Unavailable Films

The following represents just the “tip of the iceberg” of film titles currently unavailable on DVD in New Zealand. It is a work in progress (REVISED JULY 1, 2010), with many more titles to be added in the near future.

*Indicates titles specifically scheduled for release in New Zealand by distributors, but were withdrawn due to classification costs.

General DVD Titles

  • Love Exposure (NZIFF 2009)*
  • Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (Doco, NZIFF 2009)*
  • Disengagement (Amos Gitai)*
  • Tykho Moon*
  • Lady Cop, Papa Crook*
  • All’s Well, End’s Well*
  • Derek (Derek Jarman doco, NZIFF 2008)*
  • Obscene (Doco, NZIFF 2008)*
  • The Tulse Luper Suitcases (Peter Greenaway, NZIFF 2006)*
  • Destricted (NZIFF 2007)*
  • The Unknown Woman (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian Film Festival 2008)*
  • Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)*
  • Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder)*
  • Satan’s Brew (Fassbinder)*
  • The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder)*
  • The Naked Feminist (Doco)*
  • Fear of a Black Hat (Rusty Cundieff)*
  • Human Touch (Paul Cox)*
  • The Man From Hong Kong* (seen in ‘Not Quite Hollywood’)
  • Dark Horse (Dagur Kári)*
  • Novo (Jean-Pierre Limosin)*
  • The Most Unromantic Man in the World (James Heath)*
  • The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty)*
  • Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg)*
  • Sorcerer (William Friedkin)*
  • The Emmanuelle Collection*
  • No Middle Ground in the Middle East (John Pilger)*
  • Sex Censorship and the Silver Screen (Doco)*
  • Dennis O’Rourke Documentaries (titles tba)*
  • L’Etoile Du Soldat (Christophe de Ponfilly)*
  • The Man With the Screaming Brain*
  • Essential Patrice Leconte 3-pack (Monsieur Hire, Tango*, My Best Friend)
  • Essential Almodovar: Vol. 2 (Law of Desire*, Kika, Flower of My Secret)
  • As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai)*
  • 99 Women* (Jess Franco)
  • O Phantasma (João Pedro Rodrigues)*
  • Tinto Brass Presents: Erotic Short Stories Vol. 1-4*
  • Private Lessons (1981)*
  • Black Christmas (1974)*
  • 70’s Australian Cinema Collection Box Set*
  • Greetings (Brian De Palma)*
  • The Lover (Jean-Jacques Annaud)*
  • Tattoo (1981)*
  • Hooligans & Thugs*
  • Lady Libertine*
  • Crawlspace*
  • The Micallef Program*
  • Private Collections*
  • All The Little Animals*
  • An Italian Romance (Carlo Mazzacurati)*
  • Preaching to the Perverted*
  • Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)*
  • Gone Troppo (Australian Short Films)*
  • Allegro (2005)*
  • Viva (2007)*
  • The Soulkeeper (2002)*
  • When the Sky Falls (2000)*
  • Allegro (2005)*
  • Viva (2007)*
  • The Soulkeeper (2002)*
  • When the Sky Falls (2000)*
  • Pure Shit (1975, Australian Cult Classic)*
  • The Corpse Grinders 1/2 (Grindhouse Experience)*
  • The Doll Squad (Grindhouse Experience)*
  • Blood Orgy of the She Devils (Grindhouse Experience)*
  • Ted V Mikels Collection (Grindhouse Experience)*
  • Sugar Hill (1994)*
  • Il Dolce E L’Amaro*
  • As Tears Go By (Wong-Kar-wai)*
  • The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
  • Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
  • The Shape of Things Neil LaBute)
  • Claire Dolan (Lodge Kerrigan)
  • Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Katie Tippel (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Spetters (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Fourth Man, The (Paul Verhoeven)
  • The Passion of Ayn Rand
  • Dobermann
  • Dust Devil
  • Matador (Pedro Almodovar)
  • Eddie Izzard – Sexie (Duncan Lowney)
  • 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  • Shivers (David Cronenberg)
  • The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
  • Julien Donkey Boy (Harmony Korine)
  • Heavy Traffic (Ralph Bakshi)
  • American Pop (Ralph Bakshi)
  • Terror at the Opera (Dario Argento)
  • The Trip (Roger Corman)
  • Following (Christopher Nolan)
  • Candy (Christian Marquand)
  • Cry of the Banshee (Hammer Horror)
  • The Oblong Box (Hammer Horror)
  • Firecracker (2004)
  • Silent Partner (2001)
  • The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol)
  • Juste Avant Nuit (Claude Chabrol)
  • Les Noces Pouges (Claude Chabrol)
  • La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
  • Rien Ne Va Plus (Claude Chabrol)
  • Nada (Claude Chabrol)
  • The Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol)
  • Boesman & Lena (John Berry)
  • Barocco (Andre Tehine)
  • Jake Speed (Andrew Lane)
  • Swann (Anna Benson Gyles)
  • Play (Alicia Scherson)
  • L’Amore Molesto (Mario Martone)
  • Nina’s Tragedies (Savi Gavison)
  • Benzina (Monica Stambrini)
  • Container (Luke Moodysson)
  • The Girl (Zande Zeig)
  • Yellow (Alfredo De Villa)
  • Oktober (Stephen Gallager)
  • Signs and Wonders (Jonathan Nossiter)
  • You I Love (Dmitry Troitsky)
  • The Wolves of Kromer (Will Bahrani)
  • Apartment 1303 (Ataru Oikawa)
  • Farewell Friend (Jean Herman)
  • St Valentine’s Day Massacre (Roger Corman)
  • Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has)
  • Bella Mafia (David Green)
  • Yasim (Kenny Glenaan)
  • Elsa (Jean Becker)
  • Eros (Michelangelo Antonioni/Steven Soderbergh/Wong Kar-wai)
  • The Officer’s Ward (Francois Dupeyron)
  • The Trip (Miles Swain)
  • Mesmer (Roger Spottiswoode)
  • The Lost Empire (Jim Wynarski)
  • Angela (Rebecca Miller)
  • Swindled (Miguel Bardem)
  • Empire of the Ants (Bert I Gordon)
  • Sky Blue (Kim Moon-Sang)
  • Who Killed Teddy Bear? (Joseph Gates)
  • Le Gout Des Autres (Agnes Jaoui)
  • Taxi 3 (Gerard Krawezk)
  • Rather English Marriage (Paul Seed)
  • The Night of the Sunflowers (Jorge Sanchez-Gabezudo)
  • What to Do in Case of Fire (Gregor Schnitzler)
  • Yield to the Night (J Lee Thompson)
  • The Star (Nikola Lebedev)
  • Intimate Enemies (Florent Emilio Siri)

