Archive for the ‘New Zealand’ Category

The Piano (1993)

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 04:06
The Piano
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Holly Hunter | Harvey Keitel | Sam Neill | Anna Paquin | Kerry Walker | Geneviève Lemon | Tungia Baker | Ian Mune | Peter Dennett | Te Whatanui Skipwith | Pete Smith | Bruce Allpress | Cliff Curtis | Carla Rupuha | Mahina Tunui
Directors: Jane Campion
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It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation.

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The Strength of Water (2009)

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 21:06
The Strength of Water
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | New Zealand
Actors: Isaac Barber | Hato Paparoa | Melanie Mayall-Nahi | McCarthy Pearse | Jim Moriarty | Richmond Patua | Nancy Brunning | Shayne Biddle | Trearjn Prangley | Sade Raukawa | Stevie Raukawa | Matthew Sunderland | Pare Paseka | Denise Proctor | Briar Grace Smith
Directors: Armagan Ballantyne
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When a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced apart. Kimi must find the strength to let go of what he loves the most.

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The World on Fire (2007)

Monday, June 7th, 2010 19:06
The World on Fire
Genres: Drama | Short
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Luke Sygrove | Vanessa Climo
Directors: Jack Niederer
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The World On Fire tells the story of Blaze. A young man who after the loss of his partner Ash, retreats into a world of pain and mental anguish. He is trapped in the world that the two of them once shared with no escape in sight. This is a stunningly beautiful, surreal, and honest Art Film that begs the question; could any hell be any more real and horrible than this?

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The Locals (2003)

Monday, June 7th, 2010 02:06
The Locals
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: John Barker | Dwayne Cameron | Kate Elliott | Aidee Walker | Paul Glover | Peter McCauley | Dave Gibson | Glen Levy | Kayte Ferguson | Mark Kinghan | Max Auld | Bern Dell | Carl Goschmann | Rachael Niederer
Directors: Greg Page
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Paul convinces his best friend Grant to travel to go surfing in the weekend. They meet two girls, Lisa and Kelly, and they invite Paul and Grant for a party. They take a short cut over an old blocked bridge and Paul loses control of the car and hits off-road. They decide to ask for help to the locals, and they find that they are in an evil place.

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Braindead aka Dead-Alive (1992)

Friday, April 2nd, 2010 19:04
Braindead aka Dead-Alive
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Timothy Balme | Diana Peñalver | Elizabeth Moody | Ian Watkin | Brenda Kendall | Stuart Devenie | Jed Brophy | Stephen Papps | Murray Keane | Glenis Levestam | Lewis Rowe | Elizabeth Mulfaxe | Harry Sinclair | Davina Whitehouse | Silvio Famularo
Directors: Peter Jackson
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In 1957, a zoologist traps a rare Sumatran rat-monkey on Skull Island and brings it back to New Zealand with the locals hot on his trail. Later, a young man falls in love and takes the young woman to the zoo. His overbearing and disapproving mother follows them and gets bitten by the rat-monkey. The monkey's bite turns her into a zombie, and her doting son has to keep her and the others she's bitten tranquilized in the basement while trying to preserve his love life.

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The Big White (2005)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 20:02
Big White, The
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Holly Hunter | Giovanni Ribisi | Tim Blake Nelson | W. Earl Brown | Woody Harrelson | Alison Lohman | Marina Stephenseon Kerr | Ralph J. Alderman | Frank Adamson | Ryan Miranda | Craig March | Ty Wood | Frank C. Turner | Brenda McDonald
Directors: Mark Mylod
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To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

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Vera Drake (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 11:02
Vera Drake
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | New Zealand | UK
Actors: Imelda Staunton | Richard Graham | Eddie Marsan | Anna Keaveney | Alex Kelly | Daniel Mays | Philip Davis | Lesley Manville | Sally Hawkins | Simon Chandler | Sam Troughton | Marion Bailey | Sandra Voe | Chris O'Dowd | Adrian Scarborough
Directors: Mike Leigh
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Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.

