No. 2 (
2006) | IMDb:
6.5
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...
Directed by:
Toa Fraser
The World's Fastest Indian (
2005) | IMDb:
7.8
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.
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins
,
Walton Goggins
,
Diane Ladd
,
Bruce Greenwood
,
Iain Rea
,
Tessa Mitchell
Directed by:
Roger Donaldson
Whale Rider (
2003) | IMDb:
7.5
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Starring:
Keisha Castle-Hughes
,
Rawiri Paratene
,
Vicky Haughton
,
Cliff Curtis
,
Grant Roa
,
Mana Taumaunu
Directed by:
Niki Caro
Vertical Limit (
2000) | IMDb:
5.9
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.
Starring:
Chris O'Donnell
,
Robin Tunney
,
Bill Paxton
,
Scott Glenn
,
Izabella Scorupco
,
Nicholas Lea
The Piano (
1993) | IMDb:
7.5
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.