1980s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||||
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | Jamie Uys | N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo, Marius Weyers, Louw Verwey | Comedy | English, Afrikaans, Juǀʼhoan, Ungwatsi | ||
| Kiepie en Kandas | Jan Scholtz | |||||
| Marigolds in August | Ross Devenish | Entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| 1981 | ||||||
| Kill and Kill Again | Ivan Hall | James Ryan, Anneline Kriel | Martial arts film | |||
| My Country My Hat | David Bensusan | Regardt van den Bergh | ||||
| Nommer Asseblief | Henk Hugo | |||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| ' | ||||||
| 1983 | ||||||
| Funny People II | Jamie Uys | |||||
| Wolhaarstories | Bromley Cawood | Leon Schuster | ||||
| Geel Trui vir ´n Wenner | Franz Marx | Ben Kruger, Ray Storm, Claudia Turgas, Deon van Zyl, Dulsie van den Bergh | ||||
| 1984 | ||||||
| You're in the Movies | Emil Nofal | |||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| King Solomon's Mines | J. Lee Thompson | Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies | ||||
| Nag van Vrees | Jim Murray, Stanley Roup | |||||
| Skating on Thin Uys | Pieter-Dirk Uys | Pieter-Dirk Uys, | Comedy | |||
| Vyfster: Die Slot | Sias Odendaal | Patrick Mynhardt | ||||
| Wie Die Laaste Lag | Koos Roets | |||||
| You Gotta Be Crazy | Emil Nofal | Bill Flynn, Amanda Forrow | ||||
| 1986 | ||||||
| Jock of the Bushveld | Gray Hofmeyr | Jocelyn Broderick, Michael Brunner | Family film; based on the novel | |||
| Liewe Hemel Genis | William Egan | |||||
| Mountain of Hell | David Bensusan | |||||
| Outlaw of Gor | John Cardos | |||||
| Place of Weeping | Darrell Roodt | |||||
| You Must Be Joking! | Elmo De Witt | Rina Hugo, Carike Keuzenkamp, Kallie Knoetze, Janine Pretorius, Leon Schuster, Mike Schutte | Hidden Camera | |||
| 1987 | ||||||
| Across the Rubicon | ||||||
| An African Dream | ||||||
| Kill Slade | Bruce MacFarlane | |||||
| Murphy's Fault | Robert Smawley | |||||
| No Hard Feelings | Charles Norton | |||||
| Nukie | Sias Odendal, Michael Pakleppa | |||||
| Operation Hit Squad | Tonie van der Merwe | |||||
| Platoon Leader | Aaron Norris | Vietnam War film | ||||
| Die Posman | Anthony Wilson | |||||
| Tenth of A Second | Darrell Roodt | |||||
| Tusks | Tara Moore | |||||
| Wereld Sonder Grense | Frans Nel | Scot Scott | ||||
| White Ghost | Beau Davis | |||||
| You Must Be Joking! Too | Leon Schuster, Lizz Meiring | Hidden Camera | ||||
| 1988 | ||||||
| Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun | |||||
| Accidents | Gidi Amir | Action/Thriller | ||||
| Act of Piracy | ||||||
| Any Man's Death | ||||||
| A Private Life (Jack & Stella) | Francis Gerard | Bill Flynn, Jana Cilliers | ||||
| Fiela se Kind | Katinka Heyns | Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Dalene Matthee | ||||
| Laser Mission | Robbie Simpson | |||||
| Last Samurai | Paul Mayersburg | |||||
| Let the Music Be | Frans Nel | |||||
| Love Me Leave Me | Alan Birkinshaw, Charles Mariott | |||||
| Lucky Strikes Back | Joe Stewardson | Lucky Dube | ||||
| Mapantsula | Oliver Schmitz | Screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| The Most Dangerous Woman Alive | Chris Marnham | |||||
| Nightslave | John Parr | |||||
| Options | Camilo Vila | |||||
| Out on Bail | Brian Hessler, Gordon Hessler | |||||
| Paradise Road (Traitors) | Jan Scholtz | |||||
| Quest for Love | Helen Nogueira | Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo | ||||
| Space Mutiny | David Winters | Cameron Mitchell | Sci Fi | Considered one of the best spoofs on Mystery Science Theater 3000 | ||
| Terminal Bliss | Jordan Alan | |||||
| Thrilled to Death | Chuck Vincent | |||||
| Van der Merwe P.I. | Regardt van den Bergh | Anneline Kriel, Regardt van den Bergh | ||||
| Whispers | Robert Bergman | |||||
| You're Famous | Yehuda Barkan | Hidden Camera | Israeli co-production | |||
| The Zambezi Kid | Denis Scully | |||||
| 1989 | ||||||
| Africa Express | ||||||
| Killer Instinct | David Lister | Joanna Weinberg | ||||
| Lambarene | Gray Hofmeyr | |||||
| The Gods Must Be Crazy II | Jamie Uys | |||||
| The Native Who caused all the Trouble | Manie van Rensburg | |||||
| Odd Ball Hall | Jackson Hunsicker | |||||
| Oh Schucks!...!Here Comes U*N*T*A*G | Leon Schuster | Leon Schuster | ||||
| Oh Schucks.... It's Schuster! | Leon Schuster | Leon Schuster | ||||
| Okavango (Wild Country) | Wayne Crawford, Danie Odendaal, Percival Rubens | |||||
| On the Wire | Elaine Proctor | |||||
| Prey for the Hunter | John Parr | |||||
| That Englishwoman | Dirk de Villiers | Veronica Lang | ||||
| Voices in the Dark | Vincent Cox | Lucky Dube | ||||
| Warriors from Hell | Ronnie Isaacs | |||||
| Windprints | David Wicht | Marius Weyers | ||||
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