Catch a Fire
Oct 27, 2006 | IMDB 6.2
101 min Watch NowAction, Drama, Thriller
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
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Yesterday
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Red Dust
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IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2003
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IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1975
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IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2014
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IMDB 8.1 | Oct , 2007
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IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 5.1 | Jan , 1973
When local soccer team The Eagles fall prey to a series of onslaughts from a mysterious gangster only a week before the championship final, the team turns to the one man that can help save their chances at victory – Joe Bullet (Ken Gampu). Joe will have to battle against villainous henchmen, escape booby-trap bombs and bring his martial arts expertise to the fore in order to survive an attack from a deadly assassin. In the end he will have to infiltrate the mysterious gangster’s hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eagles’ two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but he’s the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet!Rendition
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IMDB 5.6 | Jan , 1976
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IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 2008
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IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 2004
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IMDB 5.8 | May , 2007
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