Goodbye Bafana (2007), Shepherds and Butchers (2016), Safe House (2012), Road to Your Heart (2014), Music for Mandela (2013), The Forgiven (2017), Life Partner (2009), My Father's War (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cape Town movies.
Storyline: James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later, now married to Gloria and father of three children (Chris, Brett, and Natasha), James has nothing but shame and regret, as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him, leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by spying on imprisoned African National Congress Leader, Nelson Mandela. In the restrictive high security prison his job is to censor all written and verbal communications between prisoners, their visitors, and correspondence. James is uncomfortable when he witnesses Caucasian police and security officers' brutality against civilians, including infants, and tries to understand why Nelson became a rebel. This leads him to examine the 'Freedom Charter', a banned document, reportedly known to incite violence against 'whites'. And when he does read this document, he changes his mind about Nelson's ...
Plot Keywords: political prisoner, prison guard, warden, militant, racist, powerful, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS follows a jaded lawyer, John Weber (Steve Coogan), who takes on a seemingly hopeless multiple murder case and uncovers scandalous shortcomings in South Africa's capital punishment system as he mounts a defense for a prison guard traumatized by the executions he took part in.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, prison guard, judge, wife, murderer, prisoner, prisoners ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA rookie who is manning a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa, when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) the CIA's most wanted rogue agent is captured and taken to the safe house. During Frost's interrogation, the safe house is overtaken by mercenaries who want Frost. Weston and Frost escape and must stay out of the gunmen's sight until they can get to another safe house.
Plot Keywords: cia agent, rogue agent, boss, mercenary, british intelligence agent, girlfriend, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Basson has to complete specific tasks to earn the family company, and he has only five days to complete them and make it to his father's funeral.
Plot Keywords: father, dying person, son, man, love interest, stranger, mysterious woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Music for Mandela" explores the role music played in the extraordinary life of one of the world's most important icons. From Nelson Mandela's imprisonment, to his release, to the present day celebrations of his legacy, the music born out of his inspirational journey is commented on by his closest friends, former exiled musicians, current international artists and community volunteers, who use music today to motivate and educate. Combining striking visuals with freedom songs, pop music and hip hop, "Music for Mandela" is a stirring tribute to the man himself and to the ultimate power of music.—Gold Star Productions
Plot Keywords: nelson mandela, musician, friend, artist, volunteer, inspiring, incredible ...
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: Based in Cape Town, specializing in divorces, Jeet Oberoi warns his friends, Karan Malhotra and Bhavesh Patel, about the many disadvantages of being involved in a married relationship. He indicates that marriages result in divorce, if it is a love marriage than the groom digs his grave; and if is an arranged marriage, it is the groom's family that dig his grave. Scoffing at this, Karan gets married with his sweetheart, Sanjana Jugran, much to the chagrin of her dad; while conservative Bhavesh travels to Vishwamitri, Gujarat, along with his entire family, and gets married to a liberal Prachi Jadeja. Incompatibility issues will soon surface, compelling the duo to retain Jeet as legal counsel to expedite their respective divorce proceedings.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, friend, husband, wife, amusing, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Examining war and its effect on family. A son who has a strained relationship with his dad begins having vivid dreams that show him what his dad went through.
Plot Keywords: son, father, mother, parent, soldier, mercenary, friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Perfect wave is a LOVE STORY, with four key pillars, a young mans love for surfing, adventure, a mothers love for her son, a young man falling in love for the first time, Gods love. The film takes the audience on a journey, as our hero searches for his 'perfect wave'. The journey has many unexpected turns, and twists, as our hero falls in-love and loses his way, but as fate would have it, jealousy ensues, and seeking to reconcile our hero travels to Mauritius where one event changes his life forever.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: surfer, love interest, best friend, emotional, cape town, danger, change ...
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 ...
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