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- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenOrlando BloomA meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
- DirectorNiki CaroStarsKeisha Castle-HughesRawiri ParateneVicky HaughtonA contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
- DirectorChris GrahamStarsOscar KightleyHeto Ah HiShimpal LelisiFour raucous Samoans are banned from their best friend's wedding. To get in, they have to prove themselves as mature individuals by getting and keeping girlfriends.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsHolly HunterHarvey KeitelSam NeillIn the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsRena OwenTemuera MorrisonMamaengaroa Kerr-BellA family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsJames RollestonTe Aho Eketone-WhituTaika WaititiBoy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMelanie LynskeyKate WinsletSarah PeirseTwo teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsAnthony HopkinsDiane LaddIain ReaThe story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsSam NeillNevan RoweIan MuneA New Zealand man recently estranged from his family gets unwittingly caught up in a revolution.
- DirectorRobert SarkiesStarsWilla O'NeillNeill ReaAshleigh SeagarFive kiwi flatmates find something growing in their basement much to their delight, but when the rightful owner comes knocking and finds that they have appropriated the goods things start to go awry.
- DirectorGeoff MurphyStarsTony BarryKelly JohnsonClaire ObermanDumped by his girlfriend, a man joins a reckless youth in a stolen yellow mini and they drive the length of New Zealand, attracting cops and media attention, determined to get to Invercargill.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsBruno LawrenceAnna Maria MonticelliGreer Robson-KirkAfter the break-up of his marriage, a racing driver sets out to get back his daughter - at any cost.
- DirectorGeoff MurphyStarsAnzac WallaceBruno LawrenceTim ElliottIn 1870, a Maori warrior working with the British finds his village massacred, and vows revenge.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVan HeflinAldo RayMona FreemanYoung Marines have adventures in love and war.
- DirectorMurray BallStarsJohn ClarkePeter RowleyRawiri ParateneFeaturing the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats". Questions will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTerry PotterPete O'HerneCraig SmithThe population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.
- DirectorPaul MurphyStarsVivien BellJimmy BestNick BlakeA small film with a big heart, SECOND HAND WEDDING is a bittersweet dramatic comedy set in the present, in a time when trademe and e-bay threaten the primeval urge for a firsthand crack at the second-hand. Jill keeps the dream alive until she is forced to confront the habits of a lifetime and concede that no bargain is worth her daughter's happiness. Father of the bride, Brian, quips that Cheryl's upcoming wedding will be the first time anyone in the Rose family has given something away - and that's the crux of it.
- DirectorRudall HaywardStarsDale AustenMae BainAllan Cornish
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsNaomi WattsJack BlackAdrien BrodyA greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.
- DirectorRudall HaywardStarsCharles AlexisNola CasselliRewi ManiapotoThe winter of 1863 finds the settlement of Auckland living in fear of Maori Rebels. Sir George Grey Englands pro-consul has been sent out to handle these difficulties. Dr Wake an Auckland Surgeon and his daughter Cecily meet a young Englishman named Kenneth Gordon and the two young people become friends. When the Waikato war gets worse Gordon joints Von Tempsky's Corps of Forest Rangers.
- DirectorJohn ReidStarsGrant TillyDorothy McKeggPeter SumnerA deputy principal of a high school, who has taken up jogging, to combat a spreading waistline, gradually enters into an affair with a co-worker's wife, as his wife is losing interest in him.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodViggo MortensenIan McKellenGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
- DirectorGabor CsupoStarsJosh HutchersonAnnaSophia RobbZooey DeschanelA preteen's life turns upside down when he befriends the new girl in school and they imagine a whole new fantasy world to escape reality.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsElijah WoodIan McKellenViggo MortensenWhile Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSam WorthingtonZoe SaldanaSigourney WeaverA paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
- DirectorVincent WardStarsSamantha MortonKiefer SutherlandCliff CurtisAn intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
- DirectorRudall HaywardStarsBob RamseyHazel WestMy Lady of the Cave is the first feature film by pioneer filmmaker Rudall Hayward.
- DirectorIan MuneStarsPeter BlandPhillip GordonMichael LawrenceThis eccentric rural New Zealand tale follows two con men as they attempt to trick a small town into their illegal gambling scheme.
- DirectorAndrew AdamsonStarsTilda SwintonGeorgie HenleyWilliam MoseleyWhile playing, Lucy and her siblings find a wardrobe that lands them in a mystical place called Narnia. Here they realize that it was fated and they must now unite with Aslan to defeat an evil queen.
