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List of other great New Zealand films

Hi, can anyone recommend other movies from New Zealand, not necessarily for the same kind of audience that this is aimed at.
I know of Whale Rider and Once Were Warriors and it's sequel.
Thanks.

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Goodbye Porkpie.

What was it called.Heavenly Creatures.

The Piano.

Utu (Ooooooooooooh good film. Very good film. Watch it recently and it scared 4 nights of dinner out of me)

Scarfies.

Taua NZ (Short Film, Quite Cool)

Hmmm Footrot Flats.

Errrmmm The Tattooist? If it counts.

BrainDead.

Broken english

Crooked Earth (Oooooooooooo Another Good one)

Perfect Creature

The World's Fastest Indian.

No.2

River Queen

Eagle vs Shark

The Ferryman

Out of the Blue ( :( Sad movie)

Black Sheep (Its decent)

Siones Wedding

And i think thats all the good ones i can remember.

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Thanks Brother H, I'll check out as many as I can. :-)

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Yeah um that list you read is ok but if you want the best NZ film ever made check out "Bad Blood" the Stanley Graham story.
There is a few more I could mention but Bad Blood is a fantastic yarn and it was true!! It really did happen.

So you know my tastes my fav movie list is USUAL SUSPECTS, THE KINGDOM, SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, INGLOURUS BASTARDS to name just a few, please if you only see 1 more kiwi film let it be Bad Blood (its old but good)

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I'll look for it, thanks, but there are 20 movies on the imdb called bad blood though!

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Cheers, I'll try to find them!

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Theres this wedding one too but i cant remember the name.

John Rowles is on it.

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Second Hand Wedding.

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Second Hand Wedding

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in reply to dingdongdenny: Bad blood (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/board/10082043/
Great movie, never get in the way of a farmer and his guns.

Anything by Peter Jackson

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"Second Hand Wedding". I think is the one you mean, quite heart warming ?!

"What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach."

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Second Hand Wedding

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This will provide most of what you want regarding Bad Blood, including an mp4 clip and a link to where you can legally view the movie online.

http://www.nzvideos.org/badblood.html

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Thanks for this list. Cheers!

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Braindead and heavenly are jacksons flicks.

my vote history:
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur13767631/ratings

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add

Bad Taste
Meet the Feebles

We have such sights to show you.angry.gif

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Mark 2.

Kingpin (not the bowling flick either)

Queen City Rocker

Once were Warriors.

Sione's Wedding.

Two Halves.

Eagle vs Shark.

"Noplease" "Now what good do you think that'll do?"

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I wanna add this one The Quiet Earth
http://www.imdb.com/board/10089869/

it's Mystery Sci-Fi

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Yes, I just saw this recently, it's fantastic.

Urgh Peter Jackson is so over-rated, arrogant w@nk

Matariki and After the Waterfall are to other great films



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I 2nd In my fathers den. Fantastic and overlooked film.

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Strength of Water (Empire gave it 4 out of 5 stars)

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IMO "In my Father's Den" (2004) is the best NZ movie to date. Other noteworthy films that spring to mind in addition to the two in your post are "Heavenly Creatures" (1994), "Smash Palace" (1981) and "Sleeping Dogs" (1977). Also the more recent films "Show of Hands" (2008) and "Piece of my Heart" (2009) are worth seeing.

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Piece of My Heart and Show of Hands are TV movies. Good movies yes; especially Piece of My Heart, but mentioning them is probably a bit pointless unless they're going to be released on DVD. :-)

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Smash Palace - good catch.

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eagle vs shark!!!

List of other great New Zealand films

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Not sure if anyone mentioned "An Angel at My Table," the fantastic "Out of the Blue" (based on true events), the compelling documentary "This Way of Life," "Goodbye Pork Pie" and the one I just finished watching of course, "Boy!"

I thought instead of going through all the fantastic ones I've ordered over here online to watch, I've found this link from N.Z. which lists all it's movies alphabetically.

http://www.nzvideos.org/Alphalist.html

and this link is that websites 'First Choices' meaning ones they'd highly recommend.

http://www.nzvideos.org/firstchoices.html

Hope these help some of you and from the 25+ I've seen, I'd highly recommend watching as many as you can. I truly think most of the films (with the exception of a few), have a universal message and even if you don't get a little, you will definitely get a lot!! yes.gif

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Better than most on the list there is 'The Ugly'.
Also, 'The Whole of the Moon' is a tear-jerker extraordinaire

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award winning doco 'this way of life',award winng film 'number two' many more just cant think right now

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In my Fathers Den is bloody fantastic.

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Just wanted to add 2 other fantastic movies for anyone interested in following them up.


'The Hopes & Dreams of Gazza Snell' (2010) - Just finished watching this movie. Loved it!

and a bit of an oldie is;

'Smash Palace' (1982)


Enjoy!

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check out a documentary called " Te Whanau O Aotearoa "

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You should seek out some NZ short films. They're fantastic and, in my opinion, ground-breaking for the entire industry.
'Kitchen Sink' is the best Kiwi short film ever - it's a great representation of not only NZ films, but Kiwi style and humor.

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"The quiet earth" is a completely different film, but a cult classic that is well worth a look.

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You should definitely check out Two Little Boys. Stars Brett from Flight of the Conchords and is a great comedy.

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Just watched another great one, "The Dark Horse". Based on a true story - interesting and also a sort of, "feel good movie" without being trite or over the top. I would encourage you to look it up. I happened upon it on a long plane trip. It's on Amazon.

Cheers.

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