Jacques Bessenger

9

Stiekyt

Nov 16, 2022

Stiekyt

2022 100 min 1 vues

James is an actor with a failed career. When he is offered an opportunity to earn a little extra by performing as a drag queen at a club, he accepts. His wife finds out and a row is unavoidable. James is ready to do anything to save his marriage, to prove that the role he has been entrusted with at the club is perfectly honourable and he is in high regard. He also has to apply his best acting skills when an investigation into the suspicious murder of the club’s diva is opened.

Drama

8.2

Verraaiers

Feb 20, 2013

Verraaiers

2013 122 min 2 vues

During the Boer War in South Africa, upon hearing that the British are planning a scorched earth policy, a respected Boer officer, who's also a loving father and husband, decides to go home and protect his wife and family instead of participating further in the war. The decision leads to a treason trial for him and his sons.

9

Blindelings

Aug 26, 2023

Blindelings

2023 137 min 1 vues

René is a brilliant, blind pianist with synesthesia. She "sees" unique colors when experiencing music, voices and emotions, but after an assualt on the night of her first solo performance, her life changes instantly.

Thriller

6.3

Wolwedans In Die Skemer

Oct 05, 2012

Wolwedans In Die Skemer

2012 110 min 5 vues

A young woman, Sonja Daneel, crashes her car near the spectacular Hotel Njala in Hazyview and loses her memory. Upon her arrival at the hotel, she gets involved with an obsessed family whose lives are controlled by this spooky, eerie hotel. She also quickly discovers that family secrets and an obsession with the past haunt and control their every move. Sonja soon falls in love with the enigmatic Ryno Lategan, a tour guide who befriends her and promises to help her regain her memory. But when a vicious axe murderer starts terrorising Sonja, she realizes that she has some strange connection to this hotel in her past and that this connection could cost her her life. Things change when an eccentric investigator, Lieutenant Conrad Nolte and his assistant, Sergeant Berta van Schalkwyk, start investigating the murders at Hotel Njala and make some startling discoveries that even shock these two hardened investigators.

1

Riel

Jul 30, 2023

Riel

2023 10 min 1 vues

Dans l’Afrique du Sud contemporaine, une matriarche Khoekhoe vieillissante invite sa petite-fille à participer à la danse du riel.

5.8

Alles Wat Mal Is

Aug 08, 2014

Alles Wat Mal Is

2014 96 min 2 vues

Helena Joubert lost herself somewhere between her Varsity love, the big, crazy wedding, and her two hyperactive kids. She and hubby Gustav exchanged their passionate relationship for a permanent seize-fire. The once uninhibited and vibrant journalist is now just a few fading photographs on the wall. And then, her world is shattered when Gustav apparently starts an affair with the very big investor who just might be the savior of his company – Elzaan Mostert. Enter Helena’s alter ego, the can-do, let’s-make-a-plan, nothing-is-impossible younger version of herself. Alter Ego comes up with the idea of starting a blog called Alles wat Mal is (Everything Crazy), documenting Helena’s hectic life, and her quest to win back Gustav’s affection, and put a spark back into her marriage.

Comedy

6.4

Ballade vir 'n Enkeling

Mar 20, 2015

Ballade vir 'n Enkeling

2015 136 min 4 vues

Based upon the book written by South African author Leon van Nierop, and the 1980s TV series it spawned, this drama focuses on the mysterious disappearance of celebrated writer Jacques Rynhard (Armand Aucamp), and the investigative hunt for him launched by journalist Carina Human (DonnaLee Roberts). Christia Visser, Rolanda Marais and Jacques Bessenger co-star.

Romance

8.9

Sink

Mar 18, 2016

Sink

2016 115 min 4 vues

‘Sink’ tells the story of Rachel, a Mozambican domestic worker based in Johannesburg, who is forced to make a devastating choice after her daughter drowns whilst under the care of her employer; return to poverty stricken Mozambique or continue working for the family responsible for the death of her child so she can support her extended family back home. The story is a haunting exploration of motherhood, loss and the walls that separate people.

Drama

1

Les fleurs du silence

Mar 12, 2025

Les fleurs du silence

2025 99 min 1 vues

Dans l'Angleterre des années 1920, un romancier homosexuel et son infirmière psychiatrique se lient d'une amitié improbable au cours d'une série de « rendez-vous » prescrits par le médecin. Au fil de leurs conversations, il se confie sur l’histoire de la relation qu’il entretenait avec un ami de longue date. Cette liaison a basculé lorsque les deux hommes ont eu recours à une méthode à haut risque, destinée à se guérir des sentiments interdits qu'ils éprouvaient l'un pour l'autre.

