New Zealand Movies

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

In October 2020, The Beths toured Aotearoa New Zealand, culminating in a final stop at Auckland Town Hall on Friday, November 6.

Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup...

One of Them! was one of two dramas (alongside Niki Caro movie Memory and Desire) inspired by short stories collected in Peter Wells' 1991 book...

In the early hours of New Year’s Day 1998, Olivia Hope and Ben Smart boarded a yacht with a man, and were never seen again. The case enthralled...

How Bizarre starts with Pauly at the height of his fame, appearing twice on the UK music show “Top of the Pops”, sharing the stage with...

An award-winning short exploring man-made impacts on New Zealand’s water cycle.

Follow the charming Aotearoa New Zealand singer-songwriter on a life-changing journey of self-exploration as he embraces his roots and creates his...

A fifteen-minute portrait-documentary to accompany "Irene 59", the film about her mother.

In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French Government were testing nuclear weapons. Barry...

A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.

Paul dreams of being a comedian but fears risking his reliable job: a stop/go Lollipop Man. Fate challenges him to keep a car crash survivor alive...

Two people talk in the intersection between life and death. One is passing through, and the other is a guide for travellers.

On October 14th, 1941, in the rural West Coast town of Kowhitirangi, Stanley Graham is a financially struggling recluse. He is accused of poisoning...

A father struggles to answer his daughter's questions.

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...

Eve and Charlie are about to have a baby but they are no longer together. After years of history and months of separation they have 24 hours to find...

New Zealand-born Margot Nash scrutinises the memories and mementoes of her childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, and the corrosive...

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

Munted is an unusual, multi-award winning, short film about an accusation of pedophilia and its terrible consequences. Set in 1961 in a remote rural...