New Zealand Movies

Six young actors audition for a commercial ("The Pen for Satisfaction") and learn that their casting agent has a different picture in mind.

A grandmother recounts her childhood experiences living in wartime London.

Discovered to be using illegal drugs by a local policeman, the members of the commune kill him and bury him in their garden. After this pivotal...

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

Beautifully filmed by New Zealand nature photographer Richard Sidey over the past decade around the polar regions, Speechless: The Polar Realm is a...

A series of escalating incidents around the world lead to greater and greater conflict, placing the superpowers at one another's throats. Armies...

Two men's friendship has been weakened by their contrasting approaches to life. Bob (Jeremy Stephens) has left his wife to paint pictures of a lover...

This haunting, personal film offers a firsthand perspective on the hereditary neurodegenerative Huntington’s Disease. The condition typically...

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

Family drama set in New Zealand about Geoff Crome, a young boy (Fulford) who immerses himself in his own private fantasy world where he meets Firpo...

Punk renegade Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer) takes us on an iconoclastic tour through a career of highs and lows from suburban Dunedin to...

In the deep interiors of New Zealand, is a forest. A sacred land where the native flora and fauna of the land has found their last refuge. This is...

Trapped behind the Boundary Fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a dangerous outsider who can free her.

A young woman receives a mysterious call in the night. After several strange events, she realises that she is not alone and that she may be in...

BEYOND CONVERSION is a deep-dive into conversion therapy in Aotearoa through the eyes of Kiwi conversion therapy survivors.

A young woman, Yim Wing Chun, must fight a feared tyrant who she does not want to marry. Her only way to win freedom is to win a challenge fight. But...

A documentary following acclaimed Kiwi musician and actor Stan Walker as he opens up his world to the public, sharing his most intimate moments over...

This documentary chronicles a shameful passage in New Zealand race relations: the controversial mid 1970s raids on the homes and workplaces of...

A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a...