Stephen Lovatt

Stephen Lovatt

Born: May 27, 1964
in Wellington, New Zealand

Movies for Stephen Lovatt...

The Convert
Title: The Convert
Character: Cornwall
Released: March 14, 2024
Type: Movie
A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s New Zealand. His violent past is soon drawn into question, and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes.
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Title: The Boy, the Queen and Everything in Between
Character: Richard
Released: February 1, 2024
Type: TV
Fresh out of prison and desperately needing a job, Jacob reaches out to the only person who can help - his father Max, who just happens to be Aotearoa's most famous drag queen.
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The Power of the Dog
Title: The Power of the Dog
Character: Doctor
Released: October 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
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Flunk: The Exchange
Title: Flunk: The Exchange
Character: Victor
Released: June 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Sabina and Esther's relationship is pushed to breaking point when international exchange student Annie comes to stay.
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Chekhov's The Seagull
Title: Chekhov's The Seagull
Character: Dorin
Released: May 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Chekhov's famous characters are reimagined with a Kiwi twist and congregate over Zoom. In a direct commentary of our world in lockdown, the characters are still searching for meaning in their lives while battling love, jealousy, dissatisfaction, dreams, hopes and plans - not to mention malfunctioning video calls! This drama all plays out in self-isolation and over virtual interactions with each other.
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Title: My Life Is Murder
Character: Roland
Released: July 17, 2019
Type: TV
Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.
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Charmer
Title: Charmer
Character: Man
Released: July 28, 2018
Type: Movie
A lonely woman goes on a date with a disagreeable bachelor and must decide what's more important: compatibility or companionship.
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Title: James Patterson's Murder is Forever
Character: Sgt Wylie
Released: January 22, 2018
Type: TV
A crime series featuring real stories packed with shocking twists and turns.
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Resolve
Title: Resolve
Character: Don Allan
Released: July 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Chris Crean, who took a stand against gang violence in his community only to become a target himself.
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Mahana
Title: Mahana
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: Movie
It is the 1960s. Two Maori families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, make a living shearing sheep on the east coast of New Zealand. The two clans, who are bitter enemies, face each other as rivals at the annual sheep shearing competitions. Simeon is a 14-year-old scion of the Mahana clan. A courageous schoolboy, he rebels against his authoritarian grandfather Tamihana and his traditional ways of thinking and begins to unravel the reasons for the long-standing feud between the two families. Before long, the hierarchies and established structures of the community are in disarray because Tamihana, who is as stubborn as he is proud, is not prepared to acquiesce and pursue new paths. The story is adapted from Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.
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Title: Ash vs Evil Dead
Character: Sheriff Thomas Emery
Released: October 31, 2015
Type: TV
Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.
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Title: Hope and Wire
Character: Jonty Smith-Robinson
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: TV
Hope and Wire is a dramatized edition of what happened to a group of New Zealanders after the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes telling the "real story". They didn't need any extra drama, Christchurch survivors know that.
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The Cure
Title: The Cure
Character: Ted
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: Movie
When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to release it to the world. Knowing that they make more money from chemotherapy drugs than the cure, the company does everything it can to stop her.
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Fantail
Title: Fantail
Character: Rog
Released: August 4, 2013
Type: Movie
A feisty young petrol station attendant attempts to figure out her place in the world.
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Title: Harry
Character: DI Kevin Gray
Released: May 8, 2013
Type: TV
Harry is a single story, six-part crime drama series set in Auckland which follows the intense psychological journey of Detective Harry Anglesea.
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Waitangi - What Really Happened
Title: Waitangi - What Really Happened
Character: Busby
Released: February 6, 2011
Type: Movie
This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi’s 6 February 1840 signing. The production drops the usual solemnity surrounding Aotearoa’s founding document, and uses humour and asides to camera to evoke the chaos and motives behind its signing. Written by Gavin Strawhan, with Witi Ihimaera, What Really Happened screened on TVNZ for Waitangi Day 2011. Peter Burger won Best Director - Drama/Comedy at the 2011 Aotearoa TV Awards for his work. (from nzonscreen.com)
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Title: Spartacus
