Martyn Sanderson Movies
- 2001

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring8.4262001HD
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the...
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- 1994

Hercules in the Underworld
Hercules in the Underworld5.61994HD
When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once...
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- 1980

Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Beyond Reasonable Doubt6.51980HD
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
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- 1988

Never Say Die
Never Say Die3.81988HD
Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside...
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- 1984

Heart of the Stag
Heart of the Stag3.61984HD
Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
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- 1994

The Last Tattoo
The Last Tattoo4.81994HD
In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt...
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- 1987

The Harp in the South
The Harp in the South01987HD
We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the...
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- 1985

Trial Run
Trial Run51985HD
Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic...
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- 1985

My First Suit
My First Suit61985HD
14-year old Steve is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very different ideas about the suit he should wear to...
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- 1988

The Tale of Ruby Rose
The Tale of Ruby Rose4.81988HD
The year is 1933. Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) is an Australian woman living with her Welsh immigrant husband Henry (Chris Haywood) in the Tasmanian...
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- 1983

The Lost Tribe
The Lost Tribe31983HD
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his...
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- 1977

Wild Man
Wild Man01977HD
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...
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- 1986

Pallet on the Floor
Pallet on the Floor51986HD
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...
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- 1996

Chicken
Chicken4.51996HD
On the premise that his albums will sell better if he is dead, an aging pop-singer fakes his own death. True enough, the money rolls in, but no one...
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- 1977

Autumn Fires
Autumn Fires01977HD
Actor Martyn Sanderson returns in 1977 to the Hokianga of his youth and visits his elderly and romantic aunt, Olive Bracey. Her reminiscences of...
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- 1982

The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow5.21982HD
The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens...
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- 1977

Solo
Solo5.31977HD
When a young Australian hitchhiker, Judy (Peers), enters a prohibited forest area, she encounters Paul (Gil) whose job is spotting fires from a...
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- 1982

Bad Blood
Bad Blood6.71982HD
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
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- 1990

An Angel at My Table
An Angel at My Table71990HD
Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with...
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- 1980

Squeeze
Squeeze11980HD
Richard Turner made Squeeze to break the "conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality. A pioneering early portrait of Auckland's LGBT scene, Squeeze...
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