- DirectorBarry BarclayStarsTuta Ngarimu TamatiIranui HaigTawai MoanaAn Australian doctor comes to a small Maori village where a child is suffering from Leukemia, as he discovers the truth about his heritage the town rallies together to keep the freezing works open.
- DirectorNiki CaroStarsJérémie RenierKeisha Castle-HughesVania VilersIn 19th century France, a peasant winemaker endeavors to create the perfect vintage.
- DirectorRudall HaywardStarsTina HuntMary KingiTom McDermott
- DirectorGaston MélièsThe Maori tribes of Awhitu and Wailkatu are at war. Te Ponga, young chief of the Awhitus hears of the great beauty of Puhuhu, daughter of the old chief of the Waikatus, and in order to see her, flies the white flag of truce and pretends to make overtures for peace. The old chief, anxious for peace, receives Te Ponga with great pomp and ceremony and holds a great celebration in his honor at which Puhuhu dances. Te Ponga falls instantly in love with her, and she with him. That night, through the stratagem of one of Te Ponga's warriors, the young lovers meet clandestinely, and plan to elope on the morrow. Puhuhu returns to her sleeping hut for the night, but Te Ponga and his braves steal to the water's edge, strip all the Waikatu canoes of their paddles and place them in their own. Next morning Te Ponga takes ceremonious leave of his host, and is honored with the company of all the Waikatu maidens for a short ways from the village. The Waikatu men watch the procession from afar, and are aghast when they discover that Puhuhu, instead of returning with her companions, flees with Te Ponga. The old chief's camp is instantly up in arms at the outrage and pursue the fleeing lovers, only to be baffled by Te Ponga's cunning in removing the paddles. The young chief and his bride make a safe get-away in their swift canoe while the furious Waikatus spend their wrath in unavailing imprecations on the shore.
- DirectorVincent WardStarsHarmony WihapiMelody WihapiMikaira TawharaPuhi was chosen at age 12 by the great Tuhoe prophet Rua Kenana to marry his son, Whatu, and goes on to have an extraordinary life of hardship and wonder showing her fortitude through life and death struggles, walking between spirit and real world, as she bears and loses all of her thirteen children but one. "Rain of the Children" is a dramatic documentary in which filmmaker Vincent Ward attempts to unravel and recreate the life story of Puhi, who he met in 1978 when she was eighty years old.
- DirectorGaston MélièsAs she sits and plays with "poi" balls, Wena, daughter of Chief Te Rangi-Ka-Haruru of the Nagatairua tribe of Maoris, is approached by a sorceress who predicts that she, Wena, will marry a white man, tall and handsome, with eyes blue as the sky and a fair beard. A little way distant her father is receiving the young chief Te Heuheu of the Kahungunoa, who has come to win her for his wife. The two chiefs greet each other with the "Te Hongi," the rubbing of noses, equivalent to our handshake. Chadwick, an English trapper, tramping the woods in search of game, is chanced upon and taken prisoner by several of the Nagatairuas and brought before their chief, who orders that he be burned at the stake. Great rejoicing takes place in the preparation, for "white man meat" is in sight. But Wena recognizes in Chadwick the man of the sorceress' prediction, and uses her vast influence to save his life. She induces her father to permit him to escape; helps him carry it out, and returns to prevent his being pursued, but not without having sworn eternal love for him and promising to meet him later and elope. That evening, when all her kinsmen sleep, she steals from the village and meets her lover at the appointed trysting place. Chadwick folds Wena to his breast, but to remain so near her village is to invite capture. So, folding his coat over her, he guides the way through the treacherous geyser lands and then takes a boat to his hut up the lake. Once inside his door, Wena is his wife. This is the Maori custom. Chief Te Rangi-Ka-Haruru, learning of Wena's absence, dispatches the young chief Te Heuheu to trace her, and when the latter brings back word that she is with Chadwick, the old chief orders her brought back even though the white man should be killed in the task. When bodily harm is threatened Chadwick, a few days later, she consents to return, provisionally. Facing the old chief, her father, she demands her husband, but he tells her of her disgrace to the tribe and orders her to be housed and guarded. Five days later the chief finds her in a pitiful condition, overcome by the long separation from her husband. He relents and sends for Chadwick. The Englishman is received into the tribe as a chief and great rejoicing takes place in honor of the event. And Wena once more is made happy and well.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsRachel WeiszMark WahlbergSaoirse RonanCenters on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
- DirectorHamish RothwellStarsRobbie MagasivaPaolo RotondoScott WillsThree young men unwittingly become involved in an underground pool tournament.
