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New Zealand > Drama: 208 Films to Buy & Rent

 
Out of the BlueOut of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006) Aro Favourite
Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Simon Ferry…
A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
Sunshine Man, TheSunshine Man, The (2006)
Dir. Peter Tonks
A dark parable in short–film form from Wellington dir. Peter Tonks, concerning a seriously–odd telephone salesman whose frustrations in…
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
Dir. Stewart Main
Feat. Rima Te Wiata
Rural New Zealand forms a stylised background to this unusual rites–of–passage drama which combines whimsy, pathos and cruelty for a…
Insiders Guide to Love, The (TV Series)Insiders Guide to Love, The (TV Series) (2005)
Feat. Kate Elliot, Will Hall, Ryan O' Kane…
Adopting the whimsical style of series forerunner INSIDERS GUIDE TO HAPPINESS, this spiffy companion–piece assembles an entirely new set of…
River QueenRiver Queen (2005) Aro Favourite
Dir. Vincent Ward
Feat. Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis…
Both underrated and overblown, dir. Vincent Ward's (VIGIL) ambitious historical drama depicts the journey across heart, soul and land–scapes of…
World's Fastest Indian, TheWorld's Fastest Indian, The (2005) Aro Favourite
Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd
Feelgood drama with a core of goodhearted Kiwi common sense and realism, this relates the true story of Invercargill legend Burt Munro (Hopkins), who…
1 Nite1 Nite (2004)
Dir. Amarbir Singh
Feat. Bruce Hopkins
A successfully dramatic foray into the night–worlds of half–a–dozen characters frequenting Auckland's K' Road: a Sikh…
FractureFracture (2004)
Dir. Larry Parr
Feat. Kate Elliot, Miranda Harcourt, Jennifer Ward-Lealand…
An impressively staged adaptation of Maurice Gee's novel "Crime Story", set around two equally fractured families who enter each other's orbit after…
Ike: Countdown to D-DayIke: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Tom Selleck, James Remar, Timothy Bottoms…
Historical war dramatization of the three months leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower…
In My Father's DenIn My Father's Den (2004) Aro Favourite
Dir. Brad McGann
Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto…
Achieving a new high watermark in production terms at least, this vivid New Zealand melodrama harnesses the complexities of Maurice Gee's…

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