Beautifully filmed, expertly acted and meticulously directed by Bruce Beresford, Breaker Morant tells the true story of the court-martial of three officers – two Australian…
Browsing: Australia Movies
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Troubled Sydney medical student Ross (Peter Phelps) decides to head north after encountering trouble with the police and a bikie gang who look like ridiculous…
In Sydney in 1925, Caddie (Helen Morse) gets a job as a barmaid in an inner-city pub after walking out on an unfaithful husband. She…
Set in Sydney (Australia) during the turbulent years of the Great Depression, an orphaned boy becomes a pawn in a bitter family feud as two…
Peter Weir achieved a career-high as the Oscar-nominated director of The Truman Show (1998). His directorial debut, however, could not be more different from films such…
“Tell ’em they’re dreamin'” The Castle was the first feature-length offering from the creative team behind the hit Aussie comedy TV series, Frontline. They succeeded in producing…
Celia (a splendid performance from youngster Rebecca Smart) is a sensitive nine-year-old with a strong imagination who lives with her parents in a suburb of…
Made on a shoestring budget at the South Australian Film Corporation’s studio in Adelaide, this Australian film is (allegedly) set in a dystopian future where…
Produced in the wake of the worldwide success of Mad Max, this film reunited many of that film’s cast and crew (Mel Gibson even has…
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith deals with the plight of a half-caste aborigine, Jimmie Blacksmith – very movingly portrayed by non-actor Tommy Lewis. Set in central-western…
This film about an Australian Rules football club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) could easily be about the behind-the-scenes and front-of-house activities of any…
A fizzy, offbeat Aussie comedy about corporate ideals, from Serbian director Dusan Makavejev. Eric Roberts is Becker, a go-getting Coca-Cola troubleshooter who is sent to Australia to boost…
A promising young music student named Anna (Vivienne Greaves) is attacked in her university room and thrown from the window. Miraculously, she survives, but is…
This Australian-made film – a remake of Rudolph Maté’s 1950 film noir classic DOA – cast Americans Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones and Rick Jason in…
Crocodile Dundee: The little wonder from Down Under that ended up conquering the globe. A double “fish out of water” story with a heart of…
Crystal Voyager – a surfing biography about legendary design innovator and photographer George Greenough – is one of the most beautiful surfing movies ever made and one…
”For more than 40,000 years, Australian Aborigines have lived in harmony with their land. Many of their animals are sacred. The most dangerous and awesome…
In a dark 1940s-style future, John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes up in a bathtub in a hotel room in a surreal and gloomy city, suffering…
The film Dawn! may have been made on the assumption that Australians never lose interest in their sports champions as long as the myth of ill-fortune attends…
When Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) chance upon suave American nutter Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane), a therapeutic…