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- In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
- Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.
- In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts.
- Two close friends from film school, Tom and Vongani share an apartment in Maboneng Johannesburg with a sexy high spirited girl, Loretta. Tom is looking for inspiration for his first film script, when a heist takes place in the street below, and a gunman bursts into their apartment. They are taken hostage, but things quickly go wrong and the gunman dies by his own gun. The three friends' lives are turned upside down, when they discover a backpack containing money and a memory stick that every badass in town seems to be after.
- Diamond smugglers kidnap the girl of his dreams, and Ernest P. Worrell goes to Africa to confront them and rescue her.
- A legendary meteorologist spends her days on earth attempting to convince the world that her alien lover from an advanced human race existed, and held the only solutions to all our problems on earth.
- Catching Feelings is a dark romantic comedy which follows an urbane young academic and his beautiful wife, as their lives get turned upside down when a celebrated and hedonistic older writer moves into their Johannesburg home with them.
- The Black Door is a South African adult telenovela which revolves around the dealings in an exclusive private brothel hidden behind the door of a toilet paper manufacturing factory.
- Dark secrets are revealed after a tragic event at an elite boarding school sets off a search for the truth.
- A prodigious young soccer player from rural Queenstown must face the return of his washed-up, pro-footballer father, and navigate the choice between his team's success and his own dreams. All that and more
- On an 18th century Caribbean island run by debauched colonial plantation owners, an enslaved Scotsman joins a slave revolt.
- Returning to her home town, Eden Rock, and overwhelmed by the birth of her first born, Chloe van Heerden (19) tries to come to terms with motherhood. Alongside dealing with her super critical mother, Ruby (35), Chloe struggles with the demand of being a new mom. The incessant crying of her baby, the growing sense of guilt and paranoia sends Chloe into a dark depression. With a heightened urge to protect her son, Chloe sees danger in every situation. Distraught she pays a visit to family psychologist Dr. Timothy Reed (40s) who diagnoses her intrusive thoughts and feelings of anxiousness to a mild case of baby blues. Yet the thoughts grow worse and more violent. Chloe starts to hear voices and humming of a childhood lullaby and sees flashes of a strange entity around her child. Convinced that the entity is real, Chloe does everything in her power to protect her son. Her decline reaches fever pitch, and everybody seems to be moving against her. Desperate, Chloe finds solace in the arms of her childhood friend, Emile Hess (20s). The world around Chloe implodes and it becomes clear that she and her child are in imminent danger. But from what? Is Chloe haunted by evil or is it just the baby blues?
- After a prolific South African writer disappears, a journalist is motivated by ambition to uncover the writer's secret history.
- Gerald King, who is closer to death than life gets dumped with his 15 -year-old grandson, when the child's mother dies in a drunken car crash. Both the boy and grandfather are shocked into a new reality.
- 'Baby Mamas' is a comedy drama revolving around the daily lives and loves of four professional women who are all in different stages of their own real-life baby mama drama. We meet TOLI, CHANTEL, SANDY and JOY working for an insurance company in Johannesburg. CHANTEL discovers that she's pregnant and her whole is turned upside down. She had been a good girl all along and now she has a lot to learn about herself as a soon-to-be-mom, with a boyfriend who is not ready to be a father yet. SANDY is still in love with her ex-boyfriend and father of her child. She still had high hopes for their relationship but now has to deal with her ex- moving on with someone else. JOY is in a tumultuous relationship with bad-boy Sizwe. They have a volatile, on-again-off-again relationship, filled with violent outbursts and constant allegations of infidelity. TOLI is the leader of the group. She's been through all the 'Baby Mama' drama one person can handle. She is learning first-hand that the most difficult part of dating as a single Mom is deciding how much you are willing to risk your own child's heart, on your path to love.
- A random act of kindness sparks a forbidden love affair between a white girl and an Indian man during the Apartheid system in South Africa.
- Treurgrond shows how a farm attack on one family can affect an entire community.
- After a dreadful break-up, a strikingly cultured student stuck in the small town of Potchefstroom, packs her bags for the adventure and bright lights of London. She falls head over heels in love with a handsome, barefoot Namibian, but allows her fears to get the better of her. When he knocks on her door years later, with promises of horizons and a life together, she can play it safe and choose the alluring city lights, or she can risk it all for sunsets, sand dunes and barefoot love.
