Best South African comedy movies
A curated collection of popular comedy movies from South Africa.
Hoener Met Die Rooi Skoene (2017)
Fried Barry (2020)
Fried Barry (2020)
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex, and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind.
Copposites (2012)
Copposites (2012)
A cop and a crook are exposed to a DNA altering formula that switches them into each other's bodies and forces them to work together in order to switch back.
Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (2017)
Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack (2017)
When Destiny, captain of three-time national champions "The Rebels," is challenged to a global cheer showdown by an edgy new team called "The Truth," the Cheer Goddess organizes a virtual battle for squads from all around the world. It seems like the whole world wants to take down Destiny and her team, and they just might succeed, unless Destiny can rise to the challenge, set her ego aside and figure out who her real friends are.
A Soweto Love Story (2024)
Trippin’ with the Kandasamys (2021)
Happiness Is (2024)
Vir Altyd (2016)
Vir Altyd (2016)
Childhood friends, Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown unbeknownst to him, the day before Nina's wedding. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure.
Karate Kallie (2009)
Karate Kallie (2009)
An Afrikaans story about a chubby 17-year old (Kallie) who struggles to fit in in his new school. On top of that, luck has it that he falls in love with the school bully's sister.
Umjolo: The Gone Girl (2024)
Meet the Khumalos (2025)
Bakgat! (2008)
Bakgat! (2008)
Katrien (Cherié van der Merwe) is dumped by her boyfriend, high school rugby star Werner (Altus Theart), so he can focus his energy on the sport. To get even, she makes a bet with her friends that she can make a star out of the school's dorkiest boy, 'Wimpie' Koekemoer (Ivan Botha), by pretending to be his girlfriend. The awkward Koekemoer rises to the challenge but Katrien finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with him, until he realizes she is merely using him.
A Royal Surprise (2022)
Mooi River (2015)
Mooi River (2015)
Another first for South Africa's fast growing film industry - A multiple story line ensemble romantic comedy capturing the essence of what love looks like in all it's different shapes and sizes. Mooirivier is a film about relationships, about how we can't live without them, about how love always wins, even if it doesn't look, or turn out, the way you thought it would.
White Wedding (2009)
White Wedding (2009)
A young groom and his best man lost on the road trip to the wedding, run into a young English doctor. Set against South Africa's breathtaking landscapes, White Wedding is a high-spirited modern-day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending.
Eksie Perfeksie (2024)
Eksie Perfeksie (2024)
Although he barely knows her, André makes the impulsive decision to move in with his new girlfriend, only to find out that Dalene is still friends with all her ex-boyfriends. Intimidated by their presence, André first tries to befriend them, but then he discovers that all of Dalene's relationships follow exactly the same pattern...
Umjolo: There Is No Cure (2025)
Vrou Soek BOER (2014)
Vrou Soek BOER (2014)
Mareike (Lika Berning) is a city girl and successful in her demanding career. The same can not be said for her love life. After a confrontation with her boss, she decides to swop the city for the platteland and a bakery that she inherited from an aunt. But her new life in the small town is more than she expected. Apart from the fact that she must trade her business suits for an apron, things really hot up when she must choose between Mr Handsome and Mr Right.
Do Your Worst (2023)
Trading Places (2023)
Trading Places (2023)
A once-loving pair is slowly growing apart, but -- after magically swapping bodies -- they begin to learn some new things about each other.
Mrs Right Guy (2016)
Mrs Right Guy (2016)
Gugu, the walking wounded, rejects men long before they can get too close to rock her self-imposed exile from love. But to find bliss with the right guy, she must first realise that no man is created equal and that, in love, nice guys not only have staying power but can be just right too.
Konfetti (2014)
Konfetti (2014)
Jean and Sheryl are getting married. He is Afrikaans. She is Jewish. Their families are tense and Lukas, the best man - has been on a drinking spree and forgotten to confirm the band. To complicate matters more, the ancestral ring has been delayed because Sheryl's relatives are lost en-route to the wedding.
Fanie Fourie's Lobola (2013)
Fanie Fourie's Lobola (2013)
After Fanie takes Dinky, a strong Zulu woman, to his Afrikaans family wedding, the two find an unexpectedly fun cross-cultural romance. But in order to marry Dinky, Fanie must negotiate to pay Lobola (a South African dowry).
Sy Klink Soos Lente (2016)
Sy Klink Soos Lente (2016)
Ben, a mechanic at a Johannesburg car dealership, and Linda, a beautiful, smart redhead, cross paths one night. He immediately recognises her as his boss’s daughter, although she has no idea who he is. They’re immediately attracted to each other, and, in a frantic and uncertain effort to disguise his identity, Ben lies to Linda and claims to be in a band. When their love blossoms unexpectedly and he decides that he wants to live up to his lie, he starts a band with a few fellow employees, and they enroll for a battle-of-the-bands competition.