Subgenre Sampler
Sales > New Zealand > Drama: 50 films to Buy
Rain (2001)
- Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Kirsty Gunn, this visually crafted evocation of a seaside holiday in the 1970s – bach, suntan lotion, whiskey…
- DVD
$20 $15, $19.95
When Love Comes (1999)
- Earnest tableaux of straight, gay, lesbian and platonic relationships underscored by a music motif and sombre themes of compromise and loss.…
- DVD
$30 $20
Memory and Desire (1998)
- Director Niki Caro pulls out the art–house stops for her feature debut: a love–story about a mismatched Japanese couple whose honeymoon…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- Peter Jackson follows his zombie trilogy with this Oscar–nominated tour–de–force based on the Parker–Hulme murders of the…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
Mauri (1988)
- Rural slice–of–life centres around an embittered man's search for fulfilment by returning to his roots. It gently illuminates the…
- DVD
$40 $30
Navigator, The (A Medieval Odyssey) (1988)
- A group of 14th Century Cumbrians experience future shock when their mining expedition leads them to contemporary New Zealand. A terrific adventure…
- DVD
$50 $37.50
Ngati (1988)
- A moving and powerful drama about an Australian immigrant who encounters the spiritual home of the local 'Ngati' or tribe, which triggers his own…
- DVD
$30 $22.50
Constance (1983)
- Donogh Rees gives a restrained performance in this post–war period drama as a school–teacher whose fanciful dreams are realised and then…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
Utu - Redux (1983-2013)
- With lavish technical enhancement and narrative streamlining, this 'Redux' version of the 1983 epic restores its rightful place in the canon of great…
- DVD
$24.95 $14.95, $39.95 $24.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95 $34.95
Children of Fire Mountain (TV Mini-Series) (1979)
- Fondly–remembered Kiwi period drama set in 1900 New Zealand, depicting the conflict between Maori and British settlers from the point of view…
- DVD
$45 $33.75