- Rachel, a Mozambican domestic worker living in Johannesburg, is forced to make a life-changing decision after her daughter tragically dies under the care of her employers: return to poverty-stricken Mozambique or continue working for the people responsible for her child's death. Things become even more complicated when she finds out that her employers are expecting their first child.
- Six medical students lost in the mountains suddenly realize they are being stalked. Will they survive, will they escape or will they be captured?
- Gideonette, a timid and visionary girl, lives with her parents in a small town. Her dad Gideon battles daily to allay her fears about the curse of the Gideon de La Reys. Throughout their family history, every Gideon de La Rey died in a freak accident at a young age. To prove everyone wrong, Gideon named his daughter--Gideonette. Although Gideonette has had to endure endless teasing about the curse, her dad has tried to convince her that they'll both grow old. When he suddenly dies, her worst fears are realized and she retreats into a dark world where her imagination runs wild. Realising that Gideonette needs to get away from the curse, her mom sends her to her grandparents. Here Gideonette meets Bhubesi, a deaf boy who's 'training' to become an astronaut. While her grandfather builds Bhubesi a Moonship, the brave boy wins her trust and they embark on a curious journey of wordless friendship that helps her realise she can't hide from death. When fate hands her a final blow and her newfound strength is tested, she must decide whether she will let the curse consume her--or whether she'll defy it.
- A hospice nurse is employed by a family to look after a disabled woman after a tragic car accident leaves her partially paralyzed. Soon the family discovers the mysterious caregiver is not what she appears to be.
- A fun, fresh, sexy new drama about the lives of three young female friends living in Johannesburg, dealing with the pressures of juggling marriage, motherhood, careers, and relationships. The drama revolves around three different women who represent a diverse cross-section of South African life, from the township to the suburbs, to the high-end apartment lifestyle of the "super blessed". Get to know three completely different women living in the City of God, brought together by their friendship. Brenda (Renate Stuurman) is the perfect definition of #relationshipgoals with her husband of nearly 10 years.
- Janice and Donald Jakes have fallen out of love and into Police Protection. Being at the wrong place at the wrong time sends Simon Jakes, and his parents to a journey where they will rediscover what it means to love each other.
- Around 1960, Englishman Toby Hood comes to Johannesburg to run a publishing company. He is open-minded and befriends people with different social ranks, but the harsh realities of society force him to make a choice about friendships.
- A true story about a young pastor's son who called upon God when his 2-year-old daughter fell sick and fought for her life. His faith in God stood fast and he believed that God could and would heal his daughter, but time could become a man's worst enemy. As his daughter became weaker and weaker, she eventually knocked on death's door. The man's faith started to fade away and he kept questioning God. He eventually broke down and gave up hope. In desperation he threw his Bible again a wall and yelled that there was no God. For the next 30 seconds--he felt what it was like without God. It shocked him back to reality as he experienced this cold, silent, lonely time. He eventually reached the point of realizing that if he weighed up eternal life to his earthly circumstances, choosing God was a given.
- Things take a turn for the unexpected when up-and-coming actor, Simon Berg, receives an invitation to be part of the cast of world renowned theatre director Andreas Vog's latest Red Riding Hood reinvention.
- 'Tarzan van George' is a five part series following the dream of DeWet, along with his twin brother Rudolf, to become the next Hollywood Tarzan.
- Three people board a Johannesburg-bound train. Strangers, each on their own mission with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by the very people whose protection they sought, they find themselves trapped in the city, invisible and alone. Vaya interweaves three separate plots that intersect and intertwine in a gripping, deeply moving, and often funny narrative about struggling for survival and dignity in the city. In the first story, a rural man has been promised a job by his big-city cousin; his earnings will allow him to pay lobola back home, which will change his life forever. He's excited; his cousin is an important man whose patronage the village has relied on for many years. To work for him is a great honour. But on arrival he discovers that the job is not quite what he thought: He is required to kill his cousin's rival. In the second story, a young man is sent to Jozi to reclaim his father's body, but he discovers that the body has already been claimed: his father's hitherto-unknown 'city family' has taken it and they are not giving it back. The young man must find a way to return the body to his rural home or risk the family reputation forever. In the third story, a young woman takes her aunt's young daughter to Joburg to live with her mother for the first time, but she has her own plans to dump the child and finally escape the boredom of rural life to explore her own dreams and ambitions in the city. She soon discovers that her aunt is not who she thought she was: She runs a shebeen and lives with an extremely devious gangster who supports her. She is unable to take care of herself, let alone a small child. The young woman must now choose between her own dreams or saving the child and ruining everything.
