Subgenre Sampler
Sales > New Zealand > Suspense/Crime: 15 films to Buy
- Savage (2020)
- Powerful drama inspired by the history of NZ's gangs, following a young boy in three different stages of life from the 1960's to the 1980's, as he…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- This Town (2020)
- Goofy small–town NZ rom–com about a socially awkward man (played by writer–director David White) who finds unlikely romance despite…
- DVD
$29.95 $15, $29.95
- Bad Seed, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
- Four–part New Zealand crime series based on the books by Charlotte Grimshaw telling the story of two brothers from a dysfunctional family with…
- DVD $34.95
- Brokenwood Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2014-2024)
- A local stab at the ever popular murder mystery genre with this Kiwiana policier featuring two mismatched detectives investigating a series of…
- DVD $24.95, $24.95, $24.95, $34.95
- Top of the Lake (TV Series) (2013)
- An unnerving, atmosphere–rich 'feminist' policier from Australasian auteur Jane Campion, centred on the mystery of a 12–year–old…
- DVD $39.95
- Safe House (2012)
- The infancy of witness protection in New Zealand is given a suspenseful retelling in this quality feature–length production from TVNZ's Sunday…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Stolen (2010)
- 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…
- DVD $19.95
- When Night Falls (2007)
- Creeping Wairarapa–set thriller fixed on two nurses holed up in a remote country house caring for a patient while trying to steer clear of a…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- In My Father's Den (2004)
- Achieving a new high watermark in production terms at least, this vivid New Zealand melodrama harnesses the complexities of Maurice Gee's…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Memories of Tomorrow (2004)
- An artful psychological thriller set around a man's (Thompson) frustrating amnesia of a past which seemingly involves commando training and…
- DVD
$29.95 $22.45
- Offensive Behaviour (2004)
- Amiable though underwritten exercise in Kiwi bad taste, revolving around one afternoon’s goings on in a block of flats.
The deviants inside…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- When Strangers Appear (Shearer's Breakfast) (2001)
- A piquant little thriller set at a lonely country rest–stop – Foxton standing in for Oregon – with dir. Reynold’s (HEAVEN, THE…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Mr. Wrong (1985)
- 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…
- DVD
$29.95 $20, $29.95
- Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)
- Probing account of events surrounding the much–publicised Crew murders that put an innocent farmer, Arthur Allan Thomas, behind bars for ten…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70