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The World's Fastest Indian(2005)

2h 7min | Drama, Adventure, History
3.8/5 (with 300 votes)

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016)

1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 877 votes)

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

Braindead(1992)

1h 43min | Horror, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 686 votes)

When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.

What We Do in the Shadows(2014)

1h 26min | Comedy, Horror
3.8/5 (with 1,538 votes)

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

Black Sheep(2007)

1h 27min | Horror, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 318 votes)

A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines.

Directed by Jonathan King

The Piano(1993)

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.

Coming Home in the Dark(2021)

2.9/5 (with 76 votes)

A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

Once Were Warriors(1994)

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.

Falling Inn Love(2019)

3.3/5 (with 526 votes)

When a San Francisco exec wins a New Zealand inn, she ditches city life to remodel and flip the rustic property with help from a handsome contractor.

Bad Taste(1987)

3.2/5 (with 348 votes)

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 (AIaDS) 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.

Whale Rider(2003)

1h 41min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 162 votes)

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Boy(2010)

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 Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari(2022)

1h 38min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called upon to do extraordinary things, placing this tragic event within the larger context of nature, resilience, and the power of our shared humanity.

In My Father's Den(2004)

2h 6min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.

Deathgasm(2015)

1h 26min | Comedy, Horror, Music
3.1/5 (with 257 votes)

Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.

Directed by Jason Lei Howden

The Dead Lands(2014)

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.

An Angel at My Table(1990)

2h 38min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 58 votes)

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life.

Directed by Jane Campion - With Kerry Fox

The Devil's Rock(2011)

1h 23min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
2.9/5 (with 48 votes)

Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.

The Breaker Upperers(2018)

1h 22min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 92 votes)

Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.

Forgotten Silver(1995)

53min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 47 votes)

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

Sleeping Dogs(1977)

1h 47min | Action, Thriller, Drama
2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.

Race for the Yankee Zephyr(1981)

1h 48min | Action, Adventure
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.

Perfect Creature(2007)

2.7/5 (with 38 votes)

The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.

Eagle vs Shark(2007)

3.3/5 (with 132 votes)

Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod's party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod's home town with him so he can settle an old score with a past school bully.

What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires(2005)

28min | Comedy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 25 votes)

Three vampires who share an apartment are interviewed by a TV crew.

The Dark Horse(2014)

2h 4min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 55 votes)

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

Strange Behavior(1981)

2.8/5 (with 25 votes)

When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.

River Queen(2005)

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.

Out of the Blue(2006)

1h 43min | Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.

Pork Pie(2017)

1h 45min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

A trio of accidental outlaws travel the length of New Zealand, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy in pursuit.

Directed by Matt Murphy - With Dean O'Gorman, James Rolleston, Ashleigh Cummings
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