Television

  • The Camomile Lawn*
  • Green Wing, Series 2
  • Jekyll (BBC)*
  • Help (BBC)*
  • Bombshell (BBC)*
  • Funland (BBC)*
  • This Life (BBC)*
  • Nighty Night (BBC)*
  • Buddha of Suburbia (BBC)*
  • The Long Firm (BBC)*
  • The Thick of It (BBC)*
  • Inspector Lynley Mysteries (BBC)*
  • New Tricks, Series 4 (BBC)*
  • The Lost Language of Cranes (BBC)*
  • Help (BBC)*
  • Five Days (BBC)
  • Shameless*
  • Peep Show*
  • Queer as Folk (UK)*
  • L Word, The; Seasons 2-5*
  • Footballer’s Wives, Series 3-5*
  • Bad Girls, Series 7-8*
  • Cold Blood*
  • Greg the Bunny*
  • Millennium*
  • Law and Order SVU, Season 3*
  • Homicide, Season 2*
  • Rock of Love*
  • Flavor of Love*
  • Balls of Steel*
  • Canal Road*
  • Code Monkeys*
  • Dr 90210, Season 2*
  • Extreme Hollywood (E! Channel)*
  • Sexiest (E! Channel)*
  • Footballers Wives, Series 1-5*
  • I Love New York*
  • Kitchen Nightmares USA (Gordon Ramsey)*
  • Life Support*
  • Murphy’s Law, Series 1-3*
  • It’s Complicated*
  • Strange Love*
  • Most Haunted, Series 6/7 Vol. 2*
  • Taggart, Vol. 14*
  • Taggart, Special 25th Anniversary*
  • City of Vice* (Channel 4)
  • A Harlot’s Progress (Channel 4)*
  • Spaced, Series 1-2 (Channel 4)*
  • Why Democracy? (SBS Doco)*
  • Lunch with Madam Murat (SBS Doco)*
  • Life’s a Zoo, Vol. 2 (SBS Doco)*
  • Ship of No Return: The Last Voyage of the Gustloff (SBS Doco)*
  • The Operation: Surgery Live (SBS Doco)*
  • Wilfred, Series 2*
  • Freaks & Geeks
  • Our Friends in the North
  • Life and Loves of a She-Devil
  • Pulling
  • Playing the Field
  • Rock Follies
  • The Commander
  • The Street

Foreign Language Television

  • Unit One, Series 1-2*
  • Inspector Montalbano Vol. 2*
  • Octopus, The; Series 1-4*
  • Stockinger, Series 1-2*
  • Wallander, Series 2*
  • Proof, Series 1-2*
  • Matrioski – Russian Dolls: Sex Trade*
  • Heimat

World Cinema Contemporary

  • Water Drops on Burning Rocks (François Ozon)
  • Tesis (Alejandro Amenabar)
  • The Most Terrible Time in My Life (Kaizo Hayashi)
  • Trans (Julian Goldberger)
  • The Cement Garden (Andrew Birkin)
  • The Last September (Deborah Warner)
  • Les Apprentis (Pierre Salvadori)
  • Petain (Jean Marbouef)
  • Revengers Tragedy (Alex Cox)
  • Butterfly’s Tongue (Jose Luis Cuerda)
  • Rein Ne Va Plus (Claude Chabrol)
  • The Officer’s Ward (Francois Dupeyron)
  • The Girl From Paris (Christian Carion)
  • Bez Konca (Krzysztof Kiesslowski)
  • Dragonflies (Marius Hoist)
  • I Could Read The Sky (Nicola Bruce)
  • Betty Fisher and Other Stories (Claude Miller)
  • The Last of the Crazy People (Laurent Achard)
  • 9th Company (Fyodor Bondarchuk)

