New Zealand Movies

It's 1892 and Kate Sheppard tells the story of the suffrage campaign - a pursuit that will continue until September 1893.

Julia Whitman and her daughter Jody flee their husband and father’s violence to a doomsday paradise. Julia meets Matthey Haley in New Zealand...

On the eve of becoming a father, children’s author Benji Peterson reconnects with his younger brother in the wake of their father’s death.

Olympic Champion, Kiwi Icon, Tongan Leader, Orphan, Mother...winning was just part of the journey.

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

Shot for an Australian Travel Agents Seminar, this short film seeks to portray 1969 New Zealand as a hip and happening place. The tourism...

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their...

In 1999, the largely conservative Wairarapa district in New Zealand elected a former cabaret performer/actress named Georgina Beyer to the country's...

Kids on an outing in the forest come up against a mysterious hermit who lives on the other side of a bridge, and he is definitely not happy to see...

From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with...

In 2020, a Banks Peninsula family works to protect and survey the Indigenous population of white-flippered penguins through predator trapping and...

"In this film of the 'Vagabond Adventure Series', Tom Terris takes us to New Zealand in a kind of travelogue film. We accompany a client and a...

Best friends Mary-Ann (Foster) and Sandy (Thompson) are finally taking their dream expedition to New Zealand. They are accompanied by their teenage...

The story of lyrical genius, Martin Phillipps and his band, The Chills, is a cautionary tale, a triumph over tragedy, and a statement about the...

Two escaped convicts hold up in a desolate psychiatric hospital while they await their "ride to freedom". Having little to do but talk about their...

An intertwining story of murder and mystery across two decades. In the early twentieth century, several pregnant girls meet in a country house, where...

Sign of the Times is the first feature length documentary about New Zealand's Deaf community, their language and culture. It is an inspiring,...

A documentary about the threat posed to New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour by rapacious commercial fishing and development.

This 1981 NFU film is a tour of the contemporary world of Aotearoa’s tangata whenua. It won headlines over claims that its portrayal of...