This is a list of feature films and pre-1910 short films produced or filmed in New Zealand, ordered by the year of release.
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| 1898 | |||||||
| Opening of the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition | Documentary | First NZ film; lost | |||||
| Māori Scenes | Documentary | First NZ films of Māori; lost | |||||
| Uhlan winning the Auckland Cup at Ellerslie Racecourse † | Alfred Henry Whitehouse | Documentary | First NZ horse-race filmed;lost | ||||
| 1899 | |||||||
| Regatta scene | Alfred Henry Whitehouse | Documentary | lost[1] | ||||
| Maori Canoe Hurdle Race at Waikato | Alfred Henry Whitehouse | Documentary | lost | ||||
| 1900 | |||||||
| The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War | Documentary | Oldest surviving NZ film | |||||
| The World's First Lady Mayor | Enos Silvanus Pegler | Docu-drama | Re-enactment of 1893 speech | ||||
| 1901 | |||||||
| Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand | Documentary | lost | |||||
| Waimangu Geyser in action | Joseph Perry | Documentary | lost Waimangu Geyser | ||||
| Dummy Mace | Franklyn Barrett | staged boxing match | |||||
| 1903 | |||||||
| A Message from Mars | Drama | First science fiction film made in NZ; lost | |||||
| Ally Sloper as a Conjuror | Franklyn Barrett | Comedy | Harry Hall of Masterton as Ally Sloper | ||||
| Ally Sloper on Holiday | Franklyn Barrett | Comedy | shot at Days Bay | ||||
| Ally Sloper at the Races | Franklyn Barrett | Comedy | filmed at the old Hutt Park racecourse | ||||
| 1908 | |||||||
| The Sea Coasts of New Zealand | Franklyn Barrett | Documentary | |||||
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| 1913 | |||||||
| Hinemoa | First NZ feature film; lost[2] | ||||||
| How Chief Te Ponga Won His Bride | Gaston Méliès | lost | |||||
| Loved by a Maori Chieftess | Gaston Méliès | lost[3] | |||||
| The River Wanganui | Gaston Méliès | Documentary | |||||
| 1914 | |||||||
| Hinemoa | Romance | First feature film with a NZ producer and director;[4] lost[5] | |||||
| 1916 | |||||||
| A Maori Maid's Love | lost | ||||||
| The Mutiny of the Bounty | Raymond Longford | lost | |||||
| The Test | Rawdon Blandford | melodrama | lost | ||||
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| 1921 | |||||||
| Beyond | Drama | lost | |||||
| The Betrayer | Drama | lost | |||||
| The Bloke from Freeman's Bay | Comedy | Hayward's first film | |||||
| 1922 | |||||||
| The Birth of New Zealand | Earliest New Zealand film of which footage (fragments only) are known to still exist. | ||||||
| My Lady of the Cave | |||||||
| Ten Thousand Miles in the Southern Cross | Documentary/travelogue | ||||||
| 1923 | |||||||
| The Romance of Sleepy Hollow | Henry J. Makepeace | lost | |||||
| 1924 | |||||||
| Rewi's Last Stand | fragments only remain | ||||||
| Venus of the South Seas | James R. Sullivan | ||||||
| 1925 | |||||||
| The Adventures of Algy | |||||||
| Glorious New Zealand | Arthur Messenger | documentary | |||||
| 1927 | |||||||
| Carbine's Heritage | Edwin Coubray (Ted) | lost | |||||
| The Romance of Hine-moa | lost[6] | ||||||
| The Te Kooti Trail | Historical drama | ||||||
| Under the Southern Cross | lost | ||||||
| 1928 | |||||||
| The Bush Cinderella | |||||||
| 1929 | |||||||
| Under the Southern Cross | a.k.a. The Devil's Pit or Taranga. Only fragments remain |
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| 1930 | |||||||
| The Romance Of Maoriland | Edward T. Brown | Never released. Intended as New Zealand's first feature-length "talkie". 30 minutes of footage only remain. | |||||
| 1934 | |||||||
| Romantic New Zealand | travelogue | New Zealand's first released "talkie" film. | |||||
| 1935 | |||||||
| Down on the Farm | New Zealand's first non-documentary "talkie". Fragments only remain. First film shot entirely in the South Island. | ||||||
| Hei Tiki | a.k.a. Primitive Passions, A Saga of the Maoris. | ||||||
| Scenic | [7] | ||||||
| Magic Playgrounds in New Zealand's Geyserland | Scenic | ||||||
| 1936 | |||||||
