Niki Caro

Niki Caro

1966-09-20 Wellington, New Zealand 16 Credits

Biography

Niki Caro is an award winning film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her most significant film to date is Whale Rider from 2002. It was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She went on to direct Charlize Theron in an Oscar-nominated performance in North Country. Caro graduated BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1988, and MFA from Swinburne University of Technology.

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The Mother

The Mother

2023

Director

6.6
Directing

A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.

Mulan

Mulan

2020

Director

6.9
Directing

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, ...

The Zookeeper's Wife

The Zookeeper's Wife

2017

Director

7.3
Directing

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

McFarland, USA

McFarland, USA

2015

Director

7.5
Directing

A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

42 One Dream Rush

42 One Dream Rush

2010

Director

Directing

Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known f...

Ruby Travel

Ruby Travel

2010

Director

Directing

Short film by Niki Caro. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

The Vintner's Luck

The Vintner's Luck

2009

Director, Producer, Writer

4.6
Directing Producing Writing

A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life ...

North Country

North Country

2005

Director

7.3
Directing

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endure...

Whale Rider

Whale Rider

2003

Screenplay, Director

7.1
Writing Directing

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Dark Stories: Tales from Beyond the Grave

Dark Stories: Tales from Beyond the Grave

2001

Writer, Director

2.0
Writing Directing

Witness a dinner party with a diabolical main course - obsession is put to the limit when a scorned and demonic woman traps the man of her dreams, sub...

Memory & Desire

Memory & Desire

1998

Director, Screenplay

4.8
Directing Writing

Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have ...

Sure to Rise

Sure to Rise

1994

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

April discovers an injured man on the beach and takes him to a makeshift community called Paradise. But can she protect him?

Virgin, Whore, Saint

Virgin, Whore, Saint

1990

Director, Writer, Editor

Directing Writing

Three versions of a woman – bride to be (virgin), dominatrix (whore), and actress playing Joan of Arc (saint) – are shown. Each is dissatisfied with h...

Callas

Callas

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

A biopic about the operatic star, Maria Callas.

Beautiful Ruins

N/A

Director

Directing

Off the Ligurian Sea on the Italian Coast in the year 1962, an American actress comes to stay in a hotel, owned by the family of a young man named Pas...

Ruin

N/A

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

In the rubble of Germany following World War II, a newly released Jewish camp prisoner forms an alliance with a German soldier as they both seek reven...