June van Merch

June van Merch

Movies for June van Merch...

#lovemyselfie
Title: #lovemyselfie
Character: Winifred Samsodien
Released: March 8, 2024
Type: Movie
By sending in their best “Selfie”, 12 Lucky winners are chosen to spend the weekend with TV star Adele on the cruise of a lifetime. Up-for-grabs is a retirement unit with a value of R7 million! The women compete in survivor-like games and quizzes to win the exclusive prize.
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Title: Koek
Character: Mammie
Released: February 29, 2024
Type: TV
When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.
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Hans steek die Rubicon oor
Title: Hans steek die Rubicon oor
Character: Baby
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A widower, Hans (90), is forced into a repressive old-age-home. Once there, he comes face to face with the draconian management, who forces him to become a rebel and activist, a 90-year-old-man who has nothing to lose by revolting. An anti-ageism revolution about growing old on your own terms.
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The Umbrella Men: Escape From Robben Island
Title: The Umbrella Men: Escape From Robben Island
Character: Aunty Val
Released: September 9, 2023
Type: Movie
After the successful Umbrella Men heist, our usual suspects find life is sweet, until they get arrested. Jerome and Morty are banged up in Prison and the girls need to bust them out but an outta-control Tariek has other plans
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Klip Anker Baai
Title: Klip Anker Baai
Character: Aunt Baby
Released: June 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A young woman comes back to South Africa to run her late father's fishing company and save her community from losing livelihood.
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Desemberdiewe
Title: Desemberdiewe
Character: Sandy
Released: December 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A mischievous 11-year-old Jó urgently wants to rectify her past year of being naughty and is gathering a diverse gang to steal Christmas gifts from the rich and give them to the local orphanage.
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The Umbrella Men
Title: The Umbrella Men
Character: Aunty Valerie
Released: September 10, 2022
Type: Movie
A ragtag bunch of musicians are forced to rob a bank during the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival in the hope they will save their iconic, but in-debt nightclub in the Bo Kaap.
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Angeliena
Title: Angeliena
Character: Auntie Dot
Released: October 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Angeliena’s story is about SELF LOVE... and making money, terminal illness, divorce, nature, friendships, hardships, poverty, travel, hot doctors, plants, dreams, assholes, Ubuntu and... being GOOD ENOUGH.
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Barakat
Title: Barakat
Character: Fadielah
Released: May 28, 2021
Type: Movie
An aging matriarch aims to bring together her fractured, dysfunctional family over Eid-al-Fitr to break the news about her new romance.
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Title: Dwaalster
Character: Ivy
Released: January 8, 2019
Type: TV
Dwaalster is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series created by Nicola Hanekom and set in the fictional Karoo town of Maanhaarsdrif, which is populated by interesting and mysterious residents. In Maanhaarsdrif there is also a fixation with stars and stargazing, while some inhabitants are even moonstruck (proverbially speaking).
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Title: Fynskrif
Character: Cybil
Released: July 10, 2018
Type: TV
A 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.
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Riddle Child
Title: Riddle Child
Released: February 16, 2018
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old autistic boy is found dead in the bath tub. His mother Ingrid, who spent her life caring for him and loved him dearly, is being investigated for murder.
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Nothing is not nothing
Title: Nothing is not nothing
Character: Tannie Hantie
Released: May 24, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of three friends (Chicken, Drikus and Chris) who are determined to make Drikus's last wish true - to make a zombie movie. In the process of making the film, Hoender begins to process the loss of his father's death. At the same time, he creates new friends, works confidently and realises that he has a lot to offer to others. Drikus's joy of life and determination bring together the surrounding lifeless communities and revitalise their lives.
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Title: Sara se Geheim
Character: Sara Abrahams
Released: April 11, 2017
Type: TV
Sara 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.
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Dice
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: TV
The 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.
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Title: Die Boekklub
Character: Sofia Matthews
Released: January 12, 2016
Type: TV
The 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.
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Nothing for Mahala
Title: Nothing for Mahala
Character: Flora
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Nothing for Mahala is a comedic film that follows Ace (Thapelo Mokoena) into his deep and unpleasant hole of debt and financial woes. Ace who likes to play the part of the high flier is forced to get money from illegal loan sharks, which eventually lands him into some legal trouble. The result is Ace doing community service at an old age home, where much is learnt about finances, life and what really holds value.
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Title: Proesstraat
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: TV
Proesstraat is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse. It is recorded without a script, in front of a live audience and broadcast unedited to a large extent.
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Title: Geraldina Die Tweede
Character: Sister Melrose
Released: February 8, 2006
Type: TV
Katie Tredoux, resident of the retirement village, Stille Waters, finds out that her deceased sister, the infirm Geraldina de Jongh's estate, was unfortunately bankrupt. She is furious and seeks help from her friends, Greta, Dak and Cyril, co-residents of Huis Stille Waters, to make a plan to keep Geraldina alive. They decide to confront the wealthy businessman Claudius van Straatten (Geraldina's former husband). However, they would never have been able to provide for what great escapades they would end up with.
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Title: Binnelanders
Character: Gertrude
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: TV
A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
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Title: Binnelanders
Character: Merle de Villiers
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: TV
A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
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Skilpoppe
Title: Skilpoppe
Character: Melina
Released: September 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Skilpoppe is a gripping look at a South African tragedy, as seen through the eyes of a 17 year old girl. It touches on social issues like suicide, drug addiction and homophobia in a tender and humerous way. The story follows Anna Meyer, a schoolgirl who wins the role of Juliet in her school's production of Romeo and Juliet. She struggles to come to terms with the deeper, darker side of her personality; mostly because she still needs to exercise the demons from a tragedy in her own life.
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Title: Fishy Fêshuns
Character: Patsy
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: TV
Fishy Fêshuns is a South African television sitcom based on the 1960s BBC sitcom The Rag Trade by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney which revolves around the goings on between workers and their boss in a clothing factory in Cape Town.
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Krismis van Map Jacobs
Title: Krismis van Map Jacobs
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A feared gang leader is released on parole after seven years. Has Map Jacobs changed, or is he still the bully? A family and community drama that takes place against the forced relocations from the Cape to the Plains. This piece gives a look at the way of life of the uprooted, their love and pain and the desperate longing for a better existence in a system that especially fails the defenseless.