New Zealand movies

Out of the Blue (2006)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Urban, Karl | Sunderland, Matthew | Ferry, Simon | Glover, Paul | Kircher, William | Bartlett, Timothy | Bishop, Tony | Cannell, Baxter | Davidson, Murray | Dudfield, Dave | Duval-Smith, Nick | Knowles, Richard | Lee-Batley, Thomas | Liddell, Finn | Mathieson, Stuart
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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 high-powered automatic 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 true story.

Closer (2004)

Tuesday, June 24th, 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 parttime stripper, to the infirmary when she’s hit by a car, and they fall in love. One year later, Dan meets lensman Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) and tries to pick her up, but she rebuffs him. In revenge, Dan sets Anna up for an sticky meet with sex-addicted skin doctor Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but the two end up seeing each other. Then some other year later, Dan and Anna begin an affair of their own, and relationships ‘tween the four collapse. Over the next year, all of them become taken up with pain each other and wreak some heavy worked up damage. Will any of them be strong enough to put this destructive succession of events to a stop?

Ugly, The (1997)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Rotondo, Paolo | Ward, Roy | Glover, Paul | Graham, Christopher | Brazier, Jon | Baily, Chris | Barlow, Tim | Baxter, David | Bessant, Shane | Brown, Phillip | Buskin, Aaron | Cornelius, Matt | D'Calveley, Hugh | Dwyer, Michael | Hall, Steve
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Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Dr.Karen Shoemaker wants to get through to him and starts visiting him in the hospital, and his previous life comes to us in flashbacks.

Black Sheep (2006)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Meister, Nathan | Mason, Danielle | Feeney, Peter | Davis, Tammy | Levestam, Glenis | Wright, Tandi | Driver, Oliver | Chamberlain, Matthew | Fenton, Nick | Clarke, Sam | Kent, Eli | Blake, Nick | Chapman, Richard | Sutherland, Louis | Harcourt, Ian
Directors: King, Jonathan
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An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Tommyknockers, The (1993)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Smits, Jimmy | Helgenberger, Marg | Ashton, John | Beasley, Allyce | Carradine, Robert | Cassidy, Joanna | Corley, Annie | De Young, Cliff | Lords, Traci | Marshall, E.G. | Henry, Chuck | Woods, Leon | McIver, Paul | Lawley, Yvonne | Johnson, Bill
Directors: Power, John
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The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can unfathom the secret of the tommyknockers.

Ferryman, The (2007)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Rhys-Davies, John | Fox, Kerry | Stockwell, Sally | Sainsbury, Amber | Hassan, Tamer | Hall, Craig | Arahanga, Julian | Makoare, Lawrence | Fransham, Ben | Magasiva, Robbie | Cassin, Imogen
Directors: Graham, Chris
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The story of a group of twenty-something’s who charter a boat to Fiji for the trip of a lifetime, before stumbling upon an evil that demands vengeance at any cost.

Rise (2007)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Forster, Robert | Richardson, Cameron | Liu, Lucy | Rich, Allan | Shelton, Samantha | Wheatley, Kevin | Harshman, Margo | Goodman, Cameron | McCallany, Holt | D'Arcy, James | Gugino, Carla | Chiklis, Michael | Cassell, Paul | Mako | Cooper, Sam
Directors: Gutierrez, Sebastian
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Supernatural thriller in which a female reporter wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She vows revenge against the sect that put her there and hunts them down.

30 Days of Night (2007)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Hartnett, Josh | Huston, Danny | George, Melissa | Foster, Ben | Boone Junior, Mark | Rendall, Mark | Sainsbury, Amber | Bennett, Manu | Franich, Megan | Tobeck, Joel | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Lees, Nathaniel | Hall, Craig | Littlewood, Chic | Feeney, Peter
Directors: Slade, David
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This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town’s husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

Tattooist, The (2007)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | Singapore
Actors: Behr, Jason | Bach, John | Balme, Timothy | Blakiston, Jarred | Devenie, Stuart | Fane, David | Hurst, Michael | Lees, Nathaniel | Magasiva, Robbie | Ridge, Matthew | Sai Louie, Trevor | Tufuga, Aleni | Wong, Andy | Blake, Mia | Bruce, Alison
Directors: Burger, Peter
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American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau),and,in a thoughtless act,unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit.In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism,Jake must find a way to save his new love,Sina (Mia Blake) and recover his own soul.

Eagle vs Shark (2007)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Abdul, Ban | Arahanga, Julian | Brophy, Riley | Buda, Luke | Clement, Jemaine | Cortesi, Aaron | Davis, Tammy | Fane, David | Gardiner, Adam | Gonzales-Macuer, Cori | Hall, Craig | Holloway, Cohen | King, Mike | Samia, Tyrell
Directors: Cohen, Taika
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Eagle vs Shark is the tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love; through revenge on high-school bullies, burgers, and video games.