Cinematography: Alun Bollinger

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Alun Bollinger. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Forgotten Silver (TV)

1995 · Documentary · 53 min. · New Zealand

Direction Peter Jackson · Costa Botes

Cast Peter Jackson · Thomas Robins · Sam Neill · Leonard Maltin

Synopsis Forgotten Silver is a mockumentary which details the prodigious life of "lost" filmmaker Colin McKenzie and his incredible advances that were lost to history... until now. This supergenius filmmaker, posthumously...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Heavenly Creatures

1994 · Movie · 99 min. · New Zealand

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast Kate Winslet · Melanie Lynskey · Sarah Peirse · Diana Kent

Synopsis Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

Direction Ray Bradbury · Randy Bradshaw · Roger Tompkins · John Laing

Cast Ray Bradbury · Harold Gould · Charles Martin Smith · Michael Sarrazin

Synopsis TV series (1985-1992). 6 seasons. 65 episodes. A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short...

6.6

39 votes

6.6

39 votes

No Way Out

1987 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Roger Donaldson

Cast Kevin Costner · Sean Young · Gene Hackman · Will Patton

Synopsis Thriller in which a naval commander begins dating an alluring woman who happens to be the girlfriend of his boss (the Secretary of Defense). When the woman is murdered, the...

6.4

12K votes

6.4

12K votes

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White Lies

2013 · Movie · 96 min. · New Zealand

Direction Dana Rotberg

Cast Whirimako Black · Antonia Prebble · Rachel House · Nancy Brunning

Synopsis A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.

6.2

88 votes

6.2

88 votes

The Frighteners

1996 · Movie · 110 min. · New Zealand

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast Michael J. Fox · Trini Alvarado · Jeffrey Combs · Dee Wallace

Synopsis After a car accident in which his wife, Debra, was killed and he was injured, Frank Bannister develops psychic abilities allowing him to see, hear, and communicate with ghosts. After...

6.0

18K votes

6.0

18K votes

Vigil

1984 · Movie · 90 min. · New Zealand

5.9

66 votes

5.9

66 votes

A Soldier's Tale

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · New Zealand

Direction Larry Parr

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Marianne Basler · Paul Wyett · Judge Reinhold

Synopsis A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.

5.8

29 votes

5.8

29 votes

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Love Birds

2011 · Movie · 103 min. · New Zealand

Direction Paul Murphy

Cast Rhys Darby · Sally Hawkins · Bryan Brown · Faye Smythe

Synopsis Doug’s happy and predictable life falls to pieces when his long-term girlfriend Susan (Faye Smythe) suddenly dumps him early one morning. Shattered, he cannot imagine moving on in life, but...

5.2

30 votes

5.2

30 votes

River Queen

2005 · Movie · 114 min. · New Zealand

Direction Vincent Ward

Cast Samantha Morton · Kiefer Sutherland · Stephen Rea · Cliff Curtis

Synopsis An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British...

5.1

471 votes

5.1

471 votes

The Stolen

2016 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Niall Johnson

Cast Alice Eve · Jack Davenport · Graham McTavish · Richard O'Brien

Synopsis Charlotte Lockton, a wealthy, upper class, English immigrant, chooses to forgo all of her home luxuries to find her kidnapped baby son. She navigates her way through the unruly and...

4.4

266 votes

4.4

266 votes

Perfect Strangers

2003 · Movie · 96 min. · New Zealand

Direction Gaylene Preston

Cast Sam Neill · Rachael Blake · Joel Tobeck · Robyn Malcolm

Synopsis Perfect Strangers centers around the romance between Melanie (Rachael Blake) and the handsome stranger (Sam Neill) who charmed her into joining him at his "castle." The so-called castle is little...

4.0

104 votes

4.0

104 votes

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Woundings

1998 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roberta Hanley

Cast Julie Cox · Sammi Davis · Emily Lloyd · Charlie Creed-Miles

Synopsis This film hypothesizes that someday in the future, Great Britain will be racked by a great civil war with its ancillary countries that are under the regime's thumb and that...

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Not rated

Sons for the Return Home

1979 · Movie · 117 min. · New Zealand

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Not rated

For Love Alone

1986 · Movie · 92 min. · Australia

Direction Stephen Wallace

Cast Helen Buday · Sam Neill · Hugo Weaving · Huw Williams

Synopsis A poor young woman in 1930's Australia falls in love with a dashing but arrogant teacher who preaches free love and watered down socialist precepts. She follows him to England,...

Not rated

Not rated

Notes to Eternity

2016 · Documentary · 147 min. · New Zealand

Direction Sarah Cordery

Cast Noam Chomsky · Norman Finkelstein · Robert Fisk · Sara Roy

Synopsis 'Notes to Eternity' is a meditation on the Israel-Palestine conflict centering on the lives and ideas of four renowned critics of Israeli policy: Noam Chomsky, Sara Roy, Norman Finkelstein and...

Not rated

Not rated

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Goodbye Pork Pie

1981 · Movie · 105 min. · New Zealand

Direction Geoff Murphy

Cast Tony Barry · Kelly Johnson · Claire Oberman · Shirley Gruar

Synopsis Local goon, Gerry, hires a yellow mini in Kaitaia using a stolen license. John's wife has just left him and moved to Invercargill. He is devastated and needs to talk...

Not rated

Not rated

A State of Siege

1978 · Movie · 52 min. · New Zealand

Direction Vincent Ward

Cast Anne Flannery · Peggy Walker · Jennifer Khan · John Bullock

Synopsis Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility, as an art teacher in a South Island private girls school, and decides to live out her dream: painting alone in the...

Not rated

Not rated

Matariki

2010 · Movie · New Zealand

Direction Michael Bennett

Cast Jason Wu · Xana Tang · Michael Whalley · Alix Bushnell

Synopsis A random act of violence leaves eight people in crisis, searching for hope and new beginnings, as the Matariki constellation (Maori New Year) rises in the Southern skies.

Not rated

Not rated

In Spring One Plants Alone

1980 · Documentary · 50 min. · New Zealand

Direction Vincent Ward

Synopsis This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large events...

Not rated

Not rated

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