In the near future (the 1990s!) economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding gangs of ‘Car Boys’, the…
Browsing: Australia Movies
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Death In Brunswick opens with an image that could be culled from any urban backstreet in Greece or Turkey. A hot wind whips along an empty…
Returned Vietnam vets Steve (John Hargreaves) and Rod (legendary Aussie stuntman Grant Page in his first starring role) are working as television stuntmen (as a…
This Australian made-for-television movie – produced in 1977 by Reg Grundy and aired on Channel Seven in June 1979 – opens “somewhere in England” with…
With their exams over, three wealthy Melbourne private school girls – Jilly (Kim Trengrove), Joanne (Kerry Mack) and Liz (Marie O’Loughlin) – head off to…
The Devil’s Playground is set in 1953 in a seminary in Australia for young boys intending to enter a religious order of teaching Brothers. The opening…
Named after the actual outback town in Australia where the story takes place, Dimboola revolves around British reporter Vivian Worcester-Jones (Max Gillies) who gets more…
This Australian cult classic stars the late Michael Hutchence (of INXS) and is set in Melbourne’s late 70s punk rock scene. The film chronicles life…
When you mix a left-wing teacher, a loud-mouthed philanderer, a mild-mannered accountant, a failed philosopher, a 19-year-old nymphette, a frustrated wife, a drunken pornographer, a…
Small businessman Ray Martin (Mike Preston) needs money not only to expand his toy business but for his estranged wife who runs a gallery in…
The full title of the movie is actually A Faithful Narrative of the Capture, Sufferings and Miraculous Escape of Eliza Fraser, which is supposed to give…
This satire on the Australian dream – the idea that everyone is entitled to a piece of God’s own country on which to build their…
Down-on-his-luck Sydney private investigator Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) is hired by wealthy Marion Singer (Belinda Giblin) to look into the disappearance of her husband, John…
Originally released domestically as Incident at Raven’s Gate, this cult Ozpolitation film is set on an isolated outback farm in South Australia where recently released…
Written by Thomas Keneally, Essington told the story of a motley group of Royal Marines and their interchangeable wives in a malarial stretch of Australia…
On the night of 17 August 1980, mother-of-three Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) watches a dingo carry her baby daughter, Azaria, from a tent near Uluru…
Jessica (Cassandra Delaney) is a young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback who comes into confrontation with three redneck kangaroo hunters. Bored…
Perhaps Fantasy Man is a comedy. It’s hard to tell. Perhaps it’s a satire? There are moments when the menopausal melodramatics of Nick Bailey (Harold Hopkins) approach the…
Shot on Super 16mm film and then blown up to 35 mm for theatrical release, this Australian film revolved around 15-year-old Steve Carson (Rod Zuanic),…
10-year-old Ben Oxenbould – a schoolboy “untainted by acting” – was chosen to portray the titular scamp from a famous comic strip which was published…