New Zealand movies

30 Days of Night (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Josh Hartnett | Danny Huston | Melissa George | Ben Foster | Mark Boone Junior | Mark Rendall | Amber Sainsbury | Manu Bennett | Megan Franich | Joel Tobeck | Elizabeth Hawthorne | Nathaniel Lees | Craig Hall | Chic Littlewood | Peter Feeney
Directors: David Slade
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This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town’s husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

The Tattooist (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | Singapore
Actors: Jason Behr | John Bach | Timothy Balme | Jarred Blakiston | Stuart Devenie | David Fane | Michael Hurst | Nathaniel Lees | Robbie Magasiva | Matthew Ridge | Trevor Sai Louie | Aleni Tufuga | Andy Wong | Mia Blake | Alison Bruce
Directors: Peter Burger
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American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau),and,in a thoughtless act,unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit.In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism,Jake must find a way to save his new love,Sina (Mia Blake) and recover his own soul.

Eagle vs Shark (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Ban Abdul | Julian Arahanga | Riley Brophy | Luke Buda | Jemaine Clement | Aaron Cortesi | Tammy Davis | David Fane | Adam Gardiner | Cori Gonzales-Macuer | Craig Hall | Cohen Holloway | Mike King | Tyrell Samia
Directors: Taika Cohen
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Eagle vs Shark is the tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love; through revenge on high-school bullies, burgers, and video games.

Rise (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Robert Forster | Cameron Richardson | Lucy Liu | Allan Rich | Samantha Shelton | Kevin Wheatley | Margo Harshman | Cameron Goodman | Holt McCallany | James D'Arcy | Carla Gugino | Michael Chiklis | Paul Cassell | Mako | Sam Cooper
Directors: Sebastian Gutierrez
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Supernatural thriller in which a female reporter wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She vows revenge against the sect that put her there and hunts them down.

River Queen (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Samantha Morton | Kiefer Sutherland | Cliff Curtis | Temuera Morrison | Anton Lesser | Rawiri Paratene | Stephen Rea | Wi Kuki Kaa | Mark Ruka | Tyson Reweti | Grayson Putu | Nathan Passfield | Laura Coyte Douglas | Julie Ranginui | Brandon Lakshman
Directors: Vincent Ward
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An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonisation of New Zealand.

The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Iain Rea | Tessa Mitchell | Aaron Murphy | Tim Shadbolt | Annie Whittle | Greg Johnson | Antony Starr | Kate Sullivan | Craig Hall | Jim Bowman | Alison Bruce | Phoebe Falconer | Charles Pierard | Barry Ryan
Directors: Roger Donaldson
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In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.

Toy Love (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Dean O'Gorman | Kate Elliott | Marissa Stott | Michael Lawrence | Genevieve McLean | Peter Feeney | Chris Dykzeul | Quinton Hita | Miriama Smith | Kim Michalis | Rose McIver | Lynette Forday
Directors: Harry Sinclair
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Love is a game for Ben who lies and cheats on his girlfriend Emily, with the greatest of ease. But when he meets the sexy and unpredictable Chlo, the tables are turned. Ben falls head over heels in love, and is astonished to find someone even more immoral than he is.

King Kong (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Jack Black | Adrien Brody | Thomas Kretschmann | Colin Hanks | Andy Serkis | Evan Parke | Jamie Bell | Lobo Chan | John Sumner | Craig Hall | Kyle Chandler | Mark Hadlow | Geraldine Brophy | David Denis
Directors: Bryan Singer | Peter Jackson
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

Boogeyman (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Barry Watson | Emily Deschanel | Skye McCole Bartusiak | Tory Mussett | Andrew Glover | Lucy Lawless | Charles Mesure | Philip Gordon | Aaron Murphy | Jennifer Rucker | Scott Wills | Michael Saccente | Louise Wallace | Brenda Simmons | Josie Tweed
Directors: Stephen T. Kay
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Set in Chicago, ‘Boogeyman’ tells the haunting tale of a young man traumatized by memories of terrible events he experienced in his childhood bedroom and who, years later, reluctantly returns home to face his fears of a monstrous entity that could be real or merely a figment of his imagination.

Whale Rider (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | New Zealand
Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes | Rawiri Paratene | Vicky Haughton | Cliff Curtis | Grant Roa | Mana Taumaunu | Rachel House | Taungaroa Emile | Tammy Davis | Mabel Wharekawa | Rawinia Clarke | Tahei Simpson | Roi Taimana | Elizabeth Skeen | Tyronne White
Directors: Niki Caro
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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.