John Bach

Una mujer embarazada regresa a la antigua casa familiar de sus abuelos recientemente fallecidos para pasar tiempo con su madre separada. Lo que comienza como una reunión tenue se vuelve lentamente aterradora.

This docu-drama dives beneath the sensational headlines to unravel the truth about a murder case that rocked New Zealand and catapulted teenage dominatrix Renee Chignell and cricket umpire Peter Plumley Walker into the national consciousness.

Australia, 1926. Un bote encalla en una isla remota y a su encuentro acuden el farero Tom Sherbourne y su joven esposa Isabel. En el interior del bote yacen un hombre muerto y un bebé que llora con desesperación. Tom e Isabel adoptan al niño y deciden criarlo sin informar a las autoridades. Todo se complica cuando descubren que la madre biológica del bebé está viva.

Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body. On a cold dark night, they take shelter in a small village tavern - where a mysterious stranger with unfinished business is waiting.

Un laboratorio decide comercializar un antídoto contra el cáncer sin haber obtenido los resultados de los efectos secundarios, sin embargo, el jefe de laboratorio se niega a darlos por finalizados.

Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in the Knightsbridge Gardens Retirement Village. In order to catch his man, Murray goes undercover by becoming a resident. He also discovers a world of sex, drugs and rocking chairs where life is lived and being old does not mean feeling past it. However Murray discovers that things are not always what they may seem to be.

Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and teenage mothers in 1950s and 60s Aotearoa

Un año después de los increíbles acontecimientos de "El León, la Bruja y el Armario", los reyes y las reinas de Narnia -los 4 hermanos Pevensie- vuelven a reunirse en ese remoto y fantástico mundo, donde descubrirán que han pasado más de 1.300 años, calculados en tiempo narniano. Durante su ausencia, la Edad de Oro de Narnia ha terminado, y los Telmarinos han conquistado el reino de Narnia, que ahora está dominado por el malvado Rey Miraz. Los cuatro niños no tardarán en conocer un nuevo y extraño personaje: el joven Príncipe Caspian, heredero legítimo al trono que se ha visto obligado a esconderse ya que su tío Miraz trama su asesinato para colocar a su hijo recién nacido en el trono. Los Narnianos, liderados por los poderosos caballeros Peter y Caspian, se embarcan en un extraordinario viaje para encontrar a Aslan, liberar Narnia del yugo tiránico de Miraz y restaurar la magia y la paz en el territorio.

Un pequeño pueblo es asediado por un grupo de demonios después de que unos adolescenetes desaten una antigua maldición. Los habitantes recurrirán al actor Bruce Campbell y se verá inmerso en una película de Serie-B. Pese a sus protestas y su intento de convencer a los habitantes de que tan sólo es un actor, se verá obligado a convertirse en el heroico personaje que suele interpretar y salvar al pueblo.

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

El día D, la mayor operación militar de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el comienzo de su fin marcó a Dwight ”Ike” Eisenhower como uno de los líderes militares más poderosos de América. Esta película rememora los 90 terribles días que precedieron al desembarco, cuando Eisenhower decide el destino de miles de soldados a la vez que se ocupa de las relaciones estratégicas con el primer Ministro británico, Winston Churchill, el General George S. Patton.

Las fuerzas de Saruman han sido destruidas, y su fortaleza sitiada. Ha llegado el momento de que se decida el destino de la Tierra Media, y por primera vez en mucho tiempo, parece que hay una pequeña esperanza. La atención del señor oscuro Sauron se centra ahora en Gondor, el último reducto de los hombres, y del cual Aragorn tendrá que reclamar el trono para ocupar su puesto de rey. Pero las fuerzas de Sauron ya se preparan para lanzar el último y definitivo ataque contra el reino de Gondor, la batalla que decidirá el destino de todos. Mientras tanto, Frodo y Sam continuan su camino hacia Mordor, a la espera de que Sauron no repare en que dos pequeños Hobbits se acercan cada día más al final de su camino, el Monte del Destino.

La Compañía del Anillo se ha disuelto. El portador del anillo Frodo y su fiel amigo Sam se dirigen hacia Mordor para destruir el Anillo Único y acabar con el poder de Sauron. Mientras, y tras la dura batalla contra los orcos donde cayó Boromir, el hombre Aragorn, el elfo Legolas y el enano Gimli intentan rescatar a los medianos Merry y Pipin, secuestrados por los ogros de Mordor. Por su parte, Saurón y el traidor Sarumán continúan con sus planes en Mordor, en espera de la guerra contra las razas libres de la Tierra Media.

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt from military service and living it up on black market profits. Girls under the control of the union - of whom the victim's fiancee, Rose, is one - give sexual favours to the Americans, in return for information. The marine assigned to investigate the murder, tries to find Rose through a public health nurse who traces VD infections. However they discover there it more going on than they realized, involving a conspiracy amongst the Union, the government and the U.S. military.

True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.

High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls apart when she takes part in a multi-million dollar bank robbery and becomes an accessory to murder.

Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original teams. The now old men pull on their jerseys one more time while Morgan deals with his past on his return home. (from IMDB)

Año 1945. Poco después de finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un fiscal del ejército australiano tiene que juzgar a los responsables japoneses del campo de concentración en la isla de Ambon, en Indonesia, en la que fueron ejecutados cientos de prisioneros de guerra australianos. (FILMAFFINITY)

A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely an accident?

Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on board a leaky old fishing boat called 'The Krait'. Their mission, code-named Operation Jaywick, became a tense voyage through thousands of kilometres of Japanese held territory to launch a daring attack on Singapore Harbour. The raid is a success but within sight of safety they encounter a Japanese destroyer, and all prepare to die rather than be taken prisoner.

A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.

A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.

Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.

Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to the wild horses as a source of income. With rope and snare - and the help of an experienced horse catching team - Sam and Sara's example, the rough ex-loggers learn to respect a delicate balance between the wild horses and their catchers. The best stallions are left to breed and their riding horses are retired back into the wild herds.

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.

En 1941 los Grahams mantienen malísimas relaciones con todos sus vecinos. Lo único que mantiene su equilibrio emocional a pesar de sus problemas económicos, era su afición a las armas. Cuando debido a la guerra, le confiscan su arma favorita, con las que quedaban aterrorizó a la comunidad, mató a siete hombres incluyendo a cuatro policias y fué objetivo de la mayor cazeria de hombres de la historia de Nueva Zelanda.

Two 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.

Es el siglo 21, las Guerras del Petróleo han hecho un desastre del planeta y la tierra, fuera de las principales ciudades, no tiene ley. Después de que Hunter acude en ayuda de Corlie, quien escapó del malvado Straker, la lleva a la pacífica comunidad de Clearwater. Desafortunadamente para los ciudadanos de Clearwater, Straker tiene la plena intención de recuperar a Corlie.

A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.