New Zealand Movies

A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II...

Whetū Mārama is the story of Sir Hekenukumai Ngaiwi Puhipi and his significance for Māori in rekindling their wayfinding DNA,...

Five American mobsters sit in a diner and discuss the sexual politics of the fairytale: "Little Red Riding Hood".

A mother tries to comfort her grieving son, but on each attempt her son’s silence becomes more and more deafening. An outing to the local...

The armour is heavy and the stakes are high in this warm-hearted and charmingly offbeat documentary about a group of modern knights competing to...

Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after "chance" meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the...

A young man tries to figure out which of his flatmates keeps stealing his soup.

Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a...

The hero, proficient in martial arts, goes to the Pyramid where the Evil Computer is hidden.

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...

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living...

Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have...

A mysterious dark figure descends into a forest to commit an act of unforgivable evil.

A lonely scientist receives a surprise visit.

Tokelau is a New Zealand territory, spanning three small South Pacific atolls. In the 1960s the New Zealand Government expressed concern about...

In pre-colonial Aotearoa a young Māori girl witnesses the best and worst of a rapidly changing world when she encounters a dying man and his...

A dress rehearsal turns in to every performer's worst nightmare. But somehow, even with forgotten lyrics, infidelities, concussion, laryngitis,...

This exquisitely coloured film shows how tourists travelled around New Zealand in the early years of this century - by boat, horse and trap, and on...

A young film librarian Ray receives a letter from her father asking if should meet with him after 20-years of silence. She and her coworker Mack...

In this experimental super-villain origin story, Oswald, a social outcast tries to find money to pay for his girlfriend's abortion.