New Zealand Movies

Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years...

This is an excellent short film directed by BunCactus and Alybaba. It proclaims the incident that a cookie was stolen from a cookie jar whilst...

A refugee arriving in a new country is troubled with thoughts of her past. Pairs of dancing shoes eloquently recreate the journey from dance hall to...

A young boy searching for fabled dirty magazines becomes trapped inside the house of an eccentric old man.

Con decides that the perfect way to cheer up her depressed and bedridden partner Bella is to give her a call to a clairvoyant phone line. But the...

Travelling the Western Front, grave to grave, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens shares the story of the 13 All Blacks killed in WW I.

Two mysterious figures arrive on earth to hunt down a renegade and determine the fate of the planet.

A young Māori women is released from prison and not given the proper support she needs.

A trio of pirates strike gold but things take a turn when they start squabbling over their plunder.

A documentary team in small town New Zealand investigate claims by scared locals that their kids have turned into devil worshipers, only to find out...

Pictures of Susan is a 2012 feature documentary by Dan Salmon. The film examines the artist’s upbringing and earliest works, her twenty-year...

An imperious 'dream director' and her technicians create a new nightmare, using an advert for Germo toilet cleaner as inspiration. Suzie is so scared...

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

Tyrannical Love is a film about the quirkiness of life and love when you are no longer a kid but not quite an adult. There is something for everyone...

This promotion for the Edmonds Baking Powder Company features beloved radio personality Aunt Daisy (Maud Ruby Basham). Its narrative is entrenched...

Baz Luhrmann meets Peter Jackson in this audacious 1950s-style comedy-horror musical extravaganza, featuring a spectacular score performed by the New...

The film explores spatial problems through character and camera choreography.

Cameron Duncan wrote, directed and starred in this short film, the same year a lump in his knee turned out to be cancerous. Aged only 16, Duncan had...

A short documentary exploring the loneliness that comes with being single as a millennial. Set over the course of the thirtieth year of filmmaker...

Directed by Sam Pillsbury, this 1974 film observes Ralph Hotere — one of New Zealand’s greatest artists — at a moment when...