New Zealand movies

Once Were Warriors (1994)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Owen, Rena | Morrison, Temuera | Kerr-Bell, Mamaengaroa | Arahanga, Julian | Emile, Taungaroa | Morris Jr., Rachael | Kairau, Joseph | Curtis, Cliff | Smith, Pete | Henare, George | Boynton, Mere | Williams, Shannon | Tuteao, Calvin | Bishop, Ray | Mune, Ian
Directors: Tamahori, Lee
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Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family’s life showing Jake’s frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake’s daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot.

Under the Mountain (2009)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Cameron, Tom | Chamberlain, Matthew | Driver, Oliver | Gillanders, Matt | McBride, Sophie | Neill, Sam | Reeves, Gareth | Smith, Allan | Sunderland, Matthew | Wadham, Leon | McEwan-Miller, Chelsea | Rooney, Michaela | Sami, Madeleine
Directors: King, Jonathan
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Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland’s volcanoes.

The Lovely Bones (2009)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Ronan, Saoirse | Abel, Jake | Ahl, Michael | Allen, Andrew James | Ashdale, Christian Thomas | Beck, Gary | Bizik, Robert | Bravo | Brooks, Michael Edward | Burkett, Lee | Colletti, Damien | Fisher, Stink | Graves, Richard | Imperioli, Michael
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.

Diagnosis: Death (2009)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Kan, Raybon | Smith, Jessica Grace | Tye, Suze | McKenzie, Bret | Darby, Rhys | Campbell, Bryce | Clement, Jemaine | Stevens, Cameron | Horsley, Loren | Regtien, Tina | Surrich, Laura | Venning, Shelley
Directors: Stutter, Jason
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Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial. Andre (an unethical high school teacher) and Juliet (a bookish teenager) soon discover their lives are in more danger than they imagined. The staff are peculiar. The drugs cause hallucinations. Or is the clinic really haunted? Struggling with their senses, they must team up to unravel a spooky mystery.

The Map Reader (2008)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Gibney, Rebecca | Selwyn, Jordan | Hutchinson, Mikaila | Soper, Bonnie | Nash, Rachel | Hall, Sam | Wills, Russell | Tronson, Mark | Kearns, Braydon | Hurst, Michael | Van Randon, Tyl | Saussey, Jan | Houghton, Stacey
Directors: Brodie, Harold
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In a small New Zealand town, 16 year-old Michael leads a lonely, introverted existence with his single mother Amelia whose guilt and alcoholism threatens to drive her cherished son away. Uncomfortable with the adolescent exploits of his “friends,” he finds escape through a passionate love of maps. Unexpected friendships with classmate Alison, whose sweetness and innocence belie a dark secret, and Mary, a blind young woman on the cusp of adulthood, rouse Michael from his isolation and send him on a journey of self-discovery. As his life begins to spiral out of control, Michael is forced into some difficult choices about his future.

Relic, The (1997)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Miller, Penelope Ann | Sizemore, Tom | Hunt, Linda | Whitmore, James | Rohner, Clayton | Lo, Chi Moui | Ryan, Thomas | Lesser, Robert | Robin, Diane | Van Bergen, Lewis | Towers, Constance | McCarthy, Francis X. | Lindley, Audra | Kapelos, John | Wells, Tico
Directors: Hyams, Peter
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A researcher at Chicago’s Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D’Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum – she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague’s crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the city’s mayor is to attend.

The Frighteners (1996)

Friday, October 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Alvarado, Trini | Dobson, Peter | Astin, John | Combs, Jeffrey | Wallace, Dee | Busey, Jake | McBride, Chi | Fyfe, Jim | Evans, Troy | McCarthy, Julianna | Ermey, R. Lee | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Bloomfield, Angela | Kelly, Desmond
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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Frank Bannister is a man who goes around town claiming that he can talk with and see ghosts, though while he can, some believe (though he is, in fact) a common con-man who gets ghosts to make it appear though there is a haunting in whichever house is chosen, wherein he sweeps into action and pretends to remove the ghosts. All this goes on until one day strange deaths start occurring all throughout town and Frank ponders this, while his love interest, Lucy Lynskey, whose husband had only just died of the same cause, goes to the house of a deranged old woman who keeps her grown-up daughter locked up, saying that it is for the good of everyone else. Soon, it is revealed that even the ghosts themselves can see the force that is killing everyone off; a deceased mass murderer come back from Hell itself to continue killing. It is therefore up to Frank, Lucy, as well as two ghosts, to find out how to end the fiendish ghost from killing any more, while all the while trying to shake off a deranged detective from arresting them both.

Bad Taste (1987)

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Potter, Terry | O'Herne, Pete | Smith, Craig | Minett, Mike | Wren, Doug | Lawrie, Dean | Vere-Jones, Peter | Hammon, Ken
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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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 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.

Perfect Creature (2006)

Monday, September 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Scott, Dougray | Burrows, Saffron | Gregory, Leo | Wills, Scott | Wilson, Stuart | Hall, Craig | Magasiva, Robbie | Jackson, Lauren | McCauley, Peter | Drake, Glen | Ure, Stephen | Sumner, John | Taimana, Roi | Murphy, Aaron | Morrison, Scott
Directors: Standring, Glenn
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Perfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth set in an alternate version of the 1960s and 70s, as science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings to hope.

Last of the Living (2008)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Williams, Morgan | Faith, Robert | Hadlow, Mark | Southam, Ashleigh | Paddon-Brown, Emily
Directors: McMillian, Logan
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A highly contagious virus is spreading throughout the land. With one bite, it’s only hours before victims will turn into zombies and hunt for human flesh. Morgan, Ash, and Johnny might just be the only humans left, but they don’t seem to mind and find enjoyment lounging around in their underwear living in vacant homes. When they stumble upon a hot girl who just may have a cure, the three decide it’s finally time to step up to the plate and save the world- and the girl. Now the only hope for survival lies in their hands.