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John Bach

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Goodbye Pork PieGoodbye Pork Pie (1981) Aro Favourite
Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman
This little beauty was the first Kiwi film to make international inroads. An amoral tale about a gang of misfits who travel the length of the country…
BattletruckBattletruck (Warlords of the 21st Century) (1982) Recommended
Dir. Harley Cokeliss
Feat. Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright
In the 21st Century oil wars have left civilisation verging on collapse. Lawlessness and anarchy are the order of this day in this…
UtuUtu (1983) Aro Favourite
Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott
After the great success of GOODBYE PORK PIE, dir. Geoff Murphy and his team get their fingernails dirty with this indigenous 'Western' that addresses…
Wild HorsesWild Horses (1983)
Dir. Derek Morton
Feat. Keith Aberdein, John Bach, Bruno Lawrence
A Kiwi western set in Tongariro National Park, and based around real events and people associated with the wild equine inhabitants of the Central…
Utu - ReduxUtu - Redux (1983-2013) Aro Favourite
Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Wi Kuki Kaa
With lavish technical enhancement and narrative streamlining, this 'Redux' version of the 1983 epic restores its rightful place in the canon of great…
Lost Tribe, TheLost Tribe, The (1985)
Dir. John Laing
Feat. John Bach, Darien Takle, Martyn Sanderson
John Bach's performance is the highlight of this mysterious drama in which he plays a man suspected of murdering his anthropologist brother who has…
Great Bookie Robbery, The (TV Mini Series)Great Bookie Robbery, The (TV Mini Series) (1986) Aro Favourite
Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. John Bach, Bruno Lawrence, Andy Anderson
Classic heist drama based on a multi–million dollar robbery in 1976 Melbourne, and re–enacted by the cream of New Zealand's acting…
Old ScoresOld Scores (1991)
Dir. Alan Clayton
Feat. John Bach, Tony Barry, Roy Billing
Affectionate comedy about an expatriate Welsh sporting hero who is roped in to a replay of a controversial 1966 test match against the All Blacks…
Typhon's PeopleTyphon's People (1993)
Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. Alfred Molina, Sophie Lee, Michael Hurst
Capable sci–fi thriller, scripted by Margaret Mahy, concerning dodgy genetic–engineering in a remote NZ research station. Stars local…
Duggan (TV Series)Duggan (TV Series) (Death in Paradise, Sins of the Fathers) (1997-1998)
Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. John Bach
Detective inspector John Bach heads up these made–for–TV policiers as a recluse drawn into a murder cases near his Marlborough Sounds…
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…
Kidnapped (TV Mini Series)Kidnapped (TV Mini Series) (2005)
Feat. Adrian Dunbar, John Bach, Paul McGann
A stirring adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure yarn, set around a young boy's entanglement with the Scottish Jacobite rebellion…
Lost Children, The (TV Series)Lost Children, The (TV Series) (2006)
Feat. Hudson Mills, Beatrice Joblin, Rhys Castle-Hughes
Well–crafted adventure series follows three children washed ashore from a shipwreck as they search for their parents..
Tattooist, TheTattooist, The (2007)
Dir. Peter Burger
Feat. Jason Behr, Mia Blake, David Fane
A supernatural thriller that forges the disparate worlds of urban tattoo counter–culture with Samoan cultural taboo, Jason Behr plays an…
This is Not My Life (TV Series)This is Not My Life (TV Series) (2010)
Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Charles Mesure, Tania Nolan, Ariana Brunet
Set in a fictional New Zealand town in the 2020s, this high–end Kiwi production runs with a number of well–worn science–fiction…
Rest for the WickedRest for the Wicked (2011)
Dir. Simon Pattison
Feat. Tony Barry, John Bach, Irene Wood
Jolly late–life crime–caper with Tony Barry as a former cop who poses undercover as a resident of a retirement village in an effort to…
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…
Gallipoli (TV Mini-series)Gallipoli (TV Mini-series) (2015)
Dir. Glendyn Ivin
Feat. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Nicholas Hope, Harry Greenwood
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the ill–fated military expedition, this epic drama follows the fortunes of four young Australian boys who…
ReunionReunion (2020)
Dir. Jake Mahaffy
Feat. Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, John Bach
Beautifully–lensed NZ horror shot in a grand old mansion in Lower Hutt, following an academic studying black magic (Emma Draper, DAFFODILS) who…
Sounds, The (TV Mini-series)Sounds, The (TV Mini-series) (2020)
Dir. Peter Stebbings
Feat. Matt Whelen, Rachelle Lefevre, Matt Nable
Kiwi mystery drama series from writer Sarah–Kate Lynch (800 WORDS), about a Canadian couple who move to the Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere region in…

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