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1. Home and Away (1988– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Drama, Romance
This show chronicles the lives, loves, happiness, and heartbreaks of the residents of Summer Bay, a small coastal town jon the upper Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Stars: Ray Meagher, Lynne McGranger, Emily Symons, Ada Nicodemou
Votes: 6,494
2. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History
A female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 1920s, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings
Votes: 17,741
3. Blue Heelers (1994–2006)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The series primarily focuses on the daily lives of Victorian police officers working at a police station in the fictional small town of Mount Thomas.
Stars: Julie Nihill, John Wood, Martin Sacks, Paul Bishop
Votes: 1,696
4. All Saints (1998–2009)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
A drama series centred on the lives of the nurses at All Saints Western General Hospital.
Stars: Judith McGrath, Georgie Parker, Tammy Macintosh, Martin Lynes
Votes: 1,639
5. City Homicide (2006–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On the Homicide floor of a police headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, detectives work to bring justice for the deceased.
Stars: Shane Bourne, Nadine Garner, Aaron Pedersen, Damien Richardson
Votes: 1,713
6. Water Rats (1996–2001)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Beneath its surface exists a playground for the murky underworld, pollution hazards, the remnants of huge drug hauls, and a graveyard of bodies from years of suicides, accidents and murders. That's the world of the WATER RATS.
Stars: Brett Partridge, Peter Bensley, Toni Scanlan, Jay Laga'aia
Votes: 1,152
7. Nature (1982– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Family
Documentary series exploring various global wildlife issues and subjects.
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, George Page, Chris Morgan, David Attenborough
Votes: 840
8. Battletruck (1982)
PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Post World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.
Director: Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright, Bruno Lawrence
Votes: 1,531
9. Murder Call (1997–2000)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
Centers on homicide detective odd couple, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Shot in Sydney, Australia, the show was known for portraying gripping crime drama, while displaying the grittier side of urban Sydney.
Stars: Lucy Bell, Peter Mochrie, Geoff Morrell, Glenda Linscott
Votes: 487
10. The Red Shoes: Next Step (2023)
111 min | Drama, Family
When Sam's world begins to spiral following an unexpected life-changing event, she must confront her emotions and fear to reignite her deep love for dance.
Directors: Jesse Ahern, Joanne Samuel | Stars: Juliet Doherty, Lauren Esposito, Joel Burke, Carolyn Bock
Votes: 122
11. E Street (1989–1993)
50 min | Drama
An Australian soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there.
Stars: Cecily Polson, Les Dayman, Tony Martin, Vic Rooney
Votes: 167
12. Stingers (1998–2004)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Stingers reveals the shadowy and ambiguous world of undercover cops - people with covert lives and constantly changing identities. They are the police who defeat crime from within the criminal world.
Stars: Peter Phelps, Kate Kendall, Anita Hegh, Ian Stenlake
Votes: 613
13. Love Knots (2021 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Jodie Carpenter is the owner of 'The Loft', her family's sail-making company located near quaint Redmond's Bay Marina. When luxury developer Charles Prescott purchases the port looking to ... See full summary »
Director: Joshua Frizzell | Stars: Brooke Williams, Matthew Walker, Beth Alexander, Simbarashe Matshe
Votes: 133
14. A Love Yarn (2021 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
The owner of a quaint New Zealand yarn shop, Sophie Markham, gets her world flipped upside down after learning her top supplier of yarn, King Farms, is stopping production. Much to her ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Burger | Stars: Anna Hutchison, Simon Arblaster, Olivia Tennet, Annie Whittle
Votes: 360
15. Headland (2005–2006)
60 min | Drama
Set in South Heads, Australia, the story begins with a fatal car accident. Craig, who still lies in coma, is the only survivor. Secrets and intrigues are revealed as we discover the lives and personalities of the inhabitants of Headland.
Stars: Rachael Taylor, Adrienne Pickering, Libby Tanner, Brooke Harman
Votes: 158
16. Mirror, Mirror (1995–1998)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Jo Tiegan is given a mirror as a gift by the elderly owner of an antique shop, she is amazed to see another girl's image in the mirror instead of her own reflection.
