Serenity (
2019) | IMDb:
5.4
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an elusive tuna while fighting his personal demons, is interrupted when someone from his past comes to him searching for help.
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey
,
Anne Hathaway
,
Jason Clarke
,
Diane Lane
,
Djimon Hounsou
,
Jeremy Strong
Eye in the Sky (
2015) | IMDb:
7.3
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (
2013) | IMDb:
7.1
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Directed by:
Justin Chadwick
Safe House (
2012) | IMDb:
6.7
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Ryan Reynolds
,
Vera Farmiga
,
Brendan Gleeson
,
Sam Shepard
,
Rubén Blades
Goodbye Bafana (
2007) | IMDb:
7.1
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Starring:
Joseph Fiennes
,
Dennis Haysbert
,
Diane Kruger
,
Shiloh Henderson
,
Patrick Lyster
,
Norman Anstey
Blood Diamond (
2006) | IMDb:
8
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Djimon Hounsou
,
Jennifer Connelly
,
Kagiso Kuypers
,
Arnold Vosloo
,
Antony Coleman
Tsotsi (
2005) | IMDb:
7.2
A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.
Starring:
Presley Chweneyagae
,
Jerry Mofokeng
,
Terry Pheto
,
Zenzo Ngqobe
,
Zola
,
Rapulana Seiphemo
Directed by:
Gavin Hood
Hotel Rwanda (
2004) | IMDb:
8.1
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
In My Country (
2004) | IMDb:
6
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson
,
Juliette Binoche
,
Brendan Gleeson
,
Langley Kirkwood
,
Harriet Lenabe
,
Warona Seane
Directed by:
John Boorman
Tarzan and the Lost City (
1998) | IMDb:
4
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Starring:
Casper Van Dien
,
Jane March
,
Steven Waddington
,
Winston Ntshona
,
Rapulana Seiphemo
,
Sean Taylor