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A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Māori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes

In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Owen

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruby Dee

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeffrey Thomas

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen

A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joel Edgerton

A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jérémie Renier

When Melanie goes home from the pub with a handsome stranger, she’s captivated by his charm and attentiveness. He sails her away to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Neill

Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Māori culture, is determined to fulfill her mission of connecting with her mountain. She hopes...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Elizabeth Atkinson

Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Urban

Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Temuera Morrison

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rade Šerbedžija

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tanea Heke

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Ward-Lealand

Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greetings cards salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Melanie Lynskey

When a young fakaleiti falls in love at St Valentine’s Highschool, she must navigate her way through a world of intolerance and bigotry to find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Amanaki Prescott-Faletau

A majestic tale of drama, love, mystery and the clashing of cultures in early 1800's New Zealand.

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Cast: Simone Kessell

An island in spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun, top international artists, and tens of thousands of music fans from across the world! ...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grant Bowler

A car crash blazes a destructive trail trough the lives of three women – an awkward adolescent, a malevolent femme fatale, and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcia Gay Harden

Two private investigators discover the truth behind a gangland drug deal gone wrong.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kevin Smith