A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Casts Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga, Taungaroa Emile, Rachael Morris Jr., Joseph Kairau, Cliff Curtis, Pete Smith, George Henare
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Trees Lounge
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre
Gully Boy
Mon chéri
The Trial
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IMDB 3.3 | Apr , 2017
Struggling to find the truth behind her son's mysterious death, an estranged mother must confront her own hidden guilt.Shiner
IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2000
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.First Man into Space
IMDB 5 | Feb , 1959
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...The Kid
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2010
Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.Blackboards
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2000
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 2006
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.Dead End
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1937
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.The Story of Temple Drake
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1933
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.Prey for Rock & Roll
IMDB 4.7 | Sep , 2003
In late 1980s Los Angeles, Jacki and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy, are trying to make it big. On the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band's one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom.SubUrbia
IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 1997
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.Degree Maila M.A 3rd Class
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2024
Degree Maaila is the only English graduate in a village, who has returned from a city. As the campus committee is warned to run the English classes properly or bear the consequences of shutting down, they decide to hire him for the job, which he declines. Maaila's love interest and the committee want him to take up the job but he is adamant.Summer Camp Nightmare
IMDB 4.8 | Apr , 1987
A group of campers revolt against their strict camp director and take over the camp for themselves.Trees Lounge
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1996
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.Duck! The Carbine High Massacre
IMDB 4.1 | Oct , 1999
Derwin and Derick, Neo-Nazis, plan to commit a school shooting and kill themselves after a sick joke by school jocks.Gully Boy
IMDB 7.3 | Feb , 2019
A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.Mon chéri
IMDB 7 | Apr , 2015
On a hot summer‘s day, lonely Franklin is invited to play with other kids for the first time since moving to a new village. But when the children stumble across a recently moved-in house and observe his mother, things take a drastic turn – and Franklin once again has to play a role that he is not meant for…The Trial
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 2014
A mentally-challenged guy was put into trial after allegedly raping his teacher. And as Amanda, Julian, and Ronald try to mount a convincing defense, they discover soon that they're all connected in more ways than just the case.Sugar Cookies
IMDB 5.4 | Jan , 1973
A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.Dillinger
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1973
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.