Directing
Dirk de Villiers
Born
1924-07-26 (102)
Place of birth
Douglas, Northern Cape, South Africa
Known for
Directing
Credits
42 titles
Known for
NRJantjie - frustrated with his circumstances - joins the army to begin a new life. In his absence his lady friend is courted by a rich businessman and finally agrees to marry him because they believe Jantjie will not return.
Jantjie
1984
NRKoos van der Merwe disguises himself as Captain James van der Merwe to be with the daughter of a millionaire, but unbeknownst to Koos, James' twin brother is also about to arrive and confusion is bound to reach climax.
Die Drie van der Merwes
1970
NRAfter his wife's death, Maritz de Necker opens a law practice in Worchester. His father-in-law, Senator Scheepers blames Maritz for his daughter's suicide and institutes a legal commission investigation against him .
Herfsland
1979
General de Wet asks Boer soldier and Kavalier leader Chris Botha to select 100 of his best men for a “suicide mission” behind enemy lines. First the Kavaliers steal ammunition from right under the noses of the British, and then they leave behind a note taunting the enemy about it.
Kavaliers
1966
Daan Bobbejee rescues a stranger, Doors Dorrengen, and they become friends. Together, they thwart diamond smugglers trying to steal Daan's valuable mine, outwitting them in a daring escape
Daan en Doors Oppie Dieggins
1975
5.0Two young lovers are placed at odds with each other after reigniting a feud between their families over a valuable South African diamond mine. Power, money, love and passion all play an important part in the battle for control.
The Kingfisher Caper
1975
Film credits
1970s · 4 titles
NRAfter his wife's death, Maritz de Necker opens a law practice in Worchester. His father-in-law, Senator Scheepers blames Maritz for his daughter's suicide and institutes a legal commission investigation against him .
Herfsland
1979
Daan Bobbejee rescues a stranger, Doors Dorrengen, and they become friends. Together, they thwart diamond smugglers trying to steal Daan's valuable mine, outwitting them in a daring escape
Daan en Doors Oppie Dieggins
1975
5.6Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.
The Virgin Goddess
1974
Hidden Camera Comedy
Crazy People: 'n Mal Mensdom
1977
1960s · 6 titles
General de Wet asks Boer soldier and Kavalier leader Chris Botha to select 100 of his best men for a “suicide mission” behind enemy lines. First the Kavaliers steal ammunition from right under the noses of the British, and then they leave behind a note taunting the enemy about it.
Kavaliers
1966
The ups and downs of Tant Ewwie Bruwer, who's house "Onze Rust" is open for everyone, but with her good-heartedness it creates problems upon problems
Huis op Horings
1963
NRA detective agency gives a complex smuggling case to the seemingly absent-minded PI Boetie Flenters - never thinking he will solve it. Monica Terblanche (alias Hester Smith) is blackmailed to smuggle diamonds by Da Silva (aka Hennie Gous) and his accomplice. In return, she will receive the negative of an incriminating photo of her father. The investigation takes Boetie to the village of Geenfontein. When he bungles things he is fired and takes jobs as a bus conductor, hospital porter, lifeguard, lounge singer and plumber. Then he meets Hester, who explains her predicament, and they decide to work together.
Stadig Oor Die Klippe
1969
The film is a historical drama speculating on the fate of the missing Kruger millions. Could love and intrigue have played a role?
Kruger Millions
1967
NRAfter a car accident, singing surgeon Dr Dawid Retief learns he will be blind within two years, while his daughter is paralyzed. In order to raise money for Marietjie's treatment in the United States Retief starts doing concerts.
Hear my song
1967
7.0Distraught after being fired from his job, Willi Willeboer leaves town for Oubaas du Toit's Paradise Game Reserve, where he falls for the owner's daughter, but she sees him as nothing more than a brother.
Jy is My Liefling
1968
Behind the camera
NRJantjie - frustrated with his circumstances - joins the army to begin a new life. In his absence his lady friend is courted by a rich businessman and finally agrees to marry him because they believe Jantjie will not return.
