A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

• DirectorGavin Hood
• Release23 December 2005
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration1h 34m
• Budget$3,000,000
• Revenue$9,891,303
• Rate
  

  6.9
  334 reviews
• Productions

  Movieworld Productions, UK Film & TV Production Company, National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa