Best award winning movies with a good story from New Zealand
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a good story from New Zealand! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a good story from New Zealand, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Jojo Rabbit (2019)
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
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- 2019-10-18 | Comedy / War
Cast
- Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie
Rating
8.026
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam take the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.
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- 2003-12-01 | Adventure / Fantasy
Cast
- Elijah Wood, Sean Astin
Rating
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8.478
3 What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
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- 2014-06-19 | Comedy / Horror
Cast
- Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Rating
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7.6
4 District 9 (2009)
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
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- 2009-08-05 | Science Fiction
Cast
- Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope
Rating
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7.436
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5 Whale Rider (2003)
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
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- 2003-01-30 | Drama / Family
Cast
- Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene
Rating
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7.069
6 Jack Be Nimble (1993)
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.
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- 1993-09-15 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Alexis Arquette, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Rating
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5.3
7 Out of the Blue (2006)
Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.
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- 2006-10-12 | Drama / Crime
Cast
- Karl Urban, Tandi Wright
Rating
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6.4
8 The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
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- 2005-10-12 | Drama / Adventure
Cast
- Anthony Hopkins, Walton Goggins
Rating
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7.6
9 Turbo Kid (2015)
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.
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- 2015-08-14 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf
Rating
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6.56
10 The Dark Horse (2014)
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
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- 2014-07-17 | Drama / History
Cast
- Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston
Rating
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6.207
