Taungaroa Emile
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Biography: Taungaroa Emile (born 1978) Is a New Zealand actor of Māori descent.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Zealand
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Whale Rider
Overview: 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, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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Once Were Warriors
Overview: A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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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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No. 2
Overview: A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-16
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Nancy From Now On
Overview: Short-film about a Māori boy who has a secret desire to be a drag queen and his inability to talk to his father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-27
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The Man Who Lost His Head
Overview: Martin Clunes stars as a straight-laced museum curator who finds himself travelling to New Zealand to settle a dispute with a Maori community about an ancient carving - with unexpected consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-25
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Tangiwai: A Love Story
Overview: The story of famous New Zealand cricketer, Bob Blair and his fiance Nerissa Love, whose young life was shattered by the 1953 Tangiwai Disaster.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-07
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Flight of the Albatross
Overview: After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-29
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Young Hercules
Overview: At an academy for mythological warriors, 17-year-old Hercules meets Jason, the next in line to rule Corinth. When Jason discovers that his father is ill, Hercules decides to seek out the Golden Fleece that could cure him. But limitations to his powers, as well as his half-brother Ares, stand in his way.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-30
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Kerosene Creek
Overview: One summer’s day, Jayde and Wiremu tag along with their older siblings on a trip to a local swimming hole; young passions ignite by the Rotorua hot pool. Later, tragedy occurs and Jayde faces lost innocence and the ritual of tangi while bearing a secret.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-27
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Jubilee
Overview: Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen - the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing this, feckless Billy is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family, especially his frustrated wife Pauline (Theresa Healey). However trouble arrives with the return of a local former All Blacks Captain, an old flame of Pauline's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-13
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Tama Tū
Overview: Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with "a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: mi
Release Date: 2004-10-21
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Aftershock
Overview: Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-08
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Overview: 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 latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontation with second son, Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-27
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Enemy Within
Overview: When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals - until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor. Soon the community is split between those of Japanese ancestry who support the pilot and those of Hawaiian ancestry who oppose them.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Patu Ihu
Overview: After the death of his uncle, a young man remembers back to a game his uncle taught him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Legend of Johnny Lingo
Overview: 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, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor. However, with time as hardships are blamed upon Tama (as he is named), he is finally outcast to live with the poorest people on the island, Mahana and her drunken father. Mahana is considered homely and undesirable, but Tama feels differently, so when he is old enough to build a craft to sail away, he vows to return for her one day. A lucky stroke brings him to land upon the island of the legendary Johnny Lingo, the wealthiest trader in the islands, and after years of service to him, Tama has learned much about life and himself as he dreams of honoring his pledge to Mahana.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Rain of the Children
Overview: In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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Staunch
Overview: Ariana is in trouble with the law. Aided by a sympathetic social worker the young Māori woman defends herself against assault charges after a police raid on her home.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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