Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000), Drum (2004), Noem My Skollie (2015), Skin (2008), A Dry White Season (1989), Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002), Cry Freedom (1987), Invictus (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Apartheid movies.
Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: woman, indian, man, love interest, family, rival, police officers ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cape Town professor David Lurie blatantly refuses to defend himself for an affair with a colored student whom he gave a passing grade for an exam she didn't even attend. Dismissed, he moves to his daughter Lucy's farm, which she runs under most disadvantaged terms, favoring the black locals. Yet rowdies, unprovoked, violently rob and abuse them both. Lucy refuses to fight back, unlike David, who is surprised by his own altruistic potential.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: professor, daughter, farmer, worker, black man, rapist, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family (including long-suffering wife Alfre Woodard) and what he believes is his duty.—M
Plot Keywords: police detective, activist, taxidermist, son, father, wife, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: preacher, pregnant woman, criminal, son, father, gutsy, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As tensions of apartheid spread across South Africa, many students revolts to massive stone throw, a demonstration that comes in a wake of the introduction of Afrikaans language as a means of teaching. This sparks riots among school age young people who have resolved to do what it takes for freedom to come tomorrow. In a township of Soweto, a group of students, led by a beautiful and intelligent young girl, Sarafina, mastermind a plot to rise against the apartheid regime by vehemently rejecting the proposal to have Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. This angers the white people and results in a massive unrest of the students and those others supporting them. Meanwhile, Sarafina's mother accepts a job of a housekeeper in a white household and it angers Sarafina. Following the unrest of students and their possible torture and trial, Sarafina is released from prison, reunites with some of the colleagues and composes a "Freedom is Coming Tomorrow" song.—Isaac Museka Lupupa
Plot Keywords: student, teacher, mother, racist, principal, police officer, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Plot Keywords: archbishop, murderer, mother, white person, tense, sultry, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A South African couple (Danny Glover, Angela Bassett) try to overcome personal tragedy within their love/hate relationship.
Plot Keywords: tribesman, mother, father, white man, elderly person, bleak, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Photojournalists (Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach) put themselves in harm's way as they shoot evidence of atrocities committed in the final days of South African apartheid.
Plot Keywords: photographer, photojournalist, south african man, friend, nelson mandela, journalist, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: activist, brother, stripper, drug lord, drug addict, girlfriend, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late 1960s, the white South African government imprisons many black militant leaders, including Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert), in a maximum-security prison in Cape Town. White guard James Gregory (Joseph Fiennes) is placed in charge of Mandela's ward because he can speak the Xhosa language and monitor the prisoners' communications. Over the course of Mandela's long imprisonment, his quiet leadership causes Gregory to rethink his previous racist views.
Plot Keywords: political prisoner, prison guard, warden, militant, racist, powerful, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A black family (Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson, Shadia Simmons) receives a white South African exchange student, raised in apartheid, into its home in 1977.
Plot Keywords: congressman, father, friend, foreign exchange student, daughter, charming, endearing ...
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