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Showing posts with label South Africa Blaxploitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa Blaxploitation. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2018

Imusi (1980's)





























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When a frontier family, living in Kwa-Zulu Natal’s Old West, is beset upon by a band of thugs seeking to steal their homestead’s title deed by any means necessary, a father will have to fight to protect not only the safety of his wife and children, but his right to farm the land he inherited from his father before him, and in so doing, teach his children the value of a family standing united together against all odds. 

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Johnny Dlamini (1980's)
























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Johnny Dlamini, a renowned gang leader, is betrayed by his men in a hostile take-over when they execute an assassination attempt on his life. Johnny’s second-in-command takes control of the gang, completely unaware that Johnny actually survived the attack. One by one, the gang members are taken out as Johnny exacts his revenge on his former gang members, and believing he has won the day, reunites with his wife. But crime, it turns out, doesn’t pay very well, when Johnny realizes his wife is in fact an under-cover police officer. In the end, Johnny loses it all and is sent to prison for his criminal dealings.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Faceless Man (1980's)























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When Piet, an innocent man looking for work, gets roped up in an assassination on a local politician, he ends up working with the police to bring the culprit who hired him to justice. But it is soon revealed that Detective Andrew, whom Piet is helping work the case, is in fact the criminal known as the “Faceless Man”, and it soon becomes a cat and mouse game to bring this corrupt police man to justice.