Fairfax Media's Best New Zealand Movies of All Time

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Here are the results of Fairfax Media's poll to find the best New Zealand films of all time.

The survey attracted more than 500 votes, including about 100 people from the New Zealand film industry and about 15 film critics. The voters named about 170 different films in the poll, ranging from 1927 to the present day and including everything from fantasy to horror, social realism to comedy, and documentary to animation.

This is the critic's choices that includes every movie that was given at least 1 vote. See source for the ballots.

1: 13 votes
2: 11 votes
3: 10 votes
4-6: 8 votes
7: 7 votes
8-9: 6 votes
10-12: 5 votes
13-15: 4 votes
16-23: 3 votes
24-34: 2 votes
35-61: 1 vote

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  1. 1 new

    Heavenly Creatures

    1994, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 2 new

    Once Were Warriors

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 3 new

    Boy

    2010, in 1 top list Check
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    In My Father's Den

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    Out of the Blue

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 6 new

    Whale Rider

    2002, in 4 top lists Check
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    Utu

    1983, in 2 top lists Check
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    Goodbye Pork Pie

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 9 new

    The Piano

    1993, in 14 top lists Check
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    An Angel at My Table

    1990, in 8 top lists Check
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    Ngati

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
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    O le tulafale

    2011 — a.k.a. The Orator, in 0 top lists Check
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    Braindead

    1992 — a.k.a. Dead Alive, in 7 top lists Check
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    Came a Hot Friday

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey

    1988 — a.k.a. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, in 3 top lists Check
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    Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale

    1986, in 0 top lists Check
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    Forgotten Silver

    1995, in 2 top lists Check
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    Illustrious Energy

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
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    Patu!

    1983, in 1 top list Check
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    Rain

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    Rain of the Children

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
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    Smash Palace

    1981, in 1 top list Check
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    The Quiet Earth

    1985, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 24 new

    Bad Taste

    1987, in 6 top lists Check
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    Brother Number One

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 26 new

    Land of the Long White Cloud

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    Love Story

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 28 new

    Mr. Pip

    2012, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 29 new

    Rewi's Last Stand

    1940, in 1 top list Check
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    Scarfies

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Someone Else's Country

    1996, in 0 top lists
    Check
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    The Red House

    2012, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Scarecrow

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    Vigil

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    Angel Mine

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
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    Asylum Pieces

    2010, in 0 top lists
    Check
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    Warlords of the 21st Century

    1982 — a.k.a. Battletruck, in 0 top lists Check
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    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    Black Sheep

    2006, in 2 top lists Check
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    Death Warmed Up

    1984 — a.k.a. Death Warmed Over, in 0 top lists Check
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    Desperate Remedies

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 42 new

    Don't Let It Get You

    1966, in 0 top lists Check
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    Fantail

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
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    Giselle

    2013 — a.k.a. Giselle: The Movie, in 0 top lists Check
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    In Spring One Plants Alone

    1980, in 0 top lists Check
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    Little Bits of Light

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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    Map of the Human Heart

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
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    Matariki

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
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    Meet the Feebles

    1989, in 3 top lists Check
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    Middle Age Spread

    1979, in 0 top lists
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Last updated on Apr 25, 2021; source