Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Quiet Earth, The (1985)- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge - New Zealand's best attempt yet at the sci–fi genre. Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find himself apparently the only person left on earth.…
Shaker Run (1985)- Dir. Bruce Morrison
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Leif Garrett, Lisa Harrow… - Cult film sees Kiwi scientist Harrow steal a biological weapon that some mercenaries are keen to get their hands on. She enlists daredevil drivers…
Should I Be Good or Should I Be Evil? (1985)- Dir. Graham McLean
Feat. Beaver , Harry Lyon - Musos Beaver and Harry Lyon from Hello Sailor have a bash at acting in a story based on the Mr Asia drug–ring. Music by Hammond Gamble.
Sylvia (1985)- Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Eleanor David - Eleanor David plays Sylvia Ashton–Warner, educational cruasader and best–selling author in the 1940s.
Among the Cinders (1984)- Dir. Rolf Haedrich
Feat. Paul O'Shea, Derek Hardwick, Yvonne Lawley - A tender chronicle of a 16–year–old's rite–of–passage who finds first love with an older woman embittered by her experience…
Children Of The Dog Star (TV Mini-series) (1984)- Feat. Sarah Dunn, Jason Wallace, Hamish Bartle…
- Beloved New Zealand sci–fi series following 12–year–old Gretchen (Dunn) who discovers a link to an extra–extraterrestrial…
Grasp Of Wind, A (1984)- Dir. Robert Franken, Russell Campbell
Feat. Neal Gunn - Dutch born New Zealand visual artist Robert Franken's one–and–only directorial effort is a quietly surreal, wordless fable in which a…
Heart of the Stag (1984)- Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Terence Cooper, Bruno Lawrence - A harrowing drama that deals frankly yet sensitively with the subject of incest. Terence Cooper plays a brutish farmer whose dreadful secret is soon…
King Pin (1984)
- Dir. Mike Walker
Feat. Nicholas Rogers, Junior Amega, Mitchell Manuel - Polynesian juveniles experience bonding, rivalry and violence at a child welfare training facility. Though budget constraints are evident, it's…
Other Halves (1984)- Dir. John Laing
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Mark Pilisi - An unlikely relationship blossoms between a 32–year–old white woman and a polynesian street–kid half her age.
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