| Phar Lap's Son | A. L. Lewis | a.k.a. Phar Lap's Son?. Lost. | |||||
| On the Friendly Road | drama | Features early New Zealand media personality Colin Scrimgeour in a lead role, playing his radio persona, "Uncle Scrim". | |||||
| The Wagon and the Star | J. J. W. Pollard | drama | Only one reel remains. | ||||
| 1937 | |||||||
| New Zealand Review no.1, Holiday Sounds | Scenic | ||||||
| 1938 | |||||||
| New Zealand Review No.5, Mountain Holiday | Scenic | ||||||
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| 1940 | |||||||
| Rewi's Last Stand | Historical drama/War | [8] | |||||
| One Hundred Crowded Years | H H Bridgman | Docu-drama | Official Centennial film | ||||
| 1941 | |||||||
| Country Lads | Stanhope Andrews | Patriotic propaganda | National Film Unit | ||||
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| 1950 | |||||||
| 1950 British Empire Games | Sports documentary | 1950 British Empire Games | |||||
| Journey for Three | Immigration propaganda | ||||||
| 1952 | |||||||
| Broken Barrier | Drama | ||||||
| 1954 | |||||||
| Royal New Zealand Journey / A Queen's Royal Tour | Oxley Hughan | Documentary | 1953/1954 royal tour of New Zealand | ||||
| The Seekers | Adventure | Location shooting for British film with NZ setting. | |||||
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| 1964 | |||||||
| 140 Days Under the World | Geoffrey Scott | Documentary | 1965 Academy Award Nominee: Documentary Short.[9] | ||||
| Runaway | Drama | First film appearance for several noted New Zealand media personalities, including Selwyn Muru, Barry Crump, and Kiri Te Kanawa. | |||||
| 1966 | |||||||
| Don't Let It Get You | Comedy | [10] | |||||
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| 1970 | |||||||
| This is New Zealand | Hugh Macdonald | Documentary | Made for Expo '70 in Osaka, projected over three screens | ||||
| 1972 | |||||||
| To Love a Maori | Shot on 16mm. New Zealand's first colour feature film; Hayward's last film. | ||||||
| 1973 | |||||||
| Rangi's Catch | Children's drama | Film debut of Temuera Morrison | |||||
| 1974 | |||||||
| Games '74 | Sports documentary | 1974 British Commonwealth Games | |||||
| 1975 | |||||||
| Landfall † | shot on 16mm | ||||||
| Test Pictures Eleven Vignettes from a Relationship † | Geoff Steven | Drama | [11] | ||||
| 1976 | |||||||
| Off the Edge † | Michael Firth | Skiing | |||||
| 1977 | |||||||
| Sleeping Dogs | Drama/action | First NZ film to open in the U.S. | |||||
| Solo | Tony Williams | ||||||
| Wild Man | [12] | ||||||
| 1978 | |||||||
| Angel Mine | David Blyth | Fantasy | [13] Art New Zealand | ||||
| Skin Deep * | Geoff Steven | Drama | [14] | ||||
| 1979 | |||||||
| Middle Age Spread *† | John Reid | Comedy | shot on 16mm | ||||
| Sons for the Return Home *† | Drama | [15] based on the 1973 book by Albert Wendt |
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| 1980 | |||||||
| Beyond Reasonable Doubt | Drama | Based on the true story of the Crewe murders and wrongful conviction of Arthur Allan Thomas | |||||
| Squeeze | Richard Turner | Drama | shot on 16mm | ||||
| A Woman of Good Character | David Blyth | Historical drama | [16] AKA Lizzie; shot on 16mm | ||||
| 1981 | |||||||
| Bad Blood * | drama | NZ-British co-production | |||||
| Dead Kids / Strange Behaviour / Shadowland † | horror | AU-NZ-US co-production | |||||
| Goodbye Pork Pie * | comedy, road movie | ||||||
| Pictures †* | Michael Black | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival | |||||
| Race for the Yankee Zephyr | action | Australia - NZ co-production | |||||
| Smash Palace * | drama | ||||||
| Wildcat † | Ross Prosser, Russel Campbell, Alister Barry | shot on 16mm | |||||
| 1982 | |||||||
| Carry Me Back †* | John Reid | comedy | |||||
| The Scarecrow * | |||||||
| Battletruck (reissued as Warlords of the 21st Century) | action | Hollywood film shot on location | |||||
| 1983 | |||||||
| Among the Cinders †* | Rolf Hädrich | Drama | [17] | ||||
| Heart of the Stag † | Michael Firth | Drama | |||||
