Good Madam

★★★★★

Original title: Mlungu Wam

2021 · 1 h 32 min

Directed by Jenna Cato Bass

Horror

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Cast

Chumisa Cosa Nosipho Mtebe Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya Sanda Shandu Khanyiso Kenqa Sizwe Ginger Lubengu

Credits

Written by: Babalwa Baartman

Plot

A woman and her daughter move into the home of her mother, a live-in maid for a white family, in post-apartheid South Africa, in a horror film about racial legacy.

Sinekatalog’s take

A smart and unsettling social horror film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 5.2 / 10 (564 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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