Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Language |
Notes
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1980
|
The Gods Must Be Crazy |
Jamie Uys |
N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo, Marius Weyers, Louw Verwey |
Comedy |
English, Afrikaans, Juǀʼhoan, Ungwatsi |
|
Kiepie en Kandas |
Jan Scholtz |
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Karate Olimpia/Kill or Be Killed |
Ivan Hall |
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Marigolds in August |
Ross Devenish |
Winston Ntshona, John Kani, Athol Fugard |
Drama |
English |
Entered in 30th Berlin International Film Festival
|
1981
|
Kill and Kill Again |
Ivan Hall |
James Ryan, Anneline Kriel |
Martial arts film |
|
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My Country My Hat |
David Bensusan |
Regardt van den Bergh |
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Nommer Asseblief |
Henk Hugo |
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1982
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1983
|
Siener in die Suburbs |
Francois Swart |
Marius Weyers, Louis van Niekerk, Sandra Prinsloo |
Drama |
Afrikaans |
|
Funny People II |
Jamie Uys |
|
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|
Wolhaarstories |
Bromley Cawood |
Leon Schuster |
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Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner |
Franz Marx |
Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh |
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1984
|
Flashpoint Africa |
Francis Megahy |
Gayle Hunnicutt, Siegfried Rauch, James Faulkner |
Adventure |
English |
|
Boetie Gaan Border Toe |
Regardt van den Bergh |
Arnold Vosloo, Eric Nobbs, Frank Dankert |
Comedy, War |
Afrikaans |
|
You're in the Movies |
Emil Nofal |
Alain D. Woolf, Alan Field, Hal Orlandini |
Comedy |
English, Afrikaans |
|
1985
|
Boetie Op Manoeuvres |
Regardt van den Bergh |
Arnold Vosloo, Janie du Plessis, Ian Roberts |
Comedy, War |
Afrikaans, English |
|
Jantjie Kom Huis Toe |
Dirk de Villiers |
Cedwyn Joel |
War |
Afrikaans |
First direct-to-television film released by SABC
|
King Solomon's Mines |
J. Lee Thompson |
Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies |
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|
Master Harold...and the Boys |
Michael Lindsay-Hogg |
Matthew Broderick, John Kani, Zakes Mokae |
Drama |
Written by Athol Fugard, adapted from his 1982 play of the same title |
|
Nag van Vrees |
Jim Murray, Stanley Roup |
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|
Skating on Thin Uys |
Pieter-Dirk Uys |
Pieter-Dirk Uys |
Comedy |
|
|
Vyfster: Die Slot |
Sias Odendaal |
Patrick Mynhardt |
|
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|
Wie Die Laaste Lag |
Koos Roets |
|
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|
You Gotta Be Crazy |
Emil Nofal |
Bill Flynn, Amanda Forrow |
|
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|
1986
|
Jock of the Bushveld |
Gray Hofmeyr |
Jocelyn Broderick, Michael Brunner |
Family film; based on the novel |
|
|
Liewe Hemel Genis |
William Egan |
|
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|
Mountain of Hell |
David Bensusan |
|
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|
Outlaw of Gor |
John Cardos |
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|
Place of Weeping |
Darrell Roodt |
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|
You Must Be Joking! |
Elmo De Witt |
Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster, Mike Schutte |
Hidden Camera |
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|
1987
|
Across the Rubicon |
Lionel Friedberg |
Pieter-Dirk Uys |
Documentary |
English |
|
An African Dream |
John Smallcombe |
Kitty Aldridge, John Kani, Dominic Jephcott |
Drama |
English |
|
Kill Slade |
Bruce MacFarlane |
|
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Murphy's Fault |
Robert Smawley |
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No Hard Feelings |
Charles Norton |
|
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|
Nukie |
Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa |
Glynis Johns, Steve Railsback, Ronald France |
|
English |
|
Operation Hit Squad |
Tonie van der Merwe |
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|
Platoon Leader |
Aaron Norris |
Tony Pierce, Robert F. Lyons, Michael Dudikoff |
Drama, War |
English |
|
Die Posman |
Anthony Wilson |
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|
Tenth of A Second |
Darrell Roodt |
|
