Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand: 805 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Dark Horse, The (2014)
- Dir. James Napier Robertson
Feat. Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance…
- Cliff Curtis turns in a magnificent performance in this accomplished and powerful story of speed chess champion Genesis Potini, his battles with…
- Dead Lands, The (2014)
- Dir. Toa Fraser
Feat. James Rolleston, Lawrence Makoare, Te Kohe Tuhaka…
- After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, a Maori chieftain's son, must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and…
- Erebus: Operation Overdue (2014)
- Dir. Peter Burger
- The tragic yet compelling story of Air New Zealand's doomed DC–10 which crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus in 1979.
- Hip Hop-eration (2014)
- An utterly delightful character–driven documentary that tells the humorous, heartfelt and life–affirming story of an elderly Waiheke…
- Hobbit, The - Battle of Five Armies (2014)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage…
- Spectacular concluding chapter of the trilogy has Bilbo and company forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely…
- Hope and Wire (TV Mini-Series) (2014)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Rachel House, Joel Tobeck, Chelsie Preston-Crayford…
- Gaylene Preston directs this contentious, though humanly compelling medley of stories based on first–hand accounts of the direct aftermath of…
- Housebound (2014)
- Dir. Gerard Johnstone
Feat. Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru…
- A home detainee is forced to move back into her old family house where she grapples with her neurotic mother and supernatural disturbances.
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- I Survived A Zombie Holocaust (2014)
- Dir. Guy Pigden
Feat. Harley Neville, Jocelyn Christian
- Kiwi zombie comedy set within the movie industry for that fashionably self–referential style of b–grade satire.
- Intrepid New Zealand (2014)
- Ambitious follow–up to Kevin Biggar and Jamie Fitzgerald's FIRST CROSSINGS (2012) finds the pair tackling a new set of legendary journeys…