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Chappie (2015)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:50:19 +0000

In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

Chappie

I am discovery. I am wonder. I am chappie.

Neill Blomkamp

USA, Mexico, South Africa

7.1

IMDb

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Chronicle (2012)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:22:51 +0000

Andrew is a troubled but creative teen with a keen visual eye and a high-quality HD camera. He is introverted and socially awkward. Along with his friends, Matt and Steve, they make a discovery that leads them all to acquire powerful telekinetic abilities. They’re now capable of, well, almost anything. But things take a dark turn.

Chronicle

Boys will be boys

Josh Trank

USA, South Africa

7.2

IMDb

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District 9 (2009)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:22:41 +0000

In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed The Prawns, appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor.

District 9

MNU spreads lies.

Neill Blomkamp

USA, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa

8.1

IMDb

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Gods Must Be Crazy, The (1984)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:41:06 +0000

A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.

Gods Must Be Crazy, The

At last, a comedy everyone can laugh with!

Jamie Uys

Botswana, South Africa

IMDb

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Wake Of Death (2004)

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:39:59 +0000

After his wife is brutally murdered, an ex-cop wages war against the Chinese triads.

Wake Of Death

Revenge is all he has left.

Philippe Martinez, Ringo Lam, Cess Silvera

UK, Germany, France, South Africa

5.5

IMDb

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