Watch 2022 Movies Online in New Zealand
Explore the best 2022 movies in New Zealand. From box office hits to fan-favorite films, discover top-rated titles, trending picks, and hidden gems that made 2022 a standout year for entertainment.
Take a trip back to 2022 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, 2022 delivered something for everyone. Use Popcorn Time to easily find titles by genre, popularity, or release date, and rediscover the magic of 2022.
From the big screen to small-screen hits, explore the year's most memorable releases and create your own playlist of 2022's greatest entertainment. Start streaming now and see why 2022 remains a favorite among movie and TV lovers.
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Young newlyweds Sunni and Flynn, along with their friend Tyler, travel across the state with plans to start a new life. Along the way, they stay at a guest house on Moorehouse Road, on a property owned and occupied by an eccentric woman and her mute son. Strange incidents begin to occur during their stay, and the visit becomes increasingly terrifying when they learn the bizarre owners are hiding a dark family secret.
Moorehouse Road (2022 )
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A battered wife on the run searching for paradise finds that paradise isn't always. Nothing is as it seems.
The Paradise Motel (2022 )
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Jermaine, an aspiring male model, controls his wife Ariel, until a terrible accident invites a dangerous affair.
Cries of Desire (2022 )
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With unprecedented, intimate access to the private life of Courtney Barnett, this innovative and stylised 16mm feature documentary follows a paradoxically introverted performer and anti-influencer, who, at the height of success, is ready to walk away. Long-time collaborator Danny Cohen’s feature documentary reveals a woman who finds power in sharing her vulnerability. Recording her innermost thoughts on a Dictaphone over a period of three years, Courtney begins her slow acceptance of Danny Cohen’s camera. This unique filming process mirrors Courtney’s gradual search for purpose and emergence as an artist embracing her place in the world.
Anonymous Club (2022 )
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Eggs explores the interaction between a young social worker and her client, a young woman who recently lost her husband. The social worker's first meeting with the widow takes place in the latter’s home. While the social worker is eager to do her job well, the widow is weary and exhausted from everyone’s condolences.
Eggs (2022 )
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A young woman grieving the loss of her girlfriend is aided by her sister to move forward & go on with the things they planned after college.
Distant Sky (2022 )
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Philip Parris Lynott took the world by storm when he dominated the stage with his most notable rock band Thin Lizzy. The Irish frontman battled his way to the top whilst fighting prejudice. He achieved fame and fortune whilst being a member of the band Thin Lizzy. Their hit songs such as Whiskey In The Jar, The Boys are Back and many more solidified their names in musical history. Philip was a consistent member of the renowned band Thin Lizzy and was arguably the driving force for its success. Despite the fame and fortune, Phil found himself heading down a dark path that would ultimately jeopardize his career.
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye (2022 )
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Faced with a rapidly-changing music scene and an uncertain future, electro-pop duo FINKEL leave their home in Los Angeles and embark on a journey to the icy forests of Michigan's famous Mackinac Island. Here Jane returns to her childhood home with partner and bandmate Brian to revisit the people and places from her past. With its longstanding ban on automobiles and the daily onslaught of extreme winter weather, life for the few who live on the island year-round is not easy. FINKEL must embrace this unique lifestyle as they dive headfirst in the creative process once more. Their goal: write an album inspired by this extraordinary place. Navigating the joys and complexities of returning to a place frozen in the past, Jane and Brian immerse themselves in the sonic landscape of Mackinac and find inspiration for their new body of work.
Islanders (2022 )
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A Cinderella story with Latin roots. Camila Cabello personifies the American Dream come true. Havana, Mexico, meet Miami. A loser then winner on the X Factor. Fifth Harmony pop to superstar. Save herself. Save the world. Cinderella in film finds real-life romance. Happily ever after or not?
Camila Cabello: Just Jump (2022 )
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Calvin, a ne'er-do-well, lost in life and in search of purpose, and his group of dole-bludging friends suddenly come into some money when they win the lottery. Having money for the first time ever seems like the answer to their prayers, but soon enough their investments go astray and they end up stuck in a web of drugs, debts, gangs and cops. Can Calvin escape the trap he's been clamped in his whole life, or is he really just good for nothing?
Good for Nothing Blues (2022 )
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A mechanic with terminal cancer has a bizarre secret --- he's had a life-long love-affair with a sex doll. Now his son, a D-list TV actor, must help him find the doll a new home and say goodbye.
Love Doll (2022 )
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With more school shootings in 2021 than any year on record, Code Red: Youth of the Nation exposes the fatal cost of our children's education. The documentary seeks to restore the safety of our schools by providing the tools and solutions to put an end to these tragedies.
Code Red: Youth of the Nation (2022 )
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After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur conversation in culture.
The Art of Grieving (2022 )
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Filmmaker Karina Duffy travels the globe to explore the spectrum of the human condition through intimate stories and diverse cultural traditions.
