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"The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls" is the first time that the irrepressible Kiwi entertainment double act, Jools and Lynda Topp's extraordinary personal story has been told. The film offers a revealing look into the lives of the World's only comedic, country singing, dancing, and yodeling...

Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, ...

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on America's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of US  regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.   The food supply is now controlled by a handful of co...

Some Secrets Are Kept Forever… Vincent Ward's deeply personal and incredibly moving film unravels and re-imagines the story of Puhi, the Tuhoe woman he documented in 1978 for his early film In Spring One Plants Alone. Then she was 80 and caring for her adult son, and Ward was 21, a young a...

Prepare to be entertained by the inspiring individuals of Young@Heart a New England senior citizens chorus that has delighted audiences worldwide with their covers of songs by everyone from The Clash to Coldplay. As Stephen Walker's documentary begins, the retirees, led by their strict musical di...

Based on Steig Larsson's literary phenomenon, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, first as they unite to solve the case of a missing girl and then as they fight to uncover the truth about Salander's past. A past full of secrets that a mysterious...

Based on Steig Larsson's literary phenomenon, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, first as they unite to solve the case of a missing girl and then as they fight to uncover the truth about Salander's past. A past full of secrets that a mysterious...

Based on Steig Larsson's literary phenomenon, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, first as they unite to solve the case of a missing girl and then as they fight to uncover the truth about Salander's past. A past full of secrets that a mysterious...

Oskar, a 12-year-old fragile and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends, who moves into his building.   When Oskar discovers that Eli is a vampire it does not deter his increasing feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent.&nbs...

In a remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school, an 80 year old Mau Mau Veteran.

Based on Steig Larsson's literary phenomenon, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, first as they unite to solve the case of a missing girl and then as they fight to uncover the truth about Salander's past. A past full of secrets that a mysterious...

Based on Steig Larsson's literary phenomenon, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, first as they unite to solve the case of a missing girl and then as they fight to uncover the truth about Salander's past. A past full of secrets that a mysterious...

June, 1982. The first Lebanon War has begun. A lone tank holding four 20-something novices is dispatched to search a hostile town which has already been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. But what should have been a simple mission gradually spirals out of control when the four soldiers are pushed t...

Based on the critically-acclaimed novel by the late Stuart Browne, Dangerous Parking tells the story of Noah Arkwright, a successful and indulgent independent British film Director. Noah has more than his fair share of demons, and he readily gives in to all the temptations that fame and success offe...

Funny, emotional, and authentic, with shades of both The Castle and Smash Palace, Gazza Snell is a surprisingly powerful father’s coming of age - about letting go and finding something much stronger to hold on to. Packed with iconic Kiwi actors including Robyn Macolm (Outrageous Fortune) an...

Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippies slogan “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jew...

In a mad world, only the mad are sane… When Arthur (Rawiri Paratene - Whale Rider), self-proclaimed second son of God, sets out to save the world he loves, miracles can happen. He brings wonder and hope to his enchanted urban life, shadowed by his devoted band of boarding house friends. Th...

January 1945. During the last winter of WWII, Nazi occupied Holland lies under a blanket of snow. Food is scarce with many people heading east in a desperate attempt to find sustenance. When Michiel (13) becomes involved in the Resistance, he learns that good and evil often sit side by side witho...

At once a gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated, international breakthrough film from Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In the ragged underbelly of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (a mesmerising performance from Johannes Kr...

Back of the Y is a witty and clever New Zealand stunt show designed to "put New Zealand on the map". With unforgettable characters such as Presenter, Danny Parker, New Zealand's greatest daredevil stuntsman, Randy Cambell and retarded South Island mechanic, Spanners Watson, the show's prev...

Eccentric Jeffrey Mannus is 29 years old and still lives at home with his mom, Jan. He sees no reason to alter this arrangement, but his perfect world is upended when Jan meets Mert, a motivational speaker. Mert successfully woos Jan and moves in on Jeffrey's territory, something Jeffrey will not to...

