Subgenre Sampler
Rental > New Zealand: 787 Films to Rent
Old 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…
Pleasures and Dangers (1991)
- A glance at the work and lives of six women artists in New Zealand; Alexis Hunter (painter), Alison MacLean (film–maker), Julia Morison…
Rebels in Retrospect (1991)
- Dir. Russell Campbell
- An inquiry into the aims, methods and achievments of the Progressive Youth Movement, Kiwi political activists in the turbulent '60s.
Returning, The (1991)
- Dir. John Day
Feat. Phillip Gordon, Alison Routledge, Max Cullen
- An enigmatic thriller following the fortunes of a high–strung attorney who inherits a rural homestead and finds himself drawn into an obsessive…
Te Rua (1991)
- Dir. Barry Barclay
- Dir. Barry Barclay's second feature film concerns a group of Maori who travel to Germany to reclaim sacred 'taonga' from a museum, a century after…
Adventures of the Black Stallion, The (TV Series) (1990)
- Feat. Mickey Rooney
- Fine televisation of Walter Farley’s famous thoroughbred novels, chronicling the learning curve of a 15–year–old jockey and his…
An Angel at My Table (1990)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Kerry Fox
- Multi–award winning adaptation of Janet Frame's three autobiographies, deserving of its big reputation through compassionate storytelling and…
An Evening with Billy T. James and Howard Morrison (1990)
- Feat. Billy T. James, Sir Howard Morrisson
- More hilarity from the legendary comic this time joined by Sir Howard. This was filmed towards the end of James' all too short life.
Billy T Live (1990)
- Feat. Billy T. James
- A posthumous performance from the vaults by one of New Zealand's most distinguished comic talents.
Featuring one of Billy T's best live…
I Want to Die at Home (1990)
- Dir. Monique Oomen
- A sensitive documentary about Elizabeth, a woman with terminal liver cancer who chose to die at home.
This is the story of her dying wishes,…