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The Piano(1993)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 632 votes)

After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.

Directed by Jane Campion - With Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill, Holly Hunter, Tungia Baker, Bruce Allpress, ...
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Once Were Warriors(1994)

R
| 1h 39min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 173 votes)

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

Directed by Lee Tamahori - With Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis, Julian Arahanga, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Ian Mune, ...
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Boy(2010)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 165 votes)

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

Directed by Taika Waititi - With James Rolleston, Taika Waititi, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Moerangi Tihore, RickyLee Waipuka-Russell, Rajvinder Eria, ...
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The Dead Lands(2014)

R
| 1h 48min | Adventure, Action
3.1/5 (with 48 votes)

Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains led by Wirepa, Hongi’s only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden “Dead Lands” and forge an uneasy alliance with a mysterious warrior, a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.

Directed by Toa Fraser - With Lawrence Makoare, Rena Owen, Pana Hema-Taylor, Te Kohe Tuhaka, James Rolleston, Xavier Horan, ...
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Tracker(2010)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Drama, Thriller, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 28 votes)

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Directed by Ian Sharp - With Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison
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River Queen(2005)

R
| 1h 54min | Adventure, War
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

Directed by Vincent Ward - With Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis, Temuera Morrison, Anton Lesser
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?(1999)

1h 48min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontation with second son, Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.

Directed by Ian Mune - With Temuera Morrison, Rena Owen, Julian Arahanga, Lawrence Makoare

Broken English(1996)

NC-17
| 1h 32min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.

Directed by Gregor Nicholas - With Julian Arahanga, Rade Šerbedžija, Marton Csokas

Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses(2015)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

This impressive doco disperses the fog of shame and sensationalism to shed light on the tragedy that made international headlines in 2007 when a young Wainuiomata woman died during a mākutu lifting.

Directed by David Stubbs
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Green Dolphin Street(1947)

NR
| 2h 21min | Drama, Adventure, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

Directed by Victor Saville - With Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Richard Hart, Frank Morgan, Edmund Gwenn, ...
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The Seekers(1954)

1h 30min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.

Directed by Ken Annakin - With Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Inia Te Wiata, Noel Purcell, Kenneth Williams, Laya Raki, ...

Waru(2017)

1h 28min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.

Directed by Ainsley Gardiner, Awanui Simich-Pene
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Waitangi - What Really Happened(2011)

1h 8min | History

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Ka Whawhai Tonu(2024)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal battle in New Zealand’s first land wars in 1864.

Twilight of the Gods(1996)

NR
| 15min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle to find that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. His wishes to avenge his fallen countrymen by finishing off this helpless enemy but the gods won't allow it (as conveyed to him through a spirit bird). Anguished that he must instead treat the soldier's wounds, he's further repelled by the soldier's incessant homosexual advances. Slowly and surprisingly, a change comes over the warrior to accept the soldier's advances, but the war all too soon intrudes upon them.

Two Loves(1961)

1h 36min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.

Directed by Charles Walters - With Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins, Juano Hernández

Flight of the Albatross(1996)

1h 28min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.

The Legend of Baron To'a(2020)

1h 43min | Comedy, Action
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

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Crooked Earth(2001)

1h 40min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.

Directed by Sam Pillsbury - With Temuera Morrison, Lawrence Makoare

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen(2019)

1h 28min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A documentary portrait of the pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita and an intimate tribute from a son about his mother that delves into the life of the first woman from an Indigenous Nation to solely direct a film anywhere in the world. Known as the grandmother of Indigenous cinema, Merata’s independent political documentaries of the 1970s and 80s highlighted injustices for Māori people and often divided the country. Mita was fearless in her life, her activism and her art. Chronicling the director’s journey to decolonize the film and television screens of New Zealand and the world, the film documents her work, her early struggles with her family and her drive for social justice that often proved personally dangerous.

Rūrangi(2020)

1h 36min | Drama

After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn't heard from him since before Caz transitioned.

Operation 8(2011)

1h 50min | Documentary

Operation 8 examines the so-called 'anti-terror' raids that took place around New Zealand on October 15, 2007 - asking how and why they took place and at what cost to those targeted.

Mauri(1988)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as renewing family ties. He is seeking an identity and a permanent place to call home yet desperately hiding a secret from his past. Oddly enough there is one person with whom he finds peace of mind. She is an old woman known as Kara. A special relationship develops between Rewi, Kara and Kara’s great granddaughter Awatea.

Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore(2009)

1h 42min | Documentary

Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very influential, Indigenous film makers. The film The Camera on The Shore is a feature length introduction to Barry, and to his film making.

Kawa(2010)

1h 16min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret - that he is gay.

Directed by Katie Wolfe - With Calvin Tuteao, Dean O'Gorman, Nathalie Boltt, George Henare
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We Are Still Here(2023)

1h 22min | Crime, Comedy, Animation, Science Fiction, Romance / Love, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopian future – this landmark collection traces the collective histories of Indigenous peoples across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Diverse in perspective, content and form, traversing the terrain of grief, love and dispossession, they each bear witness to these cultures’ ongoing struggles against patriarchy, colonialism and racism.

Directed by Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, ...

Whina(2022)

1h 52min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Biopic about the life of Whina Cooper, an activist who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of fellow Māori women.

Directed by James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones - With Rena Owen, James Rolleston, Vinnie Bennett, Miriama McDowell, Kali Kopae, James Tito, ...

Arriving Tuesday(1986)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really something of a cultural redneck, and when the couple head up north for a break, and they meet up with Riki, a poet, who is rather less shallow and charming.

With Rawiri Paratene

New Country - New People(1978)

18min | Documentary

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

Directed by Sam Neill

Sylvia(1986)

1h 35min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting look at the unusual teaching methods she used while working with the children from the indigenous Maon.

Directed by Michael Firth - With Eleanor David, Nigel Terry, Tom Wilkinson
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