On her 50th birthday, an unassuming housewife receives a present and discovers she’s an ace at puzzles. Without telling anyone, she takes on a training partner and begins to compete. But her new passion quickly threatens her old life, and she must decide where her true self lies

In this lush, atmospheric look at the final days of an elegant, turn-of-the-century brothel, we go inside the cloistered walls of L’Apollonide to meet the Madam, her elite clientele, and some dozen “girls” - veterans and newcomers, romantics and cynics, schemers and innocents. Upending the period dr...

**The Sinking Of Japan:** Dr. Tadokoro, an oceanic scientist, realizes that the seismic waves of a gigantic earthquake will cause Japan to sink into the Pacific Ocean within a year. As millions of refugees attempt to escape to nearby countries, Dr. Tadokoro must find a solution to beat the natural d...

Henrik, Nina and Stine are an ordinary family. Henrik is a swimming instructor, Nina a secretary. Their biggest problem is adolescent Stine, who gradually becomes more and more difficult to be around. At the school psychologists request, the authorities remove Stine from her home. She accuses Hen...

Angel (Carmelo Gomez) is an exterminator come to eradicate a breed of pests which has been affecting local winemakers. The bleak landscape he finds there is wrought by lightning bolts which split trees and fry sheep. Angel encounters two very different women - a shy, neglected housewife Angela and h...

Rene Feret's vivacious costume drama about Mozart's talented older sister Nannerl is a vivid depiction of 18th-century pre-revolutionary France. Alive with exuberantly performed characters and bursting with the joy and power of music, this film is a stunner.

House husband Gianni has many things to worry about while his retirement slips by doing boring chores for his wife, mother, daughter and pretty neighbour. But romance is not one of them. One day his old friend Alfonso, inspired by his own surprising sexual escapades, decides it’s time for Gianni to ...

A struggling preacher is tricked into starting a church in a nightclub by its unscrupulous owner, who sees it as a way to repay his gambling debts to an underworld boss. Things go from bad to worse when the underworld boss sends his number one hit-man to clean up the situation.

A poignant story, told with sincerity and humour, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and she plays opposite her husband, actor Ola Rapace.

Based on Steig Larsson's literary phenomenon, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, first as they unite to solve the case of a missing girl and then as they fight to uncover the truth about Salander's past. A past full of secrets that a mysterious...

Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, success, excess, pick-me-ups, breakdowns and of course some of THE defining music of the late twentieth century. This is the definitive and fully authorised story of the UK's most inspired and dissolut...

With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life and love, Robert Malone braves the wintery snow to arrive home from his job at the grocery store only to find a stranger standing in his home. What begins as an odd and awkward encounter quickly blossoms into what appears to be a r...

Corporate overlord Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas) is mentor to her brilliant underling Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier). After one of the women establishes a clear upper hand, the other begins to plot an elaborate plan to exact her revenge.

A troubled young man, Robert, (Paddy Considine) leaves the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquillity of a small town. He finds respite from his problems by secretly watching the domestic life of a woman he doesn’t know through her kitchen window. But when Jenny (Julia Stiles) catches him i...

Actor Jack Wade takes his comatose wife Frankie to an isolated cabin in the mountains - a place where a man once murdered his entire family. He starts to imagine things and comes to believe Frankie is up and moving around. She’s rude, crude and taunts him relentlessly. Jack starts to come unra...

Anarchy, revolution and vulgarity combine in this delicious, cameo-packed classic from Peter Richardson, director of the classic Comic Strip presents series. When a disgruntled waitress, a tramp, a Russian spy and a crazed colonel come together at the aptly named “Basterds” restaurant, i...

Set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement, Before the Rains is the English language debut of acclaimed Indian director and cinematographer Santosh Sivan (THE TERRORIST, ASOKA). Henry Moores (Linus Roache) has big plans to establish a spice plantation in Ke...

Spirit of the Marathon is the first film to capture the passion, drama and essence of the famed 26.2-mile Chicago Marathon. Intimate, fascinating portraits of six runners from all walks of life unfold as the film follows seasoned athletes and amateurs alike in their preparation for the big race. See...

Set in Edinburgh, the high powered and respectable world of the lawyers and advocates of the Scottish legal profession, contrasts with the sleazy and deadly existence of the city’s pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts. When a young prostitute is murdered by a deadly drug overdose, only Doctor ...