 2017-04-19 | Drama
Cast
- Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai
Rating
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6.4
