Movies made by New Zealand Film Commission (33)
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) United Kingdom,  USA,  Canada,  New ZealandGenre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi Release: 2025 July, 24 Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer... IMDb: 6.9/10 (231 774) |
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Bookworm (2024) New Zealand Genre: Adventure / Comedy Release: 2024 July, 4 11-year-old Mildred's world is turned upside down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise, comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther... IMDb: 6.0/10 (2 574) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Flash (2023) USA, Canada,  Australia, New ZealandGenre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi Release: 2023 June, 14 Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future... IMDb: 6.6/10 (243 985) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The World in Your Window (2017) New Zealand Genre: Short / Drama Release: 2017 June, 8 Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father... IMDb: 7.3/10 (107) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Orphans & Kingdoms (2014) New Zealand Genre: Drama Release: 2014 July, 20 One night... IMDb: 6.7/10 (109) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Brainy (2011) DenmarkGenre: Short / Drama Release: 2011 August, 10 IMDb: 7.3/10 (36) |
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The Vintner's Luck (2009) France, New ZealandGenre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance Release: 2009 September, 12 In 19th century France, a peasant winemaker endeavors to create the perfect vintage... IMDb: 5.6/10 (1 024) |
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Dean Spanley (2008) New Zealand, United Kingdom Genre: Comedy / Drama Release: 2008 September, 6 Each Thursday, a man approaching middle age calls upon his father, aged, caustic, nihilistic, and emotionally distant, perhaps from the loss of a son in the Boer War and his wife soon after... IMDb: 7.2/10 (3 957) |
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50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005) New Zealand Genre: Drama Release: 2005 September, 8 Set in New Zealand in the summer of 1975, 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous is the story of 12 year-old Billy, who is about to discover that growing up is a lot more confusing than he could have ever imagined... IMDb: 5.8/10 (546) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Two Cars, One Night (2004) New Zealand Genre: Drama / Romance / Short Release: 2003 July, 1 How do people connect?.. IMDb: 7.2/10 (3 098) User Rating: /10 Votes: 3 |
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Rain (2001) New Zealand Genre: Drama / Romance Release: 2001 May, 14 At a cottage on the water's edge of the Mahurangi Peninsula in the New Zealand summer of 1972, Janey must deal with the dissolution of her parents' marriage and care for her little brother, Jim... IMDb: 6.9/10 (1 667) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997) New Zealand Genre: Drama / Comedy Release: 1997 November, 20 Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion... IMDb: 6.7/10 (412) |
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The Ugly (1997) New Zealand Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller Release: 1997 August, 26 Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state... IMDb: 6.0/10 (3 213) |
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O Tamaiti (1997) New Zealand Genre: Short Release: 1997 April, 27 For 11-year-old Tino, being the eldest of five children in a Samoan family is no easy task... IMDb: 7.9/10 (34) |
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The Whole of the Moon (1997) Canada, New Zealand Genre: Drama Release: 1997 February, 6 About a boy who gets hit by a car roller blade, ends up getting cancer and meets an unlikely friend in the hospital where he is getting treated... IMDb: 6.2/10 (137) |
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Chicken (1996) New Zealand Genre: Comedy Dwight Serrento, once a pop-icon is now reduced to doing commercials for fried chicken... IMDb: 5.2/10 (78) |
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Once Were Warriors (1994) New Zealand Genre: Crime / Drama Release: 1994 September, 2 Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family... IMDb: 7.9/10 (38 943) |
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Heavenly Creatures (1994) New Zealand,  GermanyGenre: Biography / Crime / Drama / Romance Release: 1994 July, 8 Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme met in school during the 1950s... IMDb: 7.2/10 (70 454) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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Alex (1992) Australia, New Zealand Genre: Drama / Sport Release: 1992 October, 1 Headstrong New Zealand teen Alex Archer trains to qualify for the 1960 Rome Olympics in the women's 100 freestyle... IMDb: 6.2/10 (156) |
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Braindead (1992) New Zealand Genre: Comedy / Horror Release: 1992 June, 4 Lionel, a Mama's boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother... IMDb: 7.4/10 (108 905) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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My Grandpa Is a Vampire (1992) New Zealand Genre: Comedy / Family Release: 1992 June, 1 Sent on a trip from California to New Zealand to visit with his eccentric grandfather, Lonny discovers that his grandpa is a vampire... IMDb: 4.7/10 (376) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Ruby and Rata (1990) New Zealand Genre: Comedy / Drama Release: 1990 September, 10 Elderly Ruby fears an excuse to put her in a retirement home and arranges for her nephew to find a suitable tenant for her flat... IMDb: 6.1/10 (75) |
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An Angel at My Table (1990) New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, USA Genre: Biography / Drama Release: 1990 June, 11 In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters... IMDb: 7.4/10 (9 323) |
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The Grasscutter (1990) New Zealand Genre: Crime A middle-aged landscaper (the grasscutter) pursues a quiet life in New Zealand, but soon the life he left behind -- in Belfast -- catches up to him in a fast-paced and violent conclusion, all his prior convictions ripped to shreds... IMDb: 6.3/10 (72) |
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Starlight Hotel (1987) New Zealand Genre: Drama Release: 1987 November, 27 It is Depression era New Zealand and school-kid Kate is missing her father badly... IMDb: 7.1/10 (274) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Silent One (1985) New Zealand Genre: Adventure / Drama / Family Release: 1984 May, 13 This is a story of a South Seas island village... IMDb: 6.3/10 (154) |
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Dangerous Orphans (1985) New Zealand Genre: Action Harry, Moir and Rossi were like the three musketeers when at the orphanage; now adults, their partnership continues as they pull off the occasional heist together... IMDb: 4.8/10 (65) |
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Vigil (1984) New Zealand Genre: Drama Release: 1986 August, 15 Vincent Ward directed and co-wrote this stately coming-of-age film that features a subtly nuanced performance from twelve-year-old Fiona Kay... IMDb: 6.8/10 (963) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Trial Run (1984) New Zealand Genre: Thriller Release: 1984 May, 18 Rosemary is a photographer, mother, and cross-country runner who temporarily leaves her family and moves into an isolated beach-house to work on a photographic assignment... IMDb: 5.1/10 (52) |
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Among the Cinders (1984) New Zealand, West Germany Genre: Drama Release: 1984 February, 18 A young New Zealand boy comes to grips with the harsh realities of adult life in this subpar drama adapted from a novel by Maurice Shadbolt... IMDb: 6.4/10 (67) |
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The Scarecrow (1982) New Zealand Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller Release: 1982 April, 1 The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens... IMDb: 5.8/10 (236) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Smash Palace (1981) New Zealand Genre: Drama Release: 1982 April, 16 Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace"... IMDb: 7.0/10 (1 295) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Sleeping Dogs (1977) New Zealand Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller Release: 1977 October, 6 A New Zealand man recently estranged from his family gets unwittingly caught up in a revolution... IMDb: 6.3/10 (1 848) |