- A white employer swapping identities with his Black employee to experience each other's lives and whatever blessings and burdens they bring with.
- Filmed during his Lost in Translation tour at Johannesburg, South Africa. Yet another classic stand up comedy by South Africa's top comedian.
- When a young sound designer overhears the lead actress being harassed on set, she begins experiencing auditory hallucinations that encourage her to act out and risk her career- against the advice of the actress herself.
- A South African Emigrant, Corrine returns to her birth country 30 years later with her Canadian children. Their journey takes them into the heart of past and present-day conflicts in a country ravaged by corruption.
- Raps is an ambitious street style, hip hop dancer from a poor neighborhood who believes that money is everything. He gets a lucky break and rises as a professional entertainer, but when he falls in love with the beautiful Brazilian wife of the gangster-come-producer who's making his career, he'll have to risk career and life to find true happiness.
- It is a South African music and dance show that showcases the outrageous dance styles of Mzansi, giving the South African youth a platform to showcase their dance moves whilst highlighting the top 10 local songs of the week. The music dance show speaks to the current times, whilst acknowledging our history musically and with the art of dancing. 24 minutes of the show are spent with local dancers showcasing their Chincha-Gears, Ice moves, C slash, Gcopetsa, Kick and Boboz, Bhenga and free styles, while the DJs pump the freshest local sounds.
- The Good Life is an original series in which radio host, Ernest Pillay, takes the audience on a nostalgic musical journey with some of South Africa's influential icons. Ernest and his guest share their music playlist; and one gets to know their personal stories and insight to their good life.
- A young African boy is rescued from a witchdoctor's death curse. He travels to the big city where a blind white man becomes his protector.
- In order to catch a drug king-pin, a brother and sister team of hapless detectives must go undercover as husband and wife to infiltrate the high society of a golfing estate.
- A documentary about internationally renowned film editor Jill Bilcock, that charts how an outspoken arts student in 1960s Melbourne became one of the world's most acclaimed film artists.
- Kazimla has had to be a tender age. Sometimes in life, one needs to make lemonade from the lemons that one is handed and always find the silver lining in the very dark clouds that life hands to us
- A catatonic mathematics professor with an Oedipus complex is committed to an asylum which is a microcosm of South African society, circa 1970. The inmates band together to attempt to restore him to life once more and when one of their number commits suicide because of him, they then attempt something more on his behalf: murder.
- A young man quits his job in the city to seek adventure. Finding a different situation every week, he solves these problems, whilst travelling around the length and breadth of South Africa, in an orange Chevrolet Nomad.
- March 2014. Filmmaker Sihle Hlophe has just gotten engaged. A few days later, her father passes away. Sihle is in a serious fix - who will receive the Lobola now that her father is no more? Sihle respects Lobola but she has reservations about the transactional, patriarchal and heteronormative elements of the practise. In an effort to learn more about Lobola before making her final decision, Sihle attends the Lobola ceremonies of three other couples. Couple No.1 is a Zulu couple from Katlehong, Gauteng. The negotiations are almost halted when the groom's family fails to raise the amount requested by the bride's family. Couple No. 2 is from Tokoza, Gauteng. The groom is Tsonga and the bride is Sotho. Their cultures collide during the negotiations, making it abundantly clear that they have different understandings of what Lobola is and how it should be conducted. Couple No.3's wedding took place in Eastern Cape but they're based in Kwa Zulu Natal. The bride is Xhosa and the groom is Zulu. Even though the bride's father passed away 20 years ago, he was honoured as if he was alive during the proceedings. Sihle also visits a same-sex couple who've been married for 14 years. They were the first couple to get married under the Civil Union Act in 2006. They're deeply rooted in African Spirituality so it was imperative for them to go through the Lobola process too. After years of vacillating, Sihle comes to an important realisation - Lobola is not just about uniting two families. It is also about honouring the ancestors of those two families. What will her final decision be? Will she turn her back on Lobola or will she embrace it?
- Pathology is set in a dystopian South Africa of the future, where impossibly high walls circle the cities, separating the healthy from the virus-ridden and the rich from the poor. Inside the walls, Eliza is desperately researching for a cure for the virus. Or so it would seem... when one day whilst performing her daily trials, a woman appears intent to make her face her past and consequent fate.
- Billy wants to be a boxer like his father before him.