Grievous Bodily Harm / Bodily Harm (1988)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A schoolteacher becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Starring: Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Shane Briant, Joy Bell
Director: Mark Joffe
Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Local goon, Gerry, hires a yellow mini in Kaitaia using a stolen license. John's wife has just left him and moved to Invercargill. He is devastated and needs to talk to her. He has no transport and needs a ride. Together with the little mini that Gerry names "Pork Pie", they hit the road to travel the length of the country. Their high speed exploits earn them the name "the Blondini gang". The police, however take a dim view of this and make it their mission in life to stop the Blondini boys from reaching their destination.
Starring: Tony Barry, Kelly Johnson, Claire Oberman, Shirley Gruar, Bruno Lawrence
Director: Geoff Murphy
Smash Palace (1981)
Drama | Thriller
Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left.
Starring: Bruno Lawrence, Bryan Johnson, Don Lee, Anna Maria Monticelli, Desmond Kelly, Margaret Umbers
Director: Roger Donaldson
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
A man named Zac Hobson awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.
Starring: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith
Director: Geoff Murphy
Utu (1984)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
In 1870s New Zealand, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), a Maori scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the army he is working for. Anguished and betrayed, he vows to exact retribution – Utu – on the Pakeha.
Starring: Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tania Bristowe
Director: Geoff Murphy
The Efficiency Expert / Spotswood (1992)
Crime | Drama
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Rebecca Rigg, Toni Collette, Russell Crowe, Angela Punch McGregor
Director: Mark Joffe
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