| It's Lizzie to Those Close / Lizzie †* | David Blyth | Historical drama | shot on 16mm | ||||
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | War | location shooting for British-Japanese co-production | |||||
| Patu! †* | documentary | ||||||
| Savage Islands / Nate and Hayes † | Ferdinand Fairfax | Adventure | |||||
| Second Time Lucky † | Michael Anderson | comedy | |||||
| Strata † | Geoff Steven | ||||||
| Trespasses † | Peter Sharp | ||||||
| Utu * | historical action | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival | |||||
| Wild Horses †* | Derek Morton | Drama | [18] | ||||
| War Years † | Pat McGuire | ||||||
| 1984 | |||||||
| Constance * | Bruce Morrison | Drama | |||||
| The Bounty | Adventure | Location shooting for Australian/US production | |||||
| Death Warmed Up †* | David Blyth | horror/thriller | |||||
| Other Halves | drama | ||||||
| The Silent One * | Yvonne Mackay | Drama | filmed in the Cook Islands[19] | ||||
| Vigil * | Drama | Nominated for Palme D'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival[20] | |||||
| Trial Run * | Melanie Read | Thriller | First NZ feature film to be written and directed by a woman | ||||
| 1985 | |||||||
| Bridge to Nowhere * | |||||||
| Came a Hot Friday * | comedy | ||||||
| Dangerous Orphans * | Action | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088988/ | |||||
| Hot Target | Denis Lewiston | sex thriller | Location shooting for US film | ||||
| Kingpin | Mike Walker | drama | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| The Lost Tribe | horror | ||||||
| Mr Wrong * | horror | [21] | |||||
| The Quiet Earth * | Geoff Murphy | Drama/sci-fi/mystery | |||||
| Shaker Run | Bruce Morrison | Action/thriller | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090006/ | ||||
| Sylvia | Michael Firth | biographical film | |||||
| 1986 | |||||||
| Murray Ball | animated film | ||||||
| Arriving Tuesday * | Richard Riddiford | romantic comedy | |||||
| Mark II * | John Anderson | drama | |||||
| Pallet on the Floor | Lynton Butler | ||||||
| Queen City Rocker * | Bruce Morrison | ||||||
| 1987 | |||||||
| Bad Taste * | Peter Jackson | Comedy/horror/sci-fi | |||||
| Illustrious Energy * | |||||||
| Mauri * | |||||||
| Ngati * | |||||||
| 1988 | |||||||
| The Grasscutter | action/thriller | ||||||
| Just Me and Mario | Greg Stitt | Comedy | |||||
| * | fantasy | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival | |||||
| Never Say Die | action | ||||||
| Send a Gorilla * | Melanie Read | Comedy | |||||
| 1989 | |||||||
| A Soldier's Tale | Romantic drama | [22] | |||||
| Meet the Feebles * | black comedy | ||||||
| Zilch! * | Richard Riddiford | thriller | |||||
| Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree * | drama | based on works by Albert Wendt | |||||
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| 1990 | |||||||
| An Angel at My Table * | biography | ||||||
| Mana Waka | Merata Mita | documentary | |||||
| Ruby and Rata * | |||||||
| User Friendly | Gregor Nicholas | horror, comedy | [23] | ||||
| 1991 | |||||||
| The End of the Golden Weather | [24] Based on the play The End of the Golden Weather | ||||||
| Grampire | David Blyth | comedy/horror/kids | AKA My Grandpa Is a Vampire | ||||
| Old Scores | Alan Clayton | comedy/sport | |||||
| Te Rua | Barry Barclay | ||||||
| 1992 | |||||||
| Alex * | Megan Simpson Huberman | sport /drama | |||||
| Absent Without Leave | World War II | Entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival | |||||
| Braindead | Splatter/Horror | ||||||
| Chunuk Bair | Dale G. Bradley | War | |||||
| Crush | Entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival | ||||||
| 1993 | |||||||
| Bread and Roses * | biography | ||||||
| Desperate Remedies | surrealist melodrama | Screened at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival | |||||
| Jack Be Nimble | Garth Maxwell | gothic horror | |||||
| The Piano | Jane Campion | drama/romance | Won the Palme d'Or at Cannes | ||||
| 1994 | |||||||
| Heavenly Creatures * | Peter Jackson | Drama/romance/crime | |||||
| Once Were Warriors | Drama | ||||||
