Your one-stop highlights guide to the movies comin' up on M-Net and the M-Net Movie channels this September 2025:
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Friday night films:
Our pick
September 5
Friday 5 September 2025 at 21h00
Thriller/Drama
This retelling of a historical tragedy that earned an Oscar nomination. Based on the true story of an American sports broadcasting group that covered the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
When Palestinian terrorists take 11 Israeli athletes and coaches' captive in the Olympic village, this group must act rapidly to deal with the situation.
Mountainhead
Friday 12 September 2025 at 21h00
Comedy
A satire by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong about the superrich during a meltdown. A group of tech gurus meets for a boys' trip as an international crisis unfolds.
Elevation
Friday 19 September 2025 at 21h00
Action/Thriller
A post-apocalyptic story by the creators of A Quiet Place. Alongside two women, a father goes on a dangerous mission to save his son's life.
Caddo Lake
Friday 26 September 2025 at 21h15
Thriller/Mystery
Dylan O'Brien leads this sci-fi thriller. When a girl disappears on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, altering a broken family's history.
Sunday night films:
Our pick
Conclave
Sunday 7 September 2025 at 20h05
Thriller
Secrets, drama, power, and faith collide in this book-inspired church thriller. Cardinal Lawrence is taking part in one of the oldest and most secretive ceremonies in the world - the selection of a new pope. He soon finds a trail of deep secrets that might threaten the fundamental structure of the Roman Catholic Church while strong religious figures in the corridors of the Vatican surround him.
Den of Thieves 2
Sunday 14 September 2025 at 20h05
Action/Suspense
Big Nick gets ensnared in the treacherous world of diamond thieves and the notorious Panther Mafia as he pursues the elusive career criminal Donnie Wilson.
Thelma
Sunday 21 September 2025 at 20h05
Comedy/Drama
A con artist tricks 93-year-old Thelma Post into giving them $10,000 over the phone. With the help of a friend and her motorised scooter, she soon sets out on a dangerous trip across Los Angeles to get back what was stolen from her.
Based on the grandmother of the film's writer, director and editor Josh Margoli.
Love Hurts
Sunday 28 September 2025 at 20h05
Action/Comedy
A realtor is pulled back into his old life by his former partner-in-crime. With his crime-lord brother also on his trail, he must confront his past.
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Flash fact: the movies on the movie channels repeat, so you can browse the DStv EPG to find other screenings of them if you miss them at the times in these listings...
Our pick
Sunday 7 September 2025 at 20h15
Action/Thriller
Criminal activists hijack a gala, taking 300 hostages. One extremist plans mass murder as a message to the world. An ex-soldier turned window cleaner works to rescue the hostages.
September 5
Friday 12 September 2025 at 20h00
Thriller/Drama
Based on the true story of an American sports broadcasting group that covered the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. When Palestinian terrorists take 11 Israeli athletes and coaches’ captive in the Olympic village, this group must act rapidly to deal with the situation.
Night of the Zoopocalypse
Saturday 13 September 2025 at 13h05
Comedy/Adventure
When a meteor hits a zoo and releases a strange virus, the animals start to turn into zombies one by one. A mountain lion and a wolf are the only ones who can save them, but they must work together.
Conclave
Sunday 14 September 2025 at 20h15
Thriller/Mystery
Cardinal Lawrence is taking part in one of the oldest and most secretive ceremonies in the world - the selection of a new pope. He soon finds a trail of deep secrets that might threaten the fundamental structure of the Roman Catholic Church while strong religious figures in the corridors of the Vatican surround him.
Mountainhead
Friday 19 September 2025 at 20h00
Comedy/Satire
A satire by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong about the superrich during a meltdown. A group of tech gurus meets for a boys' trip as an international crisis unfolds.
The Unbreakable Boy
Saturday 20 September 2025 at 14h35
Drama
Scott and Teresa are worried about their son Austin's future after they find out he has autism and brittle bone disease. But as Scott's faith grows and Austin's spirit shines, they become unbreakable when things are hard.
Den of Thieves 2
Sunday 21 September 2025 at 20h15
Action/Crime
Big Nick gets ensnared in the treacherous world of diamond thieves and the notorious Panther Mafia as he pursues the elusive career criminal Donnie Wilson..
Thelma
Sunday 28 September 2025 at 20h15
Action /Comedy
A con artist tricks 93-year-old Thelma Post into giving them $10,000 over the phone. With the help of a friend and her motorised scooter, she soon sets out on a dangerous trip across Los Angeles to get back what was stolen from her.
Based on the grandmother of the film's writer, director and editor Josh Margoli.
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DStv Channel 106
Our pick
Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 11h55
Musical
Queen Barb of the Rock tribe wants to destroy all other types of music by taking their techno strings and making them her own. Queen Poppy sets out to stop her nefarious schemes.
Wicked
Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 15h10
Musical/Fantasy
Because of her green complexion, a young woman named Elphaba is misunderstood. She forms an odd but deep connection with Glinda, a student who wants to be popular no matter what.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 18h00
Musical/Comedy
Sophie discreetly invites three men to her wedding. They were her mother's lovers in the past, and she hopes that one of them is her father.
Crazy Rich Asians
Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 20h00
Romance/Comedy
Rachel is a professor and is seeing a man named Nick. She can't wait to meet his family. But when she finds out that Nick comes from one of the richest families in the country, she gets apprehensive.
