Movies: Ian Roberts

This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democra...

Jane and the Colonel must journey to Africa to the lost city to retrieve the diamonds before the Nazis do. Comedy based on the popular wartime comic strip....

South African TV Movie...

South African TV Movie...

Steve is a zoologist who does research on poisonous snakes with the help of his friend Thabo. He and his wife Katrien are newly weds and very much in love but Steve's dangerous occupation casts a shadow over Katrien's happiness and causes tension bet...

Military-Comedy. Sequel to "Boetie gaan border toe". Boetie (Translated into English as 'Buddy' or "Brother") wants to win his girlfriend Liza back, who just dumped him. With the help of some money, he engineers that she is assigned as reporter to t...

As a kid in the eighties in South Africa, Lukas dreams of becoming a quarter mile racing champ. His mom tells him to stay away from those people because they are Racists. Lukas is too young to know what a racist is and hears it as 'Race-ist'. The Fil...

Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction....

A South African girl guides anti-apartheid guerrilla fighters across the border from Botswana to South Africa....

Mia Moolman works for a Sandton-based event coordination company that has been commissioned by the department of Trade and Industry to create an event celebrating the most successful ad campaigns in South African history. The gala event will happen a...

This is a story of a talented and ambitious musician who faces a major crossroads in his life. Paul’s career has progressed to the point where he plays his own music in pubs, but he has struggled to go beyond that. It is a hand-to-mouth existence and...

“Pusha Pressa Phanda” is a dissection of freedom. Taking place in one day, the film follows street youth Mandisa as she struggles to obtain medication and sanitary pads for her sister who is under her care. Faced with numerous obstacles along the way...

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid....

A family drama on the dangers of sweeping years of truth under the carpet and hoping for the best. A teenage girl, Engela, visits the Karoo farm of her uncle Frans and aunt Koba during the school holidays. A journey of discovery starts: she has to fi...

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby....

Movie version cut from the TV series (Arende) Epic drama of honor, passion and freedom set during the Anglo-Boer War and follows the bound fates of rebellious Boer farmer Sloet Steenkamp and Captain of the British Army James Kerwin. A period drama o...

Rugby hero, Wimpie Koekemoer, and his wild friends return to our screens in the third instalment of the successful Bakgat! movies. Newly engaged couple, Wimpie and Katrien, move to London where Wimpie has received a contract to play rugby. However, h...

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city....

This time, Leon Schuster plays a filmmaker who is making a candid camera movie, only to discover that another filmmaker has stolen his ideas and is making the identical picture. How so? It seems that the thieving rival is blackmailing Schuster´s girl...

Sy Winter, a young idealistic American, becomes stranded high in the mountain woods. Attracted by the beautiful Tanya, he is trapped into working for her violent husband and his decrepit wheelchair-bound father. As the ominous surroundings deepen his...