New Zealand Movies

Life is full of challenges – but some people face more than their fair share. Some grow up in a world where parents must padlock the fridge and...

A single girl in an isolated, closed community yearns for marriage and motherhood.

Fishing comedy/drama based on a true story about two mates in a Kaipara Harbour fishing contest who end up being blackmailed when caught cheating.

Discover the language of flowers

Two first-time single mothers - on a girl racer, the other a pianist and gardener - share a post-natal ward room after the birth of their babies and...

The best of plans can be thwarted and, when the pressure comes on, the cracks begin to show. As the incidents in their worlds play out, three...

The discovery of dinosaurs by retired housewife turned scientist Joan Wiffen has cast a new light on the behaviour of dinosaurs during the late...

Based on a true story, STOLEN is an emotional thriller about every parent's greatest fear. Kahu Durie - the adopted baby daughter of Maori High Court...

One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and...

A heart-broken women sends her most precious gift in a parcel to her ex-lover. It is delivered to the wrong man - a man whose life is devoid of love....

We call ourselves Kiwis. But do we really know where "our" bird came from? The answer is astounding... and rather disturbing. To trace the origins of...

Two high schoolers experiment with the means and ways of traditional witchcraft, a bride with a secret has second thoughts on her wedding day, and a...

A response to the poetry of New Zealand filmmaker Joanna Margaret Paul.

The plague is already here. Pesticides, lies and Paranoia. Tractor beams in the vineyards. A yellow dust coats everything. Everyone is sleepwalking....

A curious deaf boy's life is changed when he meets a Living Statue.

A 2003 TVNZ documentary on the capture of the criminal responsible for one of New Zealand's most heinous crimes. On June 19, 1987, 6-year-old Teresa...

A man must choose to step out of his social and corporate paradigms, to pursue a dream he has kept locked away in his wardrobe for far too long.

Short-film about a Māori boy who has a secret desire to be a drag queen and his inability to talk to his father.

A man runs away from the sun in the desert

One of Them! was one of two dramas (alongside Niki Caro movie Memory and Desire) inspired by short stories collected in Peter Wells' 1991 book...