Alla periferia di Auckland una madre maori di cinque figli lotta per tenere unita la famiglia contro il marito ubriacone e violento e due figli adolescenti invischiati nella logica delle bande giovanili.

Una ragazzina maori, per quanto sia legatissima alla sua cultura, viene esclusa dal nonno paterno dalle lezioni di combattimento tradizionale perché femmina. Nonostante il divieto, si fa aiutare dallo zio (grazie anche all'appoggio della nonna), e presto è in grado di eguagliare i ragazzi e, nell'incredulità del nonno, dimostra tutti i requisiti per diventare un grande capo, soprattutto una strana sintonia con le balene arenate sulla spiaggia.

Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

Un uomo avvicina Melanie in un pub. E' l'uomo più bello e affascinante che Melanie abbia mai visto, così quando l'uomo la invita nel suo castello, Melanie accetta subito. Ben presto però si rende conto che il castello è solo una capanna diroccata su un isola deserto. La passione si trasforma in ossessione ed il romanticismo in odio. Melanie si rende conto di essere stata rapita, ma forse ormai è troppo tardi...

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...

A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.

All'inizio del XIX secolo, Sobran lavora nel vigneto del conte di Vully, sperando di poter avere un giorno una vigna di sua proprietà e di produrre un vino prestigiosissimo. Innamorato di Celeste, una bella ragazza la cui famiglia è stata distrutta dalla pazzia, Sobran una notte riceve in sogno la visita dell'angelo Xas, che si offre di aiutarlo a divenire un buon viticoltore visitando una volta all'anno le sue vigne e gustando il suo vino. Xas, però, lo avverte che la produzione di un buon vino è legata alle sofferenze, ai sacrifici e al destino crudele a cui è chiamato un viticoltore. Fedele alla sua promessa, Xas ogni anno si presenta al cospetto di Sobran, che nel frattempo sposa Celeste e diviene responsabile della cantina dell'erede di Vaully, senza riuscire a produrre nessun eccellente vino fino a quando una dolorosa tragedia non lo tocca da vicino.

La gente comune trova un coraggio straordinario di fronte alla follia. Il 13-14 novembre 1990 quella follia arrivò ad Aramoana, una piccola cittadina balneare della Nuova Zelanda, sotto forma di un pistolero solitario con un potente fucile semiautomatico. Mentre inseguiva le sue vittime, i residenti terrorizzati e confusi sono rimasti intrappolati per 24 ore mentre una manciata di poliziotti locali senza risorse e senza armi hanno rischiato la vita cercando di trovarlo e salvare i sopravvissuti. Basato su eventi veri.

Separated as children, three cousins with an unshakable bond confront their painful pasts and embark on an emotional journey to find each other.

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.

On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist's 15 year old daughter, leading to stormy emotions.

An island in spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun, top international artists, and tens of thousands of music fans from across the world! Idyllic...until unimaginable disaster strikes.

Actor Sam Neill discusses New Zealand film and his own experiences within and without.

Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greetings cards salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do anything to win. Together they are just two of the competitors in a gruelling endurance contest to win a car - whoever keeps their hand on it the longest wins. As the sleepless days wear by, what price will they pay for winning this competition?

Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.

In this epic story of humble heroes and Kiwi ingenuity, relive the glory and the magic of the America's Cup 1995, when Sir Peter Blake carved out New Zealand's identity as innovators and world class sailors.

Two private investigators discover the truth behind a gangland drug deal gone wrong.