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Subgenre Sampler

 
Brokenwood Mysteries, The (TV Series)Brokenwood Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2014-2017)
Feat. Neill Rea, Fern Sutherland
A local stab at the ever popular murder mystery genre with this Kiwiana policier featuring two mismatched detectives investigating a series of…
Cure, TheCure, The (2014)
Dir. David Gould
Feat. Antonia Prebble, Stephen Lovatt, John Bach
An American–accented medical thriller in which Antonia Prebble plays a scientist who discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for is…
Blue Rose, The (TV Series)Blue Rose, The (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Antonia Prebble, Siobhan Marshall, Jennifer Ludlam
An inquisitive office temp (Prebble) learns that the woman she is replacing in a law firm has been murdered, and becomes obsessed with solving the…
Harry (TV Series)Harry (TV Series) (2013)
Feat. Oscar Kightley, Sam Neill, Hunter Kamuhemu
Oscar Kightley plays a grieving South Auckland detective swamped by a series of armed robberies in this dark, authentic local policier, a welcome…
Top of the Lake (TV Series)Top of the Lake (TV Series) (2013) Recommended
Dir. Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Feat. Elisabeth Moss, Peter Mullan, David Wenham
An unnerving, atmosphere–rich 'feminist' policier from Australasian auteur Jane Campion, centred on the mystery of a 12–year–old…
Safe HouseSafe House (2012)
Feat. Errol Shand, Peter Elliot, Morgana O’Reilly
The infancy of witness protection in New Zealand is given a suspenseful retelling in this quality feature–length production from TVNZ's Sunday…
SiegeSiege (2012)
Feat. Mark Mitchinson, Joel Tobeck, Kirk Torrance
Napier's recent siege crisis in which small–time cannabis grower Jan Molenaar barricaded himself in his home after shooting a Senior Constable…
BloodlinesBloodlines (2010)
Dir. Peter Burger
Feat. Mark Mitchinson, Nathalie Boltt, Craig Hall
The intimidating Mark Mitchinson plays another hihg–profile Kiwi criminal in this solid tele–movie of South African–born,…
PredicamentPredicament (2010)
Dir. Jason Stutter
Feat. Jemaine Clement, Heath Franklin, Hayden Frost
A macabre comic adventure of murder and blackmail in rural Taranaki in the 30's, this follows CAME A HOT FRIDAY, THE SCARECROW and PALLET ON THE…
StolenStolen (2010)
Dir. Britta Hawkins
Feat. Miriama Smith, Scott Wills, George Henare
TV thriller based on the real life 2002 kidnapping of Baby Kahu Durie, which saturated NZ media at the time. Held for $3 million ransom, the child…

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