17-year-old convent girl Felicity Robinson (played by unknown Canadian actress Glory Annen) boards at the Willows End Ladies College in Australia, where she finds herself…
Browsing: Australia Movies
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This was the first movie to truly show what it was really like to be an Australian teenager in the suburbs during the 1970s. The…
Director John Duigan began the coming-of-age story of Danny Embling in the wonderful The Year My Voice Broke (1987), and continues it in this even more…
Filmed in Adelaide, the Australian film The Fourth Wish is the story of a 12-year-old boy dying of leukaemia which had already been told as…
Ron (Jon Blake) is an unemployed young man in 1980s Australia, with poor prospects but rich fantasies. On a whim, he steals a silver Porsche…
Cody Walpole (Henry Thomas, who had starred as Elliott in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), an orphaned 14-year-old American boy, has been living in Australia with his…
Created as a spin-off from a popular 1959-1960 children’s TV show from Channel Nine in Australia (The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten) and starring…
Set in the dystopian future of 21st Century Melbourne (Australia), this low-budget mating of Mad Max and The Rocky Horror Picture Show postulates class wars when -…
Australian filmmaker Peter Weir re-created the tragic and notorious World War I debacle of Gallipoli – a blundered campaign that saw the massacre of the…
This live-action adaptation of Australia’s most iconic (and longest-running) comic strip chronicles the episodic misadventures of its titular character – a mischievous but good-hearted carrot-topped…
Set in Sydney, Australia, in an early 1980s world of parties, live music, casual sex, unemployment, drink, drugs, wankers, posers and spongers, a group of…
This Australian made-for-TV movie revolves around surf shop proprietor Jimmy Flemming (Eric Oldfield) who believes his life is in danger when he receives anonymous letters…
This is the second in a series of made-for-television films by the Australian Channel Nine network in collaboration with Film Australia and the South Australian…
A great deal of publicity signalled big things for this tale of sexual desire run off the rails in a sleepy Australian country town, but…
“The winter’s sun was going down on Surfers Paradise. It was my 98th day on the wagon, and I didn’t feel any better than my…
Alongside Alan Hopgood’s And the Big Men Fly, Oakley’s A Salute to the Great McCarthy (1968) is probably the best-known fictional work about Australian Rules Football. Director David Baker…
This short (45 minute) dramatised documentary follows a day in the life of four unemployed young adolescents – Debbie, Gina, Steve and Hickey – in…
Samantha (Tracy Mann) is a young Melbourne woman struggling to make a new life for herself after a spate of petty crime sees her locked…
Director Simon Wincer’s second feature is a downright odd attempt to update the story of Rasputin to 1980s Australia. Trading on the piercing eyes that…
Fun-loving sideshow worker Tex (Joseph Bottoms) – a womanising American “cat” who speaks in 1960s hip jargon and worries about “the fuzz” – and boxer…