Stomp the Yard
Friday 5 September 2025 at 13h40
Dance
A troubled but talented street dancer goes to Atlanta's Truth University after his brother dies. He is trying to focus on his schoolwork and win over a classmate, but he gets caught in the centre of a fight between fraternities who want to use his skills in a dance competition coming up.
Honey 2
Friday 5 September 2025 at 17h10
Musical
Maria, who is 17 years old, goes back to the Bronx to start again after being released from juvenile incarceration. A new dance crew and Dance Battlezone, a dance tournament, soon offered her a reason to live.
Joker: Folie à Deux
Friday 5 September 2025 at 21h00
Musical
Arthur Fleck, a failed comic who is having trouble with his two identities, finds true love while in Arkham State Hospital. Fleck is waiting for his trial for killing five people. While he waits, he finds the music that has always been inside him.
Wonka
6 September 2025 at 14h20
Family/Fantasy
The prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tells the story of how Willy Wonka became the famous chocolate maker, magician and inventor that we know and love today.
Mean Girls
6 September 2025 at 22h45
Comedy
Teenager Cady Heron went to school in Africa and finally gets to go to public school when her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois. There, she learns about the brutal, unwritten rules of popularity that keep her classmates in tight-knit groups.
Sing
10 September 2025 at 18h10
Musical
Dapper Koala Buster Moon is in charge of a theatre that used to be grand but is now in bad shape. He loves his theater more than anything else and will do anything to keep it safe.
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Our pick
Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 21h00
Action/Thriller
An airline pilot saves the day by safely landing a plane that is about to crash, and he becomes a hero overnight. But things change for him when it comes out that he was drinking when he flew the plane.
American Gangster
Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 21h00
Action/Thriller
Frank is a powerful drug lord whose drug business is hurting because of corrupt cops and smaller street gangs. Detective Roberts is the only police officer willing to deal with him.
The Marksman
Thursday 4 September 2025 at 19h10
Action/Thriller
Jim Hanson, a retired Marine who lives on the Mexican border, seeks to help a mother and kid who are being pursued by a drug gang. Jim must take the youngster to Chicago after the mother dies.
The Nun
Thursday 4 September 2025 at 21h00
Horror
A priest and a novice go to Romania to investigate the death of a young nun. But things get bad when they come across a supernatural entity.
The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift
Friday 5 September 2025 at 17h10
Action
To avoid jail time, an errant car racer is sent to live with his father in Tokyo. However, he finds himself in trouble once again when he becomes a major competitor in drifting.
The Beekeeper
Friday 5 September 2025 at 21h30
Action/Thriller
The film follows a retired government assassin who sets out for revenge after his kind-hearted landlady falls victim to a phishing scam.
Anaconda
Friday 5 September 2025 at 22h20
Horror/Action
A snake hunter helps a documentary crew that is trying to film an indigenous community in the Amazon. But as the trip goes on, his presence makes them go into perilous seas.
Daddy’s Home 2
Saturday 6 September 2025 at 12h30
Comedy
Dusty and Brad want to give their kids the best Christmas ever. But their fathers decide to visit them at the same time, which ruins their intentions.
Instant Family
Saturday 6 September 2025 at 18h00
Comedy
A couple wants to have kids, so they adopt three kids through foster care. But things go wrong when they try to take care of a traumatised girl and her two younger siblings.
Night School
Saturday 6 September 2025 at 20h00
Comedy
Teddy Walker had to go to night school after mistakenly blowing up his job. While there, he must cope with a teacher who believes he is dumb and a group of kids that don't fit in.
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Our pick
Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 15h59
Animation
Max, the pet dog, doesn't like it when his owner brings home another dog named Duke. But when they find out their owner is in jeopardy, they put their disagreements aside.
Deep Blue Sea
Thursday 4 September 2025 at 20h30
Horror/Sci-fi
A group of biologists in the middle of the ocean try to change the genes in sharks' brains to find treatment for an illness. They must get out before it's too late if the experiment goes wrong.
The Smurfs
Saturday 6 September 2025 at 10h05
Animation
The people who want peace Gargamel, the bad guy, chases the Smurfs out of their peaceful home and sends them to New York City. Now they must find a method to come back home.
Kung Fu Panda 2
Saturday 6 September 2025 at 15h05
Animation
Peacock Shen wants to take over China and destroy kung fu, but Dragon Warrior Po stops him. To do this, Po must figure out the riddle of his own past.
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Saturday 6 September 2025 at 16h35
Comedy
A South African romantic comedy about an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl who fall in love and must navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola.
Muzzle
Sunday 7 September 2025 at 20h00
Action
Muzzle is a cop and K9 thriller about revenge and treachery. An LAPD K9 and his K-9 partner fight on the streets of LA when they get into a gunfight with local drug dealers, and his K9 is shot dead. Our hero goes rogue because of his anguish.
We’re the Millers
Wednesday 10 September 2025 at 22h30
Comedy
David, a drug dealer, is going to Mexico to get a cargo of marijuana. He hires Rose, a dancer, and two teens to act as his family so they may cross the border without anybody noticing.
Kandasamys: The Wedding
Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 16h50
Comedy/Romance
Prishen and Jodi's wedding preparations give rise to a series of misadventures, turning it into a hilarious familial affair.
Due Date
Saturday 20 September 2025 at 16h50
Comedy
Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) will be a dad for the first time when his wife gives birth in five days. He intends to catch a flight home from Atlanta so he can be there for the delivery, but a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) throws a monkey wrench into his plans.