Nick Blake
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Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses
Overview: This impressive doco disperses the fog of shame and sensationalism to shed light on the tragedy that made international headlines in 2007 when a young Wainuiomata woman died during a mākutu lifting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-28
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Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Overview: The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.
Genres: Drama War History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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The Hollow Men
Overview: Don Brash stepped down as leader of the National Party in November 2006, the day before the release of investigative journalist, Nicky Hager's book ‘The Hollow Men’. Award-winning documentary maker Alister Barry (‘Someone Else's Country’, ‘In a Land of Plenty’) brings this exposé of behind-the-scenes politics in an all-too-real political thriller. Based on thousands of confidential emails, reports and memos written by Bash and his closest advisers, ‘The Hollow Men’ is an extraordinary story of unprincipled and anti-democratic politics.
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Original Language: en
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District 9
Overview: Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-05
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The Hollow Men
Overview: The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-07
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Stolen
Overview: Based on a true story, STOLEN is an emotional thriller about every parent's greatest fear. Kahu Durie - the adopted baby daughter of Maori High Court Judge, Justice Eddie Durie and prominent lawyer, Donna Hall - is snatched at gunpoint as Donna pushes the pram in the street. Nine tense days follow and the nation is gripped by brave television appeals for the baby's safe return. Following Donna Hall's emotional public plea, a letter arrives, demanding the highest ransom in New Zealand's history. The police work tirelessly and the net closes on a secluded house...Terence Traynor became intent on committing a perfect crime, motivated by greed and inspired by American TV.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-26
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Broken Glass
Overview: A young boy being bullied at school and with an abusive father at home encounters a mysterious creature when playing alone in the woods that will soon change his life forever.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Overview: Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-10
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The Mouth and the Truth
Overview: A young woman's visit to the dentist is thick with signs, meanings and metaphors.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-18
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Home by Christmas
Overview: A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Preston presents both sides of her parents' wartime marriage: the horror and hardship of battlefield and prison camp juxtaposed with the loneliness and grief of a young wife struggling with a newborn baby and a husband declared missing.Ed Preston, on his way home from rugby practice in 1940, joins the New Zealand Army to go to World War II. His new wife, Tui, is pregnant and distraught, but he tells her not to worry, he'll be home by Christmas. And so he is - four years later - after escaping from a prison camp in Italy. But while Ed is away, Tui has fallen in love with another man.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-29
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Pike River
Overview: Based on the Pike River tragedy of 2010, this drama captures the profound impact of one of the worst mining disasters in New Zealand's history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Chronesthesia
Overview: A romcom with a time-travel twist. Daniel Duncombe is not a committer. When he’s not working at a café or running to stay in shape, he’s perfectly happy to chill at home. Then he starts waking up from weird dreams to find cryptic messages scrawled on his bedroom window. Slowly it dawns on Daniel that the same mysterious force is guiding him into contact with a strange assortment of equally unattached strangers who intrude on his routine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Mortal Engines
Overview: Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-27
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Overview: The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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Kiwi
Overview: In 1983 Kiwi, a farm horse, became a racing legend when he ran from last to first to win The Melbourne Cup. Kiwi tells the story of the horse and the family who raced him. The extraordinary story of a remarkable horse that became a racing legend when he ran from last to first over the final 300 metres at Flemington to win The Melbourne Cup. This is the enthralling story of Kiwi, the horse a farmer's wife bought for $1000 that went on to win the Melbourne Cup in 1983. An 18-year-old jockey called Jimmy Cassidy was the rider.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-08
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Eel Girl
Overview: In a secure military laboratory, a Scientist has become obsessed with the strange half-eel, half-human creature he's studying. When she beckons him to her, it's the call of a siren...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-09
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Black Sheep
Overview: A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-29
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The Six Dollar Fifty Man
Overview: It's hard to look after yourself in the playground when you're different. Set in 1970s New Zealand, The Six Dollar Fifty Man follows Andy, a gutsy eight year-old boy who lives in a make-believe superhero world where his imagination allows him to perform extraordinary physical feats, to deal with playground bullies. But when Andy gets in trouble with the headmaster, he realises that to save himself & his only friend Mary, he must face up to the real world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-23
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Blue Cow
Overview: When his business partner retires, an overly-attentive cafe owner, embraces the challenge of working solo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Rule of Jenny Pen
Overview: Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-14
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