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Tag Archives: New Zealand
Broken English (1996) Gregor Nicholas, Aleksandra Vujcic, Julian Arahanga, Rade Serbedzija
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Read More »
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997) Harry Sinclair, Danielle Cormack, Joel Tobeck, Ian Hughes
Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. Read More »
Angel Mine (1978) David Blyth, Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot
A young and affluent couple become fatally entangled in their own wish-fulfillment world. Read More »
Came a Hot Friday (1985) Ian Mune, Peter Bland, Phillip Gordon, Michael Lawrence
Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men Read More »
Never Say Die (1988) Geoff Murphy, Temuera Morrison, Lisa Eilbacher, George Wendt
A young couple are mysteriously pursued by people with increasingly elaborate attempts to kill them Read More »
Among the Cinders (1984) Rolf Hädrich, Paul O’Shea, Derek Hardwick, Yvonne Lawley
Author Maurice Shadbolt went before the cameras to play father to the main character Read More »
Runaway (1964) John O’Shea, Colin Broadley, Nadja Regin, Deidre McCarron
In the Beginning It Was Only to Escape…but he was a young man in a hungry hurry. Read More »
Heaven (1998) Scott Reynolds, Donovan, Daniel Edwards, Richard Schiff
A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling Read More »
Sylvia (1985) Michael Firth, Eleanor David, Nigel Terry, Tom Wilkinson
Real-life story of Sylvia Ashton Warner’s pioneering work teaching Maori children to read in the 1940’s. Read More »
Perfect Strangers (2003) Gaylene Preston, Rachael Blake, Robyn Malcolm, Madeleine Sami
Melanie is out with the girls in a country town on New Zealand’s wild but beautiful West Coast Read More »
The Lost Tribe (1983) John Laing, John Bach, Darien Takle, Don Selwyn
An anthropologist disappears in New Zealand while looking for a lost tribe Read More »
Once Were Warriors (1994) Lee Tamahori, Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Read More »
The Orator AKA O le tulafale (2011) Tusi Tamasese, Fa’afiaula Sanote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia
Saili, an unassuming villager & taro farmer, lives happily with his beautiful wife Vaaiga and her teenage daughter Litia. Read More »
Sleeping Dogs (1977) Roger Donaldson, Sam Neill, Nevan Rowe, Ian Mune
Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between leftist Read More »