Set in the early days of World War II and based on a true story, Australian actor Jack Thompson stars as Stanley Graham, a poor…
Browsing: New Zealand Movies
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An Alien Investigation and Defence team are dispatched to hunt down some extra-terrestrial aliens who have depopulated a small town, using the humans as stock…
In a bid for independence, red-haired country girl Meg (Heather Bolton) moves from the New Zealand countryside to the city of Wellington, where she is…
District 9 opens 20 years in the past, when a huge alien spaceship hovers crippled above Johannesburg, South Africa, carrying millions of emaciated aliens. The…
Iconic Maori singer Howard Morrison starred in this lighthearted, low-budget, poor cousin of A Hard Day’s Night (1964) from New Zealand. Howard invites drummer Gary…
Based on a popular long-running New Zealand comic strip by cartoonist Murray Ball, Footrot Flats showcases the kind of gentle laconic humour the Kiwis do…
Anne (Patricia Phillips) walks out on her big, fat, dumb husband and her kids, Dora and Jack, when they are infants. Dora is adopted by…
Heidi, the vain, singing 400lb hippopotamus star of New Zealand’s beloved and top-rated TV show, the Meet The Feebles Variety Hour, discovers her lover, bleary-eyed…
Told in a bold, unflinching manner, director Lee Tamahori’s award-winning drama grips and fascinates as it lifts the lid on ghetto Maori life in New…
Scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakes one morning to realise he may be the only person left alive on Earth. Left to wander through a…
Former racing driver Alan Shaw (Bruno Lawrence) now drives a tow truck and owns and operates the titular auto-wrecking yard in New Zealand. He still…
Owing something to Fred Schepisi’s Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), this is a powerful period drama which plays like a New Zealand Western film. Te Wheke…