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Susan Ward
Jake Donovan es un cazador de tesoros que tiene una escuela de buceo en Nueva Zelanda y que se sorprende cuando recibe la visita de su hija, a la que hace más de veinte años que no ve. La joven quiere verlo para cumplir la última voluntad de su madre fallecida.
The Last Tattoo
Mrs Monahan
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.
Bread & Roses
mrs. Mackersey
Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.
Te Rua
Fiona Gilbert
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.
El delirante mundo de los Feebles
Samantha the Cat / The Sheep (voice)
Una irreverente comedia de marionetas. Aunque la morsa es un productor ambicioso, cuenta con un equipo muy poco profesional: un miedoso zorro que ejerce de director, una rana drogadicta, una rata que hace películas porno con vacas y cucarachas, un elefante maníaco y depresivo. Además, está su peor enemigo: la ballena, que es el capo de la mafia.
Mala sangre
Doreen Bond
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.
Squeeze
Richard Turner made Squeeze to break the "conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality. A pioneering early portrait of Auckland's LGBT scene, Squeeze centres on the relationship between a young man (Paul Eady) and the confident executive (Robert Shannon) who romances him, then mentions he has a fiancée. The film was discussed in Parliament after Patricia Bartlett campaigned against the possibility it might get NZ Film Commission funding (it didn't). Kevin Thomas in The LA Times praised Squeeze's integrity and the "steadfast compassion with which it views its hero".
Middle Age Spread
Judy
Colin is the deputy principal of a city high school (Avondale College, Auckland) who reluctantly applies for the principal's job on the latter's retirement. Colin's wife, Elizabeth - who is losing interest in him -gives a dinner party. Among the guests is Judy, temporarily reconciled with her husband for the sake of the children. Colin - who has taken upon jogging to combat a spreading waistline - and Judy, gradually enter into an affair.
Perros de presa
Mary
El recluso Smith (Sam Neill ) se ve envuelto en una lucha revolucionaria entre las guerrillas y los derechistas en Nueva Zelanda . Implicado en un asesinato y marcado como conspirador revolucionario , Smith trata de mantener una actitud de no violencia mientras se ve atrapado entre las facciones en guerra . Escrita por Mike Welsch