New Zealand Movies

Accompanied by his best friend, a young boy waits for a call to a phone box outside the local milk bar.

Fourteen-year-old George has to find her own way to celebrate her birthday when everyone else forgets it.

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a...

A global quest for adventure, 45 years in the making all in stunning, original footage

The Chinese philosophy of the Five Elements postulates that everything in our universe is based on wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. While...

After the end of the world, Merv's life in the lonely wastes is comfortably boring until an unexpected signal heralds the coming of a stranger.

Trying to connect with his estranged son Toby (Jasper Sutcliffe), and confronted by a neighbor, Amber (Amber Ranson), who does things differently,...

A documentary about socialising and society in early 1970s New Zealand.

This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large...

The film told the Māori legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai. It is the first dramatic feature film produced in New Zealand.

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a full-time vocation. Controversies swirling within...

Isabelle feels left behind as her teenaged older sister Tiana grows up, leading to a moment of betrayal that threatens to shatter their relationship...

Huge numbers were placed there for life. Some were deemed hopeless cases, never to be part of society again. These were the patients and residents of...

“The big ALL FUN show for the whole family to enjoy!” was the tagline for this musical comedy classic. Sir Howard Morrison (as himself)...

This promotion for the Edmonds Baking Powder Company features beloved radio personality Aunt Daisy (Maud Ruby Basham). Its narrative is entrenched...

In Hugh Macdonald’s fascinating and inspiring doco, his cousin, writer and illustrator Sheila Natusch retraces a long life dedicated to sharing...

The DNA samples Lucy needs to finish her thesis don't arrive, so she's stuck - unless she can find a DVA sample from a 100-year-old Chinese corpse....

A young woman is obsessed by memories of her lover, who had vanished the previous summer.

A young woman receives a mysterious call in the night. After several strange events, she realises that she is not alone and that she may be in...

A documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".