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Films from the country "australie", sorted by revenue
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Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
, 1h45Directed by Greg McLean
Origin Australie
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Gerard Kennedy, Shane Connor
In North Western Australia, highway patrol officers Gary Bulmer (Shane Connor) and trainee Brian O'Connor (Ben Gerrard) are parked by a rural road and are desperate to meet a quota for speeding tickets. Mick Taylor (John Jarratt), a pig hunter, drives past going under the speed limit and they pull him over, claiming he's going over the speed limit. After belittling and insulting Mick, the two officers give him a speeding ticket and an order to get rid of his truck. As they drive away, Mick uses his sniper rifle to splatter O'Connor's head, causing the cruiser to crash in a gully. Despite Bulmer's pleas, Mick breaks his leg and stabs him with a bowie knife, and places the fatally wounded officer back in the car before dousing it with petrol and setting it alight.
Death Defying Acts (2007)
, 1h33Directed by Gillian Armstrong
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Timothy Spall, Leni Harper, Anthony O'Donnell
In 1926, 13 years after his mother's death, illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) has begun debunking mystics, psychics and others who claim to have paranormal powers. He offers US$10,000 to anyone who can quote his mother's dying words to him.
Black Robe (1991)
, 1h41Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Tantoo Cardinal, Gordon Tootoosis, August Schellenberg
Set in New France in 1634 (in the period of conflicts known as the Beaver Wars), the film begins in the settlement that will one day become Quebec City. Jesuit missionaries are trying to encourage the local Algonquin Indians to embrace Christianity, with thus far only limited results. Samuel de Champlain, founder of the settlement, sends Father LaForgue, a young Jesuit priest, to find a distant Catholic mission in a Huron village.
7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
, 1h41Directed by Kimble Rendall
Origin Australie
Genres Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about spiders, Giant monster films
Actors Li Bingbing (李冰冰), Kellan Lutz, Kelsey Grammer, Stef Dawson, Shane Jacobson, Jason Chong
En Chine, un groupe de scientifiques découvre la momie d'un empereur chinois datant de 200 avant J.C. dans une tombe se trouvant dans un labyrinthe d'une caverne truffée de pièges mortels. Mais leur découverte libère accidentellement une horde d'araignées mangeuses d'hommes. Pour atteindre la sortie, ils vont devoir lutter contre ses arachnides sanguinaires.
Dead Calm (1989)
, 1h36Directed by Phillip Noyce
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Lisa Collins
Rae Ingram (Kidman), is involved in a car crash which results in the death of her son. Her husband, an Australian Royal Navy officer John Ingram (Neill) suggests that they help deal with their grief by heading out for a vacation alone on their yacht. In the middle of the Pacific, they encounter a drifting boat that seems to be taking on water. A man, Hughie Warriner (Zane), rows over to the Ingrams' boat for help. He claims that his boat is sinking and that his companions have all died of food poisoning.
Paper Planes (2014)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Connolly
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Sam Worthington, Anthony LaPaglia, Deborah Mailman, Ed Oxenbould, Terry Norris, Peter Rowsthorn
A young boy from Australia named Dylan (Ed Oxenbould) has a passion for flight and ends up competing in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan. He faces distraction and hostility from a school bully, as well as his father (Sam Worthington), still grieving over the death of his mother in an automobile accident, and his chief rival, the spoiled win-at-all-cost (Terry Norris), a kite-hawk he feeds on his way to school and later a Japanese paper plane champion Kimi (Ena Imai).
The Secret of Moonacre (2009)
, 1h43Directed by Gábor Csupó
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Dakota Blue Richards, Tim Curry, Ioan Gruffudd, Natascha McElhone, Augustus Prew, Juliet Stevenson
This begins with Maria mourning her father at his funeral. In the English countryside of Moonacre Valley there resides two clans: the de Noirs and the Merryweathers. A woman of the de Noir clan is so pure of heart that nature gifts her with a set of powerful magical moon pearls, and she comes to be known as the Moon Princess. The two families unite to celebrate her wedding to Sir Wrolf Merryweather, and exchange two beautiful animals as gifts: her father, Sir William offers a rare black lion to the bridegroom, and Sir Wrolf bestows a white unicorn from the ocean to his bride.