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The Piano (1993)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 04:02
Piano, The
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Harvey Keitel | Holly Hunter | Anna Paquin | Sam Neill | Peter Dennett | Tungia Baker
Directors: Jane Campion
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It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation.

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The Lovely Bones (2009)

Monday, January 11th, 2010 22:01
The Lovely Bones
Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Saoirse Ronan | Jake Abel | Michael Ahl | Andrew James Allen | Christian Thomas Ashdale | Gary Beck | Robert Bizik | Bravo | Michael Edward Brooks | Lee Burkett | Damien Colletti | Stink Fisher | Richard Graves | Michael Imperioli
Directors: Peter Jackson
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Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.

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Diagnosis: Death (2009)

Monday, January 11th, 2010 21:01
Diagnosis: Death
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Raybon Kan | Jessica Grace Smith | Suze Tye | Bret McKenzie | Rhys Darby | Bryce Campbell | Jemaine Clement | Cameron Stevens | Loren Horsley | Tina Regtien | Laura Surrich | Shelley Venning
Directors: Jason Stutter
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Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial. Andre (an unethical high school teacher) and Juliet (a bookish teenager) soon discover their lives are in more danger than they imagined. The staff are peculiar. The drugs cause hallucinations. Or is the clinic really haunted? Struggling with their senses, they must team up to unravel a spooky mystery.

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Once Were Warriors (1994)

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 19:12
Once Were Warriors
Genres: Drama
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Rena Owen | Temuera Morrison | Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell | Julian Arahanga | Taungaroa Emile | Rachael Morris Jr. | Joseph Kairau | Cliff Curtis | Pete Smith | George Henare | Mere Boynton | Shannon Williams | Calvin Tuteao | Ray Bishop | Ian Mune
Directors: Lee Tamahori
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Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot.

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The Map Reader (2008)

Monday, December 7th, 2009 20:12
The Map Reader
Genres: Drama
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Rebecca Gibney | Jordan Selwyn | Mikaila Hutchinson | Bonnie Soper | Rachel Nash | Sam Hall | Russell Wills | Mark Tronson | Braydon Kearns | Michael Hurst | Tyl Van Randon | Jan Saussey | Stacey Houghton
Directors: Harold Brodie
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In a small New Zealand town, 16 year-old Michael leads a lonely, introverted existence with his single mother Amelia whose guilt and alcoholism threatens to drive her cherished son away. Uncomfortable with the adolescent exploits of his "friends," he finds escape through a passionate love of maps. Unexpected friendships with classmate Alison, whose sweetness and innocence belie a dark secret, and Mary, a blind young woman on the cusp of adulthood, rouse Michael from his isolation and send him on a journey of self-discovery. As his life begins to spiral out of control, Michael is forced into some difficult choices about his future.

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The Relic (1997)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 19:10
Relic, The
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Penelope Ann Miller | Tom Sizemore | Linda Hunt | James Whitmore | Clayton Rohner | Chi Moui Lo | Thomas Ryan | Robert Lesser | Diane Robin | Lewis Van Bergen | Constance Towers | Francis X. McCarthy | Audra Lindley | John Kapelos | Tico Wells
Directors: Peter Hyams
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A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D'Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum - she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague's crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the city's mayor is to attend.

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The Frighteners (1996)

Friday, October 9th, 2009 11:10
The Frighteners
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Michael J. Fox | Trini Alvarado | Peter Dobson | John Astin | Jeffrey Combs | Dee Wallace | Jake Busey | Chi McBride | Jim Fyfe | Troy Evans | Julianna McCarthy | R. Lee Ermey | Elizabeth Hawthorne | Angela Bloomfield | Desmond Kelly
Directors: Peter Jackson
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Frank Bannister is a man who goes around town claiming that he can talk with and see ghosts, though while he can, some believe (though he is, in fact) a common con-man who gets ghosts to make it appear though there is a haunting in whichever house is chosen, wherein he sweeps into action and pretends to remove the ghosts. All this goes on until one day strange deaths start occurring all throughout town and Frank ponders this, while his love interest, Lucy Lynskey, whose husband had only just died of the same cause, goes to the house of a deranged old woman who keeps her grown-up daughter locked up, saying that it is for the good of everyone else. Soon, it is revealed that even the ghosts themselves can see the force that is killing everyone off; a deceased mass murderer come back from Hell itself to continue killing. It is therefore up to Frank, Lucy, as well as two ghosts, to find out how to end the fiendish ghost from killing any more, while all the while trying to shake off a deranged detective from arresting them both.

