Jim Moriarty

Jim Moriarty

Movies for Jim Moriarty...

Title: Vegas
Character: Henry Ruata
Released: April 19, 2021
Type: TV
A business owner is thrust into New Zealand's dark underbelly after a million-dollar drug deal goes wrong on a blood-stained night, setting off a chain of events between dangerous factions.
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Cousins
Title: Cousins
Character: Māori Caregiver
Released: March 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Separated as children, three cousins with an unshakable bond confront their painful pasts and embark on an emotional journey to find each other.
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The Gravedigger of Kapu
Title: The Gravedigger of Kapu
Character: Hone
Released: October 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Hone is the last of the old time gravediggers. He links the living with the dead. He is the keeper of their secrets. Tana is Hone’s apprentice who respects his uncle and doesn’t mind the physical work. However he finds the spiritual side of the job unnerving. Hone worries that Tana may not be able to pick up the role of the gravedigger and all that it entails. A series of incidents in the urupa (graveyard) lead them to both make final decisions.
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Mahana
Title: Mahana
Character: Rupeni Poata
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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The Witch & the Woodsman
Title: The Witch & the Woodsman
Character: Grandfather
Released: June 26, 2010
Type: Movie
A woodsman must rescue his young daughter from an evil witch.
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The Strength of Water
Title: The Strength of Water
Character: Gibby
Released: August 27, 2009
Type: Movie
When a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced apart. Kimi must find the strength to let go of what he loves the most.
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No Petrol, No Diesel
Title: No Petrol, No Diesel
Character: Oscar
Released: August 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A small town, on State Highway 1, where nothing ever happens...then Rex Devlin dies in a suspicious car wreck and a mysterious stranger moves into the Temuka Hotel. Why is one of the world's biggest multinational corporations so desperate to buy a dowdy little backwater petrol station? Has Oscar Devlin really come all the way home from Los Angeles to sort out his meager inheritance, or is it Frankie he's come to see?
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Fog
Title: Fog
Character: Dad
Released: May 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Sixteen year old Ricky lives in a small fishing village with his parents. He dreams of leaving the town but is hindered by his father's expectations to follow in his footsteps. Ricky meets Telly, an older local girl who encourages him to sneak out of his house and escape into the night.
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The Waimate Conspiracy
Title: The Waimate Conspiracy
Character: George Kepa
Released: August 15, 2006
Type: Movie
The 2005 discovery of a cannonball, buried for 138 years in a paddock, throws Waimate into turmoil. It is all the Maori locals need to confirm their long-held belief that they were forcibly removed from their tribal lands, in a bloody 1866 battle. The hotly contested claim eventually ends up in the District Court and on the lens of cameraman Dave who captures all the arguments, frauds and forgeries of the townspeople, in a cinema verité mockumentary style.
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A Difficult Woman
Title: A Difficult Woman
Character: Dominic Martin
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
Anne (Caroline Goodall) is a successful pathologist for a top pharmaceutical corporation, and her life couldn't be better. That is, until one of her oldest and dearest friends is murdered, turning Anne's world upside down. Not satisfied with the status of the investigation, she takes it on herself, and what she finds out could threaten her career -- and her life.
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Saving Grace
Title: Saving Grace
Character: Gerald Hutchinson
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate relationship develops. He helps her repair her shattered self-esteem and she begins to feel loved and secure. But then she discovers his secret - he tells her he is Jesus Christ.
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Title: A Difficult Woman
Character: Dominic Martin
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: TV
Anne Harriman has it all, and expects nothing less. Her brilliant work as chief pathologist of pharmaceutical giant Bauer-Ritter has secured the respect of the corporate, academic and political worlds, making her a trophy addition to any board or panel. But she's prepared to put it all on the line when her old friend Giselle McKenzie is murdered.
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The Returning
Title: The Returning
Character: George
Released: December 10, 1990
Type: Movie
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
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Mark II
Title: Mark II
Character: Rangi
Released: November 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Three Maori youths, bored with Auckland, head south in a restored Mark II Zephyr in search of something different. One of them is on the run from drug dealers, whom he had crossed. Various mini-adventures occurs as they make their way down the North Island, but it all comes to a head while visiting a cousin. Finally, they, the drug dealers and the police all come together, with the expected fights and arrests.
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Kingpin
Title: Kingpin
Character: Mike Herewini
Released: March 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Willie, a likeable kid, forms a friendship with Rikki, a new arrival at the reform school. Willie discovers that Rikki is maybe tough enough to take on Karl, the kingpin. Although Rikki is strong, he does not like to fight, but tensions mount as Karl's bullying become more obnoxious. After being shown up by Willie, Karl loses his temper and gives Willie a thrashing. As a result, Willie joins with some other boys in an escape. They steal a car, get drunk, and have a serious accident. Meanwhile Rikki is in hospital, injured in a forestry "accident' engineered by Karl.
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Night of the Juggler
Title: Night of the Juggler
Character: Truck Driver
Released: June 6, 1980
Type: Movie
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.