Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand > Comedy: 175 Films to Buy & Rent
- Curry Munchers (2011)
- Dir. Cristobal Araus Lobos
Feat. Aunanda Naaido, Alison Titulaer, Ben Mitchell
- Knockabout comedy has a young Indian immigrant struggling to catch the attention of kiwi girls.
- It's Rhys Darby Night! (2011)
- Feat. Rhys Darby
- Post–Concords Darby performs his latest standup act – a redux of his sold out Edinburgh Fringe Festival show about his experience in…
- Love Birds (2011)
- Dir. Paul Murphy
Feat. Rhys Darby, Sally Hawkins, Emily Barclay…
- Chirpy, engaging Kiwi comedy with Rhys Darby as a recently jilted council worker whose nursing of a wounded duck leads to unexpected romance with…
- My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
- Dir. Roseanne Liang
Feat. Michelle Ang, Matt Whelan, Kenneth Tsang…
- Dir. Roseanne Liang adapts her winning documentary (BANANA IN A NUTSHELL) on the struggle to get her traditional Chinese parents to accept her Kiwi…
- Night at the Classic (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Brendhan Lovegrove
- Caustic Kiwi comedian Brendhan Lovegrove fronts this clever send–up of the stand–up circuit, where various guests get the chance to…
- Nothing Trivial (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Shane Cortese, Tandi Wright, Blair Strang…
- An agreeable and endearingly performed 'singles' comedy by way of modern day Auckland, centred on the romantic hang ups of five friends who compete…
- Rest for the Wicked (2011)
- Dir. Simon Pattison
Feat. Tony Barry, John Bach, Irene Wood…
- Jolly late–life crime–caper with Tony Barry as a former cop who poses undercover as a resident of a retirement village in an effort to…
- Super City (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. Taika Waititi
Feat. Madeleine Sami
- Award–winning comedy series directed by Taika Waititi and starring the brilliant Madeleine Sami, who alternates between multiple characters all…
- Boy (2010)
- Dir. Taika Waititi
Feat. Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu…
- Taika Waititi continues his dream run as director with this fictionalised coming–of–age tale that draws on his own experience growing up…
- Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, The (2010)
- Dir. Brendan Donovan
Feat. William McInnes, Robyn Malcolm, Mia Blake…
- Emotionally loaded kiwi comedy centres on a Peter Pan dad with political aspirations and a serious go–karting obsession.