★★★★★ "This outrageously enjoyable spectacle has compelled my awestruck assent with its sheer stamina, scale and brio." - The Guardian.   Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying…

★★★★ "An enjoyable, well-assembled and genuinely emotional French romp... you might appreciate this one a lot" - Stuff.  A feel-good Christmas film unlike you’ve ever seen before... A Good Doctor (Docteur?) follows Serge, the only emergency doctor…

★★★★★ "Barbie is one of the most inventive, immaculately crafted and surprising mainstream films in recent memory" - Independent (UK).  To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place.  Unless you have a full-on existential…

★★★★★ "A masterfully constructed character study from a great director operating on a whole new level." - Empire Magazine.  Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding…

★★★★ "Wes Anderson’s 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style" - The Guardian The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and…

From Éric Besnard (Delicious), comes A Great Friend (Les Choses Simples). Packed with laughs, A Great Friend lets audiences experience the stunning vistas of the Auvergne-Rhône Alps, in a charming tale of friendship. Éric Besnard’s delightful comedy…

★★★½ (3.5/4) "A thoroughly entertaining and oddly emotional good time." - Observer.  Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, Haunted Mansion is a supernatural horror comedy film directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People). A single mom…

★★★★★ "One of the films of the year... Past Lives should not be missed - it's a five-star watch." - NewsHub.  Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later,…

From writer and director Nia Vardalos, the worldwide phenomenon My Big Fat Greek Wedding is coming back to theaters with a brand-new adventure. Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious…

Building Bridges: Bill Youren’s Vision of Peace is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the life and times of Hawkes Bay farmer and peace activist, Bill Youren, during the post-war years up until the 1970s. In particular, he was taken by the…

★★★★½ "Both a terrific black comedy and tension-filled crime caper. A rollicking, compelling tale, filled with plenty of surprise twists and turns." - Stuff.  OFFICIAL SELECTION - Cannes International Film Festival 2022  Familial tensions, criminal…

This tour of the city takes in masterpieces by Tiepolo, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera and the intellectuals who fell in love with Venice: from Canova to Goethe, Byron to Walter Scott, down to the great Hollywood stars drawn to its unique, yearly Film…

★★★★ "An eclectic and engaging gaggle of thespians... bring on the many happy returns of Poirot" - Newshub.  A Haunting in Venice, an unsettling supernatural thriller based upon the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie and directed by and…

-ADULT TICKETS AT KIDS PRICING!-  ★★★★ "Breathless action, brilliant banter, distinctive look, starry vocal cast, funky soundtrack and impressive storytelling and world-building." - Stuff.  After years of being sheltered from the human world, the…

ADULT TICKETS AT KIDS PRICES!  ★★★★ "A blast of fresh air, originality and anarchic good-humour. This film is a pile of fun. And the soundtrack, as you might expect, is a killer." - Stuff.  From Warner Bros. Pictures comes the feature film Blue…

ADULT TICKETS AT KIDS PRICING!  "A smart, big-hearted and funny animated movie" - Stuff. Sometimes the hero you are meant to be lies just beneath the surface. This year, DreamWorks Animation dives into the turbulent waters of high school with a…

★★★★ “It’s an intriguing, stimulating, exhilarating movie, which really does address – with both head and heart – the great issue of our age, AI.” - The Guardian.  Amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence,…

"An engaging, enjoyable cinematic experience" - Stuff.  Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people for whom she prepares a gourmet dinner at the local church every week.…

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Cannes International Film Festival 2022.  ★★★★½ "One of the most compelling films you’ll see this year" - Sydney Morning Herald  Cédric Jimenez’s status as one of France’s most successful contemporary directors has been…

★★★★½ "Funny, poignant and emotional, this thoroughly entertaining '80s-set dramedy deserves to be seen by Kiwis of all ages." - Stuff.  Uproar is a story about connection and finding your place in the world. It is the story of 17-year-old Josh…

Brown vs. Brown is a New Zealand mid-century architectural film. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Simon Mark-Brown, son of the late architect Peter Mark-Brown, the documentary takes us on a whirlwind tour of New Zealand’s iconic mid-century era…

James Norton (Happy Valley) stars in the theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language premiere of A LITTLE LIFE. Following a sell-out West End run, this record-breaking production of…

★★★★ - "The Palme d’Or winner that will keep you gripped until the final frames. fascinating, absorbing and thought-provoking..." - Stuff.  A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness. …

Early 1500s, in a city covered with gold, standing admired over a ‘hidden forest’, a boy descends from the Dogado’s mountains. He will be eventually remembered as ‘the most excellent amongst painters’. Extraordinary master of colour and brilliant…

★★★★ "A western that delivers an opera's worth of emotion. An intensely likeable wee film" - Stuff.  Spain's legendary filmmaking auteur Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, Parallel Mothers) returns with his own unique take on the Western genre! This special…

★★★★ "A western that delivers an opera's worth of emotion. An intensely likeable wee film" - Stuff.  Spain's legendary filmmaking auteur Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, Parallel Mothers) returns with his own unique take on the Western genre! This special…

When disaster strikes, a community rises! In the face of New Zealand's largest pollution disaster, a community unites to save their treasured coast, but divisions grow with the ongoing fight to remove the wreckage and restore the environment. …

- Show Me Shorts 2023: Crime Spree -  Keep the getaway car running. We’re heading out to uncover the mysteries and personalities behind a series of crime capers. This collection of short films will have you gripping your seat and reaching for more…

- Show Me Shorts 2023: Whānau Friendly -  Fast becoming one of the most popular sessions at Show Me Shorts, this annual collection of short films is for children and their families to enjoy together. Let us ignite a love of cinema in your tamariki.…

Show Me Shorts 2023: Wellington Filmmaker Talk, presented by Wellington UNESCO Creative City of Film.  Learn more about making short films in this moderated discussion with three top short filmmakers. Hear candid stories from their experiences.…

- Show Me Shorts 2023: When The Spirit Takes Flight -  Beyond this world is another. That is the place the characters in these short films are reaching for. A nature photographer seeking transcendent beauty, an autistic boy proving himself on the…

- Show Me Shorts 2023: Indonesian Focus - Indonesia’s cinema reflects Indonesia itself: a rich melting pot of cultures, languages and world views. The films in this collection employ a language of visual poetry that transcends the distances between…

- Show Me Shorts 2023: Taboos and Temptation -  Get comfortable with the uncomfortable truths revealed in this enticing collection of short films. Absurd comedy heats up a kitchen, telling secrets emerge in a seemingly perfect family, and small…

- Show Me Shorts 2023: The Sampler -  Enjoy some of the top short films from this year’s Show Me Shorts Film Festival. The collection is designed to entertain, delight and show off rising talent in the filmmaking scene from Aotearoa and abroad. The…

- Show Me Shorts: Award Winners -  This session acknowledges and celebrates our best and brightest filmmaking talent. The awards will be announced on Sunday 8 October but this year, for the first time, you can book tickets to a session which just…

- Show Me Shorts 2023: Women Rock The World -  Who runs the world? Step into stories of queens, dreamers and vengeful angels. Wherever these women are stifled they will find a way to realise their goals; be it in the sphere of career, the perfect…

- Show Me Shorts 2023: Love Unconditional -  Familial love and affection cuts to the core of who we are. The bonds the characters in these stories share run deep, despite some testing times. Come away from these shorts with some no-nonsense life…

The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour. Taylor Swift Eras attire and friendship bracelets are strongly…

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is returning to cinemas with it's brand new 2023 show, a musical journey entitled 'Stories'. Set against the spectacular backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, the Tattoo Arena will play host to impressive cultural…

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Berlin International Film Festival -  Directed by Academy Award® winner Guy Nattiv, Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Academy Award®…

★★★★★ "One of the best Westerns ever made and almost certainly the best film of 2023 so far." – London Evening Standard.  At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world…

Dumb Money tells the story of fortunes made and lost overnight in the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze that may have changed Wall Street forever. It offers a scathing, funny and emotional portrayal of how a loosely affiliated group of amateur…

The biopic about Simone Veil, one of the prominent women in France in the 20th Century. Simone Veil’s life story, from her childhood to her major political battles, seen through the pivotal events of the twentieth century. An intimate and epic…

An Iranian woman living in Australia, Shayda finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her frightened 6 year old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the…

Newly restored to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina…

Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant, The Wilds) directs this genre-bending thriller about the horrors of dating in the 21st Century, adapted by Michelle Ashford (Operation Mincemeat) from the acclaimed New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian. …

Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilised universe. When her duties send her to…

With his first film in seven years, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End, Moonlighting) directs one of his most free and visually inventive films to date. Following the travels of a curious Gray Sardinian donkey named EO. After being…

Can you survive five nights? The terrifying horror game phenomenon becomes a blood-chilling cinematic event, as Blumhouse— the producer of M3GAN, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man— brings Five Nights at Freddy’s to the big screen. The film…

One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, was killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942. His life was as compelling and enigmatic as his art, set against the dramatic wartime locations…

Global superstar Dolly Parton celebrates the release of her star-studded rock album, ROCKSTAR, with a global first-listen fan event featuring selections from the album and an exclusive interview with Dolly herself. Dolly Parton has joined forces…

Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the…

Return to The Hunger Games, the landmark film franchise that has earned over $3 billion globally, with Lionsgate’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ #1 New York Times Bestseller The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Years before he would become the…

Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by…

Witness Maria Callas' mesmerising voice and presence as she made her Paris debut, performing a selection of arias from iconic operas. This historic moment, considered the 'event of the century', was broadcast live across Europe. This was the first…

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Festival De Cannes -  ★★★★ - The Guardian   The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has…

Indiana Jones meets Monty Python in this hilarious comedy adventure. Having found fame as a modern-day Robinson Crusoe by seemingly surviving alone on the desolate tropical island of Val Verde, French action adventurer Jack Mimoun, (Malik Bentalha,…

RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ accentuates the journey of RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR, from its inception, to the opening in Stockholm, Sweden, to the finale in Kansas City, Missouri. It is about Beyoncé’s intention, hard work, involvement in every aspect…

For many, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. This year it will come early with André Rieu’s cinema special White Christmas—a celebration you will never forget. From the first jingled bell, you will be immersed in the incomparable…

A pair of business rivals discover that they're identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents to get back together.

A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation,
 in tribute to…

Directed by Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok), Next Goal Wins follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires…

A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation,
 in tribute to…

Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book and one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, “Wonka” tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest…

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Wish” is an all-new musical-comedy welcoming audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless…

This holiday season, Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family vacation like no other in the…

Having failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once and for all. This time Black Manta is more formidable than ever before, wielding the…

Three fabulous femmes - Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin Scott Thomas – star in the wildly entertaining new comedy from writer/director Marc Fitoussi (Folies Bergère, Call My Agent!) about estranged childhood friends who tentatively reunite for…

One Life tells the inspiring true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, whose unsung endeavours on the eve of World War II saved more than 600 children from their doom at the hands of the Nazis. Nicky considered himself a banker, not a humanitarian.…

- Best Film at 2023 Venice Film Festival -  “Everything in it – every frame, every image, every joke, every performance – gets a gasp of excitement.” – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian “Imagine a Terry Gilliam film multiplied by a Wes Anderson film and…

Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his night time appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his…

The movie is set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and…

Based on the non-fiction novel about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games, this true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they’re thrust into the…

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election, About Schmidt), The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a prestigious American school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the…

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam…

The new film by Wim Wenders (Pina, Buena Vista Social Club). Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books and…

Follows the story of the Von Erichs, a dynasty of wrestlers who made a great impact on the sport from the 1960s to the present day.

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.…

From the twisted mind of Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman franchise, Kick-Ass) comes Argylle, a razor-witted, reality-bending, globe-encircling spy thriller. Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World franchise) is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of…

An appealingly twisted crime-thriller in which a poor rural family agree to a diabolical deal to shelter an Argentinian drug lord. This Brazilian debut feature delivers a wry, politically astute domestic psychodrama.

After receiving a distressing call from an informant, Federal Agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head deep into the Giralang Ranges to investigate the whereabouts of their corporate whistle-blower Alice after she mysteriously disappears on a company…

Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection is the story of an architectural revolution carried out by a solitary genius who changed the appearance of Rome forever, by taking up a personal challenge against convention and prejudice, by having…

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past. "An amusing and elegant drama, Highsmithian in its intimacy and…

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel Dune, with an expanded all-star cast. Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against…

The reunion of three friends, among tango, dance, music and the opportunity of a trip that will take them as in their good old days to travel the route of the country.

Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel' faced during the Yom Kippur War. Starring Helen Mirren and Liev Schreiber.

Sir Noël Coward grew up in poverty and left school when he was only nine years old. He was queer in a very straight world. And yet by the age of 30, he was the highest paid writer in the world, and a star on the Broadway stage. He wrote, directed…

Jackie Stewart is the compelling documentary film on Formula 1 World Champion, team owner and legend of the sport, Sir Jackie Stewart. Using immaculately restored and previously unseen archive footage, the film charts Sir Jackie’s life from his…