Stars: Antonia Prebble, Ben Revell, Jovita Lee, Simon James
Votes: 620
17. Destination Love (2021 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Madison has the chance to pursue her love of event management when her two best friends announce their engagement. Finding a pre-planned wedding package on a remote island vineyard in New ... See full summary »
Director: Aidee Walker | Stars: Anna Hutchison, Josh McKenzie, Jen Van Epps, Tim Carlsen
Votes: 186
18. Young Lions (2002)
TV-14 | Drama, Crime
Australian police show about two male and two female detective senior constables who solve crimes and deal with personal issues.
Stars: Alex Dimitriades, Anna Lise Phillips, Katherine Slattery, Penny Cook
Votes: 168
19. A Remarkable Place to Die
Drama, Mystery | Filming
Detective Anais Mallory returns to hometown Queenstown, New Zealand and faces startling homicides. She cracks cases while confronting personal ghosts from her past.
Stars: Indiana Evans, Alex Tarrant, Rebecca Gibney, Chelsie Preston Crayford
20. Straight Forward (2019)
TV-14 | Crime
After a family member is murdered, con woman Silvia decides to get even by robbing the crime boss behind the hit. But things go awry, and she has to flee to New Zealand and start a completely different life.
Stars: Cecilie Stenspil, Mark Mitchinson, Troels Lyby, Marie Boda
Votes: 315
21. Tricky Business (2012)
60 min | Drama
A drama series about a family that runs a debt collection business, Tricky Business looks at the lengths people go to get themselves out of trouble.
Stars: Gigi Edgley, Antony Starr, Lincoln Lewis, Kip Gamblin
Votes: 193
22. How to Murder Your Wife (2015 TV Movie)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
A melodramatic black comedy presenting the true story of Alfred Benning's murder of his wife, Betty, in 1970s Wellington. The film follows a passive-aggressive man (Simon O'Conner) ... See full summary »
Director: Riccardo Pellizzeri | Stars: Simon O'Connor, Todd Lasance, Geraldine Brophy, Mike Minogue
Votes: 257
23. The Monster of Mangatiti (2015 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Heather Walsh tells her story of the time she was an emotional prisoner of Bill Cornelius at his remote farm.
Directors: Riccardo Pellizzeri, Philly de Lacey | Stars: Greta Gregory, Mark Mitchinson, Flynn Allan, Mark Warren
Votes: 824
24. Rafferty's Rules (1987–1991)
50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Michael Rafferty, who is a Stipendiary Magistrate, drives to work in an old blue VW Kombi van. He owns a cat named Rhubarb.
Stars: John Wood, Arky Michael, Simon Chilvers, Catherine Wilkin
Votes: 63
25. Toke (2020 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Drama set in the sleepy town of Tokerangi, New Zealand in which three laid-back orchard workers accidentally grow a strong strain of marijuana.
Directors: Charlie Haskell, Kewana Duncan | Stars: Tia Maipi, Troy Kingi, Lucy Lawless, Heto Ah Hi
Votes: 50
26. Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988)
193 min | Drama
This two episode TV Mini Series is based on the story of Emma Eliza Coe, who in the second half of the nineteenth century she was known as the "Queen of the South Seas". Being the daughter ... See full summary »
Stars: Rebecca Rigg, Henk Johannes, Alfred Bell, Barbara Carrera
Votes: 82
27. Ablaze (2019 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
On November 18, 1947, as a fire took hold in the basement of Ballantynes department store in Christchurch, 500 employees kept working and hundreds of shoppers roamed through the showrooms ... See full summary »
Director: Joshua Frizzell | Stars: Hannah Marshall, Daniel Watterson, Mark Mitchinson, Jared Turner
Votes: 50
28. Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud (2011)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The story of Marty Johnstone, Andy Maher & Terry Clark's rise in the Drug trade
Stars: Daniel Musgrove, Thijs Morris, Jamie Irvine, Holly Shanahan
Votes: 194
29. Above the Law (2000)
Drama, Romance
Life for the residents of an apartment complex that has a police station on the ground floor.
Stars: Alyssa-Jane Cook, Scott Burgess, Bridie Carter, Jolyon James
Votes: 25
30. Dear Murderer (2017– )
Not Rated | 43 min | Drama
An intimate and personal story of one of New Zealand's most enduring characters in the law profession, Mike Bungay QC.
