The best New Zealand films
The top 3 according to 475 votes from people: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). (Updated Aug 4, 2022.)
Peter Jackson's Middle-earth, Jane Campion's The Piano and An Angel at My Table, Taika Waititi's Boy and What We Do in the Shadows: the films with New Zealand production or co-production rated highest by AlloCiné viewers.
Top 15
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1
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Peter Jackson.
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2
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Peter Jackson.
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3
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Peter Jackson.
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4
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Peter Jackson.
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5
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Peter Jackson.
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6
The Piano (1993)
Jane Campion.
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7
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Peter Jackson.
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8
District 9 (2009)
Neill Blomkamp.
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9
Boy (2010)
Taika Waititi.
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10
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Derek Cianfrance.
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11
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Nagisa Ōshima.
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12
Braindead (1992)
Peter Jackson.
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13
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi.
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14
King Kong (2005)
Peter Jackson.
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15
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Jane Campion.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (3)
Funny that District 9 and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence count as NZ films, co-productions make these lists weird.
Half of this is Peter Jackson and honestly fair enough. But Boy deserves way more love, it's still Waititi's best imo.
Braindead on the same list as The Piano is the most NZ thing ever lol