New Zealand Feature Film Soundtrack Sample Clips
Following the composer's name, "CD" indicates that there is a soundtrack CD and "external" indicates that the sample clip is externally located.
Most downloadable clips are 2 min. to 4 minutes duration - 2 meg to 4megs - and are mp3s. Please let me know of any problems or broken links.
The first known NZ feature film to also have its own soundtrack release was the 1977 33rpm LP of Sleeping Dogs. Other titles that are on 33rpm LP and/or audio cassette, but have not yet (as of December 2011) found their way to CD are: Solo (1978), Goodbye Pork Pie (1980), Battletruck (1981), Smash Palace (1981), Strata (1984), Bridge to Nowhere (1986), Queen City Rocker (1986) and The Leading Edge (1987).
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Peter Scholes)
Absent Without Leave (Don McGlashan & Jim Edwards) - CD
After the Waterfall (Joel Haines)
Alex (Todd Hunter) - CD
Among the Cinders (Jan Preston)
Angel At My Table, An (Don McGlashan) - CD
Angel Mine (Mark Nicholas)
Apron Strings (Mark Petrie)
Arriving Tuesday (Scott Calhoun)
Bad Blood (Richard Hartley)
Bad Taste (Michelle Scullion) - CD
Battletruck (Kevin Peek)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Dave Fraser)
Black Sheep (Victoria Kelly)
Bonjour Timothy (Daniel Scott)
Boy (The Phoenix Foundation) - external
Braindead aka: Dead Alive (Peter Dasent) - CD
Bread and Roses (John Charles arrangement)
Bridge to Nowhere (Steven McCurdy)
Broken English (Murray McNabb & Murray Grindlay) - CD
Came A Hot Friday (Stephen McCurdy)
Carry Me Back (Tim Bridgewater & James Hall)
Cave In (Andrew Mcdowall)
Chicken (Michelle Scullion) - CD
Chill Factor aka: Lost Samurai (John Ross)
Chunuk Bair (Stephen Bell-Booth)
Cinema of Unease (Don McGlashan)
Constance (John Charles & Dave Fraser)
Crooked Earth (James Hall) - CD
Crush (Anthony Partos - JPS Experience)
Cupid's Prey (Bruce Lynch)
Curry Munchers
Dangerous Orphans - (Jonathan Crayford)
Dead Kids aka: Strange Behavior (Tangerine Dream)
Death Warmed Up (Mark Nicholas)
Dean Spanley ( Don McGlashan) - CD - external
Desperate Remedies - sample A (Peter Scholes) - CD
Desperate Remedies samples - CD - external
Devil's Rock, The (Andrea Possee)
Devil Dared Me To, The (Various NZ Rockers) - CD
Diagnosis Death (Plan 9)
District 9 (Clinton Shorter) - CD - external
Down by the Riverside (Jeremy Mayall) - CD
Eagle vs Shark (The Phoenix Foundation) - CD
End of the Golden Weather, The (Stephen McCurdy)
Event 16 (Agent Alvin & Warren Field)
Exposure (Bruce Lynch)
Ferryman, The (Haim Frank Ilfman) - external
Five (Spencer Powell, Andrew McMillan, Jamie Newman)
Flight of the Albatross (Jan Preston)
Footrot Flats (David Dobbyn) - CD - external
Footstep Man, The (Jan Preston)
For Good (Shayne Carter) - CD - external
Forgotten Silver (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9)
Fracture (Victoria Kelly)
Fresh Meat (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9) - external
Frighteners, The (Danny Elfman) - CD - external
Futile Attraction (Jonathan Kennerley)
Goodbye Pork Pie (John Charles)
Good For Nothing (John Psathas)
Grasscutter, The (Don McGlashan & Wayne Laird)
Gupta vs Gordon (Anand & Milind Chitragupth)
Heart of the Stag (Leonard Rosenman)
Heaven (Victoria Kelly)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Dasent) - CD
Hercules - The Legendary Journeys (Joseph LoDuca & Ray Bunch) - CD - external
Her Majesty (William Ross)
Hidden (Hirini Melbourne)
Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The (Howard Shore) - CD - external
Neil Finn's 'Song of the Lonely Mountain' from 'The Hobbit' - 4 minutes (Flash)
Holy Roller, The (Hanan Townshend)
Home by Christmas (Jan Preston) - external
Hook, Line & Sinker (Plan 9)
Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, The (Mario Grigorov) - external
How To Meet Girls From a Distance (various artists) - external
Hugh and Heke (Jed Town)
I'll Make You Happy (Michael Lawry) - CD
Illustrious Energy aka: Dreams of Home (Jan Preston)
In My Father's Den (Simon Boswell)
Insatiable Moon, The (Neville Copland) - CD - external
Iris (John Charles) - CD
Irrefutable Truth About Demons, The (Victoria Kelly & Joost Langeveld)
Jack Be Nimble (Chris Neal)
Jack Brown Genius (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9)
Jinx Sister (Brigid Ursula Bisley)
Jubilee (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9)
King Kong (James Newton Howard) - CD - external
Kingpin (Andrew Hagen & Morton Wilson)
Kiwi Flyer (Don McGlashan)
Kombi Nation (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9) - external
Land Has Eyes, The (Clive Cockburn & Audy Kimura)
Last Magic Show, The (Luke Fitzgerald)
Last Tattoo, The (John Charles)
Leading Edge, The (Mike Farrell)
Leave All Fair (Stephen McCurdy)
Lincoln County Incident (Dorothy Buchanan)
Loaded (Simon Fisher Turner) - CD
Locals, The (Victoria Kelly) - CD - Opening Credits Clip
Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring (Howard Shore) - CD - external
Lord of the Rings - Return of the King (Howard Shore) - CD - external
Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Howard Shore) - CD - external
Lost Tribe, The (David Frazer)
Lost Valley (Bruce Lynch)
Love Birds (Plan 9)
Lovely Bones, The (Brian Eno)
Luella Miller (Samuel Holloway)
Lunatics' Ball, The (Russel Walder & Peter Scholes)
Magik & Rose (Victoria Kelly)
Maori Merchant of Venice (Clive Cockburn & Hirini Melbourne) - CD - external
Map Reader, The (Paul Ubana Jones)
Matariki (Don McGlashan) - CD - external
Mauri (Amokura)
Meet the Feebles (Peter Dasent) - CD
Memories of Tomorrow (Craig McConnell & Ayyaz Waraich)
Memory and Desire (Peter Scholes) - CD
Men Shouldn't Sing (Michael Bell) - CD
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Ryuichi Sakamoto) - CD - external
Mesmerized aka: Shocked (Sam Freedman with St. Joseph Maori Girls College Choir)
Middle Age Spread (Stephen McCurdy)
Most Fun You Can Have Dying, The (Grayson Gilmour)
Mr Wrong aka: Dark of the Night (Jonathan Crayford)
Mt. Zion (Small Axe - Tearepa Kahi, Shane McLean)
My Wedding and Other Secrets ( Andrew McDowall & Bic Runga)
Navigator, The (Davood Tabrizi) - CD
No. 2 aka: Naming Number Two (Don McGlashan) - CD
Nemesis Game (Frank Ilfman) - external
Never Say Die (Billy Kristian & Sam Negri)
Ngati (Paikea & Haere Mai - arranged by Dalvanius)
No One Can Hear You (Bruce Lynch)
No Petrol, No Diesel (Mike Farrell/Midge Marsden)
Off the Edge (Richard Clements & Richard DeGray)
Offensive Behaviour (Wallace Chapman & Hamish Oliver)
Old Scores (Wayne Warlow)
Once Were Warriors (Murray Grindlay & Murray McNabb) - CD - external
Orator, The (Tim Prebble)
Orphans and Angels (Blind Devine)
Other Halves (Don McGlashan)
Out of the Blue (Victoria Kelly)
Ozzie (Florian Appl)
Pallet on the Floor (Jonathan Crayford & Bruno Lawrence)
Perfect Creature (Anne Dudley)
Additional Perfect Creature Sample (Anne Dudley) - external
Perfect Strangers (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9) - CD - external
