Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Man Who Lost His Head, The (2007)- Dir. Terry Johnson
Feat. Martin Clunes, John Leigh, Nicola Kawana - Martin Clunes plays a museum curator on a New Zealand sojourn, traveling from Britain to the small Maori community of Otakataka appealing the return…
Rude Awakenings (TV Series) (2007)- Feat. Danielle Cormack, Patrick Wilson
- Polished, darkly tinged suburban satire between a grassroots Kiwi family and their new latte–slurping neighbours, who declare warfare in the…
We're Here to Help (2007)
- Dir. Jonothan Cullinane
Feat. Erik Thomson, Miriama Smith, Michael Hurst… - Hearty bureaucratic broadside with Australian Erik Thomson well cast as Kiwi property developer Dave Henderson, who became hounded and eventually…
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..
No. 2 (Number 2) (2006)- Dir. Toa Fraser
Feat. Ruby Dee, Mia Blake, Emile Taungaroa… - Playwright Toa Fraser adapts his acclaimed stageplay about a hard–bitten matriarch determined to bring her grandchildren together for a…
Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- 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, 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 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) (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 Queen (2005)- 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…
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