Cast: Zakes Mokae
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Zakes Mokae. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 15
Cry Freedom
1987 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Attenborough
Cast Kevin Kline · Penelope Wilton · Denzel Washington · John Hargreaves
Synopsis An epic drama based on the true story of newspaper editor Donald Woods' investigation into the murder of nationalist leader Steven Biko. Mistrustful of each other at first, but joined in their common desire to end apartheid, the black activist...
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
A Dry White Season
1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Euzhan Palcy
Cast Donald Sutherland · Marlon Brando · Susan Sarandon · Janet Suzman
Synopsis Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardeners son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school...
6.5
891 votes
6.5
891 votes
The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Wes Craven
Cast Bill Pullman · Cathy Tyson · Zakes Mokae · Paul Winfield
Synopsis Dennis is a Harvard anthropologist and is called up by his old professor with a job for a pharmaceutical company. He is to go to Haiti and investigate the rumors and folklore of zombies. A man who died 7 years...
5.9
3K votes
5.9
3K votes
Outbreak
1995 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Wolfgang Petersen
Cast Dustin Hoffman · René Russo · Morgan Freeman · Kevin Spacey
Synopsis Colonel Sam Daniels, head of the US Army’s viral outbreak crisis centre USARMIID in Maryland, is sent to investigate an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Zaire. Daniels is then persuaded by his military superiors to regard the virus as non-lethal....
5.7
15K votes
5.7
15K votes
Dad
1989 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Gary David Goldberg
Cast Jack Lemmon · Ted Danson · Ethan Hawke · Olympia Dukakis
Synopsis A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches...
5.7
1K votes
5.7
1K votes
A Rage in Harlem
1991 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Bill Duke
Cast Forest Whitaker · Gregory Hines · Danny Glover · Robin Givens
Synopsis Set in 1956, the story revolves around two step-brothers, their elaborate plans to get rich, and the woman the younger brother falls for.
5.1
93 votes
5.1
93 votes
The Island
1980 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Michael Ritchie
Cast Michael Caine · David Warner · Jeffrey Frank · Angela Punch McGregor
Synopsis David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of...
5.1
309 votes
5.1
309 votes
Fragment of Fear
1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard C. Sarafian
Cast David Hemmings · Gayle Hunnicutt · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Flora Robson
5.0
21 votes
5.0
21 votes
Body Parts
1991 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Eric Red
Cast Jeff Fahey · Lindsay Duncan · Kim Delaney · Zakes Mokae
4.8
563 votes
4.8
563 votes
Waterworld
1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Kevin Reynolds
Cast Kevin Costner · Jeanne Tripplehorn · Dennis Hopper · Tina Majorino
Synopsis In a flooded future Earth, people cling to manmade floating islands for survival. When a tyrannical madman (Dennis Hopper) driving a supertanker over the world in search of "dry land" invades one of these islands, a mysterious wanderer named the...
4.8
80K votes
4.8
80K votes
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Wes Craven
Cast Eddie Murphy · Angela Bassett · Allen Payne · Kadeem Hardison
Synopsis Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending. He knows that a child had been born to a woman...
3.4
11K votes
3.4
11K votes
A Caribbean Mystery (TV)
1983 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Robert Michael Lewis
Cast Helen Hayes · Barnard Hughes · Jameson Parker · Season Hubley
Synopsis Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose...
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The River Niger
1976 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Krishna Shah
Cast Cicely Tyson · James Earl Jones · Louis Gossett Jr. · Glynn Turman
Synopsis An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher.
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Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story (TV)
1994 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Michael Dinner
Cast Peter Berg · Kathryn Morris · Wolfgang Bodison · Johann Carlo
Synopsis The true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation.
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A World of Strangers
1962 · Movie · 89 min. · Denmark
Direction Henning Carlsen
Cast Ivan Jackson · Evelyn Frank · Marijke Mann · Zakes Mokae
Synopsis Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer and shot in perilous secrecy without official knowledge or approval, director Carlsen captures the faces and streets of apartheid in a style inspired by John Cassavettes.
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