Watch 2020 Movies Online in New Zealand
Explore the best 2020 movies in New Zealand. From box office hits to fan-favorite films, discover top-rated titles, trending picks, and hidden gems that made 2020 a standout year for entertainment.
Take a trip back to 2020 and relive the best in entertainment in New Zealand. Browse a wide variety of movies, including award-winning blockbusters, trending releases, and critically acclaimed favorites. Whether you're looking for action-packed thrillers, heartwarming dramas, laugh-out-loud comedies, or captivating documentaries, 2020 delivered something for everyone. Use Popcorn Time to easily find titles by genre, popularity, or release date, and rediscover the magic of 2020.
From the big screen to small-screen hits, explore the year's most memorable releases and create your own playlist of 2020's greatest entertainment. Start streaming now and see why 2020 remains a favorite among movie and TV lovers.
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Unable to land a job as an airline pilot, Leonardo takes a job as a fumigator pilot at a farm in the countryside. On his very first night, he discovers the town harbors a deadly secret that will put everyone in danger.
Respira (2020 )
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Brucie, is abandoned and left on the steps of the police station as a mere infant, leaving a future that consists of seventeen foster homes. He begins to be influenced by his surroundings, as a war for his soul wages. After a trip to church with his friend Suzy things appear to be looking up for young Brucie, that is until he is pulled from the grid, against his will, by the Cartel to do their bidding.
The Wager (2020 )
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Manas Verma, a lawyer, is defending Raghuram Singh who is accused of assaulting his wife. However, Raghuram claims that he is being framed. To get to the bottom of the matter, Verma starts investigating the case further and finds that not everything is the way that it seems. Manas uncovers some shocking truths that might change the case.
My Client's Wife (2020 )
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When his wife goes missing, Arvind must solve the mystery of her disappearance before time runs out and he becomes the prime suspect.
Valayam (2020 )
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A short-filmmaker who is about to begin the shoot of his debut feature film gets kidnapped. What do the kidnappers want?
Yen Peyar Anandhan (2020 )
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Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Miss Juneteenth (2020 )
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On Thanksgiving, a family struggles to properly care for their father with Alzheimer's disease.
Our Father's Keeper (2020 )
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Set between the New World (Heaven) and the Old World (Earth) the story follows the life and afterlife of Jonathan Stone and all of those lives around him from his past, present and future.
Heaven (2020 )
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Two sisters are abandoned by their Broadway-bound mother and are left with their grandparents and a cast of kooky characters. A coming-of-age story about family, friends, love, and forgiveness.
When We Last Spoke (2020 )
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David Walliams has co-created a brand new retelling of a classic fairytale, starring as the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk: Ever After. In Walliams’ version, the Giant didn’t die after falling off the beanstalk, but escaped with a concussion and no way back to his home. Stuck in a human village, he’s forced to seek help from the unlikeliest of sources – all the while attempting to outsmart the villagers.
Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After (2020 )
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Roald & Beatrix, the tail of the curious mouse, a heart-warming Christmas film inspired by the true encounter between a six-year-old Roald Dahl and his idol Beatrix Potter. A magical story of what really can happen when you are brave enough to follow your dreams. Joining Dawn French who plays Beatrix, the cast includes Jessica Hynes, Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Nina Sosanya, Bill Bailey and Nick Mohammed.
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020 )
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The story of the forgotten godfather of modern Formula 1—Jack Brabham—and a son's quest to defy the odds in the competitive world of international motor-sport once more.
Brabham (2020 )
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Olympic hopeful sees her dreams shattered only to be guided to champion a more meaningful cause.
The Prayer List (2020 )
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Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.
Burning Night (2020 )
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Bounce original movie, starring Brandon Jay McLaren and Gabrielle Graham
Marry Me This Christmas (2020 )
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It's the largest Arctic expedition of all time. In September 2019 the German icebreaker "Polarstern" is on its way to the North Pole. The best scientists of their generation are on board. Their job are to collect data about the ocean, ice, atmosphere and life. The mission is to understand climate change, because the changes in the Arctic have an impact far beyond the region. The documentary provides spectacular close-ups of the MOSAiC expedition under the direction of the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and shows the world of the Arctic during the polar night, from which hardly any data and images existed until now. A scientific, logistical and also human adventure of a community of researchers and crew members who let themselves be frozen with the ship for a year in the ice desert near the North Pole in order to use the natural drift of the ice, captured for the audience in impressive images.
Arctic Drift (2020 )
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A portrait of Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” whose unwanted pregnancy led to the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide, Roe v. Wade. The documentary unravels the mysteries closely guarded by McCorvey throughout her life.