Tahi: The Human Journey (2022 )
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A young tearaway wins the lottery, but risks losing it all when he becomes embroiled in a toxic love triangle with a pair of recovering scam artists.
Lottery (2022 )
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Lex is staying at his family's house with best friend Kenny. The former is recovering from a recent suicide attempt, while the latter is trying to spend a summer apart from his husband. Screenwriter Shane is staying in the summerhouse, while Lex's overbearing actor brother and his girlfriend are staying too. Add their neighbour into the mix, who is in love with Lex, who is in love with Shane, who is in love with Kenny... and the pressure cooker is primed and ready to blow, especially with Shane writing about a family secret that Lex would much rather keep hidden.
Brotherly Lies (2022 )
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Three strangers, A Hitman - Haider Pasha, A Gangster - Amjad Daniyal and a Sidekick - Abeer Gul gets trapped in a Carnivorous environment. Things are not what they seems. Outcast, Betrayed, all three suspecting each other are fighting for their life.
Triple Cross (2022 )
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Sancho, a Spanish go-getter, arrives in Manila seeking for a job promised to him by his friend, Alonso. However, upon arriving in the Philippines he discovers that his friend has disappeared under strange circumstances. In his quest of locating Alonso, Sancho finds himself unwillingly caught up in a whirlwind that is the underworld of prostitution, drug trafficking and corrupted police from the hand of Alonso's girlfriend, Clarisse, a young prostitute. Throughout his investigation, that is nothing more than a flight forward, Sancho will stumble into the backstage of this tropical paradise of cheap beer and pretty women for sale. Facing a terrible decision to choose between his friend, and who he used to be, and her lover, whom he has madly fallen in love with.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2022 )
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A kind, loving man on the spectrum tries to survive a tragic loss, keep his home, and win the love of his life.
Gerald's Hands (2022 )
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Three couples, who have been long time friends, find themselves exploring sex in a new way. Soon the journey for each one takes a turn for the worse from when they first started causing jealousy, contempt, rage, and murder.
Irreversible Desires (2022 )
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Josh Chang is a struggling gig economy worker who picks up passengers on Election Day, which changes the course of everyone's lives forever.
The Sea Was Never Blue (2022 )
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A struggling artist turns to sex work to support herself.
Frida (2022 )
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Say it isn't so! Little Foot has a foot odor problem! Will King Arthur defeat Little Foot's crawly stinky creepy foot cooties just in time for the Yeti Snow Party? Join the adventure and find out in Little Foot 3!"
Little Foot 3 (2022 )
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An engrossing portrait of the rise and untimely demise of David McComb, the virtuosic frontman of Australian rock band The Triffids.
Love in Bright Landscapes (2022 )
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Set in the near future after a significant collapse of civilization, Dome House Six is a sci-fi thriller about trust, mischief, lust and control, that follows four seemingly unconnected people as they try to survive in a post apocalyptic landscape.
Dome House Six (2022 )
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When a young woman returns home for the holidays, her meddling sister sets her up with a handsome football player online, but things might not be as they appear.
Catfish Christmas (2022 )
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After Johnny Knoxville sent the guys on a terrifying Shark Week mission last year, Knoxville is joining the boys as they head out to get Poopies over his fear of sharks.
Jackass Shark Week 2.0 (2022 )
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Zian, a retired special forces commander (played by Leo Fong), now runs an auto body shop in the tough inner city. The inner city is now being taken over by "the Black Roses" a ruthless gang of punks who are making rounds collecting "turf money" from local businesses. When Zian refuses to comply with the gang's demands, the Black Roses assault his grand-daughter and leave her for dead. Now with nowhere else to turn and the gang's power only increasing, Zian calls on his old special forces team, "The Obliterators", to come in and serve their own brand of justice.
Pact of Vengeance (2022 )
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Jazz trumpet legend Roy Hargrove, deemed by his peers as a musical prophet, up close and personal like you have never seen him before. The film follows Grammy award winning Roy Hargrove from Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Vienne, Perugia, Sète, Sorrento and Marseille during a summer European tour in what would be the last year of his life. An epic love letter from first time director Eliane Henri, the film features interviews and live performances by Roy inclusive of musical icons Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Mos Def, Robert Glasper, Wynton Marsalis and Sonny Rollins who reflect on the magic of his music, Roy's impact on the next generation and his place in the history of jazz. Key conversations reverberate beyond Roy's personal story and enter the terrain of what it means to be an artist, particularly in the American context.
Hargrove (2022 )
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The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. For his family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the abyss of the US justice system, however, this David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with his health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors pulling out all the stops to extradite him, the clock is ticking.
Ithaka (2022 )
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Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into being the world's first hypnotist hit man by a mysterious woman who finds out his degree is fake.
Forty Winks (2022 )
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When two inept criminals break into the home of a washed-up psychic in search of hidden loot, they get a lot more than they bargained for.
Sideshow (2022 )
