New Zealand Movies

'Amiri & Aroha' began as a Maori version of Romeo & Juliet and evolved into a poignant love story, set against a background of gang rivalry and...

A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.

This documentary is about courage and survival and having the will and perseverance to succeed despite considerable obstacles. The story of Mitchell...

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

Trapped behind the Boundary Fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a dangerous outsider who can free her.

After his daughter dies in a racing accident, a father must decide the fate of the horse that killed her. An intimate and emotional exploration of...

Manaia, a young woman caught between expectation and self-acceptance, finds herself confronting her repressed sexuality when a chance reunion with...

Tatau is about Siaki (Jack), an elderly Samoan man struggling to come to terms with the lifelong shame of having an incomplete traditional tattoo and...

Karanga is a dance and spoken word film exploring the intersectionality of descendants both Māori and Pākehā (European) centred around...

A short film about a charismatic teenage artist, Bryn, learning to deal with disappointment and self worth, and ignoring the little voices in the...

Revisit the events of 1984, when six female vigilantes kidnapped an Auckland University lecturer and assaulted him in a violent political action,...

Maka, a Tongan superfan, will do whatever it takes to get tickets to the Tonga v France Rugby World Cup game - even if that means promising to...

The courageous story of a tenacious New Zealand woman who would stop at nothing in seeking justice for her brother's murder.

Solidarity follows pioneering New Zealand rappers Upper Hutt Posse after they're invited to the United States by the Nation of Islam. They perform...

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...

In 1997, Osama bin Laden declared war on the USA and Pulitzer Prize winning CNN correspondent Peter Arnett embarked on a mission to locate and...

Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more...

Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after "chance" meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the...

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...

"Waterfall Confessional begins as a montage of hazy waterfalls captioned with simple statements. The waterfalls are kitsch, in that they have a...