Marcel Van Heerden

Marcel Van Heerden

Movies for Marcel Van Heerden...

Title: Kelders van Geheime
Character: Rijk Nel
Released: May 6, 2024
Type: TV
The series, which is based on the wheeling's and dealings of the community that lives on Soebatskloof (a wine farm in the Cape), focuses on three families: the Abrahams, Syster, and Marais households. These families will have to stand together, agree (or agree to disagree), and work together to earn their bread and butter – and a glass of wine!
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Krotoa
Title: Krotoa
Character: Wagenaar
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle’s trading partner and the first Governor of the Cape Colony. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential translator but ends up being rejected by her own people as she tries to bridge the gap between the two cultures about to collide.
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Shepherds and Butchers
Title: Shepherds and Butchers
Character: Justice J. P. van Zyl
Released: May 12, 2017
Type: Movie
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Kalushi : The Story of Solomon Mahlangu
Title: Kalushi : The Story of Solomon Mahlangu
Character: Judge Theron
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppression of the Apartheid regime and ends up becoming an icon of South Africa's liberation.
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Dr. Anton Fourie
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 Byl
Character: Werner Barnard
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: Jan
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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A Paw-Paw For My Darling
Title: A Paw-Paw For My Darling
Character: Tango Du Toit
Released: January 8, 2016
Type: Movie
This local ensemble comedy is set in 2003, as a group of working-class South Africans try to come to terms with their changed society. Seen through the eyes of a family dog, we watch as friends, neighbours and lovers try to deal with their challenging relationships.
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Title: Suidooster
Character: Chris du Plooy
Released: November 16, 2015
Type: TV
Suidooster is a South African television soap opera produced by Suidooster Films which revolves around a matriarch, her family, friends and the people of Suidooster, a small shopping and business centre in the fictional Cape Town suburb of Ruiterbosch.
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The Pro
Title: The Pro
Character: Ed Nothnagel
Released: September 18, 2015
Type: Movie
The Pro tells the story of a young surfer, Tiaan Nothnagel that has to come to terms with the accidental death of his best friend, Dirkie Lawrence just before their last year at school.After Dirkie’s death, Tiaan swears off surfing for good, as he can’t stand to be reminded of everything that he and Dirkie shared. But then, Dirkie’s twin sister (who went to live with their dad after their parents split up the previous year) arrives in town on a mission: to be selected to go on Wave-Seekers, a fictional World Surf Tour and something that Tiaan and Dirkie dreamt of doing.
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Title: Sterlopers
Character: Spike Swanepoel
Released: April 15, 2014
Type: TV
Sterlopers is a South African musical youth drama television series created and written by Deon Opperman and produced by Bottom Line Entertainment which follows the fortunes of a group of young people who are all trying to make it in the entertainment industry, as viewers get an inside view into the secrets that are to be found behind the scenes of success.
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Pad Na Jou Hart
Title: Pad Na Jou Hart
Character: Dawn
Released: February 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Basson has five days to make it to his father's funeral in Cape Town, but needs to complete certain tasks on this trip before he can call the family company his own. On the road he meets free-spirited bohemian girl, Amory. As they journey across the breathtaking landscape of South Africa, they meet wonderful characters that allow for hilarious moments and life-changing experiences. Their trip takes a sudden turn for the worst when a villainous figure makes an appearance. Basson and Amory are faced with disappointment and heartache. On the road called life, it is inevitable that you will take some wrong turns. But no matter how hard the road might be, on route to true love is where you will find your true north.
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Molly & Wors The Movie
Title: Molly & Wors The Movie
Character: Lawyer
Released: September 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Based on the Afrikaans TV series by the same name, this comedy comes to the big screen. The plot-line is rather convoluted as befits a farce, and sees the main characters get themselves into serious troubles before everything works out like it is supposed to.
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Durban Poison
Title: Durban Poison
Character: Du Plessis
Released: July 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Twenty seven years after his UCLA graduate thesis film Shot Down was banned in his home country and went on to festival acclaim and cult status, writer-director Andrew Worsdale returns with this noir romance set among the marginalised white underclass. The film follows a police investigation into four murders and charts the doomed romance of the outlaw lovers. A deeply romantic, elegiac and universal crime story where the murders are not the point of the movie.
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Traitors
Title: Traitors
Character: Boshoff
Released: February 20, 2013
Type: Movie
During the Boer War in South Africa, upon hearing that the British are planning a scorched earth policy, a respected Boer officer, who's also a loving father and husband, decides to go home and protect his wife and family instead of participating further in the war. The decision leads to a treason trial for him and his sons.
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Punk in Africa
Title: Punk in Africa
Released: October 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Three chords, three countries, one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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White Wedding
Title: White Wedding
Character: Mr. Fanie van Zyl
Released: April 29, 2009
Type: Movie
A young groom and his best man lost on the road trip to the wedding, run into a young English doctor. Set against South Africa's breathtaking landscapes, White Wedding is a high-spirited modern-day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending.
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Hond se Dinges
Title: Hond se Dinges
Character: Oudolf de Lange
Released: March 20, 2009
Type: Movie
A mad-cap Afrikaans comedy set in a small town on the platteland. The plot revolves around a dog, and a diamond, and the assorted people who would like very much to get their hands on that diamond.
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Blood of Beasts
Title: Blood of Beasts
Character: Kogla
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Timeless tale of Beauty and the Beast set in the period of the Vikings. Freya, a warrior and the beautiful daughter of a Viking king, is held prisoner on an island castle by a Beast whom has been cursed by his god Odin.
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Title: Amalia
Character: Swys van Wyk
Released: April 14, 2005
Type: TV
Amalia is a South African television drama series created by Chris Barnard, directed by Katinka Heyns and produced by Sonneblom Films about an unsolved murder where all the inhabitants of a small town are suspects. The series is in Afrikaans, with English subtitles.
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The Flyer
Title: The Flyer
Character: Anders
Released: April 8, 2005
