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AF-Language Films
Top 15 AF-language films from a catalog of 15, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poppie Nongena | 2,020 | Christiaan Olwagen | Drama | 8 | 11 | AF | South Africa | Based on a true story: South Africa, mid 70s. When her husband becomes too ill to work, Poppie is deemed by the law to be an illegal resident in her own country. Based on the Elsa Joubert novel regarded as one of the best African novels of the century. |
| Forever | 2,016 | Jaco Smit | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6.9 | 23 | AF | South Africa | Childhood friends, Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown unbeknownst to him, the day before Nina's wedding. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure. |
| Hunting Emma | 2,017 | Byron Davis | Thriller, Action | 6.8 | 56 | AF | South Africa | Emma le Roux just wants to go home for the holidays. Gentle, beautiful, pacifist Emma. She's made the trip to her father's farm a thousand times. Piece of cake. But not today. Today she will cross paths with members of a violent drug syndicate. Everything starts falling apart, and fast. At first they were driven by hate and revenge. Suddenly, it's survival. |
| Moffie | 2,020 | Oliver Hermanus | Drama, War, Romance | 6.6 | 93 | AF | South Africa | 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. |
| Road to Your Heart | 2,014 | Jaco Smit | Adventure, Romance | 6.4 | 23 | AF | South Africa | Basson has five days to make it to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian girl, Amory. As they journey across the breathtaking landscape of South Africa, they meet wonderful characters that allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden turn for the worst when a villainous figure makes an appearance. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, on route to true love is where you will find your true north. |
| Canary | 2,018 | Christiaan Olwagen | Music, Drama | 6.4 | 20 | AF | South Africa | Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered. |
| Semi-Soeter | 2,025 | Joshua Rous | Romance, Comedy | 6 | 16 | AF | South Africa | Power couple Jaci and JP find themselves in a bumpy predicament when a new work pitch for a baby brand forces them to play the perfect pretend parents. |
| Stroomop | 2,018 | Ivan Botha | Adventure, Drama | 6 | 10 | AF | South Africa | A support group travels to the Orange River. A doctor, 2 moms, a daughter and a suicidal woman leave for their "veldskool" trip. Many trials, tribulations and truths are revealed as they go on this epic adventure. |
| Beauty | 2,011 | Oliver Hermanus | Drama, Thriller | 5.8 | 34 | AF | France | François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life. |
| Number 37 | 2,018 | Nosipho Dumisa-Ngoasheng | Thriller | 5.8 | 22 | AF | South Africa | Entrapped in his apartment, Randal, a recent paraplegic, is given a gift of binoculars by his devoted girlfriend, Pam. But Randal is in financial debt to a sadistic loan shark, and when he witnesses a powerful criminal commit a murder while observing his neighbours through binoculars, he initiates a treacherous blackmail scheme. |
| The Harvesters | 2,018 | Etienne Kallos | Drama | 5.7 | 44 | AF | South Africa | South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love. |
| Poena Is Koning | 2,007 | Willie Esterhuizen | Comedy | 5.7 | 13 | AF | South Africa | Poena is Koning follows the sexual awakening of Poena Pieterse and his high school buddy Vaatjie, who have decided that they have to lose their virginity by the time they finish school. But they've picked the worst moment to embark on their sexual escapade – it's matric exam time and their quest results in major distractions from their studies. The consequences are dire. |
| Dazzle | 1,999 | David Lister | Fantasy, Family | 5.3 | 11 | AF | Unknown | A fairy takes on human form and enters the life of a widowed children's book author and his daughter. |
| Semi-Soet | 2,012 | Joshua Rous | Romance | 5.1 | 11 | AF | South Africa | To prevent a corporate takeover, a hardworking businesswoman hires a fake fiancé to secure a massive contract from a family-minded wine estate. |
| Flatland | 2,019 | Jenna Cato Bass | Adventure, Western | 5 | 13 | AF | Germany | When her disastrous wedding night leads to an accidental killing, Natalie flees her rural town in South Africa's desolate Karoo region. |
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