Evil Angels (1988)
, 1h58Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Deborra-Lee Furness, Bruce Myles, Bud Tingwell, Charles Dance
Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill), his wife Lindy (Meryl Streep), their two sons, and their nine-week-old daughter Azaria are on a camping holiday trip in the Outback. With the baby sleeping in their tent, the family is enjoying a barbecue with their fellow campers when a cry is heard. Lindy returns to the tent to check on Azaria and is certain she sees a dingo with something in its mouth running off as she approaches. When she discovers the infant is missing, everyone joins forces to search for her, without success. It is assumed what Lindy saw was the animal carrying off the child, and a subsequent inquest rules her account of events is true.
Fortress (1992)
, 1h35Directed by Stuart Gordon
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Christophe Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin, Jeffrey Combs, Vernon Wells, Clifton Collins, Jr.
In a dystopian 2017, ex-army officer John Henry Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) are attempting to cross the US-Canada border to Vancouver to have a second child. Strict one-child policies forbid a second pregnancy, even after their firstborn has died, so Karen wears a magnetic vest to trick the security scanners. A guard notices the trick and raises the alarm.
Red Dog: True Blue (2016)
Directed by Kriv Stenders
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jason Isaacs, Levi Miller, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Bryan Brown, Justine Clarke, Steve Le Marquand
Explore les premiers événements menant à la découverte de Red Dog sur la route de Dampier, et son ascension ultime du chien ordinaire à la légende australienne.
Ned Kelly (2003)
, 1h50Directed by Gregor Jordan
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush, Joel Edgerton, Kerry Condon
The film started out with a young Ned Kelly rescuing a young boy from drowning. It then pans to the Australian bush with Ned talking about his father. He then awakens in the Australian outback and sees a white mare. He rides it into town, only to be arrested and subsequently imprisoned in 1871, for supposedly stealing the horse, even though it had actually been stolen by Wild Wright, Ned's friend.
Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
, 1h45Directed by Jim Loach
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Richard Dillane, Tara Morice, Lorraine Ashbourne
The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the scandal of "home children", a scheme of forcibly relocating poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
Jindabyne (2006)
, 2h3Directed by Ray Lawrence
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard, Chris Haywood, Leah Purcell
On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart (Gabriel Byrne), Carl (John Howard), Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) and Billy (Simon Stone) find a girl's body in the river; she has been brutally murdered by Gregory (Chris Haywood), a local electrician. The girl (Tatea Reilly) turns out subsequently to be Aboriginal. The men initially suggest hiking back the following morning as it is too late in the day to safely navigate their way to their trucks. They secure the girl's body by the ankle to the riverbank, so she will not drift downstream and get lost in the rapids. However, Stewart the next day goes fishing and, after catching an especially large fish, the men decide to spend the rest of the afternoon continuing their trip before informing the police in the morning.
The Proposition (2005)
, 1h44Directed by John Hillcoat
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, David Wenham, John Hurt
Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows a series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, likely committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang.
Young Einstein (1988)
, 1h27Directed by Yahoo Serious
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Howard, Elliott Reid, Yahoo Serious, Su Cruickshank, Christian Manon, Lulu Pinkus
Albert Einstein, the son of an apple farmer in Tasmania in the early 1900s, splits a beer atom with a chisel in order to add bubbles to beer, discovers the theory of relativity and travels to Sydney to patent it. While there, he invents the electric guitar and surfing while romancing Marie Curie. He invents rock and roll and uses it to save the world from being destroyed due to misuse of a nuclear reactor under the watchful eye of Charles Darwin.