Patrick Shai

Patrick Shai

Movies for Patrick Shai...

Life, Above All
Title: Life, Above All
Character: Dr. Charles Chilume
Released: May 19, 2010
Type: Movie
A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
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Discreet
Title: Discreet
Character: Boss
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Monique, a high class escort, has always been able to give her clients exactly what they want, while clean cut Thomas has always been exactly what everyone has expected. But tonight Thomas' curiosity is going to get the better of him while demanding of Monique the one thing she's reluctant to offer. Honesty, costs more.
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Critical Assignment
Title: Critical Assignment
Character: Charles Ojuka
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The President of an African country decrees that the Arms budget will be diverted in to the "Water For All", project. The journalist, Michael Power, discovers a Coup set by the arms dealers.
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The Bone Snatcher
Title: The Bone Snatcher
Character: Titus
Released: December 23, 2003
Type: Movie
After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
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Title: Yizo Yizo
Character: Edwin Thapelo
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Fools
Title: Fools
Character: Professor Zamani Vuthela
Released: September 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history in the Afrikaner language and grudgingly organizes the picnic for National Day, which commemorates the Boers' massacre of the Zulu nation... When Zani, the rape victim's brother, returns from Swaziland where he won a place in school, he is determined to change everything. In the small hours, in the waiting room at Johannesburg station, he runs into Prof. Zamani, who's spent the night on the town. They travel back together to the harsh reality of the township. In due course, Zamani regains some of his pride and Zani, inevitably, loses some of his...under the gaze of the women, who never renounced their dignity.
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Inside
Title: Inside
Character: Bhambo
Released: August 25, 1996
Type: Movie
A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner and questioned about his past offenses.
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Danger Zone
Title: Danger Zone
Character: Madumo
Released: August 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Rick Morgan, an American engineer who runs a mine in East Africa, is approached one day by his friend Jim Scott, who needs someplace to store canisters of toxic waste. Unfortunately, a spill occurs a short time later, resulting in deaths and Morgan having to leave the country. A year later, he is approached by a government agent looking for a missing supply of potentially hazardous poison, which in truth hides something even more valuable.
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Hearts & Minds
Title: Hearts & Minds
Character: Matthew Kage
Released: August 29, 1995
Type: Movie
In the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie is assigned an undercover job. His task is to pose as a political progressive to infiltrate the African National Congress and assassinate one of the party’s leaders.
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Taxi to Soweto
Title: Taxi to Soweto
Character: Richard
Released: October 31, 1991
Type: Movie
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
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Schweitzer
Title: Schweitzer
Character: Joseph
Released: August 10, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his adventurous life and trials in the jungles of Africa.
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The Land of Dreams
Title: The Land of Dreams
Character: Joseph Mnwana
Released: August 8, 1990
Type: Movie
Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store.
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Red Scorpion
Title: Red Scorpion
Character: African Soldier
Released: December 24, 1988
Type: Movie
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
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Blind Justice
Title: Blind Justice
Character: Samson Snhlova
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Intrigue and injustice in Rhodesia
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Place of Weeping
Title: Place of Weeping
Character: Lucky
Released: December 5, 1986
Type: Movie
When a farm worker is killed a journalist working in a nearby area investigates the murder