Character: Tullius
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: TV
Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment.
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Title: Legend of the Seeker
Character: Declan
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: TV
The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.
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Show of Hands
Title: Show of Hands
Character: Hatch
Released: October 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greetings cards salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do anything to win. Together they are just two of the competitors in a gruelling endurance contest to win a car - whoever keeps their hand on it the longest wins. As the sleepless days wear by, what price will they pay for winning this competition?
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This Is Not a Love Story
Title: This Is Not a Love Story
Character: Tony
Released: July 15, 2002
Type: Movie
In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success Belinda craves. Suzanne lives with Tony (Lovatt), an actor frustrated by his dead-end role in a soap, who is looking for a way out. Soon Belinda is caught up in a love triangle - which is just the experience she needs to inspire her first novel. This is about sex and love, success and failure, creativity and careers.
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Title: The Strip
Character: Shane Robertson
Released: March 5, 2002
Type: TV
The Strip is the story of corporate lawyer Melissa Walker, who decides her life needs a new direction and quits her job after finding her husband in bed with his male lover. She opens a male strip club, catering especially for women...
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Title: Being Eve
Released: August 25, 2001
Type: TV
Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids.
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Zenon: The Zequel
Title: Zenon: The Zequel
Character: Wills
Released: January 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.
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Savage Honeymoon
Title: Savage Honeymoon
Character: Phil Webb
Released: March 15, 2000
Type: Movie
Dean is threatening to firebomb his ex-girlfriend's wedding. Mickey is filling the garage with stolen goods - again, and pierced teenage daughter, Leesa, is an accident waiting to happen on the family's beloved Triumph motorbike. An unconventional tough family, battling to survive with humour and love, in a world of motor bikes, rock 'n' roll, classic cars and alcohol. This is a family that you probably would not want next door, but they are fun to watch, and they have their ways of holding family together.
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Highwater
Title: Highwater
Released: October 6, 1997
Type: Movie
A big-city director working in advertising discovers a better life in small-town New Zealand.
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Title: Medivac
Released: September 10, 1996
Type: TV
Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation. The series was also known as Adrenaline Junkies overseas. Medivac was set in the emergency department of Brisbane's fictional Bethlehem West Hospital, where a dedicated medical team work in the demanding world of emergency medicine. The team specialises in the evacuation of disaster areas, journeying by helicopter to remote areas inaccessible by ambulance. They also work in the city streets and the suburbs involving themselves with the patients, their families and the police.
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Title: Xena: Warrior Princess
Character: Kirilus
Released: September 4, 1995
Type: TV
Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.
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Title: Mysterious Island
Released: June 15, 1995
Type: TV
Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American Civil War in a balloon wind up stranded on a remote Pacific island, where they are able to improvise a comfortable living for themselves while they wait for a passing ship. As time passes, they become suspicious that some unseen force is watching and directing their movements. The main difference between the protagonists of the series and those of the novel is the addition of a female character, the wife of Pencroft. The unseen watcher, Captain Nemo, is more active and less benevolent than in the novel. Able to monitor the island through steampunk-style closed-circuit television and other advanced devices, he treats the castaways as human laboratory specimens, influencing their environment to test their behaviour under stressful conditions. As the series progresses, his tests become more extreme as their continued co-operation threatens his preferred thesis that all humans are, at base, selfish and untrustworthy. In the series finale, Nemo apparently succeeds in breaking up the group; this proves to be a ruse by the protagonists, who are now certain of Nemo's existence. After they penetrate his hideaway, Nemo admits that the 'experiment' is ruined, and offers to return the castaways to civilisation in his submarine. In a final twist, he puts out to sea without them, apparently leaving them alone on the island, without his influence for good or ill.
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Title: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Character: Galen, the Vampire Hunter
Released: January 29, 1995
Type: TV
The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.
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Typhon's People
Title: Typhon's People
Character: Denzil / Zeno Secundus
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.