Drama

1

Die Kwiksilwers

Aug 29, 2024

Die Kwiksilwers

2024 137 min 1 vues

Elsabe Marais, a widow in her 80s, and her three elderly friends embark on a hilarious road trip across the Karoo to experience a meteor shower in Sutherland. They have three days to get there, but to reach their goal in time, they will have to elude and outsmart her overprotective son, who is hot on their tail.

Comedy

5.9

Krotoa

Aug 04, 2017

Krotoa

2017 122 min 4 vues

Krotoa, une fille de 11 ans fougueuse et brillante, est retirée de sa tribu très unie Khoi pour servir Jan van Riebeeck, le partenaire commercial de son oncle et le premier gouverneur de la colonie du Cap. Elle est amenée dans le premier fort établi par la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales en 1652. Là, elle devient une jeune femme visionnaire qui assimile si bien la langue et la culture néerlandaises qu'elle se lève pour devenir une traductrice influente mais finit par être rejetée par son propre peuple alors qu'elle tente de combler le fossé entre les deux cultures sur le point de se heurter.

Drama

6.3

Modder en Bloed

Apr 01, 2016

Modder en Bloed

2016 133 min 7 vues

Set in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a prisoner of war, Willem must survive incarceration in the notorious St. Helena concentration camp and defeat the ruthless Colonel Swannell, at his own game—Rugby

History

6.6

Kanarie

May 29, 2018

Kanarie

2018 123 min 18 vues

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

Music

9

Hartklop

Oct 10, 2023

Hartklop

2023 min 1 vues

A group of brilliant newly graduated doctors are thrown together in the corridors of the Beyers Naudé Academic Hospital, where they perform miracles to save the lives of their patients - regardless of the cost to themselves.

Drama

8

Die Byl

Jan 14, 2025

Die Byl

2025 min 1 vues

The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.

Crime

9

Erfsondes

Dec 05, 2017

Erfsondes

2017 min 1 vues

A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt families when they least expect it.

Drama

9

Lioness

Mar 30, 2023

Lioness

2023 min 1 vues

A woman is wrongly convicted of fraud and in the process losses her children. She emerges from prison eight years later intending to reunite with her children and clear her name.

Crime

9

Projek Dina

Jul 11, 2023

Projek Dina

2023 min 1 vues

A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.

Drama

9

Fynskrif

Jul 07, 2020

Fynskrif

2020 min 1 vues

A legal drama that revolves around the law firm Van Wyk & Vennote, in which the lawyers must handle both their legal cases and their personal and family dramas.

Drama

8.5

Getroud Met Rugby

Oct 09, 2012

Getroud Met Rugby

2012 min 2 vues

Getroud met Rugby is a drama revolving around four stars of a Johannesburg rugby team and their wives as they become involved in various interconnected scandals.

Drama

9

Song Vir Katryn

Oct 07, 2004

Song Vir Katryn

2004 min 1 vues

Song vir Katryn is a modern romantic drama about Jinx, an M.D. and musican, who falls in love with Katryn, a woman with a dark and mysterious past.

Drama

8

Die Byl

Jan 14, 2025

Die Byl

2025 min 1 vues

The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.

Crime

6.333

Koek

May 02, 2024

Koek

2024 min 3 vues

When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.

Crime

6

Dwaalster

Apr 02, 2019

Dwaalster

2019 min 1 vues

Dwaalster is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series created by Nicola Hanekom and set in the fictional Karoo town of Maanhaarsdrif, which is populated by interesting and mysterious residents. In Maanhaarsdrif there is also a fixation with stars and stargazing, while some inhabitants are even moonstruck (proverbially speaking).

Drama

7.2

Donkerbos

Jan 17, 2023

Donkerbos

2023 min 11 vues

When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective must wrestle with her dark past, her family and a distrustful community to catch the killer before another child is taken.

Crime

9

Een Keer Om Die Son

Sep 10, 2024

Een Keer Om Die Son

2024 min 1 vues

Over the course of a year, the Van Wyk's mourn the loss of a loved one and struggle with divorce, illness, forgiveness, high school and secrets as they heal and find each other again.

Drama

5

Donkerland

Nov 05, 2013

Donkerland

2013 min 1 vues

The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.

Drama

8

Die Spreeus

Jul 02, 2019

Die Spreeus

2019 min 1 vues

Die Spreeus (The Starlings) is a South Africa, Afrikaans-language supernatural crime procedural series which tells the story of two fearless detectives - Bas Koorts and Beatrice Mack - who investigate a new phenomenon each week and try to solve crimes... even in worlds that are not our own.

Crime

5

Fluiters

Jul 05, 2016

Fluiters

2016 min 1 vues

Fluiters (Whistleblowers) is a South African conspiracy thriller television series created by Deon Opperman which begins when a successful IT company gets sunk by a corrupt government official and hits back by creating a SecureDrop-style website where whistleblowers can leak evidence on corruption without fear of being exposed.

Drama