New Zealand Movies

Director Roger Donaldson's 1977 movie of CK Stead novel Smith's Dream helped spark a new wave of Kiwi cinema. Getting there was a cash-strapped,...

Marty Schwartz attempts to steal a couch to pay back his gambling debts.

Teine Sā - the ancient spirits of the Pacific are stirring. Revered and feared in equal measure, these sacred gods have crept back into the...

In 1997, Osama bin Laden declared war on the USA and Pulitzer Prize winning CNN correspondent Peter Arnett embarked on a mission to locate and...

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to...

In the wake of a painful break up a group of friends band together to help the former couple move out of their old room.

A poignant story of a dutiful eldest daughter within a Samoan household and her internal struggle of the weight of her responsibilities and...

The Pleasures of Unbelonging, filmed in Hanmer Spring, a resort town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand’s South Island, unfolds through a...

Joey defines as an unlucky-in-love lesbian. Then she meets Alice. Might her fortunes change?

A primer on proper phone manners produced for the New Zealand Post Office.

It showcases a travel vlog inspired by the reports of the 1960s United States Information Service mobile film units' field trips for anti-communist...

A documentary about Sir Len Southward OBE and his collection of vehicles at his Southward Car Museum in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, among the largest...

In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral,...

Over a decade in the making, Swagger of Thieves follows rock band Head Like a Hole from the top of the charts to the bottom of a needle. Staring down...

Feeling directionless in his life, Wellington works in buses in Brazil as he gathers money for a charity that helped clean him from drugs. A chance...

Two siblings find themselves in their fathers room a year after his drowning. Stuck there by Hine-nui-te-pō (the Goddess of Death), the two must...

It takes a village to raise a child, let alone one living with a disability. Mele show’s us how Haloti’s village wraps around him in...

Further adventures of the explorers gang of the TV series, encountering ape men, dinosaurs and a tribe of albino underground dwellers.


This film animates the insects found in the last painting by the artist’s grandfather, the Balinese painter I Gusti Made Rundu. The...


An artist sculpts clay in their studio while telling stories about their predecessors. The work affirms the artistic process as a circular...