New Zealand Movies

A glitchy AI love companion from the 'semi-mature' range and her lonely final customer confront mortality, second chances, and life on the scrap heap.

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small...

Riley, a victim of domestic violence, finally decides to take control of her own fate.

Sir David Attenborough narrates a documentary about the Kea, the world's only alpine parrot. Playful and destructive, it attacks cars, starts...

Desperate for a fresh start and in dire need of approval, young Leo, a beginner delivery driver, must decide whether to finally face his dangerous...

Shy Ali joins a group of zealous schoolgirls creating a stage challenge concept that will both wow audiences and distract the girls from their...

Logan, an ex-gang leader, has left the gang life to raise his daughter Tori. But when Tori is murdered by an opposing gang in town, Logan must choose...

Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years...

A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a...

A documentary following acclaimed Kiwi musician and actor Stan Walker as he opens up his world to the public, sharing his most intimate moments over...

An educational short made by the New Zealand National Film Unit for the National Mountain Safety Council to promote awareness of bush safety.

When a young boy is left home alone with his increasingly unwell grandmother, he is forced to come to terms with her deterioration.

When an attack on a Palmerston North fraud detective made headlines in October 1996, the New Zealand public followed the media reports with...

At once tranquil and bracing, Tu Neill and Jim Speers’ film is a portrait of a seaside town and its vanishing way of life. Though it is now...

A frustrated wife at her wits’ end finds a message in a bottle which leads her into the mysterious world of The Hypnotist, and before long...

Fish Out of Water manages to unfurl its light-hearted tale of young man and the sea, without a word of dialogue. Avoiding the morning traffic jams,...

Celebrating a birthday, a young boy and his exhausted babysitter wait for his unusually late parents.

‘Blue Smoke’ follows a rest-home caretaker, Joe, who is mistaken by an elderly resident, Beryl, for her for her lounge-singing...

It's Christmas 2006. Wolf's in prison to stay, Judd's in prison and trying to get out. The family is going to Tutaekuri Bay, where they go to every...

Shot for an Australian Travel Agents Seminar, this short film seeks to portray 1969 New Zealand as a hip and happening place. The tourism...