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2005

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An Academy Award winning film about a gritty young gang leader named Tsotsi who lives on the dangerous and crime-ridden streets of Johannesburg, South Africa. This deeply affecting film traces six days in Tsotsi's life in which he ends up caring for a baby he accidentally kidnaps during a carjacking. With the baby's welfare at .. Read more

Starring	Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Percy Matsemela, Terry Pheto
Director	Gavin Hood
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Hood elicits a great performance from Presley Chweneyagae as the delinquent hero slowly beginning to question his life of casual violence... Individual scenes are staged with tremendous verve
- 40639
- - Sight and Sound
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
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  - 7
  Glad I Saw this....
  
  Be absorbed into a cruel and relentless world of random violence and crime due to poverty and abandonment. Be taken a journey with the main character, played ... read more »
  
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  - Ash
  - Birmingham, England
  - 25 Jan 2006 at 13:21
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- - 0
  - 0
  Fab world cinema
  
  There is a need for more world cinema.
  
  Captivating, real life struggle.
  
  Characters are well thought out and you wish Tsotsi to do the ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Nov 2011 at 23:02
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  A glimmer of hope extinguished
  
  A moving study of post-Apartheid life in South Africa for an AIDS orphan, highlighting class differences and grinding poverty as the key issues. Tsotsi's ... read more »
  
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- - ManchesterMike
  - 22 reviews
  - 19 Nov 2011 at 18:24
- - 0
  - 0
  Tsotsi ok
  
  Tsotsi It's ok nothing to write home about ,its not one of my favourite films wouldn't watch a second time.
  
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- - Deeleeds
  - 38 reviews
  - Leeds
  - 10 Nov 2011 at 12:07
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  - 0
  Very good, deeply moving
  
  A very moving portrayle of life in a crime ridden place. Interesting and captavation from start to finish.
  
  The only thing that was a little ... read more »
  
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- - lisafaescotland
  - 12 reviews
  - 06 Aug 2011 at 01:53
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  - 0
  Underestimating the Human Soul
  
  Interesting to see the depths of the human soul and it's journey in a lifetime under the harsh realities in SA.
  
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- 1023874
- - charliechops
  - 2 reviews
  - 01 Aug 2011 at 00:58
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  - 1
  Long live South Africa
  
  South Africa is a country with a lot of wonderful people. Whether black or white, the people of South Africa have been seriously hurt by the stupid politics of ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 10 Jul 2011 at 23:04
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  Interesting movie
  
  I liked this movie, stupidly didn't realsise it had subtitles- but thats my own fault.
  
  It was an eye opener to life in Africa.
  
  Almost ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 05 Jul 2011 at 11:06
- - 1
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  DO NOT MISS THIS MOVIE !!
  
  What a hard hitting, eye opening glance into a life of pain, poverty and desperation...
  
  The acting was sublime. Even when no words were being spoken... read more »
  
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- - topfilm
  - 3 reviews
  - 29 Jun 2011 at 09:19
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  - 0
  A good and engaging film.
  
  An absorbing and very touching film about an angry and violent young African man (Tsotsi), living in a world of poverty, crime and desperation, who ... read more »
  
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- - gingerspike
  - 259 reviews
  - Grimsby
  - 22 Jun 2011 at 21:37
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  5 stars
  
  this is an amazing film, i dont normally what subtitled films as there not my scene but i would highly recommend this its a very moving story watch it,
  
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- - myalice
  - 8 reviews
  - 18 Apr 2011 at 00:18
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- - 99
  - 7
  Glad I Saw this....
  
  Be absorbed into a cruel and relentless world of random violence and crime due to poverty and abandonment. Be taken a journey with the main character, played ... read more »
  
  Report this review
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  - Ash
  - Birmingham, England
  - 25 Jan 2006 at 13:21
- - 17
  - 0
  Gripping throughout
  
  We added Tsotsi based on some interesting and generally positive reviews we had read and we must agree with much that was said. Tsotsi follows an aggressive ... read more »
  
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- - Graham
  - UK
  - 12 Mar 2007 at 16:23
- - 14
  - 0
  Tsotsi flies high.
  
  A great performance from the lead role, this is a tale of morality within the thankless environment of poverty and desperation. Set in a Johannesberg township ... read more »
  
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- - Phil
  - Leicester
  - 20 Nov 2006 at 15:19
- - 11
  - 0
  A soul-building journey
  
  Tsotsi, our anti-hero, starts the film as a thug with a mere thread of a soul. His face is expressionless and his eyes vacant - brought... read more »
  
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- - Andybe
  - 195 reviews
  - Richmond
  - 07 Feb 2007 at 01:02
- - 8
  - 0
  Best film I've seen all year
  
  This won the best Oscar for a film in a language other than English this year. I'm not surprised. This is brilliantly acted, a quite breathtakingly ... read more »
  
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  - TristanWhite
  - 307 reviews
  - London, UK
  - 08 Oct 2006 at 15:59
- - 6
  - 0
  Lost innocence
  
  A story of a stolen child and how poverty and AIDS is stealing the childhood of so many in South Africa. Very moving. Well worth watching.
  
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- - PeterSays
  - 105 reviews
  - Romsey
  - 30 May 2007 at 21:34
- - 5
  - 0
  Excellent
  
  Fantastic film
  
  Original storyline.
  
  Well acted and a great portrayal of the redemption of a hardened criminal.
  
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- - a customer
  - Scotland
  - 05 Sep 2006 at 15:30
- - 5
  - 1
  Excellent, very touching
  
  Wonderful African film about a young criminal who changes his ways once he has to look after a helpless baby
  
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- - a customer
  - Cambridge
  - 16 Dec 2007 at 09:13
- - 5
  - 2
  Excellent gripping drama,... really a must see
  
  Compelling story and superbly acted. Starts off as a cold township gang film but develops into a strong and rich drama when we get to know some of the history ... read more »
  
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  - Bexley
  - 13 Aug 2006 at 23:07
- - 4
  - 1
  well done
  
  Being an ex-pat I found this to be a slightly limited, yet rather raw peek into a very real side of a crippling reality that South Africa is dealing with. ... read more »
  
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- - Allen Sinclair
  - London
  - 08 Aug 2006 at 11:59

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  An Academy Award winning film about a gritty young gang leader named Tsotsi who lives on the dangerous and crime-ridden streets of Johannesburg, South Africa. This deeply affecting film traces six days in Tsotsi's life in which he ends up caring for a baby he accidentally kidnaps during a ...