Best New Zealand Movies – page 4

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Erebus: Into the Unknown (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min.
Story: On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: investigation, survival, dishonesty, heroic mission, escapades, uncover truth, danger, aviation, forces of nature, disaster, conspiracy, mountain ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: antarctica, new zealand
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Separation City (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mate swapping, love triangle, family relations, battle of the sexes, fall in love, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, buddies, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand, berlin germany
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 5.8
 413
Daffodils (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A bittersweet love story told through enchanting re-imaginings of popular and iconic New Zealand songs.
Style: uplifting, touching, sweet, sentimental
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love, love affair, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, youth, destiny, couples, society, reunion
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Love and Time Travel (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A romcom with a time-travel twist. Daniel Duncombe is not a committer. When he’s not working at a café or running to stay in shape, he’s perfectly happy to chill at home. Then he starts waking up from weird dreams to find cryptic messages ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Plot: socially awkward, social relations, time travel, antisocial behavior, character change, lifestyle change, lifestyle, changing lives, society, social issues, social problems, time
Time: future
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 5.4
 2K
Fresh Meat (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Maori family hostage and discovers too late that they are cannibals.
Style: horror comedy, scary, not serious, suspenseful, feel good ...
Plot: cannibal, home invasion, privacy invasion, criminal heroes, chases and races, on the run, captivity, gory, confined, suburbs, cannibalism, halloween ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, new zealand
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The Warrior's Way (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: New Zealand, South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Asian assassin (Dong-gun Jang) is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands. Also starring Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston, Tony Cox and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush.
Style: stylized, absurd, serious, exciting, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, samurai, martial arts, assassin, sword fight, kung fu, good versus evil, forest, desert, violence, fight, master warrior ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010
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 6.4
 738
Broken English (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: culture clash, interracial relations, dysfunctional family, sex, violence, interracial romance, hospital, wine, chase, erotica, migration, interracial ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new zealand, europe, former yugoslavia, oceania, bosnia herzegovina
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Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Story: Based on the best-selling book 'My Story' this feature length drama goes beyond the headlines to tell an intimate story about secrets and one woman's struggle to have them heard. In 1993 Louise Nicholas made her first shocking ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: rape, accusation, rape victim, violence against women, tragic past, life is a bitch, traumatic memory, female protagonist, social problems, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, police ...
Place: new zealand
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The 100 Candles Game (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of friends must confront their fears in a terrifying game. They must sit by the other players in a circle made of a hundred candles, take one of them and tell a horror story. As stories are told and candles blown out, strange events will ...
Style: contemplative, scary, suspense, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, murder, death, killings, curse, chase, rescue, characters in danger, vengeance, paranormal investigation, escapades, demon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
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 6.6
 211K
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, Hungary, Thailand, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Disney’s live-action adaptation of its iconic theme park ride.
Style: scenic, captivating, funny, light, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly
Plot: jungle, treasure, amazon river, myth, snake, amazon jungle, danger, dangerous animal, artifact, expedition, amazon rainforest, explorer ...
Time: 1910s, 2020s, future, year 1916, 16th century ...
Place: brazil, london, spain, europe, south america
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The Water Horse (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: New Zealand, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Style: entertaining, scenic, emotional, fairy tale, mystical ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: loch ness monster, boy, sea monster, friendship, young heroes, monster, twists and turns, animal, beautiful scenery, underwater, coming of age, dragon ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, 2000s
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, island, husband wife relationship, adoption, trying to get pregnant, miscarriage, missing child, mother love, isolation, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place: australia
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Moshi Monsters: The Movie (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Join Katsuma, Poppet, Mr. Snoodle, and the other Moshi Monters in an action-packed, song-filled race against time! Together they must stop evil Dr. Strangeglove and his incompetent Glump sidekick Fishlips from pulverising the recently discovered ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, captivating, anime ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: friendship, heroes, save the day, good versus evil, danger, youth, young heroes, escapades, rivalry, chases and races, monster, video game ...
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 5.9
 105K
Cocaine Bear (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Style: dark comedy, suspenseful, captivating, disgusting, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bear, animal attack, cocaine, bear attack, wild animal, rage, forest, park ranger, hiking, father son relationship, nurse, skateboard ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: georgia, missouri, st. louis missouri
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Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, India, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Canada, South Korea, China, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Spencer returns to the world of Jumanji, prompting his friends, his grandfather and his grandfather’s friend to enter a different and more dangerous version to save him.
