Feature Film, Xhosa (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Zulu (2013)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Policemen Ali Sokhela and Brian Epkeen investigate the brutal murder of a young white woman, apparently provoked by the availability of a new illegal drug and somehow connected to the disappearance of black street children.
Director: Jérôme Salle | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Forest Whitaker, Conrad Kemp, Inge Beckmann
Votes: 19,160
2. Mr. Bones (I) (2001)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Family
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
Director: Gray Hofmeyr | Stars: Leon Schuster, David Ramsey, Faizon Love, Robert Whitehead
Votes: 2,742
3. Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017)
120 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Lives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.
Director: Michael Matthews | Stars: Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo-Mphahlele, Hamilton Dlamini, Kenneth Nkosi
Votes: 925
4. Good Madam (2021)
92 min | Horror
A strange psychological thriller about Tsidi, who is forced to move in with her separated mother, a domestic worker who obsessively cares for her catatonic white "Madame" in the wealthy suburbs of Cape Town.
Director: Jenna Cato Bass | Stars: Chumisa Cosa, Nosipho Mtebe, Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya, Sanda Shandu
Votes: 389
5. Knuckle City (2019)
TV-MA | 124 min | Crime
An aging, womanizing professional boxer and his career-criminal brother take one last shot at success and get more than they've bargained for.
Director: Jahmil X.T. Qubeka | Stars: Sivuyile Ngesi, Zolisa Xaluva, Angela Sithole, Patrick Ndlovu
Votes: 116
6. The Wound (2017)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
Director: John Trengove | Stars: Nakhane, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay, Thobani Mseleni
Votes: 1,883 | Gross: $0.03M
7. Time spent with cats is never wasted (2021)
171 min | Drama
Joe, a small-town abattoir worker, leads us on this allegorical journey. His dream to fly has impelled him to construct his own helicopter. Its a ramshackle assembly of scrap and found ... See full summary »
Director: Clive Will | Stars: Eleine Alexander, Shamillah Allie, André Bester, Bennie De Bruin
8. Son of Man (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
One man's journey of love, deception and betrayal in contemporary South Africa. Based on the New Testament.
Director: Mark Dornford-May | Stars: Noluthando Boqwana, Andile Kosi, Pauline Malefane, Andries Mbali
Votes: 286
9. Cold Harbour (2013)
73 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
While investigating a smugglers' turf war in Cape Town, township cop Sizwe discovers police corruption. He must set loyalty aside to act with integrity, alone.
Director: Carey McKenzie | Stars: Tony Kgoroge, Fana Mokoena, Nan Yu, Deon Lotz
Votes: 224
10. U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
122 min | Musical, Drama, Romance
A version of Georges Bizet's Carmen, set in a modern-day South African township.
Director: Mark Dornford-May | Stars: Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Lungelwa Blou, Zweilungile Sidloyi
Votes: 730
11. Breathe Umphefumlo (2015)
90 min | Music, Musical
The striking and brutal realities of the students struggling for food, shelter and medication. Mimi's death from TB - and her illness unnoticed at first even by her closest friends - cannot but send a chilling chord in our modern world.
Director: Mark Dornford-May | Stars: Mhlekazi Mosiea, Busisiwe Ngejane, Pauline Malefane, Sifiso Lupuzi
Votes: 23
12. Inkedama (1975)
85 min | Drama
Inkedama: The Orphan. A powerful story of a small boy who puts up a struggle against all odds of life. He wins through to become top surgeon. Even this has it's problems. With Cynthia Shange and Ray Msengana
Director: Simon Sabela | Stars: Ray Msengana, Cynthia Shange, Sam Williams, Joe Mafela
13. uMalusi (2008)
78 min | Crime
Director: Mlandu Sikwebu | Stars: Sivu Nobongoza, Siyasanga Caga, Brendan Groenewald, Zoleka Maxongo
14. Intonga (2009)
107 min | Drama, Sport
Director: J.J. van Rensburg | Stars: Mzukisi Ntantiso, Zolile Sodloyi, Zoleka Helesi, Axola Dlangamandla
18. Tau ya Soweto (2007)
100 min | Drama
In this powerful, local film, one boy struggles to change his fate in modern Soweto.
With his mother death, his father's disappearance and his brother's imprisonment, Tau Matle is all alone ... See full synopsis »
Director: Kevin Du Toit | Stars: David Dikobo, Tavis Brown, Denton Douglas, Heather Du Toit