Young Melbourne journalist Will Gardiner (Scottish actor Mark McManus, later to find fame as DCI Jim Taggart) has interconnected crises on his hands: a clash…
Browsing: Australia & NZ Movies
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Unashamed and supremely slick commercial for the group, maintaining a gentle air of self-parody while at the same time being a celebration of all the…
This Australian semi-documentary presented (most of) the letters of the alphabet and discussed sexual subjects beginning with the corresponding letter – eg: B for Birth,…
Out of the closet and into the mainstream, this film raised gay culture to moderately new heights of respectability in the suburbs of heterosexual Australia.…
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…
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…
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 – and boxer Alby (Grigor Taylor) – a shy and quiet Australian – meet at…
Residents of a row of terrace houses in Sydney, Australia, form an Action Group to fight a development company who want to buy the houses…
A notorious Australian flop set in Sydney during the Roaring 20s. Kitty O’Rourke (Liddy Clark, pictured above) becomes a tough gangster after her thug husband…
Behind the opening credits an Australian Aboriginal is painting on the roof of a cave which opens like a huge mouth: a black hand, protruding…
It is the end of the third year of the Great War. The Australian forces are fighting in France and the Middle East, more than…
Two middle-class Australians – Peter (John Hargreaves) and his wife Marcia (Briony Behets) – drive out of the city for a long weekend’s camping by…
Not to be confused with the American film of the same name starring Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher and Kate Jackson, this short independent Australian film…
Australia in the 1850s. Irishman Daniel Morgan (Dennis Hopper), like hundreds of other ex-patriots from the British Isles, has come to seek his fortune. There…
Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is an Australian policeman of the not-too-distant future who drives the last of the MFP (Main Force Patrol) V8 Interceptors, wears…
A thundering juggernaut of a movie and one of the few correct answers to the question, “name a sequel that surpasses the original”. After the low-budget…
Another reason why Mel Gibson should quit while he’s ahead, franchise-wise. This $12 million production is a poor follow-up to the previous two classics and…
This charming Australian comedy is the story of Malcolm (Colin Friels) a young man with a genius for mechanical devices, but his shyness borders on…
