Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand > Suspense/Crime: 72 Films to Buy & Rent
Dangerous Orphans (1987)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. Peter Stevens, Michael Hurst, Jennifer Ward-Lealand
- Three orphans act on their plan to avenge the death of their father but must undermine an elaborate crime ring to carry it out. With Peter Stevens,…
Bridge to Nowhere (1986)
- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Bruno Lawrence
- Young backpackers go bush and find themselves in a conflict of survival with bad–egg Bruno Lawrence.
Lost Tribe, The (1985)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. John Bach, Darien Takle, Martyn Sanderson…
- John Bach's performance is the highlight of this mysterious drama in which he plays a man suspected of murdering his anthropologist brother who has…
Mesmerized (1985)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy…
- Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
Mr. Wrong (1985)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Heather Bolton
- A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton…
Should I Be Good or Should I Be Evil? (1985)
- Dir. Graham McLean
Feat. Beaver , Harry Lyon
- Musos Beaver and Harry Lyon from Hello Sailor have a bash at acting in a story based on the Mr Asia drug–ring. Music by Hammond Gamble.
Trial Run (1984)
- Dir. Melanie Read
Feat. Annie Whittle
- Eerie occurences manifest into the worst nightmare for a wildlife photographer posted at an isolated cottage. Annie Whittle gives it heck as the…
Next of Kin (1982)
- Dir. Tony Williams
Feat. Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott
- Moody Australian haunted house flick about a young woman who inherits a retirement home possibly contaminated with a malevolent spirit. Not a classic…
Scarecrow, The (1982)
- Dir. Sam Pillsbury
Feat. Jono Smith, Tracey Mann, Daniel McLaren…
- A fine film adaptation of Ronald Hugh Morrieson's classic New Zealand novel about a crazed killer who instills fear and paranoia in a small rural…
Bad Blood (1981)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill
- A gripping drama based on the factual account of Stan Graham, who in 1941 murdered four policemen and sparked one of the greatest manhunts in New…