New Zealand Movies

A series of escalating incidents around the world lead to greater and greater conflict, placing the superpowers at one another’s throats. Armies march, bombs rain down, soldiers storm the beaches….

Dane ‘Marbles’ Marbeck can see ghosts, thanks to a homemade drug: his late father’s neurological medication mixed with marijuana. Officer Jayson Tagg, a wannabe super-cop on the trail of a…

Maggie and Tom Cabbott move to the town of Pelorus to escape the oppressive influence of Tom’s family. But when he disappears, unsettling facts about Tom soon come to light…

A drama/comedy about sex, love, relationships, growing up and how our nostalgic attachment to the past can colour our perception of the present, sometimes for the worse.

Entering the mythical world of the Monkey King, where a young monk and his group of disciples are on a journey to collect scrolls of Buddhist wisdom.

2010 on the Canterbury Plains and all is well. Lambs, blue skies and daffodils. In Cathedral Square choir boys sing to their God. Punts push new season’s tourists along the…

How the tragic death of one man triggered a David and Goliath battle between two Allies that echoed around the world and became the catalyst to end nuclear testing in…

In a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts. A young man is on parole after serving time for attempting to murder the man who…

An avionics engineer receives a letter from Mars One that he has been shortlisted to be on one of the first human expeditions to Mars. He completed the application form…

Marlborough’s beloved grapevines star in this comedy feature, which was shot at a winery in just 11 days. Twenty-something Harry (Hayden J Weal from Chronesthesia) is dumped by his fiancée,…

A new film from acclaimed director, Leanne Pooley.

During a murder investigation at Queenstown’s infamous One Lane Bridge, ambitious young Maori Detective, Ariki Davis, inadvertently reawakens a spiritual gift that endangers the case, his career and his life.

The film tells the story of Mosley, a “thoriphant” who rebels against his life of servitude and embarks on a treacherous journey to find the fabled city of Uprights.

Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it…

Featuring footage from professional surfer Lakey Peterson’s early years through her victory at the 2012 U.S Open, this in-depth documentary charts her meteoric rise in the sport and offers a…

An ordinary guy suddenly finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that streams the violence for viewers. Miles must fight heavily armed Nix and also…

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

In writer/director Paolo Rotondo’s debut feature, three teenagers on the run break into a deluxe Waiheke Island home and find themselves caught in a tense psychodrama with the conflicted owner.

Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that…

After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the…

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

Shades of Winter’s BETWEEN, a Red Bull Media House co-production, is the latest film by Austrian pro skier and filmmaker Sandra Lahnsteiner who keeps redefining women in action sports

A new TV series from writer Glenn Standring based on his movie The Dead Lands (2014). In ancient Maori times, an undead warrior and a young tribeswoman team up to…

A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

Two brothers; Alama and Popo, arrive for the first time in NZ as Seasonal Workers, making plenty of money to take back home to their family in Samoa. But things…

Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When two Kiwi kids figure out who he is, they have to find…

Daffodils is a bittersweet love story told with beautiful re-imaginings of the most iconic New Zealand pop songs from artists like Crowded House and Bic Runga.

MEAT is the modern story of the animals we eat, as told by the people who never get to say their piece – from the solitary hunter who believes everyone…

In 1997 Osama bin Laden declared war on the USA. Pulitizer Prize winning CNN correspondent Peter Arnett embarked on a mission to locate and interview him.

After six months with her Tinder guy, an indecisive millennial must overcome the high life expectations she’s built from social media to decide today: either take a last-minute voyage, or…

Documentary portrait of pioneering filmmaker and mother Merata Mita, detailing how her filmmaking intersected with the lives of her children and indigenous filmmakers globally, and featuring rare archival footage dating…

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know…

A small-town crim 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…

Three families bound by love and broken by betrayal, each reach breaking point until a single event brings them together. Can desperateness and frustration turn to hope and compassion? Three…

A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw joins forces with Anna Fang, a dangerous outlaw with a bounty on her head, and Tom Natsworthy, an outcast from London, to lead…

HD. This follow-up to ‘Tickled’ features new footage documenting the bizarre and unsettling things that happen to the filmmakers.

In this quasi-mythological costume series, Hercules (in Greek Herakles), the noble bastard son of Zeus, hence hated to death by his step-mother Hera, doesn’t live as an Olympian after accomplishing…

Xena,once known as “Destroyer of Nations,” tries to redeem herself by fighting for the greater good. On her quest, she meets Gabrielle, a small town bard hungry for adventure. Together…

Two women cynical in love, set up an agency to break couples up as a way to avoid letting go and moving on with their lives.

“No Going Out and No Boyfriends” – Hibiscus’ obedience towards her Mum’s rules is put to the test in her final year of University. As guys start to impress Hibiscus,…