Marshall Napier
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marshall James Napier is a New Zealand actor. He is the father of actress Jessica Napier and the uncle of actor James Napier. Before becoming an actor, Napier worked variously as an art student, factory worker and truck driver. In 1988, he moved with his wife and two children, Reuben and Jessica, to Australia, to pursue a career in acting, and has worked in theatre, film, and television productions. In his 40's, he began writing plays. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marshall Napier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 22, 1951
Deathday: August 14, 2022
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Black and White
2002-10-31
Black and White
Overview: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
1988-12-15
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Overview: Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-15
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Bad Blood
1982-11-12
Bad Blood
Overview: During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Came a Hot Friday
1985-10-04
Came a Hot Friday
Overview: Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Griff the Invisible
2011-03-01
Griff the Invisible
Overview: Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-01
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Panic at Rock Island
2011-01-02
Panic at Rock Island
Overview: An island in spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun, top international artists, and tens of thousands of music fans from across the world! Idyllic...until unimaginable disaster strikes.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Babe
1995-07-18
Babe
Overview: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-18
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Travelling Light
2003-09-11
Travelling Light
Overview: Set in the early 70s, Travelling Light follows the story of two sisters growing up in surburban Adelaide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-11
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In a Savage Land
1999-10-21
In a Savage Land
Overview: Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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Spider and Rose
1994-09-14
Spider and Rose
Overview: A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-14
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The Clean Machine
1988-05-22
The Clean Machine
Overview: A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won’t let it go – all the way to the top.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-22
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Little Monsters
2019-08-29
Little Monsters
Overview: A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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The Shirt
2000-07-29
The Shirt
Overview: A caustically funny account of addict monomania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-29
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Georgia
1989-10-12
Georgia
Overview: A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely an accident?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Shotgun Wedding
1994-05-26
Shotgun Wedding
Overview: Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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Lucky Break
1994-10-20
Lucky Break
Overview: Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-20
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Inside
2013-02-17
Inside
Overview: Two doctors are observing a very "special patient" through the small window of her cell in the deep, dark corners of a mental asylum. Each morning, at exactly the same time, she performs the exact same extraordinary routine.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-17
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Flirting
1991-03-20
Flirting
Overview: Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-20
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Warlords of the 21st Century
1982-01-01
Warlords of the 21st Century
Overview: It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Pallet on the Floor
1986-01-01
Pallet on the Floor
Overview: A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Grasscutter
1990-01-01
The Grasscutter
Overview: An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind his eldest son. Although his wife and two young boys are also in New Zealand, they are no longer together, and he has a new love interest. After some eight years his past catches up with him when former comrades show up, intent on extracting revenge. After two nearly successful attempts by them (in Dunedin), the action moves to a final confrontation and shootout in the hills above Queenstown.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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I'm Not Harry Jenson
2009-07-05
I'm Not Harry Jenson
Overview: Evoking the style and pace of the Noir genre, the film is essentially a murder mystery with Stanley (Gareth Reeves) the prime suspect. Stanley's success as a novelist has been largely due to his style where he writes from the first person perspective of the central characters, who are always the killers in real-life cases. Troubled with writer's block, his agent suggests a tramping trip "to clear his mind". However, when he wakes up on the first morning of his tramp, he finds his fellow tramper dead.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-05
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Wild Horses
1984-04-18
Wild Horses
Overview: Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to the wild horses as a source of income. With rope and snare - and the help of an experienced horse catching team - Sam and Sara's example, the rough ex-loggers learn to respect a delicate balance between the wild horses and their catchers. The best stallions are left to breed and their riding horses are retired back into the wild herds.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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Dead Heart
1996-09-08
Dead Heart
Overview: Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-08
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Goodbye Pork Pie
1981-02-05
Goodbye Pork Pie
Overview: Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road trip adventure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-05
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The Big Steal
1990-09-20
The Big Steal
Overview: Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-20
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1980-01-31
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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13 Gantry Row
1998-01-09
13 Gantry Row
Overview: When newlyweds Peter and Julie purchase an old house with plans to renovate it, they begin to discover the strangest things. First, they find one of the living room walls covered with iron plates that reveal an expanding sepia stain. Afterwards, they realize that the stain is beginning to take the shape of a man climbing from the darkness under the house. Whenever they paint over the stain, it reappears. The evil events that took place in the house 100 years prior, are becoming the cause of strange occurrences. Soon, the couple is directly threatened by the evil history of their home.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-09
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The Clinic
2010-10-10
The Clinic
Overview: While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-10
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Muggers
2000-05-25
Muggers
Overview: When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-25
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Twisted
1997-01-01
Twisted
Overview: Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his identity... a bored housewife thinks she's found romance... a conman thinks he's made his mark... and a hired killer thinks she's ready to retire. Unfortunately for all of them, they soon discover that there's nothing like reality to get in the way of an otherwise perfectly twisted perspective. Things are never quite that simple.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale
1986-04-09
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale
Overview: Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats" (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip), questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the selectors at Saturday's rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Cooch's prize stag from the depths of Blackwater Station, home of the Murphys, their vicious dogs and deadly croco-pigs? All this and more will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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Airtight
1999-11-26
Airtight
Overview: Set in the nuclear war-torn world of 2040, a congested city is shrouded in a deadly smog, where breathable air is obtainable only through labyrinth shafts that transport the precious gas from high in the atmosphere. These passages are kept functioning by an elite 'Air Force'. The team risk annihilation to expose a deadly blackmail scheme.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Starlight Hotel
1987-11-27
Starlight Hotel
Overview: During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her father, hopping onto a boxcar and befriending a fellow fugitive, Patrick (Peter Phelps), an emotionally battle-scarred WWI veteran fleeing the authorities after injuring a repo man. Pretending to be father and daughter, Patrick and Kate use each other for cover as they make their way across New Zealand, sleeping under the stars and championing the rights of destitute farmers and homeless squatters whose fortunes have been wiped out by economic hardship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-27
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The Light Between Oceans
2016-09-02
The Light Between Oceans
Overview: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Down Under
2016-08-11
Down Under
Overview: A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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The Farm
2000-01-01
The Farm
Overview: After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Bellbird
2019-06-11
Bellbird
Overview: In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-11
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Strange Planet
1999-10-06
Strange Planet
Overview: Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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Sold Out
2004-02-22
Sold Out
Overview: The mystery of a vacant seat at a sold out cricket match.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-22
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Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here
2011-02-07
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here
Overview: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here depicts the tragic murders of Victorian police officers, Gary Silk and Rod Miller which occurred in 1998 and shows the enormous efforts of the Lorimer Task Force in leading the manhunt for their killer or killers.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-07
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Diana & Me
1997-12-04
Diana & Me
Overview: Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-04
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
2012-10-14
Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Overview: Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-14
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Northspur
2021-07-27
Northspur
Overview: In a violent, post-pandemic world, a peace-loving man is forced on a desperate journey to find life-saving drugs for his wife - but to get them he must first help an ornery old man defend his cabin against all-comers.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-27
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