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Geoff Murphy
Director 1946 - 2018

Geoff Murphy

Wellington, North Island, New Zealand

Geoff Murphy was a successful New Zealand filmmaker best-known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s. He directed a string of big-budget Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

7 titles
Fortress 2

Fortress 2

Geoff Murphy 2000 1h 32m 1.0

7 years after the original Fortress movie, Brennick along with the rebels are captured and sent to a new, more sophisticated fortress prison, in outer space.

Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back

Geoff Murphy 1996 1h 30m

Los Angeles heroin addict Jesse endangers the lives of his childhood friends after he discovers a briefcase full of money from a drug deal gone bad, and returns home with it to Texas. Hoping to turn his life around with his newfound wealth, Jessie endures detox with the support of his friends.

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Geoff Murphy 1995 1h 39m 5.1

A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.

Freejack

Freejack

Geoff Murphy 1992 1h 50m 6.8

Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.

Young Guns II

Young Guns II

Geoff Murphy 1990 1h 44m 6.2

Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett

The Quiet Earth

The Quiet Earth

Geoff Murphy 1985 1h 31m 7.1

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world. Zac wakes one morning to discover he is alone in the world. The global top-secret energy project which he has been working on for a year, has changed the world. Humanity seems to have been wiped out.

Utu

Utu

Geoff Murphy 1984 1h 58m 8.0

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead.

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