Jacques Bessenger
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Stiekyt (2022)
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....

Traitors (2013)
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...

Blindelings (2023)
René is a brilliant, blind pianist with synesthesia. She "sees" unique colors when experiencing music, voices and emotions, but after an...

Wolwedans In Die Skemer (2012)
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...

Riel (2023)
Contemporary South Africa. An aging Khoekhoe matriarch invites her granddaughter to participate in the riel dance.

Alles Wat Mal Is (2014)
Helena Joubert lost herself somewhere between her Varsity love, the big, crazy wedding, and her two hyperactive kids. She and hubby Gustav exchanged...

Ballade vir 'n Enkeling (2015)
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...

Sink (2016)
‘Sink’ tells the story of Rachel, a Mozambican domestic worker based in Johannesburg, who is forced to make a devastating choice after...

Lilies Not for Me (2025)
In 1920s England, a gay novelist and his psychiatric nurse form an unlikely friendship over a series of doctor-prescribed "dates." Through their...

Die Kwiksilwers (2024)
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...

Krotoa (2017)
Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and...

Blood and Glory (2016)
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...

Kanarie (2018)
Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins...

Hartklop (2023)
A group of brilliant newly graduated doctors are thrown together in the corridors of the Beyers Naudé Academic Hospital, where they perform...

Die Byl (2016)
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...

Erfsondes (2007)
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...

Lioness (2021)
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...

Projek Dina (2020)
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...

Fynskrif (2018)
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...

Getroud Met Rugby (2009)
Getroud met Rugby is a drama revolving around four stars of a Johannesburg rugby team and their wives as they become involved in various...

Song Vir Katryn (2003)
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.

Die Byl (2016)
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...

Koek (2024)
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...

Dwaalster (2019)
Dwaalster is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series created by Nicola Hanekom and set in the fictional Karoo town of...

Donkerbos (2022)
When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective must wrestle with her dark past,...

Een Keer Om Die Son (2024)
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...

Donkerland (2013)
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,...

Die Spreeus (2019)
Die Spreeus (The Starlings) is a South Africa, Afrikaans-language supernatural crime procedural series which tells the story of two fearless...

Fluiters (2016)
Fluiters (Whistleblowers) is a South African conspiracy thriller television series created by Deon Opperman which begins when a successful IT company...

Niggies (2025)
An Afrikaans drama series based on the double murders in 1965 of Issie Fourie and Petro Nel in the Free State province town of Odendaalsrus who were...