Subgenre Sampler
Rental > New Zealand > Suspense/Crime: 70 Films to Rent
- Brokenwood Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2014-2017)
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…