Type: Movie
The past and present collide when a kid from the mean streets of Cape Town is inducted into the gravity defying world of flying trapeze.
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Max and Mona
Title: Max and Mona
Character: Old Man September
Released: September 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Max Bua leaves his country life behind in hopes of becoming a doctor in Johannesburg, though the big city has different plans for him.
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Title: Arsenaal
Character: Valken
Released: April 25, 2002
Type: TV
Arsenaal is a South African, Afrikaans-language thriller drama television series created, written and directed by Jan Scholtz and produced by his production company Scholtz Films which is set against the backdrop of investigative journalism, corrupt security companies and corrupt police.
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The Brotherhood
Title: The Brotherhood
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
For generations lions have ruled over the Londolozi region of Mpumalanga but one brotherhood reigns supreme: a coalition of two brothers descendent from a long dynasty. To get to the top they have hunted, fought and won many battles. This film follows this Brotherhood as they conquer prides, kill rivals and continue their bloodline guaranteeing their genes are firmly entrenched in future generations to come.
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Jump the Gun
Title: Jump the Gun
Character: Johnny Fouché
Released: May 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their insecurities - both physical and financial - the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world, where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.
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Lipstiek Dipstiek
Title: Lipstiek Dipstiek
Character: Louis Kakiades (as Marchel van Heerden)
Released: November 25, 1994
Type: Movie
The story is about Poenie (Franscois Coertze) who burns his scrotum with a welding iron while working on his car and lands in hospital a few days before he is to marry the virgin Martie. This is the first mishap in a series of disasters and misunderstandings that provides many belly-clutching laughs. As Poenie's father Frikadel (Zak du Plessis) puts it, "Die seun sit sy voet uit die voordeur uit en dan is hy kniediep in die kak!"
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In a Time of Violence: The Line
Title: In a Time of Violence: The Line
Character: Fanie de Villiers
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.
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Title: Torings
Character: Ricky Roodt
Released: May 12, 1994
Type: TV
Torings (Towers) is a South African period drama television series created by Paul C. Venter as a sequel to his series Konings which continues to tell the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between the Groenewald and Roodt families for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The Konings/Torings saga is the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between Dolf Groenewald (Dawid Minnaar) and Herman Roodt (Albert Maritz) for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The eternal feud between the Groenewalds and Roodts becomes fiercer as Dolf recovers from his stroke and from the beginning is a threat for the Roodts
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The Visual Bible: Matthew
Title: The Visual Bible: Matthew
Character: John the Baptist
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.
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Title: Wenners
Character: Heinrich Lindeman
Released: July 23, 1992
Type: TV
A Story about two children who ended up in a Orphanage home and must try to make a living and cope with the other orphanage children
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Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie)
Title: Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie)
Character: Ouboet
Released: April 16, 1992
Type: Movie
We go on vacation to Margate with the van Tonder Family. Hendrik wants to go fishing, the kids swim and play Yollie and Maggie wants to sunbathe and Ouboet has a self built modded speedboat (Spuitpoep II) which he wants to test out at sea. Their dream vacation gets sabotaged by a Joburg company, who wants to buy the caravan park where they are vacationing to demolish it and build a shopping mall. But then they get to deal with the van Tonders who doesn't let anyone mess with them. Hillarious from beginning to end.
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Taxi to Soweto
Title: Taxi to Soweto
Character: Armed Patrol Man
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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Nag van die 19de
Title: Nag van die 19de
Character: Albert Kriel
Released: July 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Tessa walks through the small fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the night of the nineteenth, since she was raped on the eve of her wedding and her fiancé committed suicide. Piece-by-piece, she gathers information about the identity of the rapist.
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Night of the Cyclone
Title: Night of the Cyclone
Character: Salvo
Released: January 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A big city police lieutenant travels to the tropics to find his daughter, who he finds involved with a very suspicious artist.
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The Fourth Reich
Title: The Fourth Reich
Character: Hendrik Erasmus
Released: October 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
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Mapantsula
Title: Mapantsula
Character: Stander
Released: May 21, 1988
Type: Movie
During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic, a “mapantsula” or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. His interrogation reveals the motivation for his involvement in the township riots. Once only concerned with partying, alcohol and his own interests, Panic finds himself being irreversibly pulled into the fray. Now, he is forced to choose between his personal freedom and taking a stand in the fight against the oppressive apartheid government.
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Steel Dawn
Title: Steel Dawn
Character: Lann
Released: November 6, 1987
Type: Movie
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
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Hostage
Title: Hostage
Character: Hussein
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.
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Place of Weeping
Title: Place of Weeping
Character: Cafe Owner
Released: December 5, 1986
Type: Movie
When a farm worker is killed a journalist working in a nearby area investigates the murder
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Released: October 20, 1983
Type: Movie
A powerful story of three brothers who live by the axe; love from the heart; lust and hate with passion and die violently!
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Savage Encounter
Title: Savage Encounter
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A honeymooning couple take a vacation in a remote country bungalow. Before long, they’re visited by two backwoods psychos. Terror, assault, and rape are inevitable. The U.S. video release from Genesis (released in 1988 under the title DEMON LUST) is missing ten minutes.
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Title: Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond
Character: Basie De Wet
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about beautiful people, good wine and respectable neighbours living on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam with lives that are seemingly idyllically peaceful and romantic, but which harbour deep secrets just beneath the surface of the facade.