What to watch on Netflix and ShowMax this weekend

4 November 2016

It’s the weekend again, and that means you get to sit back, relax, and catch up on all your favourite shows on ShowMax and Netflix South Africa.

From action-packed films like Shooter and The Town to great new series, there’s plenty of reason to stay inside this weekend.

Check out the latest shows you can watch on ShowMax and Netflix South Africa below:


The Town

Netflix

IMDb: 7.6

As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.

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War of the Worlds

Netflix

IMDb: 6.5

As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.

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Shooter

Netflix

IMDb: 7.2

A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President.

Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to find the real killer and the reason he was set up.

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Orange is the New Black (season 1-2)

Netflix

IMDb: 8.3

The story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting money to her drug-dealing girlfriend.

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My Boss’s Daughter

ShowMax

IMDb: 4.6

When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it’ll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss’s daughter.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles

ShowMax

IMDb: 6.6

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

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The Expanse (season 1)

Netflix

IMDb: 8.2

A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth’s rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.

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Boys and Girls

ShowMax

IMDb: 5.3

A friendship is put to the ultimate test when two best friends wind up in bed together.

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Bounce

ShowMax

IMDb: 5.7

A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one’s wife.

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A Beautiful Mind

ShowMax

IMDb: 8.2

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

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    05.11.2016 at 13:14

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