new zealand

307 movies and shows

Ablaze

Sun, 29 Sep 2019

In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Department Store complex in the heart of Christchurch’s business district. This is the tragic story of New Zealand’s worst fire disaster.

The Convert

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.

The Dance Exponents: Why Does Love?

Sun, 16 Jul 2017

The story of the rise and fall and rise of one of New Zealand’s most loved and iconic bands, The Exponents.

Notes from a Fish

Fri, 08 Aug 2025

A writer desperate for inspiration joins forces with an eccentric fisheries officer to track down a rare fish that vanishes from the house they were meant to watch—revealing a truth that goes far deeper than expected.

The World's Fastest Indian

Wed, 12 Oct 2005

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Bombshell

Sun, 09 Oct 2016

How the tragic death of one man triggered a David and Goliath battle between two Allies that echoed around the world and became the catalyst to end nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Anu

Sat, 29 Jul 2023

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.

The Z-Nail Gang

Thu, 31 Jul 2014

When a corporate mining giant moves into a small coastal town looking for gold and talking about trickle down wealth - some folk just aren't convinced.

Perfect Creature

Thu, 16 Aug 2007

The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.

Falling Inn Love

Thu, 29 Aug 2019

When a San Francisco exec wins a New Zealand inn, she ditches city life to remodel and flip the rustic property with help from a handsome contractor.

The Piano

Tue, 18 May 1993

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Catching the Black Widow

Sun, 30 Jul 2017

The courageous story of a tenacious New Zealand woman who would stop at nothing in seeking justice for her brother's murder.

In the Fire of War

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal battle in New Zealand’s first land wars in 1864.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Thu, 31 Mar 2016

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

Battletruck

Fri, 01 Jan 1982

It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.

3 Mile Limit

Thu, 06 Mar 2014

Set in 1965, a true story of one man’s struggle to bring rock music to a nation, an iconic New Zealand story with a universal ‘David and Goliath’ theme. The youth will find it incredible this actually happened and existed as part of New Zealand society in the 1960′s. It’s a titanic struggle for freedom and ‘the choice to choose’.

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

Sat, 28 Nov 1981

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.