| The Last Tattoo | John Reid | Drama | |||||
| Loaded | Anna Campion | Drama | [25] | ||||
| 1995 | |||||||
| Bonjour Timothy * | |||||||
| Cinema of Unease | Sam Neill, Judy Rymer | Documentary | |||||
| Forgotten Silver | |||||||
| War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us | Gaylene Preston | Documentary | [26] | ||||
| 1996 | |||||||
| Broken English | Gregor Nicholas | drama/romance | |||||
| Chicken | Grant La Hood | comedy | |||||
| Jack Brown Genius | Tony Hiles | Produced by Peter Jackson | |||||
| Flight of the Albatross | Werner Meyer | ||||||
| Someone Else's Country | Alistair Barry | Documentary | |||||
| The Frighteners * | comedy/horror | ||||||
| The Whole of the Moon * | |||||||
| Out of the Dark | Keith Hunter | Documentary | |||||
| 1997 | |||||||
| Aberration | Tim Boxell | Horror | Starring Pamela Gidley, Simon Bossell | ||||
| Lost Valley | Dale G. Bradley | [27] | |||||
| Topless Women Talk About Their Lives | |||||||
| The Ugly | Scott Reynolds | ||||||
| 1998 | |||||||
| Memory and Desire | |||||||
| Saving Grace | Costa Botes | romance | |||||
| When Love Comes Along | |||||||
| Heaven | Scott Reynolds | thriller | [28] | ||||
| Via Satellite | Anthony McCarten | Comedy | [29] | ||||
| 1999 | |||||||
| Channelling Baby | Christine Parker | ||||||
| I'll Make You Happy | Athina Tsoulis | [30] | |||||
| Savage Honeymoon | Mark Beesley | [31] | |||||
| Scarfies * | black comedy | ||||||
| What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? | drama | ||||||
| Punitive Damage | Annie Goldson | documentary | [32] | ||||
| Campaign | Tony Sutorius | documentary | [33] | ||||
| Getting to Our Place | Gaylene Preston, Anna Cottrell | documentary | [34] [35] | ||||
| Uncomfortable Comfortable | Campbell Walker | drama | [36] | ||||
| Magik and Rose | Vanessa Alexander | drama, comedy | [37] |
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| 2000 | |||||||
| The Irrefutable Truth About Demons * | Horror, Thriller | [38] | |||||
| Jubilee * | Michael Hurst | Comedy | [39] | ||||
| The Price of Milk * | Comedy | [40] | |||||
| Wild Blue | Dale G. Bradley | drama | [41] | ||||
| Hopeless | Stephen Hickey | comedy | [42] | ||||
| Feathers of Peace | Barry Barclay | drama | [43] | ||||
| Hotere | Merata Mita | documentary | [44] | ||||
| 2001 | |||||||
| Crooked Earth | Drama | [45] | |||||
| Kung Fu Vampire Killers | Phil Davison | [46] | |||||
| Her Majesty | Mark J. Gordon | coming-of-age | |||||
| fantasy | U.S. & NZ funded film produced in New Zealand | ||||||
| Rain | coming-of-age | ||||||
| Snakeskin | Gillian Ashurst | Thriller/road movie | |||||
| Stickmen | Hamish Rothwell | ||||||
| Blerta Revisited | Geoff Murphy | documentary | [47] | ||||
| 2002 | |||||||
| fantasy | U.S. & NZ funded film produced in New Zealand | ||||||
| Whale Rider * | Niki Caro | drama | |||||
| In a Land of Plenty | Alistair Barry | Documentary | [48] | ||||
| Tongan Ninja | Action comedy | [49] | |||||
| Toy Love | Harry Sinclair | comedy | [50] | ||||
| The Maori Merchant of Venice | Don Selwyn | drama | [51] | ||||
| 2003 | |||||||
| fantasy | U.S. & NZ funded film produced in New Zealand | ||||||
| The Last Samurai | U.S produced film shot in New Zealand | ||||||
| The Locals | Greg Page | Supernatural Thriller | [52] | ||||
| Christmas | Greg King | Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Woodenhead | Musical/Fairy tale/Drama | ||||||
| Perfect Strangers | Gaylene Preston | Thriller | [53] | ||||
| 2004 | |||||||
| Fracture | Larry Parr | Drama | Based on Crime Story by Maurice Gee[54] | ||||
| Without a Paddle | Steven Brill | Comedy | American film shot in New Zealand | ||||
| Murmurs | Elric Kane and Alexander Greenhough | Drama | |||||
| In My Father's Den | Drama | ||||||
| Spooked | Geoff Murphy | ||||||
| Kaikohe Demolition | Florian Habicht | Documentary | [55] | ||||
| 2005 | |||||||
| 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous | Stewart Main | drama | |||||
| King Kong | adventure | ||||||
| Banana in a Nutshell | Documentary | [56] | |||||
