Tapu Te Ranga | Island Bay closing early

Tapu Te Ranga | Island Bay Library will close at 5:30 today due to staff illness. The afterhours slots will be open and we expect to be open as usual tomorrow.

Systems maintenance - Wednesday 23 July

From 8.30am-9am you may experience a short outage as we undertake some work on this website - we apologise if you experience any impact. NB. The online library catalogue and access to your library card will not be affected by this work.

Ngā kiriata - Movies

This page aims to be a guide to movie (and television) resources at the library - and covers both our audiovisual resources and our book collections in this area. Have a browse!

Photo of a shelf of DVDs at the library.

Explore our film and TV resources

Quick links

Booklist: Film in Aotearoa

Recent film and TV stories

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  • Farewell to Maurice Gee
    Maurice Gee: Renowned Aotearoa New Zealand author passes, aged 93.

  • New film and TV books
    A collection of film and television books, recently added to our library.

  • Val Kilmer, 1959-2025
    Hollywood actor Val Kilmer passed away last week, aged 65. Have a browse of his movies in the library collection.
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Magazine roundup

Want to check out what's in the latest issue of your favourite movie magazine? Here are some magazines we have available physically at our libraries:

You can also find a selection of eMagazines about film and TV through Libby here.

What's on in Wellington?

Local Cinemas

Cinema guides

  • Flicks
    Trailers, descriptions, ratings and session times for films in New Zealand cinemas.
  • Wellington Film Society
    Join the society or buy a sampler to see old and new gems from throughout the world.
  • Wellington Film Guide
    Session times and reviews for current and upcoming releases.
  • Noremote.co.nz
    Session times for films in all Wellington (and Christchurch) theatres.

Local Festivals

NZ News, Reviews, Media

  • Screen Hub
    Daily online film and television industry news & vacancies.
  • Lumiere
    NZ site with film criticism, reviews and forum.
  • New Zealand Herald
    Daily reviews, competitions, entertainment news.