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Waru
[ Vendetta Films DVD / DVD - released 31/Jan/2018 ] Eight female Māori directors have each contributed a ten minute vignette, presented as a continuous shot in real time, that unfolds around the tangi (funeral) of a small boy (Waru) who died at the hands of his caregiver. The vignettes are all subtly... |
Wellington Paranormal
[ Madman / DVD - released 6/Dec/2018 ] Sergeant Ruawai Maaka of the Wellington Police enlists the aid of Officers Minogue and O'Leary to tackle paranormal events in New Zealand's capital city. In a police reality show style, the 6 part series follows these kiwi cops as they investigate... |
Whale Rider 20th Anniversary Edition
[ South Pacific Pictures BRD / Blu-ray - released 17/Nov/2022 ] On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the... |
Whale Rider 20th Anniversary Edition
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / DVD - released 17/Nov/2022 ] On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the... |
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] It's high adventure, triumph and tragedy as we journey around the world in the wake of one of the greatest explorers of all time James Cook. A hero to some, a curse to others, in just three incredible voyages this son of an English labourer described... |
Come to Daddy
[ Umbrella / DVD - released 17/Jun/2020 ] Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), a privileged man-child, arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father (Martin Donovan, Tenet), who he hasn't seen in 30 years. He quickly discovers that not... |
Erebus: Operation Overdue
[ TVNZ DVD / DVD - released 22/Jul/2014 ] Erebus: Operation Overdue 2014 New Zealand documentary film on DVD, directed by Peter Burger and Charlotte Purdy. On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing... |
Go Girls - The Complete Fourth Season
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 9/May/2012 ] R16: Contains violence, offensive language, drug use and sex scenes. 'Go Girls' season four skips ahead one year and this time it's about priorities, the price of success and deciding when it's time to settle down. As always, there will be... |
Go Girls - The Complete First Series
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 6/Aug/2009 ] Rich, famous and married... In just 365 days and counting. Amy, Britta & Cody are three young women suffering their quarter century crisis: 25 and what have they achieved? At the end of their worst week ever, the girls make a vow that in one year,... |
Go Girls - The Complete Second Series
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 23/Jun/2010 ] Catch up with the 'Go Girls' gang for an action-packed 13-part second series! Rich. Famous. Married. That was the plan. But... it'd be fair to say things didn't exactly go to plan, eh? Series two of 'Go Girls' is another epic quest for our four... |
Go Girls - The Complete Fifth Series
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / 3 DVD - released 24/Jul/2013 ] Go Girls is a series with heart - a contemporary fairy tale about a group of friends in their 20s who decide to try and take some control over their lives in an otherwise rather random universe. |
The Great Maiden's Blush
[ Torchlight Films NZ DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2016 ] The Great Maiden's Blush is a drama about two single first-time mothers from opposite sides of the track. The younger one, the working class, loner Bunny, is a taxi-driver and a girl-racer. She's serving a sentence for manslaughter for killing a man... |
Herbs: Songs of Freedom (DVD)
[ Rialto / DVD - released 11/Dec/2019 ] Director Tearepa Kahi's follow-up to the infectious Poi E is a rousing celebration of Pacific reggae legends Herbs, the band's members and its action as an inspiring musical front for social rights and harmony. Almost 40 years after their first... |
Hibiscus & Ruthless (Blu-Ray)
[ Madman / Blu-ray - released 1/Nov/2018 ] "No Going Out & No Boyfriends" - Hibiscus' (Suivai Pilisipi Autagavaia) obedience towards her Mother's rules gets put to the test in her final year of University. As guys start to go all out to impress Hibiscus, she asks her childhood friend Ruth... |
High Country Rescue
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / DVD - released 18/Aug/2016 ] Follow the New Zealand Police, and Search and Rescue volunteers as they brave the elements and risk their lives to save others in some of the most remote and intrepid parts of the South Island of New Zealand. The tourist towns of Wanaka and Te... |
I Survived A Zombie Holocaust
[ Vendetta Films DVD / DVD - released 13/May/2015 ] Wesley, a young runner on a zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real zombies overrun the film set… Who are the real zombies and who are the extras? The first simultaneous theatrical/DVD/VOD release in New Zealand. This critically... |
Lowdown Dirty Criminals
[ Umbrella / DVD - released 21/Jul/2021 ] When Freddy (James Rolleston) loses his job delivering pizza, he and his best buddy Marvin (Samuel Austin) find work with a small-time crook Spiggs (Scott Wills). After they botch a straight forward job, Spiggs sends them on a fool's errand-to kill... |
No Latitude for Error & No Good Calling for Mum
[ TVNZ / DVD - released 7/Dec/2006 ] Human endurance, hardship and drama on the high seas. Two epic tales on one DVD. No Latitude for Error: The rules are simple. Start whenever you like, round the main Capes to port with no motors, no assistance and no stopping. And the yacht? No... |
Off the Rails - A Love Story
[ TVNZ DVD / 2 DVD - released 11/Aug/2005 ] "We started in Bluff and ended up in Opua and, in-between, we've been on coal trains, freight trains, steam trains, railcars, even a jigger or two," says Lush. "I've always liked riding on trains but now they seem to have permeated my life. I've... |
Outrageous Fortune - Series One
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 8/Dec/2005 ] The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition in thievery, larceny and petty crime, until now. When patriarch Wolfgang West is sentenced to four years in jail, his wife Cheryl decides enough is enough, the family are cleaning up their... |
