Catch a Fire
Oct 27, 2006 | IMDB 6.2
101 min Watch NowAction, Drama, Thriller
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
High Fantasy
The Good and the Bad
The Blood of Others
Dark Blue
The Long Run
The Story of an African Farm
Prêtres interdits
Rendition
Cavewoman
The Illegals
Beyond Skyline
Zabriskie Point
We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore
Lust, Caution
Is Paris Burning?
1900
African Gothic
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Amok
Alien Nights
SIMILAR MOVIES
High Fantasy
IMDB 7.9 | Sep , 2017
A group of young friends on a camping trip, deep in the South African countryside wake up to discover they have all swapped bodies.The Good and the Bad
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1976
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.The Blood of Others
IMDB 5 | Aug , 1984
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.Dark Blue
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2002
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.The Long Run
IMDB 6.3 | May , 2001
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written byThe Story of an African Farm
IMDB 4.9 | Oct , 2004
The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje.Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins with bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. Their childhood is disrupted by the bombastic Irishman who claims blood ties with Wellington and Queen Victoria and so gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross stupid stepmother.Prêtres interdits
IMDB 4.5 | Nov , 1973
Rendition
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 2007
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.Cavewoman
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2022
During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides’s Electra.The Illegals
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1976
During World War II, an Italian agent tries to infiltrate the Albanian guerrilla units under the identity of 'engineer Tosti'.Beyond Skyline
IMDB 5.3 | Oct , 2017
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.Zabriskie Point
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1970
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore
IMDB 0 | May , 1969
In the spring of 1944, in the Woëvre forest of Lorraine, a group of young maquisards takes in four German deserters. led by Saint-Brice is based in the Woevre forest. Lise, a nineteen-year-old girl, is their liaison officer. One evening, four German soldiers turn up as deserters. After a period of doubt, the maquisards agree to integrate them into their group. Lise falls in love with one of the newcomers, Werner, and becomes his mistress. One day, she leaves on a mission with Lucien, and comes across an enemy patrol. The SS shoot Lucien and free Lise. In the camp, people begin to think that the maquis has been betrayed.Lust, Caution
IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 2007
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.Is Paris Burning?
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 1966
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.1900
IMDB 7.8 | Aug , 1976
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.African Gothic
IMDB 10 | Jul , 2013
On an isolated farm in Apartheid South Africa two lovers find themselves at risk of losing everything to a big city lawyer; they will stop at nothing to prevent him from exposing a dark family secret.Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
IMDB 5.1 | Mar , 1971
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.Amok
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1983
A rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.Alien Nights
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 2023
Rio Branco, Acre, an Amazon city near the border with Peru and Bolivia, has been suffering the violent impacts of recent changes in trafficking routes, which have arrived with violence in the Brazilian Amazon. In this scenario, the lives of three young childhood friends intertwine and ultimately, they find themselves in a common tragedy.