Cast: Martyn Sanderson
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Martyn Sanderson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
An Angel at My Table
1990 · Movie · 158 min. · New Zealand
Direction Jane Campion
Cast Kerry Fox · Karen Fergusson · Alexia Keogh · Kevin J. Wilson
Plot In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the...
6.9
561 votes
6.9
561 votes
UTU
1983 · Movie · 118 min. · New Zealand
Direction Geoff Murphy
Cast Anzac Wallace · Bruno Lawrence · Tim Elliott · Kelly Johnson
Plot In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the...
6.5
59 votes
6.5
59 votes
Solo
1978 · Movie · 97 min. · Australia
Direction Tony Williams
Cast Vincent Gil · Lisa Peers · Perry Armstrong · Martyn Sanderson
5.0
22 votes
5.0
22 votes
Hercules and the Circle of Fire (TV)
1994 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Doug Lefler
Cast Kevin Sorbo · Anthony Quinn · Tawny Kitaen · Stephanie Barrett
Plot Without knowing why, throughout the world the fire is running out. The planet will eventually become a desert of ice. The human species is threatened with extinction. And at the...
4.2
220 votes
4.2
220 votes
Chicken
1996 · Movie · 90 min. · New Zealand
Direction Grant Lahood
Cast Bryan Marshall · Martyn Sanderson · Ellie Smith · Cliff Curtis
4.1
48 votes
4.1
48 votes
Poor Man's Orange (TV Miniseries)
1987 · Series · 190 min. · Australia
Direction George Whaley
Cast Anne Phelan · Martyn Sanderson · Kaarin Fairfax · Anna Hruby
Plot It is the early '50s and the Darcy family continues their struggle to build a better life despite the forces lined up against them in this sequel to the popular...
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Sylvia
1985 · Movie · 95 min. · New Zealand
Direction Michael Firth
Cast Eleanor David · Nigel Terry · Tom Wilkinson · Mary Regan
Plot Real-life story of Sylvia Ashton Warner's pioneering work teaching Maori children to read in the 1940's.
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The Harp in the South (TV Miniseries)
1987 · Series · 281 min. · Australia
Direction George Whaley
Cast Anne Phelan · Martyn Sanderson · Anna Hruby · Kaarin Fairfax
Plot A tale that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops...
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Old Scores
1991 · Movie · 93 min. · New Zealand
Direction Alan Clayton
Cast John Bach · Tony Barry · Roy Billing · Alison Bruce
Plot Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match...
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Mauri
1988 · Movie · 101 min. · New Zealand
Direction Merata Mita
Cast Anzac Wallace · Eva Rickard · James Heyward · Rangamarie Delamere
Plot Rewi returns to a small country town (Te Kaha). He is deeply troubled by something mysterious in his past. He cannot bring himself to form a relationship with the woman...
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Children of Fire Mountain (TV Series)
1979 · Series · 26 min. · New Zealand
Direction Peter Sharp
Cast Paul Airey · Rachel Weston · Ian Narev · Ross Duzevich
Plot Tom and his friends befriend Sir Charles Pemberton and his granddaughter Sarah Jane, then have to try and stop Sir Charles building a spa on sacred Maori land.
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The Tale of Ruby Rose
1987 · Movie · 100 min. · Australia
Direction Roger Scholes
Cast Melita Jurisic · Chris Haywood · Rod Zuanic · Martyn Sanderson
Plot In the 20's, Ruby Rose lives alone with her husband Henry and their stepson Gem in the cold mountains of in Tasmania, Australia. While Henry hunts with Gem, Ruby stays...
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The Lost Tribe
1983 · Movie · 114 min. · New Zealand
Direction John Laing
Cast John Bach · Darien Takle · Don Selwyn · Martyn Sanderson
Plot An anthropologist disappears in New Zealand while looking for a lost tribe, so his wife and his twin brother go to look for him. Also seeking him are the police,...
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The Rainbow Warrior (TV)
1993 · Movie · 93 min. · New Zealand
Direction Michael Tuchner
Cast Jon Voight · Sam Neill · Bruno Lawrence · Kerry Fox
Plot This film tells the true story of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior (commanded by Jon Voight), in Auckland Harbor in 1984, and the subsequent investigation by...
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Trial Run
1984 · Movie · 91 min. · New Zealand
Direction Melanie Read
Cast Annie Whittle · Judith Gibson · Chris Broun · Philipa Mayne
Plot Rosemary is a photographer, mother, and cross-country runner who temporarily leaves her family and moves into an isolated beach-house to work on a photographic assignment. Strange occurrences lead her to...
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Bad Blood
1982 · Movie · 105 min. · New Zealand
Direction Mike Newell
Cast Jack Thompson · Carol Burns · Denis Lill · Donna Akersten
Plot During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
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Never Say Die
1988 · Movie · 90 min. · New Zealand
Direction Geoff Murphy
Cast Temuera Morrison · Lisa Eilbacher · George Wendt · Tony Barry
Plot A young couple are mysteriously pursued by people with increasingly elaborate attempts to kill them; they narrowly escape death repeatedly via a series of car chases and shoot-outs.
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