Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Strange Ones
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
The Last Song
White Palms
Home Sweet Home
The Dark
The Wren
Vaathi
The Land
Walkabout
Set Me Free
Crooklyn
Rupture
Smoke
Cracks
Alex: The Life of a Child
6ixtynin9
Night Into Morning
Class of 1984
Last Life in the Universe
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Strange Ones
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2018
Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is the feature film version of the 2011 short film going by the same name.The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1988
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.The Last Song
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 2010
A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.White Palms
IMDB 7 | Jan , 2006
Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils.Home Sweet Home
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2023
The Dark
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2005
In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.The Wren
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 1966
Feride is a young girl who lost her family as a child and was educated in a French school. Because of her mischievousness and cheerfulness, she is nicknamed Wren by those around her. On the eve of marriage with the boy she loves, she thinks she is being deceived and runs away. Feride then begins to work as a teacher in various Anatolian cities. She will experience many difficulties during her travels.Vaathi
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 2023
An assistant maths teacher takes up a tedious task of transforming underprivileged students despite the politics around education in the 90s.The Land
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1952
The film deals with the harsh realities of village life and the problems of landholding The film, in an almost documentary style.Walkabout
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 1971
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.Set Me Free
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1999
A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard's then-recent film "Vivre sa vie". As she begins to model herself after the film's lead role, Hannah slowly begins to explore the confusing nature of her sexuality.Crooklyn
IMDB 6.8 | May , 1994
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.Rupture
IMDB 10 | Nov , 2023
When an unstable and grief-stricken young man murders the alleged killer of his best friend, he must try to conceal what he’s done from the loose-lipped guests attending his friend's vigil.Smoke
IMDB 4.8 | Aug , 2015
A look into the effects of domestic violence and alcohol abuse in same sex relationships as we follow Mollie as she battles to live a normal life with her abusive lesbian partner Ashley.Cracks
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 2009
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.Alex: The Life of a Child
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 1986
Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. While CF sufferers were almost certainly doomed to an early death in the Seventies, Alex grew into a child who showed remarkable courage and strength in face of her illness. Her loving family were quick to rally around her, determined to show the same bravery as the little girl as they supported and cherished her through life and struggled to move on after her death at the tragically young age of eight.6ixtynin9
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1999
A woman, fired from a financial corporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.Night Into Morning
IMDB 5.8 | Jun , 1951
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.Class of 1984
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 1982
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.Last Life in the Universe
IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 2003
An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of a young girl and becomes acquainted with her elder sister.