Tsotsi

This astoundingly moving winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a charged portrait of a vicious South African street thug (Presley Chweneyagae) who changes his evil ways when left to care for the infant son of one of his carjack victims. The film was written and directed by Gavin Hood, who adapted Athol Fugard's 1961 novel that wasn't published until 1980. Kenneth Nkosi, Terry Pheto, Mothusi Magano, Zenzo Ngqobe.