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84
7.8
/2704/
78
/165/
75
/35/
3.9
/3445/
98
/117/
97
/50/
82
/25/
cc age 11+

Maiden (2019)
In a moving portrait of resilience, Alex Holmes chronicles the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.
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Kanopy
83
7.8
/150693/
79
/7619/
76
/2205/
4.1
/345490/
97
/208/
91
/1199/
81
/30/
cc age 12+

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.9
/38842/
76
/792/
74
/462/
4.0
/20955/
93
/45/
95
/1698/
77
/20/
cc age 17+

Once Were Warriors (1994)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.4
/9293/
74
/220/
70
/179/
3.9
/12804/
96
/23/
90
/163/
79
/18/

An Angel at My Table (1990)
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.
poster
82
7.5
/100007/
72
/1851/
74
/1598/
3.9
/117198/
90
/72/
86
/2343/
89
/20/
cc age 16+

The Piano (1993)
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
poster
Disney Plus
82
7.6
/430336/
79
/54590/
75
/13402/
3.7
/1464416/
95
/288/
89
/3233/
81
/44/
cc age 6+

Moana (2016)
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
poster
82
7.6
/211271/
77
/11992/
75
/3778/
4.1
/575540/
96
/190/
87
/1430/
76
/33/
cc age 16+

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.5
/45273/
73
/817/
70
/430/
3.7
/26102/
91
/156/
88
/2446/
80
/31/
cc age 10+

Whale Rider (2003)
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.6
/6754/
76
/227/
71
/131/
3.8
/11941/
100
/23/
91
/296/
82
/12/
cc age 11+

The Endless Summer (1966)
Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.
poster
79
7.2
/70241/
70
/1346/
69
/988/
3.8
/68635/
95
/107/
83
/1849/
86
/31/
cc age 17+

Heavenly Creatures (1994)
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.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.0
/1288/
75
/44/
61
/30/
3.6
/1266/
100
/7/
81
/32/

Smash Palace (1981)
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.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.5
/31187/
75
/1043/
73
/467/
4.1
/91925/
88
/74/
86
/312/
70
/19/
cc age 14+

Boy (2010)
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.
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The Roku Channel
78
7.4
/6808/
71
/255/
63
/144/
3.8
/2991/
97
/65/
82
/72/
77
/20/
cc age 15+

The Dark Horse (2014)
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
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Kanopy
78
7.4
/22600/
74
/1679/
71
/425/
3.8
/56732/
94
/119/
86
/126/
76
/28/

Tickled (2016)
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
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Amazon Prime Video
77
7.8
/62965/
78
/1895/
76
/838/
3.6
/16496/
83
/141/
89
/1981/
68
/32/
cc age 14+

The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
poster
The Roku Channel
75
6.9
/28480/
72
/808/
69
/490/
3.5
/16786/
87
/46/
70
/1360/
77
/28/
cc age 8+

Fly Away Home (1996)
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When winter comes, Amy and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.
poster
75
7.5
/108657/
75
/2878/
73
/1772/
3.9
/122762/
89
/45/
86
/5052/
54
/7/

Braindead (1992)
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
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MGM Plus
75
73
7.0
/12153/
72
/333/
64
/154/
3.3
/4430/
100
/13/
80
/292/
75
/8/

Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
7.1
/40575/
72
/918/
72
/844/
3.4
/53254/
81
/145/
74
/1442/
67
/32/
cc age 16+

Nowhere Boy (2009)
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.
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Disney Plus
71
7.3
/70995/
73
/2118/
70
/1774/
3.2
/32314/
73
/152/
78
/10292/
64
/31/
cc age 8+

Eight Below (2006)
In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.
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79
70
7.4
/6525/
72
/108/
72
/117/
3.7
/5024/
100
/10/
82
/151/

Forgotten Silver (1997)
The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
69
6.6
/1844/
68
/38/
56
/8/
3.9
/2629/
75
/9/
cc age 13+

Prime Minister (2025)
A view inside the life of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her through five tumultuous years in power and beyond as she redefined leadership on the world stage.
poster
68
6.0
/303/
64
/5/
80
/1/
3.0
/1627/
69
/48/
60
/8/

Went Up the Hill (2025)
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.
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Kanopy
68
7.0
/2938/
70
/50/
67
/39/
3.3
/421/
67
/39/
75
/60/
60
/19/

Bride Flight (2008)
A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.
poster
68
6.8
/2192/
72
/80/
60
/37/
3.3
/546/
71
/7/
82
/25/

The Lighthorsemen (1987)
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.
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Kanopy
68
6.7
/29052/
66
/1083/
66
/591/
3.5
/17065/
71
/17/
68
/441/

The Quiet Earth (1985)
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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Kanopy
67
6.3
/31518/
65
/1029/
65
/821/
3.4
/140873/
73
/26/
71
/1542/
cc age 14+

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
6.3
/20593/
66
/1519/
62
/627/
3.2
/39033/
88
/33/
67
/138/
65
/10/

