Subgenre Sampler
Rental > New Zealand > Drama: 175 Films to Rent on DVD
Piano, The (1993)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin…
- A romantic masterpiece set in pioneering New Zealand worthy of its reputation and phenomenal success. Worth a second glance for the cast's impeccable…
Chunuk Bair (1992)
- Dir. Dale G. Bradley
Feat. Robert Powell, Kevin J. Wilson, Jed Brophy
- Modest, reverent account of an exhausted and shell–shocked Wellington regiment of the ANZAC forces who endeavoured to gain control of the ridge…
Crush (1992)
- Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Marcia Gay Harden
- A downbeat analysis of female personal politics, with Marcia Gay Harden, an American vixen in Rotorua who neglects her dear friend recently paralysed…
Shortland Street: 15 Years Of (TV Series) (1992-2007)
- New Zealand's most successful primetime drama – a regular weeknight fixture for homes nationwide, and a port–of–call for almost every…
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, The (1992)
- Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Tony Barry…
- Telemovie enactment of the French–sponsored bombing of the Greenpeace vessel ' Rainbow Warrior' in 1984. Solidly dramatised with Neill and…
End of the Golden Weather (1991)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Stephen Fulford, Stephen Papps, Paul Gittins
- A delightful adaptation of Bruce Mason's one man play about a young boy's last summer holiday in 1930s New Zealand. Some glorious set pieces and a…
Te Rua (1991)
- Dir. Barry Barclay
- Dir. Barry Barclay's second feature film concerns a group of Maori who travel to Germany to reclaim sacred 'taonga' from a museum, a century after…
An Angel at My Table (1990)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Kerry Fox
- Multi–award winning adaptation of Janet Frame's three autobiographies, deserving of its big reputation through compassionate storytelling and…
Soldier's Tale, A (1990)
- Dir. Larry Parr
Feat. Gabriel Byrne
- A tragic love story between a British soldier and a beautiful French woman who is accused of Nazi collaboration by the French resistance. Gabriel…
Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1989)
- Dir. Martyn Sanderson
Feat. Richard Von Sturmer
- A Western Samoan youth finds himself caught between traditionalism and the freedoms of Western culture. Albert Wendt's novel is given the…