Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), The Dark Horse (2014), Black Sheep (2006), Out of the Blue (2006), The Changeover (2017), Beyond the Edge (2013), The Quiet Earth (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best New Zealand Film movies.
Storyline: Bella and Hector, two reclusive country folk, become foster parents to Ricky, a problem child from the city. After some adjustment, things go reasonably well. However, the death of Bella means Hector now has to look after Ricky, and they didn't get along too well. Moreover, her death causes Child Services to decide to send Ricky back to the orphanage. Ricky refuses to go back and runs away, ultimately sparking a national manhunt for him and Hector.
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, drama, new zealand film, coming of age, wilderness survival, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) - three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life's obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, mockumentary, vampire, new zealand film, supernatural, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, true story, new zealand film, inspirational, social issues, mental health ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shear madness ensues when a sheep-fearing man (Nathan Meister) tries to stop his evil brother's genetically altered flock from turning New Zealanders into undead, woolly killers.
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, zombie, gore, farm, animal attack, mutation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13-14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside village. It came in the form of a lone gunman with a rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped in the village for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and underarmed local policeman risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. By dawn 13 people lay dead. This is a docudrama based on a true story.—johnno.r@xtra.co.nz
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, based on true events, new zealand film, violence, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teen in Christchurch, New Zealand, battles an ancient spirit who slowly drains the life out of her 4-year-old brother.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, thriller, supernatural, teen, coming of age, horror, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 - an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.
Plot Keywords: adventure, documentary, history, expedition, new zealand film, true story, extreme challenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man wakes up to find himself literally alone in the world, and goes about trying to find other survivors, as well as to find out what happened. He suspects that a government research project he was involved in had something to do with the disappearance of everyone. Eventually he finds several other people, and once they begin to trust each other they try to figure out why they were left on earth.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, new zealand film, isolation, survival, psychological thriller, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. Her punishment is made all the more unbearable by the fact she has to live there with her mother Miriam - a well-intentioned blabbermouth who's convinced that the house is haunted. Kylie dismisses Miriam's superstitions as nothing more than a distraction from a life occupied by boiled vegetables & small-town gossip. However, when she too becomes privy to unsettling whispers & strange bumps in the night, she begins to wonder whether she's inherited her overactive imagination, or if the house is in fact possessed by a hostile spirit who's less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, thriller, supernatural, mystery, black comedy, new zealand film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Wellington, wallflower Lily is inexplicably attracted to loser Jarrod. She's out of a job; he's nursing a decade-long grudge against someone who teased him in high school. When she accompanies him to his seacoast hometown where he intends to take on his nemesis, she meets his father, his daughter from a one-night stand, and other family members--plus the memory of his talented, dead brother. Jarrod treats Lily badly, invents a relationship with his dead brother's fiancée, and gears up for his fight. Will she finally have enough and go home?
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, independent film, new zealand film, quirky, character-driven, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Then they find out its human formed aliens that are really big headed monsters that used all the people in the small village into their snack burgers. Now, Derek must save the day and the world with his chainsaw before the meat eaters strikes the whole planet. Will Derek kill all the aliens?
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, science fiction, aliens, gore, low budget, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This sequel to the New Zealand-set drama "Once Were Warriors" revisits alcoholic Maori man Jake Heke (Temuera Morrison) and his wife, Beth (Rena Owen), who have separated, largely due to his excessive drinking. When their older son, Nig (Julian Arahanga), is killed in a gang fight, his brother, Sonny (Clint Eruera), becomes determined to avenge his death. Attempting to change his life for the better, Jake tries to help Sonny avoid Nig's tragic fate.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, new zealand film, sequel, family, coming of age, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Family drama set in New Zealand about Geoff Crome, a young boy (Fulford) who immerses himself in his own private fantasy world where he meets Firpo (Papps), a strange being who dreams of being an Olympic athlete. Together, the two begin a close friendship as Geoff attempts to help Firpo realise his dream. However, it is not long until the adult world begins to impinge on his fantasy.—Jonathan Broxton <j.w.broxton@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, new zealand film, childhood, family, nostalgia, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wannabe-adventurer Zoe freaks out when she falls pregnant to her long-term boyfriend Tim. As Tim embraces the prospect of fatherhood, Zoe attempts to rush through her dreams.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, pregnancy, new zealand film, light-hearted comedy, romantic, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small-town crim finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in high-meets-low, combining elements of the sci-fi, the crime thriller and the comedy to make a comedy heist film with a time-traveling twist.—Tim van Dammen
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, time travel, crime, new zealand film, fantasy, black comedy ...
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