
Known for
8.0The 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.
Die Byl
2016
7.8After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.
Blood & Water
2020
5.8A single mother — and luxury bag counterfeiter — finds herself teaming up with a self-obsessed influencer to sell her bags and scrape her way out of debt.
Bad Influencer
2025
6.7A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.
Unseen
2023
8.0The series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.
Die Boekklub
2016
9.0A 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.
Fynskrif
2018
Film credits
2020s · 8 titles
6.5A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
I Am All Girls
2021
NRNeelan and Kevin are two brothers who get in over their heads after losing their mother's prized Tupperware to a local gang. Their mission to retrieve it leads to chaos, laughter and action in this uniquely South African action comedy.
Neelan & Kevin
2024
5.6When two corrupt police officers investigate the brutal murder of a young girl, tensions come to a head in their small, racially-segregated town.
Wild Is the Wind
2022
8.1Joshua, lives in an informal settlement with his grandmother and father, a well-educated black man and single parent who was forced to flee his home as a result of Zimbabwean politics. Once a scholarship student with a great future, Joshua dreams of winning a BMX cycling championship as a means to finding a better life than the spaza shop which his father owns, can provide. But, even this dream is shattered when he narrowly survives a vicious xenophobic attack during which his father and grandmother lose their lives.
Riding with Sugar
2020
8.0In a small fishing community on the outskirts of Cape Town, Gabriel discovers a dead body and two bags of valuable abalone. His brother, Michail, convinces him they must take it for themselves. But when a corrupt government worker pursues them, they embark on a journey into the mountains and are driven to the ends of the Cape of Good Hope for the survival of their relationship and their lives.
Sons of the Sea
2021
5.4Two brothers are torn apart after they steal a bag of money and are hunted down by a ruthless killer.
Rust Road
2023
NRPaul Taylor, a middle-aged man, is devastated after losing something that meant the world to him. He decides to give up everything and to go and teach at a reform school for young teens in the hope he would come to understand the criminal mind of a child.
Angels
2026
NRCape Town. 2025. Ruan, a managing director of a large corporation, realises he’s being ambushed by a new cashless policy enforced by their mother company in the UK. From the perspective of a two-rand coin, we watch as Ruan tries to stop the inevitable. Along the way, we get glimpses into the lives of city-dwelling South Africans, with each character portraying a different socioeconomic class and perspective on money. The film shows what change represents to the distinct yet connected ensemble of characters and asks: What is the significance of coins in a time when tap to pay is the order of the day? And at what cost are we going cashless?
Change
2026
2010s · 11 titles
6.7As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain.
Zulu
2013
5.7Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one of them, returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it.
Five Fingers for Marseilles
2018
6.5Lafras Verwey (58) has worked as a clerk in the Civil Service in Pretoria for thirty years. By day he sorts files and whiles away the mundane hours writing grandiose propaganda speeches and drilling imaginary platoons in the washroom, but unbeknownst to his colleagues he is also a clandestine parcel courier for a secret organization that recruited his services to complete their covert mission.
The Rebellion of Lafras Verwey
2017
5.6When Chili Ncgobo, an honest but ambitious undercover cop, is cheated out of a major reward by his corrupt superiors, he infiltrates a cash-in-transit heist gang, and instead of busting them, he decides to participate in a one off score. He must face off against his partner who refuses to let him do it and one of the gang members who recognizes him as a cop.
Avenged
2014
6.2Directed by Ian Gabriel, “Four Corners” revolves around a 13-year-old chess whiz drawn into the Cape Town’s well-known child-gang culture. Touted as the first film to delve into the 100-year-old war between South Africa’s so-called Number gangs, the 26 and the 28, it blends the Sabela, Tsotsi-taal and Cape Afrikaans dialects and mixes established talents with non-actors and first-time thesps from schools and communities across the Cape Flats.
Four Corners
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Lenteblom
2013
4.9When her disastrous wedding night leads to an accidental killing, Natalie flees her rural town in South Africa's desolate Karoo region.
Flatland
2019
6.9When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.
Tess
2016
5.9Krotoa, 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 the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.
Krotoa
2017
4.5A brother and sister whose relationship isn't the best, go undercover to bust a big drug dealing operation. Their bad relationship makes it very awkward because they have to act like they're husband and wife.