Deathgasm (2015)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
6.0
/2445/
64
/327/
66
/74/
3.2
/4099/
91
/47/
61
/27/
64
/10/
cc age 11+

Bookworm (2024)
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.
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Hulu
66
6.4
/6334/
67
/844/
61
/153/
3.2
/3954/
81
/47/
50
/18/
66
/13/
cc age 15+

The Convert (2024)
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.
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Kanopy
66
7.0
/1729/
71
/137/
67
/50/
3.4
/1310/
72
/39/
61
/35/
64
/18/

Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)
The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by HBO in 2006, the main person concerned reacted unequivocally: “Lies! Lies!” In a long interview recorded shortly before her death, the woman who entered the collective unconscious as the ultimate pin-up gave her version of events to director Mark Mori. In a gravelly voice, Bettie Page tells her own story and lifts the veil on areas often hidden by images that have made so many men and women fantasize since the 1950s: her abused childhood, an eclipse that lasted forty years, her mental illness. Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me as I was in the photos.”
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85
65
7.9
/1195/
84
/38/
82
/10/
3.8
/6767/
95
/21/
98
/44/

Tinā (2025)
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.
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Kanopy
65
6.5
/50918/
66
/1152/
63
/880/
3.3
/41286/
73
/22/
75
/1992/
52
/4/

Bad Taste (1987)
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.
poster
Netflix
65
5.9
/7204/
59
/560/
52
/222/
3.0
/12723/
89
/45/
51
/77/
76
/8/
cc age 16+

The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.
poster
73
64
7.1
/4134/
72
/118/
65
/73/
3.6
/1506/
84
/25/
82
/238/
70
/7/

Out of the Blue (2006)
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.
poster
68
64
6.9
/18262/
66
/250/
66
/141/
3.1
/5606/
80
/228/

Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000)
Sonia and Rohit love each other but Rohit is mysteriously killed. When Sonia moves to New Zealand, she meets Raj, Rohit's lookalike who helps her trace Rohit's killer.
poster
Fandor
63
6.3
/1832/
62
/58/
56
/45/
3.3
/2919/
56
/11/

Sleeping Dogs (1977)
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.
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Kanopy
63
6.7
/27353/
66
/732/
65
/318/
3.4
/40127/
56
/110/
67
/3755/
55
/25/
cc age 16+

Eagle vs Shark (2007)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
5.8
/1873/
58
/189/
61
/63/
3.1
/2595/
79
/19/
61
/10/

Mega Time Squad (2018)
A small-town criminal finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in high-meets-low, combining elements of the sci-fi, the crime thriller and the comedy to make a comedy heist film with a time-traveling twist.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
58
5.8
/43258/
60
/1099/
57
/793/
2.9
/23772/
71
/95/
53
/5311/
62
/17/

Black Sheep (2006)
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.
poster
57
6.5
/1811/
49
/23/
54
/26/
3.4
/426/
49
/47/
74
/115/
49
/19/

The Price of Milk (2000)
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.
poster
Kanopy
56
5.0
/33916/
57
/3136/
58
/1025/
2.5
/32135/
77
/131/
32
/593/
66
/19/
cc age 16+

Shadow in the Cloud (2021)
A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
56
6.4
/2499/
71
/175/
66
/62/
3.3
/1162/
100
/10/
78
/21/

Pork Pie (2017)
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.
poster
66
54
6.5
/4342/
65
/145/
65
/72/
3.2
/761/
85
/13/
54
/72/

Tracker (2010)
An ex-Boer war guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a British soldier. Gradually they grow to know and respect one another but a posse, led by the British Commanding officer is close behind and his sole intention is to see the Maori hang. Written by Filmfinders 1903. A guerilla fighter from the South African Boer war called Arjan (Winstone) takes on a manhunt for Maori seaman Kereama (Morrison), who is accused of murdering a British soldier. What follows is a cat and mouse pursuit through the varied landscape of NZ with both hunter and huntee testing their bushcraft and wits against that of the other. Written by Anonymous
poster
68
53
6.8
/4828/
65
/52/
63
/41/
3.4
/1246/
80
/100/

Buddy (2003)
Kristoffer lives in Oslo with his friends Geir and Stig Inge. He works as a billboard installer, and in his spare time he makes a video diary with Geir and Stig, containing stunts of a Jackass-nature. When Kristoffer's girlfriend, Elisabeth, leaves him, his life seems to fall to pieces. Until his videos are featured on Norway's most popular talk show and Kristoffer becomes famous.
poster
74
52
6.9
/1514/
66
/43/
70
/30/
3.6
/1713/
86
/7/
80
/35/

Utu (1984)
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.
poster
Hulu
74
50
6.7
/1812/
68
/136/
58
/22/
3.6
/5865/
100
/25/
84
/11/
cc age 13+

Uproar (2023)
A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.
poster
65
50
6.3
/3923/
68
/96/
66
/58/
3.2
/1014/
67
/130/

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999)
Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontation with second son, Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.


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