Lights, camera… popcorn! Blockbuster Buzz with M-Net Movies is your go-to guide for what’s happening across the M-Net Movie channels.
M-Net Movies 1 (DStv Channel 104)
Available from: Sunday, 7 September
20:15 | Cleaner | 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 now works to rescue the hostages.
Available from: Friday, 12 September
20:00 | September 5 | 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.
Available from: Saturday, 13 September
13:05 | Night of the Zoopocalypse | 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.
Available from: Sunday, 14 September
20:15 | Conclave | 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.
Available from: Friday, 19 September
20:00 | Mountainhead | Comedy Satire
It follows four billionaire friends who reunite at a poker weekend. International turmoil unfolds and they must navigate personal struggles and societal shifts in uncertain times.
Available from: Saturday, 20 September
14:35 | The Unbreakable Boy | 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.
Available from: Sunday, 21 September
20:15 | Den of Thieves 2: Pantera | Action Crime
Big Nick is back in Europe looking for Donnie, who is caught up in the dangerous world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther gang. They are planning a huge robbery of the world’s biggest diamond exchange.
Available from: Sunday, 28 September
20:15 | Thelma | 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.
M-Net Movies 2 (DStv Channel 106)
Available from: Tuesday, 2 September
11:55 | Trolls World Tour | 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.
15:10 | Wicked | 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.
18:00 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | 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.
Available from: Wednesday, 3 September
20:00 | Crazy Rich Asians | 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.
Available from: Friday, 5 September
13:40 | Stomp the Yard | 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 center of a fight between fraternities who want to use his skills in a dance competition coming up.
17:10 | Honey 2 | 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.
21:00 | Joker: Folie à Deux | 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.
Available from: Saturday, 6 September
14:20 | Wonka | Family Fantasy
The prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it tells the story of how Willy Wonka became the famous chocolate maker, magician, and inventor that we know and love today.
22:45 | Mean Girls | Comedy
Teenager Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) 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.
Available from: Wednesday, 10 September
18:10 | Sing | Musical
Dapper Koala Buster Moon is in charge of a theater 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.
M-Net Movies 3 (DStv Channel 107)
Available from: Tuesday, 2 September
21:00 | Flight | 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 changed for him when it came out that he was drinking when he flew the plane.
Available from: Wednesday, 3 September
21:00 | American Gangster | 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 that is willing to deal with him.
Available from: Thursday, 4 September
19:10 | The Marksman | 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.
21:00 | The Nun | 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.
Available from: Friday, 5 September
17:10 | The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift | 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.
21:30 | The Beekeeper | 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.
22:20 | Anaconda | 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.
Available from: Saturday, 6 September
12:30 | Daddy’s Home 2 | 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.
18:00 | Instant Family | 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.
20:00 | Night School | 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.
M-Net Movies 4 (DStv Channel 108)
Available from: Tuesday, 2 September
15:59 | The Secret Life of Pets | 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.
Available from: Thursday, 4 September
20:30 | Deep Blue Sea | 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.
Available from: Saturday, 6 September
10:05 | The Smurfs | 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.
15:05 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | 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.
16:35 | Fanie Fourie’s Lobola | 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 – the traditional Zulu bride price.
Available from: Sunday, 7 September
20:00 | Muzzle | Action
Muzzle is a thrilling 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.
Available from: Wednesday, 10 September
22:30 | We’re the Millers | 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.
Available from: Tuesday, 16 September
16:50 | Kandasamys: The Wedding | Comedy Romance
Prishen and Jodi’s wedding preparations give rise to a series of misadventures, turning it into a hilarious familial affair.
Available from: Saturday, 20 September
16:50 | Due Date | 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.
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