New Zealand Movies

'The Church of the Open Sky' is a luscious visual love poem that explores gratefully lived surfing journeys. It is a sea soaked celebration of the...

Over the course of four decades, filmmaker Paul Oremland documented his romantic and sexual encounters with roughly one hundred men. He preserved...

Mayor Broody hires an expert shark-hunter to track down and eliminate a deadly ghost shark when it returns to terrorize Auckland.

In a Maori settlement, Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha composes the famous chant "Ka Mate", also known as the haka, after evading enemy capture by...

After spending three years in prison for the manslaughter of his best friend, a young man is released and knocks on the door of his best...

The father of a deeply troubled household that endured tragedy both from without and within, seeks to reconcile with his youngest daughter by making...

A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.

Hook, Line and Sinker is set in Wellington, New Zealand and tells the story of PJ who loses his truck driving job of 30 years due to failing...

Ruby, an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata's son is...

Faye, a young student living on her own, experiences reality-blurring effects after she faints. As she recovers, strange events begin to occur and...

A workman gets some unexpected help from two people of vastly different sizes.

After her gender identity was denied in her homeland, Lee Li, a transgender asylum seeker, was forced to leave her country, family, and language to...

After Jane leaves Bill, they each meet unusual strangers as they travel on their own.

Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear...

Solidarity follows pioneering New Zealand rappers Upper Hutt Posse after they're invited to the United States by the Nation of Islam. They perform...

What happens when you suspect that your partner likes the house guest more than she likes you? A droll drama of unstated intentions in black, white...

In WWI, a pilot’s teddy bear and an infantryman’s lost photo drift through chaos, their fragile presence briefly disrupting the brutal...

Ciggie is the story of 12 year old Joseph and his 11 year old best friend Joyce. We follow them as they sneak off into the bush behind their house to...

A young Māori boy experiences an intense awakening after the arrival of two Mormon missionaries.

Stan is a hard working Kiwi bloke who is always on the move. When he comes into the small town 'Netherwood' he finds himself wound up in a web of...