New Zealand - all movies, a list by TVdown

7.8

/11458/

78

/500/

73

/153/

3.9

/7561/

95

/114/

87

/244/

80

/27/

4.0

The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense allows the film to show the investigation, research, and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.

82

7.9

/38964/

76

/802/

73

/468/

4.0

/22124/

93

/45/

95

/1703/

77

/20/

3.5

age 17+

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

82

7.4

/9327/

74

/221/

70

/179/

3.9

/13207/

96

/23/

90

/164/

79

/18/

4.0

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life.

82

7.6

/211898/

77

/12089/

75

/3800/

4.1

/583121/

96

/190/

87

/1428/

76

/33/

3.5

age 16+

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

81

7.5

/45362/

73

/841/

70

/431/

3.7

/27310/

91

/156/

88

/2447/

80

/31/

4.0

age 10+

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

79

6.7

/830/

69

/63/

71

/17/

3.5

/1412/

95

/43/

95

/1/

70

/9/

4.0

age 15+

Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has just begun.

79

7.2

/70497/

70

/1366/

70

/1005/

3.8

/70669/

95

/107/

83

/1849/

86

/31/

3.5

age 17+

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

79

7.0

/1296/

75

/44/

61

/30/

3.6

/1266/

100

/7/

81

/32/

4.0

Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left.

79

7.5

/31277/

75

/1053/

73

/470/

4.1

/92907/

88

/74/

86

/310/

70

/19/

3.5

age 14+

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

76

7.1

/337/

75

/20/

76

/6/

3.5

/919/

93

/45/

78

/5/

3.0

CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth fearlessly captures footage of war zones. After receiving catastrophic injuries in the crosshairs of battle, she returns to work with more courage than ever. An intimate portrait of a trailblazing female photojournalist. Features interviews with Moth’s family and friends, including CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. A Sundance film festival premiere directed by Lucy Lawless.

74

6.6

/1510/

68

/162/

66

/17/

3.4

/8300/

95

/43/

70

/22/

72

/9/

3.5

Following reports of fraudulent car clamping in Auckland, journalist and filmmaker David Farrier opens an investigation that pushes him to the limits of his sanity in this incredible true story of psychological warfare.

73

6.7

/39658/

68

/1774/

65

/888/

3.4

/34674/

95

/43/

73

/417/

76

/10/

3.0

age 16+

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

72

6.6

/2313/

68

/136/

65

/50/

3.3

/2614/

94

/52/

78

/29/

68

/8/

3.0

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.

80

72

7.4

/8065/

75

/155/

69

/106/

3.7

/1718/

100

/11/

89

/248/

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and memories of a troubled past. He befriends Celia, a curious and aspiring writer, who shares a fascination with his world. When Celia mysteriously disappears, Paul becomes the prime suspect, forcing him to confront buried secrets and uncover the dark truths of his family and community.

83

71

8.2

/2164/

78

/155/

73

/42/

4.1

/3463/

100

/15/

88

New Zealand’s 4th Most Popular Parody Duo are back for a mutha-uckin’ special concert live at the London Apollo.

70

6.4

/781/

74

/7/

54

/10/

82

/17/

74

/7/

3.0

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.

79

70

7.4

/6533/

72

/108/

72

/117/

3.7

/5024/

100

/10/

82

/151/

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

76

69

7.6

/3867/

72

/250/

73

/78/

3.7

/1283/

87

/30/

81

/43/

69

/8/

age 9+

Filling the giant screen with stunning time-lapse vistas of Antarctica, and detailing year-round life at McMurdo and Scott Base, Anthony Powell’s documentary is a potent hymn to the icy continent and the heavens above.

68

5.9

/333/

64

/5/

80

/1/

3.0

/1690/

67

/49/

60

/8/

3.5

Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. But his mother's spirit returns to inhabit each of their bodies, instigating a life-threatening three-way nocturnal dance.

68

6.7

/29163/

66

/1094/

66

/596/

3.5

/17763/

71

/17/

68

/442/

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

68

6.9

/49755/

67

/2056/

67

/1024/

3.6

/51482/

92

/133/

74

/448/

72

/27/

1.5

age 16+

In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

78

67

7.4

/2277/

74

/145/

66

/64/

3.8

/9197/

96

/190/

87

/1430/

Who says being an undead creature of the night is easy? With that in mind, three ancient friends—centuries-old vampires Vulvus, the romantic and temperamental Lord Byron wannabe; Viago, the flamboyant 19th-century dandy; and Deacon, the rebellious 107-year-old youngster—invite a documentary crew to shed light on a vampire’s daily life. Starting from the fateful day of their eternal transformation, these modern-day blood-suckers don’t shy away from answering deeply personal questions about their quirky flatmate situation—after all, this is an interview, not just an excuse for a quick bite.Will we ever truly find out what vampires do in the shadows?

