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| It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Australia, Drama, France, New Zealand, Romance
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| When a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced apart. Kimi must find the strength to let go of what he loves the most. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Drama, Germany, New Zealand
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| The World On Fire tells the story of Blaze. A young man who after the loss of his partner Ash, retreats into a world of pain and mental anguish. He is trapped in the world that the two of them once shared with no escape in sight. This is a stunningly beautiful, surreal, and honest Art Film that begs the question; could any hell be any more real and horrible than this? Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Drama, New Zealand, Short
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| Paul convinces his best friend Grant to travel to go surfing in the weekend. They meet two girls, Lisa and Kelly, and they invite Paul and Grant for a party. They take a short cut over an old blocked bridge and Paul loses control of the car and hits off-road. They decide to ask for help to the locals, and they find that they are in an evil place. Search keywords
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Categories: 2003, Horror, New Zealand, Thriller
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| In 1957, a zoologist traps a rare Sumatran rat-monkey on Skull Island and brings it back to New Zealand with the locals hot on his trail. Later, a young man falls in love and takes the young woman to the zoo. His overbearing and disapproving mother follows them and gets bitten by the rat-monkey. The monkey's bite turns her into a zombie, and her doting son has to keep her and the others she's bitten tranquilized in the basement while trying to preserve his love life. Search keywords
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Categories: 1992, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, New Zealand, Thriller
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| Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland's volcanoes. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Adventure, Fantasy, New Zealand
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| To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Canada, Comedy, Crime, Drama, New Zealand, USA
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| Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel. Search keywords
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Categories: 2004, Crime, Drama, France, New Zealand, UK
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| It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Australia, Drama, France, New Zealand, Romance
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| Based on the best selling book by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, New Zealand, Thriller, UK, USA
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| Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial. Andre (an unethical high school teacher) and Juliet (a bookish teenager) soon discover their lives are in more danger than they imagined. The staff are peculiar. The drugs cause hallucinations. Or is the clinic really haunted? Struggling with their senses, they must team up to unravel a spooky mystery. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Comedy, Horror, New Zealand
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| Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot. Search keywords
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Categories: 1994, Drama, New Zealand
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| In a small New Zealand town, 16 year-old Michael leads a lonely, introverted existence with his single mother Amelia whose guilt and alcoholism threatens to drive her cherished son away. Uncomfortable with the adolescent exploits of his "friends," he finds escape through a passionate love of maps. Unexpected friendships with classmate Alison, whose sweetness and innocence belie a dark secret, and Mary, a blind young woman on the cusp of adulthood, rouse Michael from his isolation and send him on a journey of self-discovery. As his life begins to spiral out of control, Michael is forced into some difficult choices about his future. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Drama, New Zealand
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| A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D'Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum - she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague's crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the city's mayor is to attend. Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Germany, Horror, Japan, New Zealand, Thriller, UK, USA
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| Frank Bannister is a man who goes around town claiming that he can talk with and see ghosts, though while he can, some believe (though he is, in fact) a common con-man who gets ghosts to make it appear though there is a haunting in whichever house is chosen, wherein he sweeps into action and pretends to remove the ghosts. All this goes on until one day strange deaths start occurring all throughout town and Frank ponders this, while his love interest, Lucy Lynskey, whose husband had only just died of the same cause, goes to the house of a deranged old woman who keeps her grown-up daughter locked up, saying that it is for the good of everyone else. Soon, it is revealed that even the ghosts themselves can see the force that is killing everyone off; a deceased mass murderer come back from Hell itself to continue killing. It is therefore up to Frank, Lucy, as well as two ghosts, to find out how to end the fiendish ghost from killing any more, while all the while trying to shake off a deranged detective from arresting them both. Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, New Zealand, Thriller, USA
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| A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and Defense Service is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens' headquarters. Search keywords
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Categories: 1987, Action, Comedy, Horror, New Zealand, Sci-Fi
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| Perfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth set in an alternate version of the 1960s and 70s, as science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings to hope. Search keywords
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Categories: 2006, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, New Zealand, Sci-Fi, UK
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| A highly contagious virus is spreading throughout the land. With one bite, it's only hours before victims will turn into zombies and hunt for human flesh. Morgan, Ash, and Johnny might just be the only humans left, but they don't seem to mind and find enjoyment lounging around in their underwear living in vacant homes. When they stumble upon a hot girl who just may have a cure, the three decide it's finally time to step up to the plate and save the world- and the girl. Now the only hope for survival lies in their hands. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Comedy, Horror, New Zealand
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| Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Comedy, Drama, New Zealand, UK
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| The sentence in London, England, merciful Samaritan Dan Wolf (Jew Law), a fighting author, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time striptease dancer to the hospital if it is hit by a car, and they fall in love. A year later Dan Fotografen Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) hits and tries to take up them, but she cries off him. In the revenge Dan Anna puts up for an embarrassing meeting with the dermatologist Dependent on gender Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but two end to see each other. Then Dan and Anna a matter of her own, and relations begin later another year between four breakdowns. In the course of the next year they all are owned with injuring each other and exercise a little bit heavy emotional damage. Will be strong enough some of them to put this destroying result of events to a hold?.
Der Satz in London, England, barmherziger Samariter Dan Wolf (Jude Law), ein kämpfender Schriftsteller, nimmt Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), eine schattige junge Frau und Teilzeitstripteasetänzer zum Krankenhaus, wenn sie durch ein Auto geschlagen wird, und sie sich verlieben. Ein Jahr später trifft Dan Fotografen Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) und versucht, sie aufzunehmen, aber sie sagt ihm ab. In der Rache stellt Dan Anna für eine peinliche Begegnung mit dem Geschlecht-abhängigen Dermatologen Larry Bagley (Clive Owen) auf, aber die zwei enden damit, einander zu sehen. Dann ein anderes Jahr später beginnen Dan und Anna eine Angelegenheit ihres eigenen, und Beziehungen zwischen dem vier Zusammenbruch. Im Laufe des nächsten Jahres werden sie alle besessen mit dem Verletzen von einander und üben etwas schweren emotionalen Schaden aus. Wird einige von ihnen stark genug sein, um diese zerstörende Folge von Ereignissen zu einem Halt zu stellen?. Search keywords
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Categories: 2004, New Zealand, Short
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