New Zealand Movies

140 Days Under the World is a 1964 New Zealand short documentary film about Antarctica. It depicts one summer's work by New Zealand scientists in the...

A series of escalating incidents around the world lead to greater and greater conflict, placing the superpowers at one another's throats. Armies...

Living in New Zealand in 1981 amid high racial tension, Willie, a half-Samoan teenager, is coming into his own. With an unpredictable father, Willie...

In 'SL500,' the film delves into the interconnected lives influenced by the allure of the iconic SL500 car. Characters, ranging from a mesmerized...

Ruarangi is a thriller set in the early 1800s. It begins with a young and mischievous Māori man, Ruarangi who flees his father's anger and soon...

After spending three years in prison for the manslaughter of his best friend, a young man is released and knocks on the door of his best...

Two escaped convicts hold up in a desolate psychiatric hospital while they await their "ride to freedom". Having little to do but talk about their...

An intimate insight into a familiar community through the common currency that links us all.

Return to Gandhi Road tells the powerful story of Kangyur Rinpoche; a renowned Tibetan Master who, heeding the imminent danger of the 1950’s...

When the divorced parents of 8-year-old Jacob insist on dressing him in ridiculous clothes to spite each other, he resorts to desperate fashion...

Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in...

Under the celestial guidance of Matariki, Māori elder Hamo and local delinquent Jo form an unlikely bond on a road trip. As they confront past...

When American tech billionaire Jack Maurer pays for an elite prediction service for global threats, he receives a warning that takes him to...

Expat Kiwi Rewi Alley became one of the best known foreigners in 20th Century China and advocate for the Communist Revolution. When China was under...

Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government - where privatisation of...

Pacific Island Christmas comedy from the makers of Take Home Pay following two grandchildren on a search for their grandmother’s music box. But...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where pyramid tombs of stupendous size are...

A true New Zealand western story, the infamous Maungatapu Murders of 1866 by the Burgess-Kelly Gang, filmed on the track where it happened, in the...

The Aro Valley Digital film movement is examined through interviews with the various filmmakers and extensive clips of their work.

A small town, on State Highway 1, where nothing ever happens...then Rex Devlin dies in a suspicious car wreck and a mysterious stranger moves into...