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Journeys Across Latitude 45 Degrees South (1985)

Starring: Peter Hayden

Across Central Otago runs Latitude 45 degrees South - the midway point between the South Pole and the Equator. Twenty five years ago TVNZ presenter Pe... Read more

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

7.7/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: James Bolam, Michael Redgrave, Peter Madden, Tom Courtenay

The engrossing story of a rebellious young man chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. A superbly acted film, it also confronts the rig... Read more

Creator (1985)

6.1/10
Director: Ivan Passer
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen

Nobel laureate Harry Wolper (Peter O'Toole), is obsessed with a project to recreate his wife from cells he has kept since her death 30 years ago. He n... Read more

Illustrious Energy (1987)

7.9/10
Director: Leon Narbey
Starring: Heather Bolton, Peter Hayden, Shaun Bao, Peter Chin, Desmond Kelly, Harry Ip, Ge...

Two Chinese gold miners in a remote valley in Central Otago struggle to improve their lot. The goldrush is over. Their life is tough. When they make a... Read more

The Hired Hand (1971)

7/10
Director: Peter Fonda
Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden

Peter Fonda stars in and directed this underrated Western that subtly subverts the macho genre. Harry (Fonda) and his buddy Arch (Warren Oates) have... Read more

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( Blu-ray ) (1963)

8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...

A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more

Shattered Glass (2003)

7.2/10
Director: Billy Ray
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Melanie Lynskey,...

Gripping true story centres on Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), a young journalist for The New Republic magazine who quickly wins over colleagues w... Read more

Being There (1979)

8/10
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Ri...

Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

7.2/10
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: John Cleese, Muppets, Diana Rigg, Peter Ustinov, Charles Grodin, Robert Morley,...

The Muppets investigate the robbery of the fabulous Baseball Diamond, owned by fashion queen Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg) - and Miss Piggy is the prime s... Read more

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)

8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...

A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more

The House of Eliott: Series 1 (1991)

8.1/10
Director: Alex Kirby, Rodney Bennett, Richard Standeven, Jeremy Silberston, Nicholas Prosser
Starring: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Barbara Jefford, Peter Birch, Aden Gillet

London, 1920. As England recovers from The Great War, thirty-year-old Beatrice and her eighteen-year-old sister Evangeline are left penniless after th... Read more

Robot and Frank (2012)

Director: Jake Schreier
Starring: Frank Langella, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Peter Sarsgaard, Jerem...

Set in the near future, Frank (Frank Langella), a retired cat burglar, has two grown kids who are concerned he can no longer live alone. They are temp... Read more

The House of Eliott: Series 2 (1992)

8.1/10
Director: Graeme Harper
Starring: Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard, Barbara Jefford, Peter Birch, Aden Gillet

Following the success of their first collection, sisters Beatrice and Evangeline have established their place in London fashion. It's now 1924 and The... Read more

Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Campus
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter O'Toole, Geoffrey Lewis, Chris Elliott...

Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade (Jared Padalecki) is dismayed to learn that his mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is d... Read more

Hotel de Love (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Starring: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Ray Barrett, Pippa Grandison, Peter...

Saffron Burrows is the object of everyone's affection in this Australian rom-com. Stephen (Simon Bossell) and Rick (Aden Young) are fraternal twins w... Read more

Passed Away (1992)

5.9/10
Director: Charlie Peters
Starring: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Jack Warden, Blair Brown, Tim Curry, Frances McDo...

A darkly humorous account of how an offbeat family deals with the death and funeral of the clan patriarch. Bob Hoskins, William Petersen and Blair Bro... Read more

Raid on Entebbe (1976)

6.8/10
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Charles Bronson, Eddie Constantine, Horst Buchholz, Jack Warden, John Saxon, Mar...

Mere months after the fact came the release of two rival "Entebbe" movies ("Victory at Entebbe" being the other, released a month earlier) which recou... Read more

The Hitchhiker: Volumes 1 and 2 (1983)

3.3/10
Starring: Gary Busey, Kirstie Alley, Peter Coyote, Sandra Bernhard, Helen Hunt, Margot Kid...

A collection of 17 epsiodes from HBO's long-running cult horror anthology series with such notable guest stars as Helen Hunt, Virginia Madsen, Willem... Read more

Death at a Funeral (2010)

5.7/10
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Chris Rock, Danny Glover, Keith David, Loretta Devine, Luke Wilson, Martin Lawre...

Funny remake of the 2007 Frank Oz comedy follows the offbeat members of an African-American family as they gather for the funeral of their patriarch.... Read more

Small Apartments (2012)

6.1/10
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Starring: Amanda Plummer, Billy Crystal, Dolph Lundgren, James Caan, Rosie Perez, Saffron...

Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) plays the alphorn and dreams of Switzerland. His crazy brother sends him fingernail clippings in the mail. One of his n... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Volume 2 (1982)

8.4/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Nicholas Meyer, Peter Medak, Robert Iscove, Tim Burton, Mark Cullingham
Starring: Alan Arkin, Alfre Woodard, Barrie Ingham, Ben Vereen, Brian Dennehy, Brock Peter...

With lavish special effects, unique scripting and an outstanding cast of actors and directors, this terrific series, created and executive produced by... Read more