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The Quiet Earth

The Quiet Earth (1985) more movies like this

directed by Geoff Murphy
featuring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge

In a tour-de-force sci-fi story with only three main characters, Kiwi director Geoffrey Murphy creates an interesting dynamic nuanced with shades of mysticism. When scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) experiments with a radical new power source -- a band of energy that would circle the planet -- the project goes awry and apparently wipes out all ...

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The Bridge to Nowhere

The Bridge to Nowhere (1986) more movies like this

directed by Ian Mune
featuring Matthew Hunter, Margaret Umbers, Shelly Luxford, Stephen Judd, Philip Gordon, Bruno Lawrence

The New Zealand-produced thriller Bridge to Nowhere takes place in and around an actual unfinished bridge, abandoned in the mid-1920s. Five urban youths head into the wilderness in search of this legendary structure. They have the misfortune to cross the path of mad mountain dweller Bruno Lawrence, who considers himself lord of all he surveys. In ...

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Utu

Utu (1983) more movies like this

directed by Geoff Murphy
featuring Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tim Elliott

Utu is the Maori word for "Retribution," which sums up the chief motivating factor of this New Zealand-produced drama. Set in the 1870s, the film details the exigencies of British Colonial rule. A Maori scout, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), stumbles across a native village that has been destroyed in a British raid. Since it is the scout's own village, ...

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The Efficiency Expert

The Efficiency Expert (1992) more movies like this

directed by Mark Joffe
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton

Also released as Spotswood, The Efficiency Expert stars Anthony Hopkins as Wallace, a cold-blooded management consultant, infamous for radically "downsizing" every firm he comes in contact with. Wallace's latest assignment is to streamline a small, family-owned shoe factory in Australia. As he gets to know the eccentric (and endearingly ...

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Rikky and Pete

Rikky and Pete (1988) more movies like this

directed by David Parker, Nadia Tass
featuring Stephen Kearney, Nina Landis, Tetchie Agbayani, Bill Hunter, Bruno Lawrence

In the wake of their surprise hit Malcolm, Australian screenwriter/photographer David Parker and director Nadia Tass concocted an equally delightful follow-up, Rikky & Pete. Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney), feeling like misfits in their hometown (as indeed they are), head for a remote mining community. Here it is hoped ...

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Rainbow Warrior

Rainbow Warrior (1993) more movies like this

directed by Michael Tuchner
featuring Jon Voight, Sam Neill, Bruno Lawrence, Kerry Fox, John Callen

"Rainbow Warrior" was the name of a real-life Greenpeace vessel, which embarked upon a worldwide pro-ecological mission in the early 1980s. While docked in New Zealand in 1985, the Rainbow Warior was destroyed by a bomb, and a crew member was killed. In this dramatization, Sam Neill and Jon Voight play two polar opposites-a hardbitten cop and a ...

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Grievous Bodily Harm

Grievous Bodily Harm (1989) more movies like this

directed by Mark Joffe
featuring Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Joy Bell

In this stylish and smart 1988 thriller, reporter Tom Stewart accidentally falls on the wrong side (not that he's ever on the right side) of the law during a psychotic killer's spree of murders. Stewart's no angel having already stolen money from a car wreck. At the center of the killings is Morris Martin, a schoolteacher on a rampage supposedly ...

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Jack Be Nimble

Jack Be Nimble (1993) more movies like this

directed by Garth Maxwell
featuring Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Alexis Arquette, Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry, Elizabeth Hawthorne

Alternating between urban affluence and rural squalor in its New Zealand setting, this contemporary update of the Brothers Grimm tells the story of a boy and his sister whose placement into very different adoptive homes can't destroy the psychic bond that connects them. An impressionistic opening scene suggests that Jack and Dora's mother has gone ...

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Heart of the Stag

Heart of the Stag (1984) more movies like this

directed by Michael Firth
featuring Bruno Lawrence, Mary Regan, Terence Cooper, Anne Flannery

Dramatically set against New Zealand's North Island scenery, this uneven but well-acted story is about Cathy (Mary Regan) -- a woman trapped in an incestual relationship with her father (Terence Cooper) on a remote sheep farm -- and a drifter named Daley (Bruno Lawrence) who arrives there looking for work. Daley soon develops an interest in Cathy, ...

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Wild Horses

Wild Horses (1982) more movies like this

directed by Derek Morton
featuring Keith Aberdein, John Bach, Kevin J. Wilson, Robyn Gibbes, Bruno Lawrence

The New Zealand-filmed Wild Horses stars Keith Aberdein as an itinerant logger. Aberdein is hired by a national park to help corral a herd of roaming horses. In addition to his inability to carry out the job at hand, he also manages to scare off most of the deer in the area. This incurs the wrath of a group of venison hunters, led by Bruno ...

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An Indecent Obsession (1985) more movies like this

directed by Lex Marinos, Louis Chan
featuring Wendy Hughes, Gary Sweet, Richard Moir, Jonathan Hyde, Bruno Lawrence, Mark Little

Wendy Hughes plays a gorgeous nurse tending to emotionally disturbed Australian soldiers during WWII. Private Gary Sweet seems to be the most well-adjusted of the patients, which Hughes finds attractive. The fly in the ointment is jealous, maladjusted-patient Richard Moir. His campaign of cruelty, calculated to humiliate and unhinge Sweet, serves ...

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Initiation

Initiation (1987) more movies like this

directed by Michael Pearce
featuring Bruno Lawrence, Rodney Harvey, Anna-Maria Winchester, Miranda Otto, Bobby Smith

Danny Molloy (Rodney Harvey) is a wisecracking kid from Brooklyn who travels to the Australian outback in this light teen comedy. He searches for his long-lost father Nat (Bruno Lawrence) after the death of his mother. Kulu (Bobby Smith) is an aborigine with psychic powers who warns Danny of impending danger. The prophecy comes true when Danny's ...

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Smash Palace (1981) more movies like this

directed by Roger Donaldson
featuring Bruno Lawrence, Anna Jemison, Greer Robson, Keith Aberdein

A key entry in the "renaissance" of the New Zealand film industry, Smash Palace stars Bruno Lawrence as an ex-racing champ. Returning home to take over his late father's business, Lawrence finds that his sophisticated European wife Anna Jemison is bored beyond measure at her new existence. She throws him over in favor of his best friend, policeman ...

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