| River Queen | historical drama | ||||||
| The World's Fastest Indian * | biography | Based on the life of Burt Munro | |||||
| Meet Me in Miami | Eric Hannah and Iren Koster | Comedy | |||||
| Memories of Tomorrow | Amit Tripuraneni | Drama/thriller | |||||
| 2006 | |||||||
| No. 2 | |||||||
| Perfect Creature | horror/thriller | ||||||
| Anna Wilding | documentary | ||||||
| Sione's Wedding | Chris Graham | comedy/romance | |||||
| Kissy Kissy | Elric Kane and Alexander Greenhough | Drama | |||||
| The Ferryman | Chris Graham | horror | |||||
| The Waimate Conspiracy | Stefen Harris | Drama | |||||
| Out of the Blue | drama (based on true events) | Based on the true story of the Aramoana massacre | |||||
| Black Sheep | Comedy/horror | ||||||
| 2007 | |||||||
| The Tattooist | Peter Burger | Horror | New Zealand and Singapore co-production[57] | ||||
| A Song of Good | Gregory King | [58] | |||||
| Down by the Riverside | Marama Killen Brad Davison | ||||||
| The Devil Dared Me To | Chris Stapp | ||||||
| We're Here To Help | Jonothan Cullinane | Kafkaesque comedy | |||||
| Men Shouldn't Sing | Sarah Higginson and Michael Bell | Musical | |||||
| The Last Magic Show | Andy Conlan | Comedy romance | [59] | ||||
| Pictures of You | - User:Quilt Phase --> | [60] | |||||
| The Vintner's Luck | Niki Caro | ||||||
| Show of Hands | Romantic comedy | Filmed in New Plymouth, Nov-Dec 2007[61] | |||||
| Eagle vs Shark | Romantic Comedy | ||||||
| 2008 | |||||||
| Second Hand Wedding | Paul Murphy | Romantic comedy | |||||
| Rain of the Children | Vincent Ward | Documentary | |||||
| Taking the Waewae Express | Andrea Bosshard | Drama | [62] | ||||
| Dean Spanley | Toa Fraser | Drama | |||||
| BLACKSPOT | Ben Hawker | Thriller | [63] | ||||
| Last of the Living | Logan McMillan | Comedy horror | |||||
| Rubbings from a Live Man | Florian Habicht | Drama documentary | [64] | ||||
| 2009 | |||||||
| District 9 | Science fiction action | ||||||
| The Lovely Bones | |||||||
| Under the Mountain | Jonathan King | Fantasy | |||||
| Jumping in Puddles | Nick Hitchens and Jonathan Warner | Documentary | |||||
| The Strength of Water | Drama | [65] | |||||
| Separation City | Paul Middleditch | ||||||
| The Man in the Hat | Luit Bieringa | Documentary | |||||
| The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls | Leanne Pooley | Documentary | [66] | ||||
| Land of the Long White Cloud | Florian Habicht | Documentary | [67] |
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| 2010 | |||||||
| Kawa | Drama | Based on Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Witi Ihimaera | |||||
| After the Waterfall | Simone Horrocks | Drama | |||||
| Wound | David Blyth | Horror | [68] | ||||
| Matariki | Drama | ||||||
| Boy | Comedy/drama | ||||||
| Predicament | Comedy | Based on the Ronald Hugh Morrieson novel[69] | |||||
| The Insatiable Moon | Comedy/drama | [70] | |||||
| The Hopes & Dreams of Gazza Snell | Comedy/family | [71] | |||||
| Home by Christmas | Gaylene Preston | Documentary Drama | [72] | ||||
| Russian Snark | Stephen Sinclair | Comedy | |||||
| 2011 | |||||||
| The Devil's Rock | Horror | ||||||
| The Holy Roller | Patrick Gillies | Comedy drama | [73] | ||||
| Love Birds | Paul Murphy | Romantic comedy | |||||
| My Wedding and Other Secrets | |||||||
| Family/adventure | |||||||
| Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones | Documentary | [74] | |||||
| The Most Fun You Can Have Dying | |||||||
| Dreamer by Design | David Chan | Comedy/drama | [75] | ||||
| Tracker | Action/Thriller | ||||||
| Love Story | Florian Habicht | Documentary drama | [76] | ||||
| 2012 | |||||||
| - | Simon Bennett | Comedy | Sequel to the Sione's Wedding (2006)[77] | ||||
| Good for Nothing | Mike Wallis | Comedy/Thriller/Western | |||||
| Ghost TV | |||||||
| Mr. Pip | Drama | Based on Lloyd Jones' novel Mister Pip[78] | |||||
| Fantasy | U.S. & NZ funded film produced in New Zealand | ||||||
| The Red House | Alyx Duncan | Drama | |||||
| Kiwi Flyer | Tony Simpson | Family/Comedy | [79] | ||||
