New Zealand Movies

A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The...

Award-winning filmmaker and choreographer Alyx Duncan builds on her unique movement-led films, depicting an anxious grandmother desperate to protect...

The Way is an inspirational story of the adversity and challenge professional surfers go through while trying to make it. The film starts with the...

An emotionally traumatized stage magician has "escaped" into a fantasy world where he has real magical powers, but his career has taken him to...

Loren Taylor's directorial debut, “The Moon is Upside Down”, is an uproarious and cleverly dark-humoured rollercoaster. Against the...

The Stories of Ruapekapeka, a documentary highlighting Northland's most infamous armed conflict, is hosted by RNZ's Māori Issues Correspondent...

A dramatization of the events at Gallipoli using the letters of the soldiers who were there.

Freshly dumped, the only thing that cheers John up is a weekly delivery of tomatoes from his eccentric neighbour Pat. When John witnesses a home...

A young woman in a desperate situation finds unexpected compassion on a remote stretch of coastline.

Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.

For Kane Harris and Vera Smith, what starts as an easy task of murder becomes a tangled web of deception and betrayal. Their target, Kane's wife, is...

The legend of Kava Tonga has come to life. In a harrowing story of love, loyalty and sacrifice, this short film gives you an insight into the...

The courageous story of a tenacious New Zealand woman who would stop at nothing in seeking justice for her brother's murder.

Five years after his first interview with the Moon, Four picks up his camcorder once again - this time to confront its philosophy, and what it cost...

Drop is a hallucinatory night(mare) out with friends. Chased by shadowy figures, a man tries to outrun both his past and present

An educational short made by the New Zealand National Film Unit for the National Mountain Safety Council to promote awareness of bush safety.

Mike has the girl, the place and the time. The problem is he doesn't have the ring. Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is...

An injured man with an impenetrable briefcase and no memory is found on the shoreline of a remote island by the last remaining members of a once...

A mysterious gift. An ignored warning. A heavy responsibility. A big secret.

A young refugee attempts to reconcile his insular, tranquil new life with his war-torn past on the day of the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt.