9 Films & TV Shows Set In New Zealand During The 21st Century
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Falling Inn Love
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 2010sWhen a San Francisco exec wins a New Zealand inn, she ditches city life to remodel and flip the rustic property with help from a handsome contractor.
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Killer Sofa
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 2010sDon't sit on the furniture — Francesca always attracted weirdos. When one of her stalkers is found dead, she looks for comfort from her best friend, Maxi. Meanwhile, Maxi’s grandfather, Jack, a disgraced Rabbi, comes across a reclining chair containing a Dybbuk inside. Jack and his voodoo sorceress partner try to find out where the recliner has been delivered while exploring Jack’s newfound gift for communicating with the other world. Meanwhile the reclining chair becomes enchanted by Francesca and starts committing crimes of passion.
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Deathgasm
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 2010sEvil is coming... — Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.
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What We Do in the Shadows
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 2010sSome interviews with some vampires — Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
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Housebound
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 2010sTerror Gets Domesticated — When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
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Cloud Atlas
California Hawaii Scotland England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1970s The 1930s The 2010s The 1840sEverything is Connected — A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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My Wedding and Other Secrets
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 2010sA true love story. — A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of their children in a new land.
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Black Sheep
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 2000sThere are over 40 million sheep in New Zealand, and they're pissed off! — A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines.
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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1980s The 2000sA male teacher starts to suspect that one of his male students is the reincarnation of his first love.