Piano, The (Michael Nyman) - CD - external
Pictures (Jan Preston)
Predicament (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9) - external
Price of Milk, The (various Russian classical composers) - CD - external
Queen City Rocker (Dave McArtney)
Quiet Earth, The (John Charles) - CD
Race for the Yankee Zephyr aka: Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (Brian May) - CD
Rain (Neil Finn) - CD
Rain of the Children (Jack Body)
Rest for the Wicked (David Long)
Restless aka: Hot Target (Gil Melle)
Returning, The (Clive Cockburn)
Rewi's Last Stand (Alfred Hill)
River Queen (Karl Jenkins) - CD - external
Ruby & Rata (Jonathan Crayford)
Russian Snark (David Long & Stephen Gallagher)
Savage Honeymoon (Dean Savage) - CD
Savage Islands aka: Nate & Hayes (Trevor Jones)
Saving Grace (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9)
Scarecrow (Andrew Hagen & Morton Wilson)
Scarfies aka: Crime 101 (various pop groups - clip of BIKE) - CD
Second Time Lucky (Garry McDonald & Laurie Stone) - CD
Seekers, The aka: Land of Fury (William Alwyn)
Send a Gorilla (Peter Blake & Fiona Samuel)
Separation City (Samuel Scott & Luke Buda) - CD - External
Shaker Run (Stephen McCurdy)
Show of Hands (Don McGlashan) - CD - External
Silent One, The (Jenny McLeod)
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, The (Paul Buckmaster & Steve Tyrell)
Sione's 2: Unfinished Business (Don McGlashan)
Sione's Wedding aka: Samoan Wedding(Click on "Music" section to access downloads) (Andy Morton) - CD - external
Sleeping Dogs (Murray Grindlay, David Caulder, Mathew Brown)
Smash Palace (Sharon O'Neill)
Snakeskin (Joost Langeveld) - CD
Soldier's Tale, A (John Charles)
Solo (Dave Fraser)
Song of Good, A (Dylan Wood)
Sons for the Return Home (Malcolm Smith)
Spooked (John Charles)
Spooked (Jonathan Crayford)
Starlight Hotel (Andrew Hagen & Morton Wilson)
Stickmen (House of Downtown) - CD
Strata (Mike Nock)
Strength of Water, The (Hirini Melbourne & Warren Maxwell)
Sylvia (Leonard Rosenman)
Taking the Waewae Express (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9)
Tattooist (Peter Scholes)
Terror Peak (Bruce Lynch)
Te Rua (Dalvanius)
This is not a Love Story (Steve Garden)
Tongan Ninja (David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, Janet Roddick aka:Plan 9) - external
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (various artists) - CD
Toy Love (Victoria Kelly & Joost Langeveld)
Tracker (David Burns)
Treasure Island Kids (Bruce Lynch, James Hall)
Violin piece from The Monster of Treasure Island
Trespasses aka: Omen of Evil (Bernie Allen)
Trial Run (Jan Preston)
Ugly, The (Victoria Kelly)
Under the Mountain (Victoria Kelly) - CD - external
User Friendly (Mark Nicholas) - CD
Utu (John Charles) - CD
Vector File, The (Bruce Lynch)
Via Satellite (David Bergeaud)
Vigil (Jack Body)
Vintner's Luck, The (Antonio Pinto)
Waimate Conspiracy, The (Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunns)
Waiting Place, The (Andrew McMillan)
Warrior's Way, The (Javier Navarrete)
We're Here To Help ( David Long)
Whale Rider (Lisa Gerrard) - CD - external
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (David Hirschfelder) - CD
When Love Comes (Angus McNaughton) - CD
When Night Falls (Tony Burt)
Whole of the Moon (Daniel Scott)
Wild Blue (Bruce Lynch)
Wild Horses (Dave Fraser)
Woodenhead (Marc Chesterman) - CD
World's Fastest Indian, The (J. Peter Robinson) - CD - external
Zilch! (Chris Knox)
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