At the age of 8, Vaselinetjie is taken away by the Welfare and send to the orphanage. It's a strange, hard, dangerous world of rebel children, fierce house mothers,friends, first loves and where she finally finds true self-acceptance.
Casts Nicole Bond, Marguerite van Eeden, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Royston Stoffels, Ashley Hawla, Arno Greeff, Anchen du Plessis, Elzet Nel, Daniah De Villiers, Elani Dekker
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Cider House Rules
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Devil's Backbone
Mississippi Burning
Free Willy
Unexpected Journey
The Whale Caller
Five Fingers for Marseilles
Killers of the Flower Moon
Diary of a Chambermaid
The Recce
Sarafina!
Framed!
Edge of the City
Pressure Point
No Way Out
The South Stand
The River Woman
Ghosts of Mississippi
Hey Good Lookin'
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Cider House Rules
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1999
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?Me and You and Everyone We Know
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2005
Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a teenager, the other 6-years-old—take part in clumsy experiments with the opposite sex.The Devil's Backbone
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 2001
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.Mississippi Burning
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1988
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.Free Willy
IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1993
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.Unexpected Journey
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2017
Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem is that he doesn't have the money to buy the ticket.The Whale Caller
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2017
A kelp-horn-blowing man seems to be deeply drawn to a very particular whale. This is the story of a love triangle between the titular Whale Caller, his beloved whale Sharisha, and Saluni, the village drunk who teaches him to open his heart to people again.Five Fingers for Marseilles
IMDB 5.7 | Apr , 2018
Years 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.Killers of the Flower Moon
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 2023
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.Diary of a Chambermaid
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1964
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.The Recce
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2018
After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.Sarafina!
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 1992
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.Framed!
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2021
A twisted tale of crime, trust and desire, Framed! shows three perspectives of an unconventional robbery: The Curator’s, The Ambassador’s and The Professional Thief. However, there is more to this peculiar crime than it seems...Edge of the City
IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 1957
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.Pressure Point
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 1962
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.No Way Out
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 1950
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.The South Stand
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2025
The River Woman
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
Sofia grew up taking refuge in the river of the village where her grandmother, Salomé, lives. The lightness of summers spent swimming comes to an abrupt end with Salomé's death. Sofia returns to an empty home that is nothing more than a reminder of old routines and mismatched ways of showing love. But, led by the memory of a moment of courage long gone, she is confronted with a final encounter in the night.Ghosts of Mississippi
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1996
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.Hey Good Lookin'
IMDB 5.6 | Oct , 1982
An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.