Style: funny, breathtaking, action adventure, action comedy, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, chick flick, adult
Plot: jungle, adventurer, rescue, body swapping, teamwork, virtuality, curse, trophy, mission, obstacle course, friendship, strongman ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, jurassic
Place: new hampshire
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 6.4
 232
Siege (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, realistic
Plot: murder investigation, murder, police officer killed, police investigation, buddy cop, suspicion, who done it, victim, evidence, uncover truth, vengeance, law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
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 5.5
 443
Dead (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dane ‘Marbles’ Marbeck can see ghosts, thanks to a homemade drug: his late father’s neurological medication mixed with marijuana. Officer Jayson Tagg, a wannabe super-cop on the trail of a serial killer, ends up murdered. So when Marbles’ ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, semi serious, satirical, suspense
Plot: cop, murder investigation, seeing dead people, police investigation, supernatural power, homicide detective, murderer, supernatural ability, murder, ghost, satire, haunting ...
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 5.5
 2K
The Locals (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two best friends, Grant and Paul, hit the country road for a night of fun, but unfortunately take a short cut to their fate... where they meet the Locals.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, surprise ending ...
Plot: survival, best friend, buddies, supernatural, isolation, chase, danger, on the road, ghost, redneck, road accident, brutality ...
Place: new zealand
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The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor. However, with time as hardships ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: island, youth, starting over, young heroes, tragic love, friendship, escapades, orphan, heroes, social misfits, adoption, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
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Perfect Creature (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
Style: exciting, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: vampire, danger, supernatural, good versus evil, imaginary, gory, serial killer, epidemic, heroic mission, legends and myths, escapades, church ...
Time: jurassic, 60s, 20th century
Place: new zealand
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 6.8
 877
Vigil (1984)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with ...
Style: art house, retro, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: sheep, coming of age, hunter, exodus, badass female lead, death of father, mirror, horse, funeral, loss of father, hawk, mysterious man ...
Time: 80s
Place: new zealand
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 5.3
 836
Born to Dance (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Sport
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Coming of age tale told through the eyes of 'Tu', an ambitious young man from Auckland who dreams of being a professional hip-hop dancer.
Style: inspirational, touching, light, exciting, feel good ...
Plot: dancing, hip hop, believe in yourself, dancer, dancer's life, hip hop culture, follow your dream, lifestyle, father son relationship, love and romance, choreography, human spirit ...
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 6.0
 20K
Come to Daddy (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
Style: suspense, horror comedy, funny, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: father son reunion, father son relationship, sea, male nudity, criminal, secret, violence, terror, life is a bitch, estranged father, father son estrangement, twists and turns ...
Time: 2010s
Place: oregon, thailand
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Together Forever Tea (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marketing whiz Lara Thompson is living a fast-paced life in the big city when she's summoned to the sleepy town of Kissing Falls to settle the affairs of her late Aunt Vivienne who owned a tea shop. Lara originally plans to sell the shop ...
Style: thrilling, satirical, captivating, semi serious, feel good
Plot: in love, love story, love and romance, changing lives, fall in love, love interest, romantic relationship, small town, satire, last wish, lifestyle change, relationships ...
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 5.9
 3K
River Queen (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, epic, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, rescue, political unrest, hopes, danger, destiny, culture clash, parents and children, intrigue, british empire, river, battles ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: new zealand, ireland
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I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: From the land of early Peter Jackson comes another Braindead movie in bad taste. It’s the third day of shooting the low budget horror ‘Tonight They Come’ on location in the wilds of New Zealand. Director SMP is already beside himself having to ...
Style: horror comedy, suspense, tense, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, zombie, found footage, characters in danger, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, living dead, survival, heroes, filmmaking, peril, zombie outbreak ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
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 5.9
 158
3 Mile Limit (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in 1965, a true story of one man’s struggle to bring rock music to a nation, an iconic New Zealand story with a universal ‘David and Goliath’ theme. The youth will find it incredible this actually happened and existed as part of New ...
Plot: love, dj, rock and roll, boat
Time: year 1965
Place: new zealand
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 4.5
 488
Bad Behaviour (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
Style: dark comedy, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, family relations, satire, female protagonist, relationships, post traumatic stress disorder, retreat, guest, mother daughter conflict, lawyer, supermodel, love ...
Place: new zealand, oregon
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 3.7
 3K
Killer Sofa (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Francesca always attracted weirdos. When one of her stalkers is found dead, she looks for comfort from her best friend, Maxi. Meanwhile, Maxi’s grandfather, Jack, a disgraced Rabbi, comes across a reclining chair containing a Dybbuk inside. Jack ...
Style: psychotronic, captivating, disturbing, detective, crying ...
Plot: escape attempt, investigation, ghost, hearing voices, murder, violence, mysterious event, missing person, murder investigation, black magic, friend, female protagonist ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 2010s
Place: oceania
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The Dead Lands (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains led by ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
Plot: heroes, against the odds, survival, vengeance, danger, rivalry, youth, medieval, gory, master warrior, battles, martial arts ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
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