New Zealand Movies

Two young men travelling the dark roads of New Zealand, have their friendship pushed to the limit when their car breaks down, stranding them in the...

'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...

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...

Freddy and Marvin have their sights set on a future filled with “monies and honeys”, believing that a life of crime and debauchery will...

Seven New Zealand women speak about their lives during World War II: some lost husbands, some got married, some went into service themselves. The...

A blue-collar worker falls into a magical world and finds himself embroiled in a battle with a violent butterfly.

Mick is a seventeen year old who gets a job at the local meatworks. The place is challenging and his fellow workers aren't exactly welcoming of new...

Her Majesty is a coming-of-age film about a young girl who realizes her lifelong dream when Queen Elizabeth II comes to visit her small hometown.

When a young boy is left home alone with his increasingly unwell grandmother, he is forced to come to terms with her deterioration.

A small group of scientists are called in for a weekend of potentially historic research that spirals into a nightmare of fanaticism as we witness...

50 years in the future, virtual reality is so real and addictive that it’s woven into the fabric of reality. People can have virtual...

The story of the rise and fall and rise of one of New Zealand’s most loved and iconic bands, The Exponents.

Having failed to maintain her inherited estate's rose garden, a young woman finds herself haunted by the previous owner.

The Common Touch tells the story of Jake Bailey, viral sensation and student of Christchurch Boys High School, who was told one week before his...

An egocentric drama teacher passes wisdom gained through a career of failure to a paying class of idiosyncratic young people.

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small...

A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and...

Set in a modern day, New Zealand model store, The Knight Train shows the relationships that can exist between people of different generations with...

Tells the Māori legend of Uenuku and his affair with the mist maiden Hinepūkohurangi. A story of love, betrayal, and rainbow redemption....

An alcoholic detective must withstand himself to expose the universe's unknown victim.