Jantjie
1984
NRKoos van der Merwe disguises himself as Captain James van der Merwe to be with the daughter of a millionaire, but unbeknownst to Koos, James' twin brother is also about to arrive and confusion is bound to reach climax.
Die Drie van der Merwes
1970
Daan Bobbejee rescues a stranger, Doors Dorrengen, and they become friends. Together, they thwart diamond smugglers trying to steal Daan's valuable mine, outwitting them in a daring escape
Daan en Doors Oppie Dieggins
1975
Daan Bobbejee rescues a stranger, Doors Dorrengen, and they become friends. Together, they thwart diamond smugglers trying to steal Daan's valuable mine, outwitting them in a daring escape
Daan en Doors Oppie Dieggins
1975
5.0Two young lovers are placed at odds with each other after reigniting a feud between their families over a valuable South African diamond mine. Power, money, love and passion all play an important part in the battle for control.
The Kingfisher Caper
1975
5.3Twenty years ago, twin brothers Adriaan and Paul van der Bijl went their separate ways after an argument that left Adriaan blind. Embittered, Adriaan stayed on in his diabetic father’s mansion, eventually marrying the sick man’s beautiful nurse Marie.On the day of his father’s funeral, which Adriaan does not attend, Paul returns. The brothers’ meeting is not friendly: a shot rings out, and one lies dead. Adriaan tells his manservant, Freddie, that he killed Paul in self-defence. As the two are trying to dispose of the body, a detective knocks on the door. He has been hired to find Paul, who may be a beneficiary in the old man’s will. And to make matters worse, Marie is becoming suspicious as well.
My Brother's Shades
1972
NRTwo eccentric woman Ralie and Matilda buys a new big house and then a lot of people starts to visit. Then Ralie gets the bright idea to start a Boarding house!
Tant Ralie se Losieshuis
1974
NRThis South African action comedy features Daan and Dingetjie, two layabouts who live on their run- down farm with their sister (Sus), who s sick and tired of their lazy ways. She threatens to run off with the first man she meets, so when handsome young Bill arrives to have his car fixed, the brothers get nervous. They decide they will have to frighten Bill away but he is more than a match for them. When all three arrive home drunk, Sus realizes she has three slackers on her hands. Things start to look up when the brothers strike oil on the farm. Bill travels to Cape Town to call on his contacts in the oil business, and soon the three siblings join him there. Sus and Bill get to know each another better while Daan and Dingetjie go on a spending spree. But what will happen when the oil dries up?
My Naam Is Dingetjie
1975
NRTwo brothers take part in a cross country competition and somehow end up foiling criminal activities in the mean time.
Pens en Pootjies
1974
Armant du Mont, a wealthy landowner in Nantes, confronts his troubled past when a young man seeks work on his estate. Despite initial tensions, the young man's hard work and a budding romance force Du Mont to confront his own history.
Geheim van Nantes
1969
Armant du Mont, a wealthy landowner in Nantes, confronts his troubled past when a young man seeks work on his estate. Despite initial tensions, the young man's hard work and a budding romance force Du Mont to confront his own history.
Geheim van Nantes
1969
9.0An English woman dares to defy the might of the British Empire and champions the cause of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War, battling to alleviate the suffering of women and children in concentration camps.
That Englishwoman: An Account of the Life of Emily Hobhouse
1990
6.0Kalahari Harry is a noble story of the plight of the Kalahari bushman in their struggle for land and survival. A rich Johannesburg business man Mr. Kowalski is sent to the Northern Cape (home of the indigenous bushman), to asses the potential of building a state-of-the-art casino. Kalahari Harry, a member of the local Bushman tribe is decidedly opposed to this corporate move and sets into motion a series of ingenious plans to prevent this from happening.
