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No Ordinary Sun

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Utu

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Kaleidoscope - NZ Cinema, the Past Decade

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The Garden Party

Also stars Alison Routledge

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Vostok Station

Another last man on earth sci-fi tale

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Joe and Koro - High Society

Also written by Craig Harrison

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Planet Man

Another tale of planetary desertion

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Cowboys of Culture

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Smash Palace

Starring Bruno Lawrence

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Blerta Revisited

Features Bruno Lawrence

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Tears

Music video from The Crocodiles, featuring Bruno Lawrence

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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

Another NZ fantasy film

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Goodbye Pork Pie

A movie featuring Bruno Lawrence

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Rutherford of Nelson

A 1972 documentary on atomic scientist Ernest Rutherford

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Tank Busters

Also stars Bruno and directed by Murphy

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Numero Bruno

A doco on Bruno Lawrence

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Existence

A 2012 Kiwi sci-fi film

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Turn of the Century

A Quiet Earth-esque music video

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Never Say Die

Also directed by Geoff Murphy

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Under the Mountain - The Alien World Below (Episode Four)

More classic kiwi sci-fi

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Starlight Hotel

Directed by writer Sam Pillsbury

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Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

Early film experiment for Bruno and director Murphy

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Eternity

More Kiwi sci-fi

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Utu Redux

Also directed by Murphy and starring Bruno

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The Nightwatchman

More scientific industrial disaster

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Mis-drop

More man alone Kiwi sci-fi

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Heart of the Stag

Bruno Lawrence also starred in this

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The Cul de Sac - First Episode

Another apocalyptic drama with people going AWOL

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Shmeat

Another Kiwi dystopia

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Loading Docs 2016 - Imagine the World is Ending

Another imaging of the end of the world

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Bridge to Nowhere

Alison Routledge also acted in this

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Marae - The Piano Story

Actor Peter Smith behind the scenes on The Piano

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Remote New World

Another film involving isolation

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Battletruck

Another dystopian sci-fi film shot in New Zealand

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The Nuclear Comeback

Documentary about nuclear energy

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This is Not My Life - First Episode

Another man who discovers his world has changed

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Percy the Policeman - Full Series

An early Bruno Lawrence/Geoff Murphy collaboration

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Rangatira: Merata Mita - Making Waves

Geoff Murphy on Merata Mita's writing work on this film

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Dive

Move mind-spinning goings on

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The Last Man on Earth

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The Making of Smash Palace

Documentary about the making of Smash Palace

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Northspur

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