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Directed by George Miller,
Phillip Noyce,
George Ogilvie,
Carl Schultz,
John PowerGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Max Phipps,
John Meillon,
Tony Barry,
John Stanton,
John Hargreaves,
Bill HunterRating81%
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Directed by Phillip NoyceOrigin AustralieGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Prison films,
Films about racism,
Transport films,
ÉvasionActors Everlyn Sampi,
Kenneth Branagh,
David Gulpilil,
Jason Clarke,
Deborah Mailman,
Garry McDonaldRating73%
Set in 1931, two sisters, 14-year-old Molly and 8-year-old Daisy, and their 10-year-old cousin Gracie live in the Western Australian town of Jigalong. The town lies along the northern part of Australia's rabbit-proof fence, which runs for several thousand miles., 1h36
Directed by Phillip NoyceOrigin AustralieGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Films about psychiatry,
Disaster films,
Films about seafaring accidents or incidentsActors Sam Neill,
Nicole Kidman,
Billy Zane,
Rod Mullinar,
Lisa CollinsRating67%
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., 1h34
Directed by Rolf de HeerOrigin AustralieGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
FantasyThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Ritchie Singer,
Terry Camilleri,
Max Cullen,
Steven Vidler,
Vincent Gil,
Peter DouglasRating54%
On a farming property called Raven's Gate, enthusiastic hydroponicist Richard Cleary (Ritchie Singer) is trying innovative farming practices. He is also trying to accommodate his brother Eddie (Steven Vidler), newly out of gaol and more interested in Richard's wife Rachel (Celine Griffin) than in working on the property. Strange events on the property and a minor crime in the town attract policeman Taylor (Max Cullen) and Special Branch investigator Cummings (Terry Camilleri). Eddie has the misfortune to also cross local cop Skinner (Vincent Gil), by dating the target of his affections, barmaid Annie (Saturday Rosenberg). Tensions in personal relationships and mysterious events (bird kills, disappearing water supplies) build to a climax that sees Raven's Gate assaulted by an alien force, and a number of deaths amongst the protagonists. The film closes with the stunned survivors Eddie and Rachel standing outside Raven's Gate homestead, newly restored by Special Branch, and the soundtrack playing the Easybeats song Friday on My Mind., 1h42
Directed by Michael PattinsonGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Vince Colosimo,
Sigrid Thornton,
Sandy Gore,
Bill Hunter,
Peta Toppano,
Amanda MuggletonRating55%
Vinnie is a teenage boy who is an outcast at school, alienating teachers and students alike. He is a local courier for the local Mafia boss. He lives in welfare housing with his mother (Peta Toppano), a young brother and sister, and his Mum's lover who he can't stand. Vinnie takes out his aggression with the world practicing boxing at the local gym. He is haunted by images of his father (when just a boy he witnessed his father's murder) and his father's boxing career. His music teacher (Sandy Gore) encourages him to get involved as a drummer with the school band, and his girlfriend Gloria (Sigrid Thornton) and others influence him to stay away from the Mafia., 1h31
Directed by Peter WeirOrigin AustralieGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Horror comedy,
Action,
HorrorThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Road movies,
Comedy horror films,
Chase filmsActors John Meillon,
Terry Camilleri,
Chris Haywood,
Bruce Spence,
Danny Adcock,
Edward "Teddy" HowellRating56%
The film begins with an urban couple driving through the countryside in what looks like a cinema advertisement. The scene comes to a halt with a fatal accident. The rural Australian town of Paris arranges fatal accidents to visitors driving through. Townspeople collect items from the luggage of the deceased passengers whilst survivors are taken to the local hospital where they are given lobotomies with power tools and kept as "veggies" for medical experiments by the earnest town surgeon. The young men of the town salvage and modify the wrecked vehicles into a variety of strange-looking cars designed for destruction., 1h34
Directed by Baz LuhrmannOrigin AustralieGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Dance films,
Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Films based on playsActors Paul Mercurio,
Tara Morice,
Bill Hunter,
Gia Carides,
Lauren Hewett,
Barry OttoRating71%
Strictly Ballroom tells the story of an Australian ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio), and his struggle to establish his personal style of dance on his way to win the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship. Scott's steps are not strictly ballroom. Scott comes from a family with a history of ballroom dancing and has been training since childhood. Scott's mother Shirley teaches ballroom dancing, and his father Doug meekly handles maintenance chores at the dance studio., 1h50
Directed by Phillip NoyceOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about writers,
Films about journalistsActors Bill Hunter,
Wendy Hughes,
Bryan Brown,
Chris Haywood,
Gerard Kennedy,
Bruce SpenceRating68%
The plot of the movie is about newsreel cameramen and production staff who will do anything to get footage. Set between the years 1948 and 1956, when television was introduced to Australia, the film tracks the destinies of two brothers, their adventures and misadventures placed in the context of sweeping social and political changes in their native Australia as well as natural disasters. Len Maguire is constitutionally resistant to change, while his younger brother Frank Maguire welcomes any alterations in his own life and in the world around him., 1h44
Directed by Stephan ElliottOrigin AustralieGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Musical theatre,
MusicalThemes Seafaring films,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Bisexuality-related films,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Films about automobiles,
Road movies,
Buddy films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Terence Stamp,
Hugo Weaving,
Guy Pearce,
Bill Hunter,
Sarah Chadwick,
Margaret Pomeranz, AMRating74%
Anthony "Tick" Belrose (Hugo Weaving), using the drag pseudonym of Mitzi Del Bra, is a Sydney-based drag queen who accepts an offer to perform his drag act at Lasseter's Hotel Casino Resort managed by a female friend named Marion in Alice Springs, a remote town in central Australia. After persuading his friends and fellow performers, Bernadette Bassinger (Terence Stamp), a recently bereaved transsexual woman, and Adam Whitely (Guy Pearce), a flamboyant and obnoxious younger drag queen who goes under the drag name Felicia Jollygoodfellow, to join him, the three set out in a large tour bus, which Adam christens "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" for a four-week run in the Australian Outback town.