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1. Captain Phillips (2013)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener
Votes: 492,929 | Gross: $107.10M
2. Versailles (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1667, 28-year-old all-powerful king of France, Louis XIV, decides to build the greatest palace in the world - Versailles. But drained budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.
Stars: George Blagden, Alexander Vlahos, Tygh Runyan, Stuart Bowman
Votes: 18,723
3. Zulu (1964)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, War
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
Votes: 42,769
4. Flirting (1991)
R | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Noah Taylor, Thandiwe Newton, Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose
Votes: 6,415 | Gross: $2.42M
5. A World Apart (1988)
PG | 113 min | Drama
1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Menges | Stars: Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 1,802 | Gross: $2.33M
6. Gold (1974)
PG | 120 min | Adventure, Thriller
A South African gold mine foreman is unwittingly manipulated by an unscrupulous gang of financiers who want to flood the mine to raise the price of gold on the world market.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 2,510 | Gross: $0.96M
7. Yizo yizo (1999– )
1,664 min | Drama
Gritty youth Drama series set in a South African Township.
Stars: Mmabatho Mogomotsi, Lorraine Mphephi, Innocent Masuku, Meshack Mavuso
Votes: 71
8. The Last Savage (1978)
91 min | Documentary
Directors: Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni | Star: Riccardo Cucciolla
Votes: 105
9. Shocking Africa (1982)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.
Directors: Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni | Star: Kenneth Belton
Votes: 130
10. A Reasonable Man (1999)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.
Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Gavin Hood, Nigel Hawthorne, Janine Eser, Vusi Kunene
Votes: 428
11. Lost in the Stars (1974)
G | 97 min | Drama, Musical
Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird) is Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searching the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques, Clifton Davis
Votes: 138
12. Le monde selon Tippi (1997 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Tippie Degré was born in Namibia, to wildlife photographer-filmmaker parents and was raised in the bush for the first ten years of her life in Southern Africa.
Director: Christian Crye | Star: Tippi Degre
Votes: 89
13. Passage du milieu (2000)
78 min | Drama, History
A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.
Director: Guy Deslauriers | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Maka Kotto
Votes: 136
14. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970)
65 min | Documentary
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray
Votes: 547
15. Black Trash (1976)
R | 86 min | Action, Crime
A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
Director: Christopher Rowley | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Ken Gampu, Peter Dyneley, Bima Stagg
Votes: 108
16. Cape of Good Hope (2004)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are intertwined.
Director: Mark Bamford | Stars: Debbie Brown, Farouk Valley-Omar, Parinita Jeaven, David Isaacs
Votes: 291
17. Tippi en Afrique (2002)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis | Stars: Tippi Degre, Audrey Delsink, Rory Hensman, Ian Sussens
19. L'excision - un thème pour tout le monde (2009)
52 min | Documentary
Directors: Johanna Richter, Tassére Derra
20. Crazy Beats Strong Every Time (2011)
26 min | Short, Drama
An African-American twenty-something finds his Nigerian-immigrant stepfather passed out drunk in their apartment building hallway and is manipulated by a friend into murdering him.
Director: Moon Molson | Stars: Dante E. Clark, E.J. Bonilla, Shawn Andrew, Anthony Gaskins
Votes: 59
21. Murder to Excellence (2012)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Murder to Excellence is an inspirational documentary, which uses the lives of three black professionals to encourage and motivate young black people, by giving them self belief and awareness.
Director: Daniel Mbaku | Stars: Eliza Joy Agyeman-Duah, William Atkinson, David Lammy, Grace Ononiwu
22. Olas (2008)
Unrated | 11 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
Chispy is a 10-year-old boy who lives in the poorest slum of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. He shares a double bed with the rest of his family and doesn't go to school. It's early outside ... See full summary »
Director: Camila Jiménez Villa | Stars: Yesemia Arrieta Arias, Walter Padilla Doria, Howard Andrés Gómez, Melinda Martínez
23. Der schwarze Löwe (2008 TV Movie)
Drama
SV Heidfeld is about to take the sporting oath of disclosure. Three asylum seekers from Nigeria are to help the association. Surprisingly, the likeable footballers from Africa not only score goals, they settle in perfectly in Heidfeld.
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Wolfgang Böck, Hosh Kane, Lukas Resetarits, Sule Rimi
Votes: 68
24.
Spitting Image (1984–1996)
Episode:
Episode #2.5
(1985)
25 min | Comedy
Nigel Lawson attempts to save the pound, the Royal Family play a game of charades and Lester Piggott's horse has something to say about his rider.
Director: Peter Harris | Stars: Chris Barrie, Harry Enfield, Jon Glover, Louise Gold
Votes: 10