Spier Films is a motion picture production company with offices in Cape Town, London, Los Angeles and Reykjavik. We develop, produce and finance films and series unrestricted by form, genre or Platform.
From their site
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Contact & details
How their work is rated
16 rated titles, weighted by votes
50 wins from 118 nominations across all awards
Combined US gross, 2 of 16 titles
- Mostly
- drama, action, biography
- Active
- 2005–2020
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 69%
- Best known for
- Escape from Pretoria
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 16 of 16 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Credits16
14 films · 1 TV title
Escape from Pretoria
2020 · Film
Produced
Professionals
2020 · TV
Produced
Love Jacked
2018 · Film
Produced
The Harvesters
2018 · Film
Produced
3 Way Junction
2018 · Film
Produced
An Act of Defiance
2017 · Film
Produced
The Salvation
2015 · Film
Produced
Young Ones
2014 · Film
Produced
The Price of Sugar
2013 · Film
Produced
Layla Fourie
2013 · Film
Produced
Traitors
2013 · Film
Produced
Of Good Report
2013 · Film
Produced
Black Butterflies
2011 · Film
Produced
Master Harold... and the Boys
2010 · Film
Produced
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
2005 · Film
Produced
- 2013
Khumba
2013
Produced
16 titles across 16 years, averaging 1.0 a year. The last five years average 0.0 a year, below their long-run rate. 7 of those 16 years carry no credit on file. 16 titles between 1997 and 2026, most in 2013 (5). 0 in the last five years shown, against 6 in the five before.
The 13 titles since 2011 average 6.5, holding at their 6.4 overall. 5 of 15 rated titles sit above their 6.4 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up. 15 titles rated on IMDb between 1997 and 2026, averaging 6.5 weighted by votes. Highest: An Act of Defiance (2017) at 7.2; lowest: 3 Way Junction (2018) at 5.4.
Who they work with
- Jean van de Velde2
- Jean van de Velde2
- Drama9 of 15
- Action3 of 15
- Biography3 of 15
- Adventure3 of 15
- Romance3 of 15
Names appearing on two or more of Spier Films’s produced titles, across the 15 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
Works with11 companies
Companies that appear alongside Spier Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.
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