New Zealand Movies

Operation 8 examines the so-called 'anti-terror' raids that took place around New Zealand on October 15, 2007 - asking how and why they took place...

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled...

Loren Taylor's directorial debut, “The Moon is Upside Down”, is an uproarious and cleverly dark-humoured rollercoaster. Against the...

True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.

A subtle and poignant exploration of Pasifika masculinity and its queer-tinged boundaries.

The Feast is a live-action horror short film following siblings Lucy and Sam as they return to their childhood home where their reclusive mother...

A struggling Tongan immigrant is taken under the wing of a charismatic American salesman. What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into a...

Detective Steven Harvings was the head detective in the 1999 missing persons case that held a nation as an audience for two weeks. Josh Coplins (who...

A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of...

Australian-New Zealand lost film about an interracial romance between a white Australian man and a Māori girl

Wingsuit BASE jumping is often presented as a thrill seeking adrenaline rush. Spellbound takes us deeper into the more contemplative aspects of...

A jaded, young slacker remorselessly steps on a snail in the street. Unbeknownst to him, karma has a transformative punishment in store.

Documentary by John Clarke about his greatest creation - Fred Dagg.

The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens...

A journalist follows a trickle of information upstream, leading to revelations about California's water and the couple accused of hoarding it to...

A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Māori family hostage and discovers too late that they are cannibals.

Demonically possessed hamsters terrorize a young babysitter and her boyfriend.

An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind...

The movie that wowed audiences at Expo 70. The film combined scenic images including aerial cinematography with rousing classical music such as...

In this breathtaking science fiction spectacle, a strange mechanical device lands on a desolate world and uses the planet to undergo a startling...