New Zealand movies

River Queen (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Morton, Samantha | Sutherland, Kiefer | Curtis, Cliff | Morrison, Temuera | Lesser, Anton | Paratene, Rawiri | Rea, Stephen | Kaa, Wi Kuki | Ruka, Mark | Reweti, Tyson | Putu, Grayson | Passfield, Nathan | Douglas, Laura Coyte | Ranginui, Julie | Lakshman, Brandon
Directors: Ward, Vincent
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An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonisation of New Zealand.

World’s Fastest Indian, The (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Rea, Iain | Mitchell, Tessa | Murphy, Aaron | Shadbolt, Tim | Whittle, Annie | Johnson, Greg | Starr, Antony | Sullivan, Kate | Hall, Craig | Bowman, Jim | Bruce, Alison | Falconer, Phoebe | Pierard, Charles | Ryan, Barry
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.

Closer (2004)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Short
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Law, Jude | Roberts, Julia | Owen, Clive | Hobbs, Nick | Stinton, Colin
Directors: Nichols, Mike
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Set in London, England, good Samaritan Dan Wolf (Jude Law), a struggling writer, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time stripper, to the hospital when she’s hit by a car, and they fall in love. One year later, Dan meets photographer Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) and tries to pick her up, but she rebuffs him. In revenge, Dan sets Anna up for an embarrassing encounter with sex-addicted dermatologist Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but the two end up seeing each other. Then another year later, Dan and Anna begin an affair of their own, and relationships between the four collapse. Over the next year, all of them become obsessed with hurting each other and wreak some heavy emotional damage. Will any of them be strong enough to put this destructive sequence of events to a stop?

Toy Love (2002)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: O'Gorman, Dean | Elliott, Kate | Stott, Marissa | Lawrence, Michael | McLean, Genevieve | Feeney, Peter | Dykzeul, Chris | Hita, Quinton | Smith, Miriama | Michalis, Kim | McIver, Rose | Forday, Lynette
Directors: Sinclair, Harry
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Love is a game for Ben who lies and cheats on his girlfriend Emily, with the greatest of ease. But when he meets the sexy and unpredictable Chlo, the tables are turned. Ben falls head over heels in love, and is astonished to find someone even more immoral than he is.

King Kong (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Black, Jack | Brody, Adrien | Kretschmann, Thomas | Hanks, Colin | Serkis, Andy | Parke, Evan | Bell, Jamie | Chan, Lobo | Sumner, John | Hall, Craig | Chandler, Kyle | Hadlow, Mark | Brophy, Geraldine | Denis, David
Directors: Singer, Bryan | Jackson, Peter
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

Boogeyman (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Watson, Barry | Deschanel, Emily | McCole Bartusiak, Skye | Mussett, Tory | Glover, Andrew | Lawless, Lucy | Mesure, Charles | Gordon, Philip | Murphy, Aaron | Rucker, Jennifer | Wills, Scott | Saccente, Michael | Wallace, Louise | Simmons, Brenda | Tweed, Josie
Directors: Kay, Stephen T.
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Set in Chicago, ‘Boogeyman’ tells the haunting tale of a young man traumatized by memories of terrible events he experienced in his childhood bedroom and who, years later, reluctantly returns home to face his fears of a monstrous entity that could be real or merely a figment of his imagination.

Whale Rider (2002)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | New Zealand
Actors: Castle-Hughes, Keisha | Paratene, Rawiri | Haughton, Vicky | Curtis, Cliff | Roa, Grant | Taumaunu, Mana | House, Rachel | Emile, Taungaroa | Davis, Tammy | Wharekawa, Mabel | Clarke, Rawinia | Simpson, Tahei | Taimana, Roi | Skeen, Elizabeth | White, Tyronne
Directors: Caro, Niki
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Wood, Elijah | McKellen, Ian | Tyler, Liv | Mortensen, Viggo | Astin, Sean | Blanchett, Cate | Rhys-Davies, John | Hill, Bernard | Lee, Christopher | Boyd, Billy | Monaghan, Dominic | Bloom, Orlando | Weaving, Hugo | Otto, Miranda | Wenham, David
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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Sauron’s forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman’s army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron’s troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Wood, Elijah | Appleby, Noel | Astin, Sean | Baker, Sala | Bean, Sean | Blanchett, Cate | Bloom, Orlando | Boyd, Billy | Csokas, Marton | Edwards, Megan | Elsworth, Michael | Ferguson, Mark | Holm, Ian | McKellen, Ian | Lee, Christopher | Makoare, Lawrence
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Mortensen, Viggo | McKellen, Ian | Wood, Elijah | Appleby, Noel | Astin, Alexandra | Astin, Sean | Aston, David | Bach, John | Bean, Sean | Blanchett, Cate | Bloom, Orlando | Boyd, Billy | Brophy, Sadwyn | Browning, Alistair | Csokas, Marton | Edge, Richard | Fitch, Jason | Hill, Bernard
Directors: Jackson, Peter
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.