New Zealand Movies

In a distant future, a mysterious boy becomes the central figure in the search for a new hope. Who is this kid? Why is everyone looking for it?...

It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the...

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...

A young, melancholic musician falls in love with a French actress in New Zealand and is forced to face the weight of reality before he can begin the...

A Grief-Fueled Journey of Adolescent Loss

An end of days comedy animation about an amorous cricket and a starving hedgehog who wants to eat the last cricket left in the world.

In the summer of 1979, on a farm near Waihī, 60,000 hippies gathered at the annual Nambassa Music and Alternative Lifestyles Festival for three...

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a...

Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from...

A 66-year-old mother has an unusual ritual of returning to her old family home to care for stray cats.

Following the immense success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson directs King Kong (2005). This documentary follows him, and the immense...

In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.

An island in spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun, top international artists, and tens of thousands of music fans from across the world! ...

A suburban woman's life changes on the day she discovers her husband is having an affair.

A miserable fishing enthusiast must overcome the darker creature that lives inside him to reconnect with his wife.

Living in New Zealand in 1981 amid high racial tension, Willie, a half-Samoan teenager, is coming into his own. With an unpredictable father, Willie...

The story of jaded swimming coach and a spirited seven-year-old delinquent who comes under his instruction.

This 1981 NFU film is a tour of the contemporary world of Aotearoa’s tangata whenua. It won headlines over claims that its portrayal of...

With a beautiful vineyard and tons of wine at their disposal, friends try to cheer up their heartbroken buddy after he's dumped just days before his...

Australian-New Zealand lost film about an interracial romance between a white Australian man and a Māori girl