Rawiri Paratene Movies

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes

In New Zealand, a scientist, his family and down-on-his-luck investigator are trying to prove that the beaching of the local whale population is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christopher Lambert

Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life:...

Genre: Action

Cast: Matthew Le Nevez

Dominic Dromgoole’s production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomiwa Edun

When Arthur, self-proclaimed son of God, sets off on a mission to find the Queen of Heaven, his world changes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruce Phillips

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Cast: Gesine Cukrowski

A gang of construction workers try to relieve tension by taunting their newest member.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marton Csokas

Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jason Scott Lee

Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy McIntosh

This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi's signing on 6...

Genre: History

Cast: George Henare

Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warriors) in the early 1970s. "Those years...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Willie Jackson

Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats" (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip), questions to be answered include: Will...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Rowley

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Temuera Morrison

When a Cook Island school cleaner answers an unusual message on the wall of a girls' toilet cubicle, his life, and the life of the mysterious author,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kip Chapman

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karina Smulders

A boy witnesses the seemingly magic powers of his Aunties and the continuation of tradition.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atawhai Raureti

When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens,...

Genre: Family

Cast: George Henare

In this mockumentary, Kevin Smith plays himself covering the story of a New Zealand town after the discovery that a local shellfish, the geoduck...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kevin Smith

After her father's death, Anna Peterson and her family move from Australia to her father's ancestral home in New Zealand.

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Cast: Beth Buchanan

Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barry Barclay

An island paradise, big business, complex characters, love and betrayal set the scene for this light-hearted romantic action adventure film. Set in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kristy Wright