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- DirectorRoger MiramsJohn O'SheaStarsKay NgarimuTerence BaylerMyra HapiTom, a journalist from the city, meets Rawi while writing a piece rural life. However, she is Maori and her family disapproves of the relationship.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVan HeflinAldo RayMona FreemanYoung Marines have adventures in love and war.
- DirectorJohn O'SheaStarsColin BroadleyNadja ReginDeidre McCarron
- DirectorJohn O'SheaStarsHoward MorrisonGary WallaceCarmen Duncan
- DirectorRudall HaywardRamai HaywardStarsMarie SearellVal IrwinSybil LockeLove is on the rise, but so are tensions as two youths fall in love. One is a Maori male, and the other is a white female.
- DirectorMichael ForlongStarsAndrew KerrTemuera MorrisonKate ForlongFour children living on a sheep station help to catch escaped convicts.
- DirectorPaul MaunderStarsDenise MaunderJohn AndersonSam NeillThe story of the disintegration of a back-to-the-earth rural commune. Discovered to be using illegal drugs by a local policeman, the members of the commune kill him and bury him in their garden. After this pivotal event, distinctions between reality and fantasy become increasingly blurred.
- DirectorMurray ReeceStarsJamie HigginsMaria CraigGraeme Tetley
- DirectorMichael FirthStarsJeff CampbellBlair TrenholmeRon HajakTwo guys on adventure in New Zealand.
- DirectorTony WilliamsStarsVincent GilLisa PeersMartyn SandersonA young hitchhiker meets a fire-spotter and is invited to stay with he and his teen son. A sightseeing flight in a Tiger Moth bi-plane adds to the story.
- DirectorGeoff MurphyStarsBruno LawrenceIan WatkinTony BarryThe story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
- DirectorDavid BlythStarsDerek WardJennifer RedfordMyra De GrootA young and affluent couple become fatally entangled in their own wish-fulfillment world. The topic of the movie itself is interesting. It is set in an Auckland, New Zealand suburb, namely Pakuranga, in your average Lockwood home. In fact it depicts suburbia, and marriage as a lot of people see it, but fail to acknowledge that this is how it really is.
- DirectorBrian McDuffieStarsGeorge BakerVic HunterIlona Rodgers
- DirectorPeter SharpStarsGeorge BakerAlexander HayEddie Hegan
- DirectorGeoff StevenStarsKen BlackburnDeryn CooperAlan Jervis WilksSmall town's gym hires a city masseuse, stirring hidden passions and conflicts, exposing the community's underlying dynamics as her presence disrupts the town's surface tranquility.
- DirectorDavid SimsStarsPatric CareyBernard KearnsMichael McGrath
- DirectorJohn ReidStarsGrant TillyDorothy McKeggPeter SumnerA deputy principal of a high school, who has taken up jogging, to combat a spreading waistline, gradually enters into an affair with a co-worker's wife, as his wife is losing interest in him.
- DirectorPaul MaunderStarsUelese PetaiaFiona LindsayMoira WalkerA relationship develops between a Samoan and a New Zealander, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage.
- DirectorJohn LaingStarsDavid HemmingsJohn HargreavesTony BarryA docu-drama covering one of the most famous murder cases in New Zealand history. Did Arthur Thomas kill Jeannette and Harvey Crewe at their Pukekawa farm house? Arthur was sure that trusting the police and co-operating fully would prove his innocence. The police held a very different view of this simple farmer.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsJack ThompsonCarol BurnsDenis LillDuring World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
- DirectorGeoff MurphyStarsTony BarryKelly JohnsonClaire ObermanDumped by his girlfriend, a man joins a reckless youth in a stolen yellow mini and they drive the length of New Zealand, attracting cops and media attention, determined to get to Invercargill.
- DirectorDavid HemmingsStarsKen WahlLesley Ann WarrenDonald PleasenceA drunken deer hunter, his pilot colleague and his daughter compete with a treasure hunter to reach a lake in New Zealand and uncover a WWII-era plane wreck carrying a fortune in gold.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsBruno LawrenceAnna Maria MonticelliGreer Robson-KirkAfter the break-up of his marriage, a racing driver sets out to get back his daughter - at any cost.
- DirectorJohn ReidStarsGrant TillyKelly JohnsonDorothy McKeggTwo brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and the boys need to smuggle his body back to their farm and make it appear that he died there to satisfy a clause in his will or else they won't inherit the property.
- DirectorSam PillsburyStarsJohn CarradineTracy MannJono SmithThe same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens they cross the murderer's path.