| 2013 | |||||||
| White Lies | Dana Rotberg | Drama | |||||
| - | Eternity | Drama/sci-fi/mystery | |||||
| Shopping | Drama | ||||||
| Fantasy | U.S. & NZ funded film produced in New Zealand | ||||||
| Tim van Dammen | Rock opera | Based on William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo & Juliet[80] | |||||
| Gardening with Soul | Jess Feast | Documentary | [81] | ||||
| The Weight of Elephants | Daniel Joseph Borgman | Drama | [82] | ||||
| Giselle | Toa Fraser | Documentary | [83] | ||||
| Fantail | Curtis Vowell | Drama | [84] | ||||
| Kay Ellmers | Documentary | ||||||
| Sheen of Gold | Simon Ogston | Documentary | |||||
| Us and the Game Industry | Stephanie Beth | Documentary | |||||
| Jason Stutter | Mockumentary, Comedy | [85] | |||||
| Ghost Bride | David Blyth | Horror, Romance | [86] | ||||
| Crackheads | Andy Sophocleus, Tim Tsiklauri | Comedy | [87] | ||||
| 2014 | |||||||
| Syrenia | Fraser Grut | Fantasy/family | |||||
| What We Do in the Shadows | Comedy/horror | [88] | |||||
| Housebound | Comedy/horror | [89] | |||||
| The Pā Boys | Himiona Grace | Music/drama | [90] | ||||
| The Dark Horse | Drama | Biopic based on the true story of chess player Genesis Potini[91] | |||||
| Peter Burger, Charlotte Purdy | Docudrama | Based on the true story of the recovery operation of the Mt Erebus disaster | |||||
| Pirates of the Airways | Charlie Haskell | Documentary | Based on the true story of Radio Hauraki | ||||
| The Dead Lands | Action/horror | It was premièred in the Special Presentations section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival | |||||
| Hip Hop-eration | Bryn Evans | Documentary | |||||
| Fantasy | U.S. & NZ funded film produced in New Zealand | ||||||
| Tūmanako/Hope | Susy Pointon | Documentary | [92] | ||||
| 3 Mile Limit | Craig Newland | Drama | [93] | ||||
| Urban Turban | Devesh Singh | Drama, Romance | Fiji/NZ Bollywood film | ||||
| The Cure | David Gould | Action thriller | [94] | ||||
| Jake | Doug Dillaman | Drama, Sci-fi, Comedy | [95] | ||||
| Everything We Loved | Max Currie | Drama | [96] | ||||
| Contract Killers | Mathew John Pearson | Action Thriller | |||||
| Beyond the Edge | Leanne Pooley | Documentary | [97] | ||||
| Orphans and Kingdoms | Paolo Rotondo | Drama | [98] | ||||
| Aunty and the Star People | Gerard Smyth | Documentary | [99] | ||||
| Erewhon | Gavin Hipkins | Essay | |||||
| Hot Air | Alister Barry, Abi King-Jones | Documentary | [100] | ||||
| REALITi | Jonathan King | Thriller, Sci-Fi | [101] | ||||
| Paul Wolffram | Documentary | [102] | |||||
| 2015 | |||||||
| Deathgasm | Comedy/horror | ||||||
| The Dead Room | Jason Stutter | Horror | |||||
| Turbo Kid | François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell | Action/adventure/comedy/superhero/post-apocalyptic | |||||
| 25 April | Documentary | ||||||
| Andrew Todd, Johnny Hall | Comedy/horror | ||||||
| Born To Dance | Action/sport | ||||||
| Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses | David Stubbs | Docodrama | Based on the true story of the exorcism of Janet Moses | ||||
| Slow West | John McLean | Action/adventure, Drama | [103] | ||||
| Lexi | Wayne Turner | Drama | [104] | ||||
| The Great Maiden's Blush | Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader | Drama | [105] | ||||
| A Flickering Truth | Pietra Brettkelly | ||||||
| Herbs: Songs of Freedom | Tearepa Kahi | documentary | |||||
| 2016 | |||||||
| Mahana | Action/drama | Based on the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera | |||||
| Penny Black | Joe Hitchcock | Road Movie | |||||
| Orphans and Kingdoms | Drama | [106] | |||||
| notes to eternity | Sarah Cordery | Documentary | featuring Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Sara Roy[107] | ||||
| Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Comedy | Based on the novel Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump | |||||
| Tickled | David Farrier, Dylan Reeve | Documentary | |||||
| Chasing Great | Justin Pemberton, Michelle Walsh | Documentary | [108] | ||||
