New Zealand Movies

A documentary following the attempt by three young people to be the first windsurfers to cross Cook Strait.

Sydney-based New Zealander Peter O’Donoghue shot, directed and edited this ambivalent, entertaining picture of senior calisthenics and other...

Law professor Chris Gallivan examines the career of one of our country's best defence lawyers, Greg King. Through the lens of King's most sensational...

In pre-colonial Aotearoa a young Māori girl witnesses the best and worst of a rapidly changing world when she encounters a dying man and his...

Pepe is the son of a successful Samoan businessman, who rejects his father's world and his Christianity. Although he becomes rebellious,...

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...

A group of friends get together at an abandoned building to take drugs. After a short moment of fun, everything starts to go wrong when the group...

Keiko does chores in her father's Chinese restaurant in New Zealand, but dreams of becoming a brilliant sushi chef and winning the boy of her dreams.

One morning, as kids are stealing apples from an old man’s orchard high above a seaside town, an earthquake hits. No one is hurt, and the...

A poet forewarns their next lover of what lies ahead.

Isabel recalls a trio of relationships: one with a man in the middle of discovering he is gay, one with a man who doesn't like the smell of Isabel's...

A boy from an abusive family wants to escape, but doesn't want to desert his younger siblings.

The Common Touch tells the story of Jake Bailey, viral sensation and student of Christchurch Boys High School, who was told one week before his...

A teenager must protect his autistic brother when a masked intruder breaks into their home, leading to a violent night of survival that tests their...

This documentary travels to nine Pacific nations, including New Zealand, to chronicle the long struggle to create a regional nuclear arms free zone.

When 11-year-old Billie asks for her older sister's trust, both are in for a surprise. In this engaging spine tickler, an unexpected third party...

Seven year old Sarah idolizes her Dad. Watching his indoor cricket game is one of her favorite pastimes. She wants to be just like him. One...

Alice Wonder, a young girl from New Zealand is haunted by the visions of her brother’s death, murdered by the impossible flash of a camera. But...

Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words but in the meantime let’s be careful about the words we use.

In 2024 Niue celebrated 50 years of self-governance, overseen by New Zealand administration. What benefits and what problems has this created for the...