Subgenre Sampler
Brokenwood Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2014-2024)- 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, 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) (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) (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) (2013)
- 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 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…
Siege (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…
Netherwood (2011)- Dir. Cristobal Araus Lobos
Feat. Owen Black, Will Hall, Miriama Smith - A lone drifter wanters into a North Canterbury "redneck" town and winds up as the unfortunate middle–man in an age old land dispute. It’s not…
Bloodlines (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,…
Predicament (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…
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