| the heART of the matter | Luit Bieringa | Documentary | |||||
| Poi E: The Story of Our Song | Tearepa Kahi | documentary | |||||
| The Rehearsal | Alison Maclean | Drama | |||||
| On an Unknown Beach | Adam Luxton, Summer Agnew | Documentary | |||||
| West of Eden | Alastair Riddell | Drama | [109] | ||||
| The 5th Eye | Errol Wright, Abi King-Jones | Documentary | |||||
| Chronesthesia | Hayden J. Weal | Romantic comedy | |||||
| This Giant Papier Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy | Christian Nicolson | Science fiction, Comedy | [110] | ||||
| Apple Pie | Sam Hamilton | Documentary | |||||
| 2017 | |||||||
| Pork Pie | Matt Murphy | Comedy/Road Movie | Remake of Goodbye Pork Pie | ||||
| Kiwi Christmas | Tony Simpson | Family | [111] | ||||
| Waru | Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Paula Whetu Jones, Awanui Simich-Pene | Drama | |||||
| 6 Days | Drama/Thriller | ||||||
| The Changeover | Miranda Harcourt, Stuart McKenzie | Fantasy/Thriller | [112] Based on the novel The Changeover by Margaret Mahy | ||||
| Human Traces | Nic Gorman | Drama/Thriller | |||||
| The Wizard & the Commodore - Chathams Islands New Zealand | Samuel A. Miller | Mondo Documentary | |||||
| Bill Direen, A Memory of Others | Simon Ogston | Documentary | Screened in NZIFF 2017, download with O.S.T. 2019[113] | ||||
| My Year With Helen | Gaylene Preston | Documentary | [114] | ||||
| What Lies That Way | Paul Wolffram | Documentary | [115] | ||||
| Spookers | Florian Habicht | Documentary | [116] | ||||
| 2018 | |||||||
| The Breaker Upperers | Comedy | ||||||
| Blue Moon | Stefen Harris | Film Noir | [117] | ||||
| Broken | Tarry Mortlock | Drama | [118] Inspired by true events | ||||
| Mortal Engines | Fantasy/Thriller | Filmed in NZ, a U.S./NZ co-production based on the novel Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve | |||||
| Mega Time Squad | Tim van Dammen | Sci-fi, Action, Comedy | [119] | ||||
| Status Pending | Ben Zolno | Dramedy | [120] Improvised dialogue (mumblecore) film premiering at Cinequest, Filmed Entirely in Wellington, NZ. | ||||
| 2019 | |||||||
| Daffodils | David Stubbs | Drama | |||||
| For My Father's Kingdom | Vea Mafile'o, Jeremiah Tauamiti | Documentary | [121] | ||||
| Bellbird | Hamish Bennett | Drama | |||||
| Come to Daddy | Horror | ||||||
| Brown Boys | Hans Masoe | Comedy | [122] | ||||
| Take Home Pay | Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa | Comedy | [123] | ||||
| Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Documentary | ||||||
| Savage | Sam Kelly | crime | [124] | ||||
| Jojo Rabbit | Comedy drama | ||||||
| Killer Sofa | Bernie Rao | Comedy horror | |||||
| Vai | Nicole Whippy‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki
Amberley Jo Aumua Marina Alofagia McCartney Becs Arahanga | Drama | [125] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | |||||||
| The Legend of Baron To'a | Kiel McNaughton | drama | [126] | ||||
| Balance of the Five Elements | Jan-Hinrik Drevs | documentary | [127] | ||||
| The Girl on the Bridge | documentary | [128] | |||||
| Rūrangi | LGBT/drama | [129] | |||||
| LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears | Anna Marbrook | documentary | |||||
| This Town | David White | comedy | [130] | ||||
| Lowdown Dirty Criminals | Paul Murphy | comedy | [131] | ||||
| Shadow in the Cloud | action/horror | [132] | |||||
| Reunion | Jake Mahaffy | thriller, horror | |||||
| Baby Done | Curtis Vowell | comedy | |||||
| Six60: Till the Lights Go Out | documentary | [133] | |||||
| 2021 | |||||||
| Dawn Raid | documentary | [134] | |||||
| Coming Home in the Dark | James Ashcroft | thriller | |||||
| There Is No "I" in Threesome | Jan Oliver Lucks | drama, documentary, comedy | [135] | ||||
| Cousins | drama | Based on Patricia Grace's eponymous novel.[136] | |||||
| Night Raiders | drama | ||||||
| James & Isey | documentary | [137] | |||||
| Poppy | Linda Niccol | drama | [138] | ||||
| The Justice of Bunny King | Gaysorn Thavat | drama | [139] | ||||
| Juniper | drama | ||||||