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Bad Taste (1987)

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 14:09
Bad Taste
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Terry Potter | Pete O'Herne | Craig Smith | Mike Minett | Doug Wren | Dean Lawrie | Peter Vere-Jones | Ken Hammon
Directors: Peter Jackson
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A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and Defense Service is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens' headquarters.

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Perfect Creature (2006)

Monday, September 7th, 2009 14:09
Perfect Creature
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Dougray Scott | Saffron Burrows | Leo Gregory | Scott Wills | Stuart Wilson | Craig Hall | Robbie Magasiva | Lauren Jackson | Peter McCauley | Glen Drake | Stephen Ure | John Sumner | Roi Taimana | Aaron Murphy | Scott Morrison
Directors: Glenn Standring
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Perfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth set in an alternate version of the 1960s and 70s, as science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings to hope.

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Last of the Living (2008)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 13:06
Last of the Living
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Morgan Williams | Robert Faith | Mark Hadlow | Ashleigh Southam | Emily Paddon-Brown
Directors: Logan McMillian
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A highly contagious virus is spreading throughout the land. With one bite, it's only hours before victims will turn into zombies and hunt for human flesh. Morgan, Ash, and Johnny might just be the only humans left, but they don't seem to mind and find enjoyment lounging around in their underwear living in vacant homes. When they stumble upon a hot girl who just may have a cure, the three decide it's finally time to step up to the plate and save the world- and the girl. Now the only hope for survival lies in their hands.

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Dean Spanley (2008)

Monday, April 27th, 2009 14:04
Dean Spanley
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Actors: Jeremy Northam | Sam Neill | Bryan Brown | Peter O'Toole | Dudley Sutton | Charlotte Graham | Judy Parfitt | Jenna Pollard | Eva Sayer
Directors: Toa Fraser
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Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.

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Closer (2004)

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 02:08
Closer
Genres: Short
Countries: New Zealand
Actors: Natalie Portman | Jude Law | Julia Roberts | Clive Owen | Nick Hobbs | Colin Stinton
Directors: Mike Nichols
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The sentence in London, England, merciful Samaritan Dan Wolf (Jew Law), a fighting author, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time striptease dancer to the hospital if it is hit by a car, and they fall in love. A year later Dan Fotografen Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) hits and tries to take up them, but she cries off him. In the revenge Dan Anna puts up for an embarrassing meeting with the dermatologist Dependent on gender Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but two end to see each other. Then Dan and Anna a matter of her own, and relations begin later another year between four breakdowns. In the course of the next year they all are owned with injuring each other and exercise a little bit heavy emotional damage. Will be strong enough some of them to put this destroying result of events to a hold?. Der Satz in London, England, barmherziger Samariter Dan Wolf (Jude Law), ein kämpfender Schriftsteller, nimmt Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), eine schattige junge Frau und Teilzeitstripteasetänzer zum Krankenhaus, wenn sie durch ein Auto geschlagen wird, und sie sich verlieben. Ein Jahr später trifft Dan Fotografen Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) und versucht, sie aufzunehmen, aber sie sagt ihm ab. In der Rache stellt Dan Anna für eine peinliche Begegnung mit dem Geschlecht-abhängigen Dermatologen Larry Bagley (Clive Owen) auf, aber die zwei enden damit, einander zu sehen. Dann ein anderes Jahr später beginnen Dan und Anna eine Angelegenheit ihres eigenen, und Beziehungen zwischen dem vier Zusammenbruch. Im Laufe des nächsten Jahres werden sie alle besessen mit dem Verletzen von einander und üben etwas schweren emotionalen Schaden aus. Wird einige von ihnen stark genug sein, um diese zerstörende Folge von Ereignissen zu einem Halt zu stellen?.

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