Best South African science fiction movies

When a troubled model takes a new drug at a party, she suffers a shocking transformation. Pursued by authorities and a dangerous gang, she hunts for a fix to reverse these effects, only to discover her mutations could save the human race.

Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.

Three friends come together to defend their valuable mining company from…aliens?! What could possibly go wrong?

A mother and her three daughters — romantic Bee, sensible Evie, and child of nature Daisy — occupy the titular glass building, which has been completely sealed off to protect its occupants from a dementia-inducing toxin called the Shred that’s poisoning the air outside. Fearful of becoming like the lost souls who wander the abyss outside, the family keep a grasp on their past by performing sacred rituals. When Bee breaks the rules and lets an injured stranger into their midst, the family dynamic is shattered forever, as hidden truths upend the illusions the women have worked so hard to protect.

This is an alien invasion film like no other – the aliens are miniature but still want to take over the world!

A sci-fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III, 'The Water War'.

In a dystopian Los Angeles future, retirement engineer John Kampff hunts down suspected Replicant Andy Smith. As John soon learns, Replicant detection is nearly impossible without specialist equipment.

Set in Los Angeles in the latter part of the twenty-first century, John Kampff, a mysterious law enforcement official is tracking down a man named Andy Smith, who is suspected of being a replicant: an artificial being almost indistinguishable from humans. With its haunting, 80s-inspired synthesized score, futuristic Los Angeles cityscape complete with flying cars, looming ultra-skyscrapers, and neon-haloed, grime-covered streets, Tears In The Rain convincingly duplicates the dark dystopian aesthetic of Blade Runner.

The sole survivor of a crashed ship, Cass awakens in a strange and hostile alternate version of Earth. Devoid of any memory, her only clue is a mysterious device she carries with her that is counting down towards an unknown climax. Pursued by ruthless scavengers and a terrifying, preternatural entity, Cass must learn her true identity and unravel the mystery surrounding her crash.

Four participants sign up for a mysterious medical test.

On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members.

A cop from the moon is sent to the Earth, now possessed by motorcycle-riding "Mad Max"-like inhabitants, to stop a serum from being released that he believes is going to destroy the Earth

In a post-nuclear world, a happy family of ranchers is beseiged by a roving band of ne'er do well marauders who want to eat the men and mate with the women. Having already killed and eaten an entire mission full of nuns, the family has no choice but to grab their rifles and defend their homestead. Meanwhile, the lonely, nubile daughter begins to have feelings for the buff blond stranger with no family who has wandered onto the property. It's romance, intrigue, action, and violence on the dark continent!

A cop and a crook are exposed to a DNA altering formula that switches them into each other's bodies and forces them to work together in order to switch back.

Thousands of years in the future, a laborer whose job is to recover artifacts of the past tries to free herself from a dystopian caste system.

An astronaut, known only as The Survivor, returns from space only to find Earth a desolate, post-nuclear wasteland. Spending the next ten years searching for others, he finds rumors and signs of a hidden underground city. He finds a woman who claims to know where the city is, but she is kidnapped before she can tell him. Desperate to locate this hidden remnant of humanity, he begins his pursuit of her captors.

A space child, lost in the universe, is abducted by the U. S. Space Foundation. In a desperate intergalactic search for the frightened little alien, his brother Nukie® mistakenly lands in Africa where he is befriended by African twins. Together they journey through the laughter and adventure of talking lions, a greedy witch doctor, a charming chimpanzee, a feisty nun, a compassionate scientist and an outrageous romantic computer named E.D.D.I.