- DirectorRosemary RiddellStarsRawiri ParateneSara WisemanIan MuneWhen Arthur, self-proclaimed son of God, sets off on a mission to find the Queen of Heaven, his world changes.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsJamie BellAndy SerkisDaniel CraigIntrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.
- DirectorSimon BennettStarsOscar KightleyRobbie MagasivaShimpal LelisiFive years ago our heroes the Duckrockers thought they had figured it all out - they had found themselves girlfriends to take to Siones wedding and the future was looking bright: Michael had come to accept that commitment wasnt for him and he was always going to fancy white girls; Albert had finally hooked up with his co-worker Tania; Stanley, always the weird one, had managed to find himself a nice girl one of the catering staff from the wedding; and Sefa had even got the courage to propose to his long term girlfriend, Leilani. And Bolo? Well, apparently his name is actually Paul. Fast-forward five years and things havent quite gone as the boys might have planned: Albert is now married to Tania and they are living in suburbia, both working in insurance and also trying (unsuccessfully) to have a baby; Sefa and Leilani are still together and now have two kids although despite Sefas proposal, theyre still not married. And while Sefas business is falling apart, Leilani seems to be living life to the full; Stanley is now a trainee Deacon in the Future Church; Michael has moved to Australia but the boys dont hear from him often; and Bolo has thrown in his job with Sefa and taken up work with Sione, Michaels younger brother. Growing up appears to be driving the Duckrockers apart but when theyre confronted with one of lifes unexpected turns and Bolo goes missing, their Minister once again brings them together and sends them on a quest. Their mission: to find Bolo. Where do you start when you are looking for this one Samoan in the worlds largest Polynesian city? As they set off on the physical search for Bolo, each of the Duckrockers is also on a personal journey of sorts. But of course, the Boys being the Boys, the way they deal with things can only go wrong
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMartin FreemanIan McKellenRichard ArmitageA reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.
- DirectorGaston MélièsStarsMaata HoromonaMiro OmahauTamai OmahauHinemoa was a Maori maiden of high rank and rare beauty, the daughter of a chief. She dwelt on the borders of Lake Rotorua in all the splendor of her father's camp. On the island of Mokoia, in the center of the lake, dwelt chief Whakaue. his three sons, and Tutanekai, son of the chief's wife by another father. Thus Tutanekai, bearing the ban of illegitimacy, was scorned by his stepbrothers, but treated as a son by the noble old chief. The three brothers sought the hand of Hinemoa in marriage, but she bestowed her love on Tutanekai, much to the brothers' dismay and to that of Hinemoa's parents, who forbade her to marry Tutanekai because of the blight in his birth. She refused to choose another, so a great running match was decided upon to determine who should win her. Tutanekai was the victor. In spite of which, Hinemoa's people still refused to permit them to marry. And to prevent any possibility of the lovers joining, Tutanekai was sent back to the island of Mokoia and all boats were removed from the lake. Every evening at dusk, Tutanekai, from his island three miles distant serenaded Hinemoa with his flute, and she, in her camp, was thrilled and encouraged by his notes of love, until at length she could bear the separation no longer. Shrouded by the night, she plunged into the frigid waters of the lake, and, guided by his flute, swam three miles to the island of Mokoia. Exhausted, she rested and hid in a natural warm bath and resorted to strategy to bring forth her lover, for to be found by any other man and taken into his sleeping hut, would have meant to become his wife, according to Maori law and custom. By a clever scheme she attracts Tutanekai to the bath and together they secretly entered Tutanekai's hut. The three step-brothers were enraged, but the old chief protected and honored Tutanekai.
- DirectorVincent WardStarsBruce LyonsChris HaywoodHamish GoughMen seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.
- DirectorVincent WardStarsPenelope StewartFrank WhittenBill KerrA lonely girl living on an isolated, mist-cloaked farm is confronted with the changes wrought by a stranger that arrives.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsSam NeillJulian DennisonRima Te WiataA national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
- DirectorJemaine ClementTaika WaititiStarsJemaine ClementTaika WaititiCori Gonzalez-MacuerViago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.