The Love Hypothesis on Prime Video tops this week’s South African streaming film chart, while A Different World on Netflix leads the series list.
In cinemas, Just Play Dead opens on Friday 9 October at Ster-Kinekor and Nu Metro, and Charlie Harper, Digger, Drishyam – The Conclusion, Forgotten Island, Heart of the Beast and Ice Cream Man are still showing.
What's streaming: the Top 10 in South Africa
Top 10 films
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Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director.
3
Phony
A struggling filmmaker, unlucky in love, enlists the aid of a womanizing friend to create an exploitative documentary about…
4
The Runner
A high-powered attorney must race through London to save her abducted son while following cryptic commands from a mysterious…
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Why Did I Get Married Again?
The couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did…
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Unabomber
In this drama inspired by true events, Ted Kaczynski's transformation from Harvard prodigy to the infamous Unabomber unfolds as…
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The Departed
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the…
8
Mayday
Lieutenant Troy Brennan's reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory goes awry, forcing him to crash-land and survive in…
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Dune
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most…
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The Whisper Man
When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer…
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A Different World
Follows Deborah Wayne as she enters her freshman year at Hillman College, her parents' HBCU alma mater, where she must escape…
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MobLand
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
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East of Eden
In the early 1900s, a fiercely independent woman drives a rift between two brothers, igniting a saga that unfolds across two…
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Reacher
Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life.
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Blood Legacy
After years of estrangement, Khanyi Adesina returns home to fight for her family's business empire as it threatens to collapse…
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Neagley
Neagley, drawing from her experience with Jack Reacher and the 110 Special Investigators, embarks on a perilous mission to expose…
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Slow Horses
Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents-and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb-as they navigate the espionage…
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Ted Lasso
American college football coach Ted Lasso is hired to manage AFC Richmond, a struggling English soccer club, and must win over…
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9
Ghosts
A young couple, Sam and Jay, inherit a haunted mansion and, unaware of their invisible housemates, plan to turn it into a B&B.
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Beauty in Black
A stripper's fate takes a turn when she crosses paths with the wealthy, dysfunctional family behind a cosmetics dynasty and a…
Top 10 by service
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Now showing in cinemas
Just Play Dead
Drishyam – The Conclusion
Ice Cream Man
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie
Practical Magic 2
Runner
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
Verity
Coyote vs ACME
Fall 2: Deadpoint
Invite, The
Liefde Is Rooi: An Anthology of Short Films
Minions & Monsters
Coming up in cinemas
Streaming: the Top 10 in South Africa, overall and per service. Netflix Top 10: Netflix's official weekly data for South Africa. Cinema listings: Ster Kinekor and Nu Metro. Rankings and listings as read on Sunday 04 October 2026, 08:00 SAST.