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Tag Archives: New Zealand
Utu (1984) Geoff Murphy, Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. Read More »
Crush (1992) Alison Maclean, Marcia Gay Harden, Donogh Rees, Caitlin Bossley
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash Read More »
The Ugly (1997) Scott Reynolds, Paolo Rotondo, Paul Glover, Chris Graham
Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Read More »
Meet the Feebles (1989) Peter Jackson, Danny Mulheron, Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie
Heidi, the star of the “Meet The Feebles Variety Hour” discovers her lover Bletch Read More »
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) David Hemmings, Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from ww-ii. Read More »
The Last Tattoo (1994) John Reid, Desmond Kelly, Katie Wolfe, Mark Raffety
During WW2 small nation of New Zealand is swarmed with U.S. servicemen who Read More »
The Bush Cinderella (1928) Rudall Hayward, Dale Austen, Mae Bain, Allan Cornish
A rural melodrama with a dash of high seas adventure on the Waitemata Harbour Read More »
Memory & Desire (1998) Niki Caro, Norman Forsey, John Hancox, Ian Hughes
Niki Caro directed this romantic drama from New Zealand, adapted from Peter Wells’ story Read More »
The Seekers (1954) Ken Annakin, Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell
In 1821, British seaman Phillip Wayne sets foot on New Zealand where he befriends a Maori tribe and their chief, Hongi Tepe. Read More »
In My Father’s Den (2004) Brad McGann, Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Otto, Emily Barclay
Paul, a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. Read More »
After the Waterfall (2010) Simone Horrocks, Dan Broad, Paul Gittins, Vicky Haughton
A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. Read More »
Sione’s Wedding (2006) Chris Graham, Oscar Kightley, Iaheto Ah Hi, Shimpal Lelisi
Meet best friends Michael, Albert, Stanley and Sefa; the ladies’ man, the good boy, the weird one and the party boy. Read More »
Bad Taste (1987) Peter Jackson, Terry Potter, Pete O’Herne, Craig Smith
Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Read More »
The Scarecrow (1982) Sam Pillsbury, Jono Smith, Tracy Mann, Daniel McLaren
The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam Read More »