It’s not all Lord of the Rings in New Zealand! Check out these modern classic and cult classic Kiwi movies to give you an insight in our nation’s cinematic culture.
(2007)
If you liked Napoleon Dynamite you’ll love this geek-meets-geek New Zealand love story, starring Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords.
(aka Samoan Wedding) (2006)
Urban romantic comedy set in Auckland about first generation Samoan New Zealanders.
(2005)
Anthony Hopkins is legendary and cantankerous Kiwi Burt Munro, who made an epic trip in the 1960s from Invercargill to Utah to set a world land speed record.
(2002)
A story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfil a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognise.
(2001)
Slick, stylish and funny film in the Lock, Stock… tradition following three kiwi blokes as they try to win a high stakes pool tournament run by sadistic crime boss ‘Daddy’.
(1987)
Peter Jackson’s film debut is a gross-out comedy about an alien fast-food franchise, and includes brain eating and exploding sheep.
(1981)
Anarchistic cult-classic road movie following a group of eclectic individuals driving the length of New Zealand in a stolen Mini.
