Country: New Zealand

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast Elijah Wood · Viggo Mortensen · Ian McKellen · Sean Astin

Synopsis Sauron's forces have laid siege to Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, in their efforts to eliminate the race of men. The once-great kingdom, watched over by a fading steward,...

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast Elijah Wood · Viggo Mortensen · Ian McKellen · Sean Astin

Synopsis The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers begins in the hills of Emyn Muil, where lost Hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Astin) discover they are being followed by...

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast Elijah Wood · Ian McKellen · Viggo Mortensen · Sean Astin

Synopsis "One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them. One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." In this part of the trilogy, the...

Direction Chris Bailey

Cast Kirsty Wilkinson · Lance Warren · Roy Leywood · Bill Johnson

Synopsis Two teenage twin siblings, Rachel and Theo, on a summer vacation in Aukland visiting their aunt and uncle, meet a certain Mr. Jones, a mysterious man who helped find them...

Direction Costa Botes

Synopsis This documentary treats movie, special effect and fantasy fans to a behnd-the-scenes look at the making of The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's blockbuster three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's...

Direction Costa Botes

Direction Costa Botes

Direction Jane Campion

Cast Holly Hunter · Anna Paquin · Harvey Keitel · Sam Neill

Synopsis Set in 1851, a mute Scottish woman (Hunter) arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage, with her precocious young daughter (Paquin) and beloved piano in tow. When her...

Direction Amy Berg

Synopsis "West of Memphis" is an examination of a failure of justice in Arkansas. The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth...

Direction Tom Lowe

Direction Taika Waititi

Cast Roman Griffin Davis · Scarlett Johansson · Thomasin McKenzie · Taika Waititi

Synopsis Lonely German boy Jojo "Rabbit" Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) has his world view turned upside down when he discovers that his single mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish...

Direction Anthony Powell

Synopsis This feature-length film reveals what it is like to live and work at the bottom of the planet, in Antarctica, for a full year. The story is not from the...

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...

Direction Lee Tamahori

Cast Rena Owen · Temuera Morrison · Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell · Julian Arahanga

Synopsis Once Were Warriors is a powerful and deeply affecting story of a contemporary Maori family in urban New Zealand. This debut film by Lee Tamahori has become a tremendous success...

Direction Niki Caro

Cast Keisha Castle-Hughes · Rawiri Paratene · Vicky Haughton · Cliff Curtis

Synopsis In a small New Zealand coastal village, Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation, a male heir has succeeded to the chiefly title. The time is...

Cast Taika Waititi · Nic Gill · Scott Barrett · Tony Page

Synopsis Behind-the-scenes series following the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team throughout 2017, taking an in-depth look at the players and coaches on and off the field.

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast Martin Freeman · Ian McKellen · Richard Armitage · Ken Stott

Synopsis Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug. Bilbo is swept into...

Direction Ivan Barge

Cast Jethro Skinner · Yvette Parsons

Synopsis When a glamour photographer runs over a child's pet, he's forced to fabricate a story about its disappearance.

Direction Jane Campion

Cast Kerry Fox · Karen Fergusson · Alexia Keogh · Kevin J. Wilson

Synopsis 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...

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.