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  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  • Jackie Stewart
  • Back to Black
  • The Moon is Upside Down
  • The Fall Guy
  • Challengers
  • Golda
  • IF
  • Joika
  • Mad About the Boy — The Noël Coward Story
  • Civil War
  • The Mountain
  • Origin
  • The Way, My Way
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  • Freud's Last Session
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • Io Capitano
  • Wicked Little Letters
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Kombi Man
  • Cabrini
  • Exhibition On Screen: My National Gallery 2024
  • Exhibition On Screen: Painting the Modern Garden
  • Andre Rieu's 2024 Maastricht Concert: Power of Love
  • National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
  • NT Live: Frankenstein (Encore Screenings)
  • National Theatre Live: Nye
  • National Theatre Live: Dear England
  • National Theatre Live: Vanya
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

An all-new action-adventure spectacle, 20th Century Studios’ “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” opens exclusively in New Zealand cinemas May 9, 2024. Director…
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Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart is the compelling documentary film on Formula 1 World Champion, team owner and legend of the sport, Sir Jackie Stewart. Using immaculately…
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Back to Black

Back to Black will focus on Amy’s extraordinary genius, creativity and honesty that infused everything she did. A journey that took her from the craziness and…
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The Moon is Upside Down

Three women - a duped mail-order bride, a numbed anaesthetist determined to have a romantic weekend, and an empty nester on an unexpected mission of mercy -…
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The Fall Guy

He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all…
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Challengers

From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no…
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Mad About the Boy — The Noël Coward Story

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…
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The Way, My Way

MOTHER'S DAY PREVIEWS SUNDAY 12 MAY SENIOR WEDNESDAY PREVIEWS 15 MAY | ALL SITES (ZOOM Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS AFTERWARDS @ LIGHT HOUSE PETONE) The Way, My Way is…
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IF

MOTHER'S DAY PREVIEWS SUNDAY 12 MAY From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends —…
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Joika

MOTHER'S DAY PREVIEWS SUNDAY 12 MAY American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of…
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Civil War

From filmmaker Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation) comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as…
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Golda

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Berlin International Film Festival -  Directed by Academy Award® winner Guy Nattiv, Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the…
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Origin

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, Origin chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as…
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The Mountain

ADULTS @ KIDS PRICES! Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Māori culture, is determined to fulfil her mission of connecting with her mountain in…
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Love Lies Bleeding

From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to…
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Io Capitano

Two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou and Moussa travel from Dakar to Europe in the hope of becoming pop stars, finding danger, heartbreak and unexpected joy along…
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Wicked Little Letters

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Toronto International Film Festival -  When hundreds of obscene letters mysteriously blight the picturesque British seaside town of…
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Dune: Part Two

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…
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Kombi Man

Limited sessions: Saturday 4th May 12:45pm | Sunday 5th May 2.30pm | Tuesday 14th May 6pm | Wednesday 15th May 10.45am @ Light House Petone. Australian…
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Cabrini

From the award-winning director Alejandro Gómez Monteverde, comes the powerful true story of Francesca Cabrini. An Italian immigrant who arrives in New York…
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Joika

  • All Sites:
    16 May 2024
MOTHER'S DAY PREVIEWS SUNDAY 12 MAY American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of…
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IF

  • Petone:
    16 May 2024
  • Pauatahanui:
    16 May 2024
MOTHER'S DAY PREVIEWS SUNDAY 12 MAY From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends —…
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The Way, My Way

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    16 May 2024
MOTHER'S DAY PREVIEWS SUNDAY 12 MAY SENIOR WEDNESDAY PREVIEWS 15 MAY | ALL SITES (ZOOM Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS AFTERWARDS @ LIGHT HOUSE PETONE) The Way, My Way is…
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COPA 71

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    23 May 2024
Told by the pioneering women who participated in it and built from archives unseen for fifty years, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Soccer…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

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    23 May 2024
As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus.…
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The Garfield Movie

  • Petone:
    30 May 2024
  • Pauatahanui:
    30 May 2024
Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected…
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Freud's Last Session

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    30 May 2024
SENIOR WEDNESDAY PREVIEWS 29 MAY Set on the eve of WWII and towards the end of his life, Freud's Last Session sees Freud (Hopkins) invite iconic author C.S.…
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The Road to Patagonia

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    20 Jun 2024
The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary – firstly a love between two people, and secondly…
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Despicable Me 4

  • Petone:
    20 Jun 2024
  • Pauatahanui:
    20 Jun 2024
KIDS @ ADULT PRICES! In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an…
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Inside Out 2

  • Petone:
    27 Jun 2024
  • Pauatahanui:
    27 Jun 2024
The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” introduces a new…
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Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End

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    27 Jun 2024
Set in New Zealand (Aotearoa in Māori) in 1864, Ka Whawhai Tonu tells the story of a pivotal battle in the country’s first land wars, a battle fought with…
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The Promised Land

  • Petone:
    04 Jul 2024
  • Cuba:
    04 Jul 2024
In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) -- a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero -- sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land…
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Fly Me to the Moon

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    11 Jul 2024
Set against the backdrop of the 1960s space race. Marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis's already difficult task. When the…
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Kinds of Kindness

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    11 Jul 2024
KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who…
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National Theatre Live: Vanya

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    11 Jul 2024
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of…
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Exhibition On Screen: Painting the Modern Garden

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    18 Jul 2024
PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN – MONET TO MATISSE “Mesmerizing” The Herbarium Project “the film adds detailed views of the canvases, tours of otherwise…
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Deadpool & Wolverine

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    25 Jul 2024
Shawn Levy directs “Deadpool & Wolverine” which stars Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, and…
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MaXXXine

  • Cuba:
    01 Aug 2024
Follows Maxine, who was the only survivor of the bloody incidents of X, as she continues her journey towards fame to be an actress in 1980's Los Angeles.
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National Theatre Live: Dear England

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    08 Aug 2024
Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. The country that gave the…
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Exhibition On Screen: My National Gallery 2024

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    22 Aug 2024
The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of…
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Andre Rieu's 2024 Maastricht Concert: Power of Love

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    31 Aug 2024
Through challenges and struggles, there is one thing that keeps us all warm and rooted - the Power of Love. Join us in André Rieu’s symphonic journey to feel…
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National Theatre Live: Nye

  • All Sites:
    05 Sep 2024
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created…
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The Wild Robot

  • Petone:
    19 Sep 2024
  • Pauatahanui:
    19 Sep 2024
From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. …
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NT Live: Frankenstein (Encore Screenings)

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    10 Oct 2024
Frankenstein returns to international cinemas to mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s most famous novel. Captured live in 2011 from the National…
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National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue

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    21 Nov 2024
Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton,…
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Book a Film

Location
  • Petone
  • Cuba
  • Pauatahanui
Film
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  • Jackie Stewart
  • Back to Black
  • The Moon is Upside Down
  • The Fall Guy
  • Challengers
  • Golda
  • IF
  • Joika
  • Mad About the Boy — The Noël Coward Story
  • Civil War
  • The Mountain
  • Origin
  • The Way, My Way
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  • Freud's Last Session
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • Io Capitano
  • Wicked Little Letters
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Kombi Man
  • Cabrini
  • Exhibition On Screen: My National Gallery 2024
  • Exhibition On Screen: Painting the Modern Garden
  • Andre Rieu's 2024 Maastricht Concert: Power of Love
  • National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
  • NT Live: Frankenstein (Encore Screenings)
  • National Theatre Live: Nye
  • National Theatre Live: Dear England
  • National Theatre Live: Vanya
Times
  • Please select a location and film
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