Sonja movies

DIE PRO ("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 of her own: to be selected to go on Wave-Seekers, a fictional World Surf Tour and something that Tiaan and Dirkie dreamt of doing themselves. But for her to succeed, she needs Tiaan's help, and by implication, she needs him to get back on his surfboard...He eventually gets back on and gets first place for wave seekers.

A gripping South African Christmas movie about a dysfunctional family and their beach holiday that forces them to come to terms with their flaws, differences, hate, and love for one another.

A contemporary Western, a journey of self-discovery for three different but equally trapped women. A portrait of femininity against a hostile land, questioning what it means to be a woman today in South Africa and the world at large.

An aging matriarch aims to bring together her fractured, dysfunctional family over Eid-al-Fitr to break the news about her new romance.

In 1993, Charles Nieuwenhuizen, like the rest of the world, had eagerly awaited the new South Africa, but a tragic incident at work landed him in a coma for 27 years. He wakes up in 2020 in a world that completely confounds him.

Lonnie Cabot is a down-on-his-luck night-club cleaner without any friends. Well, he believes he has befriended club patron Brian Bekker, a manic depressive who is in love with dancer Sonja. Lonnie's life is flipped upside down after finding a box containing a watch and a wad of cash, hidden in a toilet and Brian convincing him to bet the cash on a horse race. What he does not know is that his Russian boss is trafficking diamonds in the walls of the box and is desperate to find his loot. Meanwhile, local gang leader Jackie Jardine is looking for his son's murderer, and he believes Lonnie is the culprit. As they cannot retrieve the cash from the bookies, Lonnie and Brian steal a valuable lucky fish in order to repay the debt to the Russian mob.

A hapless streaker, seeking to win the heart of a strait-laced single mom, must find a way to bear his soul rather than his buttocks.

An ex-Cape Town fireman's world is rocked when he wakes up next to his wife's dead body with no recollection of what transpired and all evidence pointing to him as the killer.

Jasper and Fransie move into a new house. They seem to be the perfect couple, until power outages force them to closely examine things and they are forced to revisit the darkest part of their past.

During the dry and desolate Namibian winter a tough cop is hot on the heels of an ice-cold killer. Her investigations unravel when a reporter publishes dark secrets from her shady past. But the cop is determined to catch the killer, even if she has to break the law.

A paranormal investigator, George Coetzee, gets a tip about a very scarce frog species in the Tankwa Karoo, a very desolate area in South Africa. What he finds is not what he expected.

While the whole country is locked down, an understaffed detective reaches out to a retired police captain to help him solve a murder via video-call. Things quickly escalate as another murder is committed.

Arsenaal is a South-African, Afrikaans-language drama-thriller television series created, written, and directed by Jan Scholtz and produced by his production company, Schotz Films; which is set against the backdrop of investigative journalism, corrupt security companies, and corrupt police.

Jonni returns to Iceland to spend Christmas with his family and to record an album with his old band. He soon finds out that circumstances in his family have changed dramatically and his friends have moved on. We follow Jonni as he deals with this blunt new reality, wrestles with love and helps his family make their Christmas merry in spite of everything.

When an impoverished white prostitute from the slums of Pretoria East discovers that her younger daughter is terminally ill, she has to try every means at her disposal to make enough money to get her daughter the surgery she needs. But making a living is tough for a woman in her position, and she is eventually forced to consider sacrificing her older daughter's innocence in order to save the younger one's life.

In a small fishing community on the outskirts of Cape Town, Gabriel discovers a dead body and two bags of valuable abalone. His brother, Mikhail, convinces him they must take it for themselves. But when a corrupt government worker pursues them, they embark on a journey into the mountains and are driven to the ends of the Cape of Good Hope for the survival of their relationship and their lives.

Die Deur deals with the fall out of toxic relationships long after the abuser has left and shows how the long lasting hold it often has lies hidden in between the cracks it left behind.

Armed with his imagination and a cardboard submarine, 12 year old Ruan dives into the unknown, searching for the healing Angel Jellyfish in a valiant attempt to save his terminally ill father.

Story of drug addiction and murder