World Cinema Classics

  • The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has)
  • WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
  • Tanner ‘88 (Robert Altman)
  • L’Age D’Or (Luis Bunuel)
  • Maitresse (Barbet Schroeder)
  • I Am Curious Yellow (Vilgot Sloman)
  • I Am Curious Blue (Vilgot Sloman)
  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)?
  • Indiscretion of an American Wife (Vittorio De Sica)
  • The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura)
  • 4 by Agnes Varda (inc. Le Bonheur, La Pointe Courte)
  • Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
  • Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
  • Coup de Grace (Volker Schlondorff)
  • Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
  • I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
  • Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
  • Secret Honor (Robert Altman)
  • Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki)
  • House (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
  • Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Young Torless (Volker Schlondorff)
  • Le notti bianche (Luchino Visconti)
  • Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki)
  • Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki)
  • Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
  • Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
  • Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha)
  • Samurai Spy (Masahiro Shinoda)
  • The Children Are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica)
  • Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellochio)
  • Equinox (Jack Woods)
  • Koko: The Talking Gorilla (Barbet Schroeder)
  • Six Moral Tales (Eric Rohmer)
  • Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi)
  • Jigoku (Nobuo Nagakawa)
  • Solo con tu pareja (Alfonso Cuaron)
  • Hands over the City (Francesco Rosi)
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (William Greaves)
  • Border Radio (Alison Anders)
  • Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
  • Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
  • Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura
  • The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi)
  • Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev)
  • Strip Jack Naked (Ron Peck/Paul Hallam)
  • Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  • The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  • Cria cuervos (Carlos Saura)
  • Martha Graham: Dance on Film (Nathan Kroll)
  • Miss Julie (Alf Sjoberg)
  • La Pointe Courte (Agnes Varda)
  • Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada)
  • Patriotism (Yukio Mishima)
  • Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)
  • Classe tous risques (Claude Sautet)
  • Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
  • White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
  • Le deuieme souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  • L’ Enfance-Nue (Maurice Pialat)
  • Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
  • Kuroneko (Kichiemon Nakamura)
  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)
  • The Round Up (Miklos Jansco)
  • The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil)
  • Passenger (Andrzej Munk)
  • Party and the Guests (Jan Nemec)
  • David Holzman’s Diary (Jim McBride)
  • The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
  • Interrogation (Ryszard Bugajski)
  • Another Way (Karoly Makk)
  • Strip Jack Naked (Ron Peck/Paul Hallam)
  • Torment (Alf Sjoberg)
  • Music in Darkness (Ingmar Bergman)

Blaxploitation Titles

  • Human Tornado, The*
  • Black Godfather, The*
  • Black Sister’s Revenge*
  • Soul Vengeance*
  • Penetentiary*
  • Penetentiary II*
  • Disco Godfather*
  • Foxy Brown
  • Coffy

Gay Titles

  • Amour de Femme*
  • Butch Camp
  • Brother to Brother*
  • Circuit*
  • Cowboys and Angels*
  • Cynara: Poetry in Motion*
  • East Side Story*
  • Four Letter Word*
  • Girl Play*
  • Glue*
  • Hard Pill*
  • Love in Thoughts*
  • The Masseur*
  • Naked Boys Singing*
  • No Ordinary Love*
  • Open Cam*
  • Outing Riley*
  • Outlaugh*
  • Patrik, Age 1.5*
  • Producing Adults*
  • Relax… It’s Just Sex*
  • Sordid Lives*
  • Sun Kissed*
  • Tan Lines*
  • The Art of Being Straight*
  • Tick Tock Lullaby*
  • Whole New Thing*
  • A Year Without Love*
  • Dante’s Cove, Seasons 1-3*
  • Denied*
  • The Dying Gaul*
  • Eating Out 2*
  • Food of Love*
  • Girls Will Be Girls*
  • Hunk Boat*
  • Lair, The; Seasons 1-2*
  • L.I.E.*
  • Long-Term Relationship*
  • The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green*
  • Mr. Leather*
  • Naked Fame*
  • Prom Queen*
  • R U Invited*
  • Slutty Summer*
  • The Trip*
  • Urbania*
  • Presque Rein
  • That Man Peter Berlin
  • A.K.A
  • Holding Trevor
  • Ciao
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  • This is a prototype label for a proposed ‘default’ classification that restricts the publication to persons 18 and over. It would be applied to films and DVDs that have not been examined by the Office of Film & Literature Classification (OFLC) in New Zealand, but have been assessed as suitable based on classification decisions made by an Overseas Classification Authority in either Australia and/or the UK.