Ben Fransham

Acting

Ben Fransham

New Zealand

Ben Fransham is a New Zealand actor known for his role as Petyr in the 2014 comedy What We Do in the Shadows.

Acting credits

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring poster
8.4

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers poster
8.4

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

30 Days of Night poster
6.4

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

30 Days of Night

2007

What We Do in the Shadows poster
7.5

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

What We Do in the Shadows

2014

Heavenly Creatures poster
7.0

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

Heavenly Creatures

1994

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NR

Mysterious sightings of a large black panther-like creature roaming the Blue Mountains bushland have been reported for decades, with dozens of alleged encounters logged each year and an incident involving a local teenager in 2002 among the more sensational entries in the public record. A social-media obsessive from Western Sydney whose bid to capture proof of a mythical big cat on camera spirals into something far more dangerous.

Bloody Legend

The Cure poster
4.3

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.

The Cure

2014

The Ferryman poster
4.6

Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht.

The Ferryman

2007

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NR

A woodsman must rescue his young daughter from an evil witch.

The Witch & the Woodsman

2010

Tongan Ninja poster
5.9

The Tongan Ninja is dispatched to the island nation of New Zealand in order to help a brother of his master with his floundering Chinese restaurant. But the mysterious Mister Big stands in the eatery's way as he sends numerous villains such as Knife Man, Gun Man, and the super-sexy Action Fighter who may know a lot about the hero.

Tongan Ninja

2002

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NR

A young scientist who is convinced that a dangerous new pathogen threatens the population and tracks it back to her hometown – which is located in the shadow of the remote sheep station where the macabre events of the original Black Sheep unfolded.

Black Sheeps

How to Murder Your Wife poster
6.6

A black comedy based on the true story of Alfred Benning's outlandish attempts to murder his overbearing wife in 1977.

How to Murder Your Wife

2015

The Mute poster
NR

When a high-school principal hears of an encroaching threat, an escaped convict who has been somehow silently breaking into teenage girls' homes in the night, he becomes overly protective of one of his closest students.

The Mute

2025

Minimally Invasive poster
NR

An anxious patient fears his concerns are being ignored when his routine operation yields unexpected findings.

Minimally Invasive

2021

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NR

A father searches for his missing son while the other inhabitants of his apartment complex turn the blame on him and on each other, tearing apart the community as their hidden prejudices surface.

In Full Bloom

2011

The Turn of the Screw poster
5.5

This film adaptation of Henry James' Victorian ghost story changes the location to present day Wellington. Set in a theatre over the course of an evening, Julia finds herself as a last-minute replacement for another actress at the dress rehearsal of a stage play version of The Turn of the Screw, set in 1890. Arriving at the theatre late that night, Julia is immediately thrown on stage and into her role, playing to an empty auditorium. As she interacts with the other characters and the story becomes increasingly terrifying, Julia begins to believe that not only is the fictitious house haunted… but also the theatre itself!

The Turn of the Screw

2020

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NR

A baffling, implausible murder is a cold case until a man is transported into a virtual-matrix computer game with the order to solve the crime.

Time Matrix