Thys & Trix
2018
NRBased on real events in and around Cape Town, two paramedics risk their lives while attempting to save a patient's life.
Accelerate
2017
2000s · 3 titles
Based on the true life story of Bernard Baaitjies who grew up in Hanover Park.
Dollars and White Pipes
2005
NRA coming-of-age tale of two boys trying to survive amidst rampant corruption and gang violence.
The Abyss Boys
2009
NRThe sand and the sea are soothing for a life agitated in the big city. It is in this setting, paradise, these pretty boys liberate all they have repressed.
Bem Vindos à Praia
2006
Undated · 2 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Neelan And Kevin
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Bandits steal a cowboy's cattle while he is being distracted by a beautiful woman. But the bandits are car thieves, the cowboy is a car guard, the cattle are cars and the cowboy's muse a barmaid. The theft sends Cowboy Dan on a mission to retrieve the car and find justice in the criminal underworld of Cape Town, with Zancas - a scared hobo - as his only help and unlikely sidekick. "Cowboy Dan" is a reinterpretation of the classic Western with a Cape flavour through the eyes of a modern "Man from La Mancha".
Cowboy Dan
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Series credits
8.0The 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.
Die Byl
2016
7.8After crossing paths at a party, a Cape Town teen sets out to prove whether a private-school swimming star is her sister who was abducted at birth.
Blood & Water
2020
5.8A single mother — and luxury bag counterfeiter — finds herself teaming up with a self-obsessed influencer to sell her bags and scrape her way out of debt.
Bad Influencer
2025
6.7A house cleaner desperately searches for her husband as a dreaded criminal syndicate dredges up past tragedies and ultimately drives her to violence.
Unseen
2023
8.0The series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.
Die Boekklub
2016
9.0A 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.
Fynskrif
2018
6.3Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.
Trackers
2019
7.0Spoorloos is a South African crime drama anthology television series created by Ilse van Hemert and developed by Ochre Moving Pictures. The first season is based on the 2014 novel Daddy Long Legs by Vernon W. Baumann and set in the fictional town of Digtersdal in the Eastern Cape. Each subsequent season follows a new small town and cast of characters.
Spoorloos
2018
6.3Set in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, investigative journalist Edie Hansen gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a turbulent past.
White Lies
2024
6.0A South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around three well-known Boland fruit farming families - the De Bruyns, the Roberts' and the Van Rhijns - and the people who are drawn into their disasters, quarrels and scandals.
Vallei van Sluiers
2010
8.0Die 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.
Die Spreeus
2019
10.0Adri Joubert has been the cool, calm, reassuring face and voice of the evening news for two decades. But then her husband is murdered, and her life becomes news as a national crisis shakes the country. She is forced to put aside her personal trauma to guide viewers through the state of emergency from behind a red-hot news desk.
Die Nuusmakers
2025
7.0Sara se Geheim is set in Cape Town, with two stories taking place at the same time - one about a family in Durbanville and the other of a family in Athlone. These families' lives are seemingly worlds apart, but a lie connects them - a lie which has been held secret for 35 long years.
Sara se Geheim
2017
7.5A young runner is given a second chance at life when he is offered a track scholarship, but can he chase his dreams without tripping on his lies?
Go!
2025
8.4Ethan is a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport. But the looming gang war jeopardises that hope.
Spinners
2023
7.0A teacher at a struggling school is devastated by the death of her star pupil at the hands of a criminal ex-boyfriend. She accidentally avenges the murder and quickly finds herself in the gray area of vigilantism, and surrounded by the challenges of today's youth.
Juffrou X
2024
5.0Onder die Suiderkruis (Under the Southern Cross) is a South African, Afrikaans-language period drama television series which tells the story of a number of entrepreneurs thrown together by their quest for riches, told over a period of many years.
Onder Die Suiderkruis
2018
NRSkemerdans is a Cape Flats neo-noir murder mystery set at the Oasis jazz club, the center of a power struggle between two brothers, a scorned widow and an organized crime syndicate.
Skemerdans
2021
7.0A South African series based on classic British whodunits like Midsomer Murders and Lewis which follows the adventures of The Boland Investigative Unit, a fictitious elite detective unit that investigates murders in the Cape Winelands.
Die Boland Moorde
2013