AKA Jane Roe (2020 )
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When Isa is not at school or working on his parents' farmyard, he spends carefree days with his friends - until the outside world starts forcing him to say one goodbye after another.
A First Farewell (2020 )
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In Super Spy Ryan, Ryan is transported into an animated virtual reality world where he and his friends must become the ultimate super spies. Their mission is to recover the precious Golden Console from the clutches of a new character to the Ryan’s World universe: a nefarious hamster named The Packrat, following a glitch in the Virtual World that turns all of Ryan’s friends into babies. The show toggles between live-action, featuring scenes with Ryan and his family; and animation, featuring Ryan’s signature avatar and characters in his animated world.
Super Spy Ryan (2020 )
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Dutch ice freediver Kiki Bosch swims in the world's coldest waters without a wetsuit as therapy for a trauma she experienced, and to inspire others.
Descent (2020 )
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Five years after being acquitted for the murder of his family, Sean (White) is finally ready to move on with life. But the bitter ex-cop (Malcolm) who led the investigation remains adamant that he's guilty - and will stop at nothing to bring him down.
This Town (2020 )
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Avant Kinema’s Flow State is inspired by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s theories of flow, and takes full enjoyment in the process of scratching, animating and hand-processing Super8 film partnered with an improvised soundtrack of guitars and percussion. In this immersive trip, process is key.
Flow State (2020 )
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At age 31, after experiencing her second miscarriage, Tahyna MacManus was devastated, lost, angry and, despite those around her, felt terribly alone. She picked up a camera and started to record her story and in doing so found her tribe. Resilient, courageous women speaking of their sadness, their shame and their guilt while still holding onto hope. Tahyna discovers that 1 in 4 Australian women experience miscarriage so why aren’t we talking about it? In this highly intimate journey, Tahyna is on a mission to lift the lid on all that shame, provide some answers and make sure that women no longer walk this path alone. But first, she has to face her own fears.
MUM Misunderstandings of Miscarriage (2020 )
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This ABC documentary special provides a detailed look into the disastrous fire that ravaged Paris' revered Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. Firsthand accounts of firefighters, clergy, local officials and those who were inside the cathedral on April 15, 2019, as well as harrowing footage from within the inferno, tell the story of the fire watched around the world.
Notre-Dame: Our Lady of Paris (2020 )
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Daily life at Iran’s second biggest zoo is interrupted when Mohsen, the head keeper, takes Maya, his 4 year old Bengal tiger, to perform in a fiction film in the north of the country by the Caspian Sea which was once home to the now extinct caspian tiger. In between filming, Mohsen lets Maya off the leash and allows her to roam in this sparsely populated landscape – she is the first ‘free’ tiger in Iran in over 60 years. But instead of the perfect experience of the wild that Mohsen hopes it to be, the trip kickstarts a series of events that mark the end of Mohsen and Maya’s relationship and in the process reveals a much darker and more complex side to Mohsen and the Zoo in which Maya and the other animals are kept.
Maya (2020 )
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The world is crying out for a new model of leadership, but what is it? One woman thinks she has the answer. Australian CEO and ‘dreamer’ Fabian Dattner leads an international group of 76 female scientists on an Antarctic voyage designed to transform them “into the sort of leaders they want to be.” Her hope is that once these women are primed to lead in science, they will be able to make meaningful change around the world. But on board, as the women’s deeply personal stories of workplace gender biases and more are revealed, Dattner’s own leadership style and philosophy is severely tested. Set against the planet’s last untouched wilderness, The Leadership unearths the profoundly troubling systemic obstacles to women’s advancement in science and beyond.
The Leadership (2020 )
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Avi Brickman is a middle-aged man still broken from the tragic death of his eight-year-old daughter five years earlier. When he is suddenly fired from his job, a thin threaded lifeline to his shattered existence, he decides to kill himself in the very home where the accident occurred. However, when he arrives at the isolated house in the woods, he finds a woman and her young daughter taking shelter there. During one long night, in his confused state of mind, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past as he confronts his guilt and pain to a cathartic and unexpected conclusion.
The Forgiving (2020 )
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Short animation by Miho Takahasi.
In full bloom (2020 )
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Elton John's career has spanned decades, but his legacy is more than just his music. Reginald Dwight's early debut was in the band Bluesology - there he would meet lyricist Bernie Taupin whom he would go on to write over 30 albums with. After parting ways with the band and his birth name, the Rocketman was born.
Elton John: A Life in Song (2020 )
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The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Resistance (2020 )
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As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
Body Cam (2020 )
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Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Don't Tell a Soul (2020 )
