New Zealand Movies

NZ’s top musicians and comedians celebrate the extraordinary contribution Dames Lynda & Jools Topp have made to Aotearoa New Zealand over 40...

This film adaptation of Henry James' Victorian ghost story changes the location to present day Wellington. Set in a theatre over the course of an...

A bored Colorado ski patrolman comes to New Zealand for the winter season. In between skiing on various North and South Island fields and preparing...

The movie that wowed audiences at Expo 70. The film combined scenic images including aerial cinematography with rousing classical music such as...

A portrait of free diver Kathryn Nevatt, former World Champion and current New Zealand record holder in all three disciplines.

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

An old woman in rest home suffering from dementia flashes back to her youth as a policewoman and her relationship with a colleague.

"The Silent Alps" explores a forgotten massacre that is widely unknown in the modern era, the history of Kea culling in New Zealand

Wake compares colonial paintings of New Zealand intended to encourage migration to the colonies in the 1850s, with filmed images of the same country...

Freediving royalty William Trubridge and actress Sachiko Fukumoto will do anything to bring their baby into their world, the ocean.

One of the earliest films made by Australian director Roger Donaldson (Sleeping Dogs), this curio chronicles the dawning of the Age of Aquarius in...

Two teens in an earthquake damaged city go on a journey to rediscover the life in the cracks.

The new film by Māori psychologist and filmmaker Paora Joseph (Tātarakihi: Children of Parihaka) invites open discussion of suicide through...

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...

Two New Zealand fur seal pups. Born on opposite sides of New Zealand’s South Island. We follow the first few months of their lives as they...

An affectionate portrait of a very significant human being, art-dealer Peter McLeavey who continues, after 40 years, to run his gallery in the centre...

A 2003 TVNZ documentary on the capture of the criminal responsible for one of New Zealand's most heinous crimes. On June 19, 1987, 6-year-old Teresa...

An independently shot pilot for what, eventually, became THE MILLEN BAIRD SHOW.

Sport and politics most definitely do mix in this gripping look back at a brutal and turbulent time for New Zealand rugby, told from the point of...

A stray dog in Russia is taken off of the streets and must learn to accept others in order to find a home.