7 Films & TV Shows Set In New Zealand During The 1980s
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The Wolf of Wall Street
New York England ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980s The 1990sEARN. SPEND. PARTY. โ A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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Shopping
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980sis blood thicker than water? โ Living in New Zealand in 1981 amid high racial tension, Willie, a half-Samoan teenager, is coming into his own. With an unpredictable father, Willie spends most of his time working at a department store or taking care of his little brother, Solomon. A chance encounter at work with an eccentric and charming โshopperโ named Bennie lures Willie into a world without rules. As Willie begins to find a place in Bennieโs reckless nest of criminals, Solomon grows increasingly vulnerable to their fatherโs violent tendencies.
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Boy
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980sSummer, Girls, Gangs, Drugs ... its not easy being eleven. โ It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before.
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Zombie Movie
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980s1000 zombies, three bogans, half a brain โ New Zealand, 1986. The zombie apocalypse is here and three mates are stranded. The trusty Holden is out of gas. With only fast food scraps and a few cigarettes for sustenance, surviving each other may prove harder than facing the undead outside
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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980s The 2000sA male teacher starts to suspect that one of his male students is the reincarnation of his first love.
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Ruby and Rata
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980sRuby (Yvonne Lawley), an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata's son is into arson and shoplifting, while Ruby's nephew (Simon Barnett) is a hapless yuppie wannabe. Marginalised by the deregulated economy of the '80s and living on their wits, they may just find common cause despite themselves in this Graeme Tetley-penned tale.
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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980s The 14th CenturyIn the 14th century a village seeking escape from the Black Death are guided by a boy's vision to tunnel into an abandoned mine and emerge into 20th century New Zealand.