Subgenre Sampler
Rental > New Zealand: 787 Films to Rent
When Love Comes (1999)
- Dir. Garth Maxwell
Feat. Rena Owen, Simon Prast, Nancy Brunning…
- Earnest tableaux of straight, gay, lesbian and platonic relationships underscored by a music motif and sombre themes of compromise and loss.…
Wild Blue (1999)
- Dir. Dale G. Bradley
Feat. Nicola Murphy, Judge Reinhold
- The wilds of Otago serve as a backdrop for this modern drama, with young Nicola Murphy (MAGIK AND ROSE) returning to NZ to assume a postponed role of…
Zoo, The (TV Series) (1999-2006)
- Selected highlights from New Zealand's own animal documentary series, which looks at the goings–on at the Auckland Zoo among the various animal…
Gathering, The (1998)
- Dir. Kylie Plunkett
- Document of the popular New Years Eve celebrations at Takaka Hill 1997–8, featuring a variety of dance–music, local DJs and of course,…
Hillary - A View From the Top (1998)
- Feat. Edmund Hillary
- A straightforward, populist documentary about New Zealand’s most famous individual, mountaineer and philanthropist Sir Edmund…
I'll Make You Happy (1998)
- Dir. Athina Tsoulis
Feat. Jodie Rimmer, Michael Hurst
- A comical hotchpotch set among Auckland's K–Road denizens, featuring Jodie Rimmer as a peppy prositute who plots to rip–off pimp Michael…
Memory and Desire (1998)
- Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Brenda Kendall, Yuri Kinugawa, Norman Forsey
- Director Niki Caro pulls out the art–house stops for her feature debut: a love–story about a mismatched Japanese couple whose honeymoon…
Mouth Wide Open (1998)
- Dir. Jonathan Dennis
- A portrait of pioneering NZ camera person and inventor Ted Coubray, who was one of the first people in Australasia to use a sound camera. Offers a…
Serious Shorts (Five NZ Short Films) (1998)
- Dir. Charlie de Salis, Neil Pardington, Stuart McKenzie
- A collection of 5 short films from New Zealand. Specially compiled for educational purposes, this tape includes film analysis material between each…
Velvet Dreams (1998)
- Dir. Sima Urale
- Director Sima Urale presents this short documentary investigating the world of 'velvet paintings' by traversing the Pacific to talk to artists and…