67

6.6

/23020/

64

/409/

63

/306/

3.4

/21937/

72

/25/

73

/1104/

Heidi, star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder.

67

6.3

/20662/

66

/1524/

63

/631/

3.2

/39454/

88

/33/

67

/138/

65

/10/

2.5

Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.

66

6.0

/2596/

64

/337/

65

/79/

3.2

/4333/

91

/47/

62

/28/

64

/10/

2.5

age 11+

Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

66

6.4

/346/

70

/18/

68

/9/

3.4

/1136/

56

/4/

3.0

The victim of a hit and run learns to be psychic so he can take revenge on the driver that hit him. A comedy where revenge is a cosmic experience.

65

6.4

/6411/

67

/859/

61

/156/

3.2

/4033/

81

/47/

49

/18/

66

/13/

3.0

age 15+

Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.

65

5.9

/7231/

59

/569/

52

/222/

3.0

/12852/

89

/45/

51

/77/

76

/8/

3.0

age 16+

Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.

73

64

7.1

/4150/

72

/120/

65

/73/

3.6

/1525/

84

/25/

82

/238/

70

/7/

Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.

71

64

6.6

/4248/

68

/121/

62

/88/

3.4

/3082/

88

/8/

78

/84/

Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.

72

63

7.3

/3195/

72

/208/

64

/72/

3.4

/3463/

93

/40/

70

/23/

70

/9/

age 13+

Film adaptation of French economist Thomas Piketty's ground-breaking global bestseller of the same name: an eye-opening journey through wealth and power.

63

6.3

/1850/

62

/58/

56

/45/

3.3

/2919/

56

/11/

3.0

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.

63

6.7

/27411/

66

/741/

65

/319/

3.4

/40961/

56

/110/

67

/3755/

55

/25/

age 16+

Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod's party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod's home town with him so he can settle an old score with a past school bully.

62

6.1

/9930/

62

/550/

60

/114/

3.1

/29176/

72

/109/

55

/22/

66

/20/

2.5

age 15+

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.

62

5.7

/8932/

61

/691/

57

/211/

3.1

/20623/

92

/63/

45

/73/

64

/4/

2.5

age 16+

A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

61

6.3

/5489/

66

/269/

61

/118/

3.2

/1916/

68

/50/

57

/53/

59

/14/

2.0

Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains led by Wirepa, Hongi’s only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden “Dead Lands” and forge an uneasy alliance with a mysterious warrior, a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.

60

5.6

/3273/

61

/289/

56

/59/

3.0

/19396/

78

/32/

51

/24/

62

/6/

2.5

When an awkward but brilliant Chinese student wins a scholarship into a prestigious New Zealand University, she finds a new way of achieving the popularity she craves one bloody body at a time.

60

5.7

/328/

56

/19/

52

/17/

3.4

/585/

83

/24/

47

/1/

61

/10/

2.5

First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.

75

59

7.3

/2948/

77

/334/

74

/101/

3.6

/1231/

79

/14/

80

/12/

The story of New Zealander Bruce McLaren, who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team, showing the world that a man of humble beginnings could take on the elite of motor racing and win.

66

58

6.2

/3715/

65

/289/

63

/134/

3.1

/1744/

88

/8/

61

/19/

Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?

58

5.8

/43332/

60

/1112/

58

/799/

2.9

/24371/

71

/95/

53

/5312/

62

/17/

2.0

After a childhood prank by his brother Angus causes Henry to develop a phobia of sheep, he must step up to the onslaught of a genetically-mutated man-eating flock with the help of his friend and a young environmentalist.

57

6.5

/1815/

49

/23/

54

/26/

3.4

/426/

49

/47/

74

/115/

49

/19/

2.0

Lucinda lives a fairytale life with dairy farmer Rob, and his 117 cows. But after a freak car accident she decides to test Rob's love for her by trying to make him angry. He passes her tests until a quilt goes missing from their bed and the price of getting it back is high.

NEW

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6.2

/26591/

69

/3010/

60

/740/

3.0

/16027/

65

/31/

48

/68/

36

/7/

age 16+

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.

85

56

7.9

/1291/

84

/45/

81

/11/

3.8

/7290/

95

/22/

98

/44/

A woman grieving her daughter's death in the Christchurch earthquakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite private school. Unexpectedly, she discovers students lacking guidance and care, prompting her to provide inspiration and support.

56

5.0

/34031/

57

/3146/

58

/1033/

2.5

/32398/

77

/131/

32

/592/

66

/19/

2.5

age 16+

A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

74

56

6.4

/2509/

71

/177/

66

/62/

3.3

/1185/

100

/10/

78

/21/

A trio of accidental outlaws travel the length of New Zealand, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy in pursuit.

68

55

5.8

/2145/

59

/157/

55

/40/

3.1

/5715/

100

/6/