New Zealand movies

Closer (2004)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Genres: Short
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Law, Jude | Roberts, Julia | Owen, Clive | Hobbs, Nick | Stinton, Colin
Directors: Nichols, Mike
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Set in London, England, good Samaritan Dan Wolf (Jude Law), a struggling writer, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time stripper, to the hospital when she’s hit by a car, and they fall in love. One year later, Dan meets photographer Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) and tries to pick her up, but she rebuffs him. In revenge, Dan sets Anna up for an embarrassing encounter with sex-addicted dermatologist Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but the two end up seeing each other. Then another year later, Dan and Anna begin an affair of their own, and relationships between the four collapse. Over the next year, all of them become obsessed with hurting each other and wreak some heavy emotional damage. Will any of them be strong enough to put this destructive sequence of events to a stop?

Black Sheep (2006)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Meister, Nathan | Mason, Danielle | Feeney, Peter | Davis, Tammy | Levestam, Glenis | Wright, Tandi | Driver, Oliver | Chamberlain, Matthew | Fenton, Nick | Clarke, Sam | Kent, Eli | Blake, Nick | Chapman, Richard | Sutherland, Louis | Harcourt, Ian
Directors: King, Jonathan
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An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Tommyknockers, The (1993)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Smits, Jimmy | Helgenberger, Marg | Ashton, John | Beasley, Allyce | Carradine, Robert | Cassidy, Joanna | Corley, Annie | De Young, Cliff | Lords, Traci | Marshall, E.G. | Henry, Chuck | Woods, Leon | McIver, Paul | Lawley, Yvonne | Johnson, Bill
Directors: Power, John
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The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can unfathom the secret of the tommyknockers.

Ferryman, The (2007)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Rhys-Davies, John | Fox, Kerry | Stockwell, Sally | Sainsbury, Amber | Hassan, Tamer | Hall, Craig | Arahanga, Julian | Makoare, Lawrence | Fransham, Ben | Magasiva, Robbie | Cassin, Imogen
Directors: Graham, Chris
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The story of a group of twenty-something’s who charter a boat to Fiji for the trip of a lifetime, before stumbling upon an evil that demands vengeance at any cost.

Rise (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Forster, Robert | Richardson, Cameron | Liu, Lucy | Rich, Allan | Shelton, Samantha | Wheatley, Kevin | Harshman, Margo | Goodman, Cameron | McCallany, Holt | D'Arcy, James | Gugino, Carla | Chiklis, Michael | Cassell, Paul | Mako | Cooper, Sam
Directors: Gutierrez, Sebastian
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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.

30 Days of Night (2007)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Hartnett, Josh | Huston, Danny | George, Melissa | Foster, Ben | Boone Junior, Mark | Rendall, Mark | Sainsbury, Amber | Bennett, Manu | Franich, Megan | Tobeck, Joel | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Lees, Nathaniel | Hall, Craig | Littlewood, Chic | Feeney, Peter
Directors: Slade, David
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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.

Tattooist, The (2007)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | Singapore
Actors: Behr, Jason | Bach, John | Balme, Timothy | Blakiston, Jarred | Devenie, Stuart | Fane, David | Hurst, Michael | Lees, Nathaniel | Magasiva, Robbie | Ridge, Matthew | Sai Louie, Trevor | Tufuga, Aleni | Wong, Andy | Blake, Mia | Bruce, Alison
Directors: Burger, Peter
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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)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Abdul, Ban | Arahanga, Julian | Brophy, Riley | Buda, Luke | Clement, Jemaine | Cortesi, Aaron | Davis, Tammy | Fane, David | Gardiner, Adam | Gonzales-Macuer, Cori | Hall, Craig | Holloway, Cohen | King, Mike | Samia, Tyrell
Directors: Cohen, Taika
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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.

River Queen (2005)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Morton, Samantha | Sutherland, Kiefer | Curtis, Cliff | Morrison, Temuera | Lesser, Anton | Paratene, Rawiri | Rea, Stephen | Kaa, Wi Kuki | Ruka, Mark | Reweti, Tyson | Putu, Grayson | Passfield, Nathan | Douglas, Laura Coyte | Ranginui, Julie | Lakshman, Brandon
Directors: Ward, Vincent
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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.

World’s Fastest Indian, The (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rea, Iain | Mitchell, Tessa | Murphy, Aaron | Shadbolt, Tim | Whittle, Annie | Johnson, Greg | Starr, Antony | Sullivan, Kate | Hall, Craig | Bowman, Jim | Bruce, Alison | Falconer, Phoebe | Pierard, Charles | Ryan, Barry
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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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.