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|
Tusks |
Tara Moore |
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|
'n Wereld Sonder Grense |
Frans Nel |
Scot Scott |
War |
Afrikaans |
Garnered controversy for its depiction of the South African Border War
|
White Ghost |
Beau Davis |
|
Action, Adventure, War |
English |
|
You Must Be Joking! Too |
Leon Schuster, Lizz Meiring |
|
Hidden Camera |
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|
Saturday Night at the Palace |
Robert Davies |
Bill Flynn, John Kani, Paul Slabolepszy |
Drama |
English |
|
Vengeance Cops |
Ivan Hall |
Chris du Toit, Helga van Wyk, Dawid van der Walt |
Action, Crime |
|
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Shaka Zulu |
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1988
|
Alien from L.A. |
Albert Pyun |
|
|
|
|
Accidents |
Gidi Amir |
|
Action/Thriller |
|
|
Act of Piracy |
John "Bud" Cardos |
Gary Busey, Belinda Bauer, Ray Sharkey |
|
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Any Man's Death |
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A Private Life (Jack & Stella) |
Francis Gerard |
Bill Flynn, Jana Cilliers |
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|
Fiela se Kind |
Katinka Heyns |
Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee |
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Laser Mission |
Robbie Simpson |
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Last Samurai |
Paul Mayersburg |
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Let the Music Be |
Frans Nel |
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Love Me Leave Me |
Alan Birkinshaw, Charles Marriott |
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Lucky Strikes Back |
Joe Stewardson |
Lucky Dube |
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Mapantsula |
Oliver Schmitz |
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Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
|
The Most Dangerous Woman Alive |
Chris Marnham |
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|
Mapantsula |
Oliver Schmitz |
Thomas Mogotlane, Marcel van Heerden, Thembi Mtshali |
Crime, Drama |
|
|
Nightslave |
John Parr |
Lynda Marshall, Dominique Moser, Denis Smith |
Horror |
English |
|
Options |
Camilo Vila |
|
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Out on Bail |
Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler |
|
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|
Paradise Road (Traitors) |
Jan Scholtz |
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Quest for Love |
Helen Nogueira |
Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo |
|
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|
Red Scorpion |
Joseph Zito |
Dolph Lundgren, T. P. McKenna, M. Emmet Walsh |
Action |
English |
|
Space Mutiny |
David Winters |
Cameron Mitchell |
|
Sci Fi |
Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000[1][2]
|
Terminal Bliss |
Jordan Alan |
|
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|
|
Thrilled to Death |
Chuck Vincent |
|
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|
|
Van der Merwe P.I. |
Regardt van den Bergh |
Anneline Kriel, Regardt van den Bergh |
|
|
|
Whispers |
Robert Bergman |
|
|
|
|
You're Famous |
Yehuda Barkan |
|
Hidden Camera |
|
Israeli co-production
|
The Zambezi Kid |
Denis Scully |
|
|
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|
1989
|
A Dry White Season |
Euzhan Palcy |
Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae |
Drama |
English |
|
Africa Express |
Bruce McFarlane |
Patrick Dollaghan, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Russel Savadier |
|
English |
|
Killer Instinct |
David Lister |
Joanna Weinberg |
|
|
|
Lambarene |
Gray Hofmeyr |
|
|
|
|
The Gods Must Be Crazy II |
Jamie Uys |
|
|
|
|
Have You Seen Drum Recently? |
Jürgen Schadeberg |
Miriam Makeba |
|
|
|
The Native Who caused all the Trouble |
Manie van Rensburg |
|
|
|
|
Odd Ball Hall |
Jackson Hunsicker |
|
|
|
|
Oh Shucks! Here Comes UNTAG |
Leon Schuster |
Leon Schuster |
|
|
|
Oh Schucks.... It's Schuster! |
Leon Schuster |
Leon Schuster |
|
|
|
Okavango (Wild Country) |
Wayne Crawford, Danie Odendaal, Percival Rubens |
|
|
|
|
On the Wire |
Elaine Proctor |
|
|
|
|
Prey for the Hunter |
John Parr |
|
|
|
|
That Englishwoman |
Dirk de Villiers |
Veronica Lang |
|
|
|
Voices in the Dark |
Vincent Cox |
Lucky Dube |
|
|
|
Warriors from Hell |
Ronnie Isaacs |
|
|
|
|
Windprints |
David Wicht |
Marius Weyers |
|
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