Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand > Suspense/Crime: 72 Films to Buy & Rent
Stolen (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…
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…
Cult, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Renato Bartolomei, Latham Gaines, Danielle Cormack…
- A group of brainwashed cult members are desperate to escape the mysterious compound and its deranged leader they're imprisoned by in this ambitious…
I'm Not Harry Jenson (2009)
- Dir. James Napier Robertson
Feat. Gareth Reeves, Ian Mune, Marshall Napier…
- Tensely conceived, enterprising Kiwi thriller finds a true crime novelist so deeply invested in the violent subject of his latest book, that he…
Down By the Riverside (2007)
- Dir. Brad Davison, Marama Killen
Feat. Rebecca Trelease
- Stylised rural noir concerns the mystery of a notorious country house used for abortions in the 20s, and the subsequent investigation into its dark…
Five (2007)
- Dir. Amit Tripuraneni
Feat. Richard Thompson
- Exploratory sophomore feature from the dir. of MEMORIES OF TOMORROW leeches the mind–bending surrealism of David Lynch to intriguing,…
Tattooist, 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…
When Night Falls (2007)
- Dir. Alex Galvin
Feat. Tania Nolan, Rosella Hart
- Creeping Wairarapa–set thriller fixed on two nurses holed up in a remote country house caring for a patient while trying to steer clear of a…
You Move You Die (2007)
- Dir. Ketzal Sterling
Feat. Ketzal Sterling, Bruce Hopkins
- Ad hoc gangster thriller out of Auckland concerns a stolen engagement ring, and its ensuing recovery by a desperate fiancée and his posse of…
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…