| Mothers of the Revolution | Briar March | documentary | |||||
| The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | drama | Nominated for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards | ||||
| Millie Lies Low | Michelle Savill | drama, comedy | |||||
| Fiona Clark: Unafraid | Lula Cucchiara | documentary | Documentary on photographer Fiona Clark | ||||
| Whetū Mārama – Bright Star | Toby Mills, Aileen O'Sullivan | documentary | |||||
| Signed, Theo Schoon | Luit Bieringa | documentary | |||||
| Ayukawa: The Weight of a Life | Tu Rapana Neill, Jim Speers | documentary | [140] | ||||
| Mark Hunt - The Fight of His Life | Peter Brook Bell | documentary | [141] | ||||
| A Mild Touch of Cancer | Annie Goldson | documentary | [142] | ||||
| MILKED | Amy Taylor | documentary | [143] | ||||
| Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp, the Sacred Place | Kathleen Gallagher, Kate Goodwin | documentary | [144] | ||||
| 2022 | |||||||
| We Are Still Here | Beck Cole, Chantelle Burgoyne, Dena Curtis, Richard Curtis, Mario Gaoa, Danielle MacLean, Miki Magasiva, Renae Maihi, Tracey Rigney, Tim Worrall | drama | |||||
| Nude Tuesday | comedy | [145] | |||||
| Whina | biographical drama | [146] | |||||
| Muru | action, drama | ||||||
| Kāinga | Julie Zhu, Asuka Sylvie, Michelle Ang, Nahyeon Lee, Yamin Tun, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, HASH, Angeline Loo | drama | Anthology film | ||||
| Punch | Welby Ings | drama | |||||
| Gloriavale | Fergus Grady, Noel Smyth | documentary | Documentary on the Gloriavale Christian Community | ||||
| A Boy Called Piano | Nina Nawalowalo | drama documentary | |||||
| When the Cows Come Home | Costa Botes | documentary | |||||
| Mister Organ | documentary | ||||||
| Briar March | documentary | Documentary on Valerie Adams | |||||
| We Came Here For Freedom Part I | Alistair Harding | documentary | [147] | ||||
| Geoff Dixon: Portraits of Us | Glenis Giles, Claire O'Leary | documentary | [148] | ||||
| Juliet Gerrard: Science in Dark Times | Shirley Horrocks | documentary | [149] | ||||
| Ka Pō | Etienne Aurelius | drama | [150] | ||||
| Shut Eye | Tom Levesque | drama | [151] | ||||
| 2023 | |||||||
| Bad Behaviour | comedy | ||||||
| Red, White & Brass | comedy | ||||||
| Stylebender | documentary | Documentary on Israel Adesanya | |||||
| We Came Here For Freedom Part II | Alistair Harding | documentary | [152] | ||||
| River of Freedom | documentary | [153] | |||||
| Uproar | Hamish Bennett, Paul Middleditch | drama | |||||
| The Convert | drama | ||||||
| Joika | drama | ||||||
| Billion Dollar Heist | Daniel Gordon | documentary | [154] | ||||
| Building Bridges: Bill Youren's Vision of Peace | John Christoffels | documentary | [155] | ||||
| Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams | Robin Greenberg | documentary | [156] | ||||
| Home Kills | Haydn Butler | [157] | |||||
| King Loser | Cushla Dillon, Andrew Moore | documentary | [158] | ||||
| Loop Track | Tom Sainsbury | comedy horror | [159] | ||||
| Ms. Information | Gwen Isaac | documentary | [160] | ||||
| Red Mole: A Romance | Annie Goldson | documentary | [161] | ||||
| 2024 | |||||||
| We Were Dangerous | Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu | drama | [162] | ||||
| The Mountain | comedy drama | [163] | |||||
| The Moon Is Upside Down | comedy | [164] | |||||
| Ka Whawhai Tonu | war drama | [165] | |||||
| Bookworm | comedy drama | [166] | |||||
| Went Up the Hill | thriller | [167] | |||||
| Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara | Kent Belcher | documentary | [168] | ||||
| Grafted | Sasha Rainbow | horror | [169] | ||||
| The Haka Party Incident | Katie Wolfe | documentary | [170] | ||||
| Head South | Jonathan Ogilvie | coming-of-age, drama | [171] | ||||
| The House Within | Joshua Prendeville | documentary | [172] | ||||
| Marimari | Paul Wolffram | documentary | [173] | ||||
| A Mistake | Christine Jeffs | drama | |||||
| Never Look Away | Lucy Lawless | documentary | [174] | ||||
| Taki Rua Theatre - Breaking Barriers | Whetu Fala | documentary | [175] |