New Zealand Movies

Short subject documentary about land speed record holder Burt Munro. Produced for NZBC.

Kids on an outing in the forest come up against a mysterious hermit who lives on the other side of a bridge, and he is definitely not happy to see...

On the day she gets her first menses, Hinekura is initiated into adulthood with ceremony and blessings. She's taken to a wananga where her role...

Solo, a young Samoan interpreter entrenched in the colonial court system, is suddenly challenged when the High Chief Nua is called to the stand....

Baz Luhrmann meets Peter Jackson in this audacious 1950s-style comedy-horror musical extravaganza, featuring a spectacular score performed by the New...

An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what is held most dear, but things aren’t always...

The documentary tells the story of three small remote atolls in the middle of the Pacific that overcame their isolation and dependence on diesel...

Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away suddenly before the film could be completed. The...

A curious deaf boy's life is changed when he meets a Living Statue.

A 2003 TVNZ documentary on the capture of the criminal responsible for one of New Zealand's most heinous crimes. On June 19, 1987, 6-year-old Teresa...

The film rejoices the splendor of nature as the camera eye traverses land and sea in a montage of diverse ecosystems from the Americas to Iceland and...

A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) ,...

Spiraling into the abyss, two melancholic yet hopelessly infatuated lovers are imprisoned in a beetle-infested nightmare. Wallowing in sorrow, they...

From the bowels of the kitchen sink comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism...

As two girls go from being friends to maybe something more, one of them encounters a stranger who needs a place to stay the night.

Mothering Sunday is a horror, dark comedy short film where terrifying revelations are made during a Mother-Daughter argument.

Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal. He did so in spectacular fashion, winning the 1500 meters at the 1936...

Pacific Mother journeys from Japan, to Hawaii, Tahiti, Rarotonga and Aotearoa to share interwoven stories of formidable women who live at one with...

After losing his job, a grieving man must decide whether to play it safe or take a risk and reignite something from his past he abandoned.

Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and...