Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman… - This little beauty was the first Kiwi film to make international inroads. An amoral tale about a gang of misfits who travel the length of the country…
Our Heritage (TV Series) (1981)- A unique series of television snippets, in which seven ballads by legendary Waitakere historian Jack Diamond are recited over historical imagery and…
Pictures (1981)- Dir. Michael Black
Feat. Kevin J. Wilson, Peter Vere-Jones, Helen Moulder - Two rival photographer brothers clash ethics over their respective portraits of the native Maori. Colonialist parable explores the value of art and…
Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)- Dir. David Hemmings
Feat. Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence… - Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasance and George Peppard cavort on and over the South Island in search of a 'McGuffin'.
Smash Palace (1981)- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Grier Robson - One of local cinema's finest hours is this rural tale of a brusque auto–mechanic (Bruno Lawrence) whose estrangement from his family leads him…
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. David Hemmings, John Hargreaves - Probing account of events surrounding the much–publicised Crew murders that put an innocent farmer, Arthur Allan Thomas, behind bars for ten…
Angel Mine (1979)- Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot - A punk, Bunuel–esque social satire in which a married couple escape their material lives through anarchic fantasies, staged as dream–like…
Children of Fire Mountain (TV Mini-Series) (1979)- Dir. Peter Sharp
Feat. Terence Cooper, Mark Hadlow - Fondly–remembered Kiwi period drama set in 1900 New Zealand, depicting the conflict between Maori and British settlers from the point of view…
Middle Age Spread (1979)- Dir. John Reid
Feat. Grant Tilly, Dorothy McKegg, Peter Sumner… - Grant Tilly is priceless as the philandering high–school deputy who reluctantly hosts a dinner party for six. Based on the play by Roger Hall,…
Skin Deep (1979)- Dir. Geoff Steven
Feat. Ken Blackburn, Alan Jervis, Deryn Cooper - When an urban masseuse sets up at a legitimate health bar in a small South Island town she attracts as much demand for special services as…
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