English-language South African films

2009 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

1980 film directed by Jamie Uys

2009 film directed by Clint Eastwood

Tsotsi is a 2005 crime drama film written and directed by Gavin Hood and produced by Peter Fudakowski. It is an adaptation of the novel Tsotsi by Athol Fugard, and is a South African/UK co-production. Set in the Alexandra slum in Johannesburg, South Africa, it stars Presley Chweneyagae as David/Tsotsi (meaning "criminal" - see also Tsotsitaal), a young street thug who steals a car only to discover a baby in the back seat. It also features Kenneth Nkosi, Jerry Mofokeng, and Rapulana Seiphemo in supporting roles.

2012 film by Daniel Espinosa

Dredd is a 2012 science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and written and produced by Alex Garland. It is based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd and its eponymous character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. Karl Urban stars as Judge Dredd, a law enforcer given the power of judge, jury, and executioner in a vast, dystopic metropolis called Mega-City One that lies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Dredd and his rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), are forced to bring order to a 200-storey high-rise block of apartments and deal with its resident drug lord, Ma-

2013 film by Justin Chadwick

2008 film by Russell Mulcahy

2007 film by Bille August

2012 South African 3D computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film

2020 film directed by David Prior

2025 film directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen

2009 film directed by Dennis Iliadis

2014 film by Kristian Levring

2013 film directed by Jérôme Salle

1992 film directed by Darrell Roodt

2015 film by Stephen Campanelli

2026 film directed by John Patton Ford

1989 film by Jamie Uys

1995 film by Tobe Hooper

2018 film directed by Gilles de Maistre

2006 film by Don E. Fauntleroy

2023 film directed by Moritz Mohr

2007 film directed by Darrell Roodt

2006 film by Phillip Noyce

2007 film by Shamim Sarif

2005 film by Carroll Ballard

2016 film directed by Richie Smyth

2010 film directed by Steven Silver

2017 film by Brian Smrz

2018 film

2018 film directed by Don Michael Paul

2001 film by Gray Hofmeyr

2008 film by Anthony Fabian

2008 film directed by Ralph Ziman

1998 film by Keoni Waxman

2014 film directed by Jake Paltrow

2004 film by John Boorman

2010 film by Dario Piana

2014 film directed by Ralph Ziman

2003 film by Bronwen Hughes

1996 film by Gray Hofmeyr

Moffie is a 2019 biographical war romantic drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by André Carl van der Merwe, the film depicts mandatory conscription into the notorious South African Defence Force (SADF) during apartheid through the eyes of a young closeted character Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brümmer) as he attempts to hide his attraction to another gay recruit (Ryan de Villiers) in a hostile environment. The title derives from a homophobic slur in South Africa used to police masculinity.

1996 film by Shyam Benegal

2007 film by Vic Sarin

2004 television film directed by Jack Sholder

1988 film directed by David Winters and Neal Sundstrom

2016 film by Oliver Schmitz

2016 film by Christopher Smith

2014 film directed by Jabbar Raisani

2004 British film

1964 film by Robert Lynn

1976 film by Jürgen Goslar

2017 film by Kagiso Lediga

2003 film by John Greyson

2004 film directed by Darrell Roodt

1960 film by Lionel Rogosin

2014 film

2020 film directed by Maradona Dias Dos Santos and Chris Roland

1995 film by Darrell Roodt