Geoff Murphy

Geoff Murphy

Geoff Murphy was a successful New Zealand filmmaker best-known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s. He directed a string of big-budget Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second unit director on all three movies of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He has also worked as a scriptwriter, assistant director, special effects man, schoolteacher and trumpet player. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoff Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Geoff Murphy
  • Popularity: 6.779
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1946-06-13
  • Place of Birth: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
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  • Also Known As: Geoff Murhphy
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Geoff Murphy Movies

  • 1983
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    Making Utu

    Making Utu

    1 1983 HD

    Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural...

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  • 1990
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    Cowboys of Culture

    Cowboys of Culture

    1 1990 HD

    Director Geoff Steven's personal perspective on the Kiwi cinema renaissance of the 1970s. It traces the development of the local film industry from...

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  • 1988
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    3.8 1988 HD

    Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside...

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  • 1965
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    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    6 1965 HD

    Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and...

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  • 1987
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    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    1 1987 HD

    This Kaleidoscope documentary timed in with the release of Nicholas Reid’s book A Decade of New Zealand Cinema. The book cherrypicked Reid's...

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  • 1988
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    Mauri

    Mauri

    6.5 1988 HD

    Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as...

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  • 1977
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    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

    The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...

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  • 1977
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    Dagg Day Afternoon

    Dagg Day Afternoon

    1 1977 HD

    A series of sketches about Kiwi extraordinaire Fred Dagg's secret mission to find a "bionic sheep" which has been lost by the government.

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  • 1985
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    The Quiet Earth

    The Quiet Earth

    6.629 1985 HD

    After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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  • 1995
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    Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

    Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

    5.833 1995 HD

    A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to...

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  • 1993
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    The Last Outlaw

    The Last Outlaw

    5.2 1993 HD

    The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff (Rourke) had once been a heroic and...

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  • 2000
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    Fortress 2

    Fortress 2

    5.081 2000 HD

    7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find...

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  • 1990
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    Young Guns II

    Young Guns II

    6.496 1990 HD

    Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is...

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  • 1992
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    Freejack

    Freejack

    5.395 1992 HD

    Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of...

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  • 1970
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    Tank Busters

    Tank Busters

    1 1970 HD

    The Italian Job meets cheap jugs and a student union gig in this early heist tale from Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie). The plot follows some...

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  • 1984
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    Utu

    Utu

    7 1984 HD

    In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke...

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  • 1993
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    Blind Side

    Blind Side

    5.4 1993 HD

    A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back stateside....

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  • 1981
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    Goodbye Pork Pie

    Goodbye Pork Pie

    6.75 1981 HD

    Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...

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  • 1981
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    Goodbye Pork Pie

    Goodbye Pork Pie

    6.75 1981 HD

    Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...

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  • 2003
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    Race Against Time

    Race Against Time

    4.667 2003 HD

    When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the...

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  • 1977
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    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

    The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...

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  • 1977
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    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

    The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...

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  • 1977
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    Dagg Day Afternoon

    Dagg Day Afternoon

    1 1977 HD

    A series of sketches about Kiwi extraordinaire Fred Dagg's secret mission to find a "bionic sheep" which has been lost by the government.

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  • 1977
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    Dagg Day Afternoon

    Dagg Day Afternoon

    1 1977 HD

    A series of sketches about Kiwi extraordinaire Fred Dagg's secret mission to find a "bionic sheep" which has been lost by the government.

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  • 1978
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    A State of Siege

    A State of Siege

    7.5 1978 HD

    Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility as an art teacher in a South Island private girls' school and decides to live out her dream...

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  • 1989
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    Red King, White Knight

    Red King, White Knight

    5.5 1989 HD

    The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to...

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  • 2004
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    Spooked

    Spooked

    6 2004 HD

    Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers,...

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  • 2004
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    Spooked

    Spooked

    6 2004 HD

    Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers,...

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  • 1988
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    3.8 1988 HD

    Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside...

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  • 1996
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    Don't Look Back

    Don't Look Back

    5.1 1996 HD

    Los Angeles heroin addict Jesse endangers the lives of his childhood friends after he discovers a briefcase full of money from a drug deal gone bad,...

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  • 1988
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    3.8 1988 HD

    Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside...

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  • 1988
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    3.8 1988 HD

    Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside...

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  • 1997
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    Dante's Peak

    Dante's Peak

    6.195 1997 HD

    Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for....

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  • 1965
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    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    6 1965 HD

    Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and...

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  • 1965
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    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    Hurry Hurry Faster Faster

    6 1965 HD

    Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and...

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  • 1981
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    Goodbye Pork Pie

    Goodbye Pork Pie

    6.75 1981 HD

    Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...

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  • 1986
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    Mr. Wrong

    Mr. Wrong

    4.8 1986 HD

    A small town woman, fresh to the city, buys a used Jaguar haunted by the ghost of a woman who was slain in it.

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  • 1997
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    Dante's Peak

    Dante's Peak

    6.195 1997 HD

    Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for....

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  • 2001
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    8.415 2001 HD

    Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the...

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  • 1974
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    Uenuku

    Uenuku

    1 1974 HD

    Tells the Māori legend of Uenuku and his affair with the mist maiden Hinepūkohurangi. A story of love, betrayal, and rainbow redemption. Filmed at...

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  • 2005
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    xXx: State of the Union

    xXx: State of the Union

    5.04 2005 HD

    Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S....

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  • 1988
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    Mauri

    Mauri

    6.5 1988 HD

    Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as...

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  • 1988
    imgMovies

    Mauri

    Mauri

    6.5 1988 HD

    Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as...

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  • 1984
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    Utu

    Utu

    7 1984 HD

    In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke...

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  • 2004
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    The Land Has Eyes

    The Land Has Eyes

    5.625 2004 HD

    Coming of age story about Viki a young pacific islander attempting to escape the stifling conformity of island culture. Inspired by the myth of the...

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  • 1977
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    Sleeping Dogs

    Sleeping Dogs

    5.667 1977 HD

    Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    An unmistakable Australian icon - a smoking revolver, two piercing eyes behind a makeshift mask of armour. But beyond the armour, behind the eyes was...

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