Kalahari Harry
1994
6.0Kalahari Harry is a noble story of the plight of the Kalahari bushman in their struggle for land and survival. A rich Johannesburg business man Mr. Kowalski is sent to the Northern Cape (home of the indigenous bushman), to asses the potential of building a state-of-the-art casino. Kalahari Harry, a member of the local Bushman tribe is decidedly opposed to this corporate move and sets into motion a series of ingenious plans to prevent this from happening.
Kalahari Harry
1994
A nurse in a relationship with a truck driver named Charlie, who gets an opportunity to play a role in a new upcoming film, is made famous overnight. Jealousy ensues with drastic consequences.
Charlie Word 'n Ster
1979
A nurse in a relationship with a truck driver named Charlie, who gets an opportunity to play a role in a new upcoming film, is made famous overnight. Jealousy ensues with drastic consequences.
Charlie Word 'n Ster
1979
2.2With the oppressive climate of 1970s South Africa as the backdrop, this erotic biopic tells the story of Glenda Kemp (playing herself), a former Sunday school teacher who becomes an exotic dancer -- and provocatively shares the stage with a python. Creating an uproar and breaking every taboo in the book with her act, Kemp soon finds herself charged with indecency as the government attempts to ban her seductive performance art.
Snake Dancer
1976
2.2With the oppressive climate of 1970s South Africa as the backdrop, this erotic biopic tells the story of Glenda Kemp (playing herself), a former Sunday school teacher who becomes an exotic dancer -- and provocatively shares the stage with a python. Creating an uproar and breaking every taboo in the book with her act, Kemp soon finds herself charged with indecency as the government attempts to ban her seductive performance art.
Snake Dancer
1976
5.6Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.
The Virgin Goddess
1974
5.6Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.
The Virgin Goddess
1974
5.6Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.
The Virgin Goddess
1974
6.5Movie version cut from the TV series (Arende) Epic drama of honor, passion and freedom set during the Anglo-Boer War and follows the bound fates of rebellious Boer farmer Sloet Steenkamp and Captain of the British Army James Kerwin. A period drama of a time when Britain colonised by might in Southern Africa. Sloet was a Cape Colonist who refused to surrender to the new rule, and was one of the Cape rebels. After being captured he and many others were taken captive and sent to British concentration camps in Saint Helena where Sloet was doomed to stay forever
Cape Rebel
1989
7.0Distraught after being fired from his job, Willi Willeboer leaves town for Oubaas du Toit's Paradise Game Reserve, where he falls for the owner's daughter, but she sees him as nothing more than a brother.
Jy is My Liefling
1968
7.0Distraught after being fired from his job, Willi Willeboer leaves town for Oubaas du Toit's Paradise Game Reserve, where he falls for the owner's daughter, but she sees him as nothing more than a brother.
Jy is My Liefling
1968
Hidden Camera Comedy
Crazy People: 'n Mal Mensdom
1977
NRDaan and his brother, Dingetjie, travel to Cape Town in search of Doctor McDonald to cure Dingetjie's shy nature. They encounter a conman who introduces them to a phony clairvoyant who promises to heal Dingetjie spiritually.
Dingetjie & Idi
1977
NRDaan and his brother, Dingetjie, travel to Cape Town in search of Doctor McDonald to cure Dingetjie's shy nature. They encounter a conman who introduces them to a phony clairvoyant who promises to heal Dingetjie spiritually.
Dingetjie & Idi
1977
South African Film
Decision to Die
1978
Koos and his daughter Patrys are living happily in a tiny fisherman's village, but then a rich, sophisticated young man sweeps Patrys off her feet, and takes her to live with him in Johannesburg.
Die Lewe Sonder Jou
1972
Koos and his daughter Patrys are living happily in a tiny fisherman's village, but then a rich, sophisticated young man sweeps Patrys off her feet, and takes her to live with him in Johannesburg.
Die Lewe Sonder Jou
1972
This is a South African candid camera style movie.
You Gotta Be Crazy!
1986
South African Film
A New Life
1971