Stars: Coen Falke, Mark Mitchinson, Erroll Shand, Alison Bruce
Votes: 60
31. Siege (2012 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Smith | Stars: Joel Tobeck, Mark Mitchinson, Miriama Smith, Alistair Browning
Votes: 234
32. Bad Blood (1981)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people, and the police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill, Donna Akersten
Votes: 421
33. In a Flash (2018 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Riccardo Pellizzeri | Stars: Madeleine Adams, Jack Barry, Phil Brooks, Fraser Brown
Votes: 11
34. Safe House (2012 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Carole Taylor is a party girl, a solo mother of meagre means trying to mend her ways and make a secure home for her two young children. But her past, in the person of former boyfriend Tony ... See full summary »
Director: John Laing | Stars: Flynn Allan, Serena Cotton, Peter Elliott, Paul Gittins
Votes: 124
35. Resolve (2017 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Based on the life of a man known as Chris Crean who took a stand against gang intimidation in Taranaki between the Mongrel Mob and Black Power.
Director: Peter Burger | Stars: Pana Hema Taylor, Stephen Lovatt, Ella Becroft, Mark Ruka
Votes: 115
36. Kiwi (2018 TV Movie)
Drama
This is the enthralling story of Kiwi, the horse a farmer's wife bought for $1000 that went on to win the Melbourne Cup in 1983. An 18-year-old jockey called Jimmy Cassidy was the rider.
Director: Thomas Robins | Stars: Nick Blake, Rachel Bock, Alison Bruce, Patrick Carroll
Votes: 49
37. Pike River (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Action, Crime
Docu-Drama about the Pike River Mine and the series of events that led up to the explosion in the mine on 19th November 2010 and the death of 29 miners and contractors. (R.I.P)
Directors: Rupert MacKenzie, Sofia Wenborn | Stars: Bruce Allpress, Jack Barry, Nick Bell-Booth, Roy Billing
Votes: 27
38. Mortimer's Patch (1980–1984)
Drama
Stars: Terence Cooper, Don Selwyn, Sean Duffy, Bruce Allpress
39. The Passenger (XI)
Short, Drama | Completed
Director: Lucinda Bopf | Stars: Matt Domingo, Claire Kavanagh, Anna McMahon
40. Venus and Mars (2015 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A young police detective is attacked in his home and the house burned down. Palmerston North police investigate, revealing unexpected facts that turn the case around.
Director: John Laing | Stars: Craig Hall, Ande Cunningham, Sara Wiseman, Joel Tobeck
Votes: 82
41. Strata (1982)
110 min | Drama
Director: Geoff Steven | Stars: Nigel Davenport, John Banas, Judy Morris, Patrick Smyth
Votes: 19
42. Bombshell (2016 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
In 1985, when a vessel protesting nuclear testing is sunk in New Zealand, local police fight to prove it was a terrorist plot by their French allies.
Director: Riccardo Pellizzeri | Stars: Narelle Ahrens, Xavier Audu, Damien Avery, Ella Becroft
Votes: 91
43. Wahine
History | Pre-production
WAHINE is a Feature Film based on the tragedy of the the ship that sank in New Zealand on a voyage from the South Island to Wellington.
Director: Rexal Ford
44. Loose Enz (1982)
Drama
A New Zealand produced series of 12 separate plays in which New Zealand writers unravel yarns of their own choice.
Stars: Grant Tilly, Jeffrey Thomas, Marnie Morgan, Alice Fraser
45. Roche (1985)
30 min | Drama
In this part we enter the shady city of Warioville and work on taking it back from Koopa town.
Stars: John Bach, Denise O'Connell, Andy Anderson, Deidre O'Connor
46. Telephone Etiquette (1974)
18 min | Short, Comedy
The story of one man's quest to ensure others speak properly via the telecommunications network system...
Director: Sam Neill | Stars: John Banas, Grant Tilly, Ross Jolly, Jane McKechnie
Votes: 19
50. Nearly No Christmas (1983 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Family
The year that Santa and his helpers had to fix the toy factory.
Director: Yvonne Mackay | Stars: Michael Haigh, Mildred Woods, John Banas, John Bach
Votes: 127