australia
Director: Jeffrey Gerritsen, John V. Soto
Stars: Christopher Egan, Brooke Harman, Emma Lung
An American student studying in Australia mistakenly gets involved with a mysterious and unhinged girl while house-sitting for a rich family on...
Director: Ian Chinsee
Stars: Benjamin Alldridge, Daniel Cason, Ian Chinsee
An elite firm of assassins must face their own mortality as they are hunted down one by one by a mysterious assailant. Caught up in the drama is a disgraced journalist who is more connected to the assassins world than he could ever...
Director: Adam Elliot
Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana
In the mid-1970s a homely friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. Shes Mary Dinkle the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. Hes Max Horowitz living alone in New York overweight subject to anxiety attacks. He writes back with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence...
Director: Stephan Elliott
Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Rod Taylor, Susie Porter
A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of...
Director: Mark Lamprell
Stars: Laura Michelle Kelly, Ronan Keating, Magda Szubanski
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her voice despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune but at a...
Director: Johan Earl, Adrian Powers
Stars: Johan Earl, Tim Pocock, Martin Copping
When an allied charge on the German lines goes horribly wrong one man finds himself stranded in No Mans Land. Reuniting with two other survivors together they must help each other as they charge into the unknown across the muddy wasteland as the Germans quickly hone in on the desperate trio. Tensions rise between the soldiers as they are surrounded by explosions of grenades with the constant...
Director: David Batty, Francis Jupurrula Kelly
Stars: Gregory Jangala Fryer, Leslie McLaughlin, Elijah Japanangka Jones
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Director: Dean Murphy
Stars: Kevin Harrington, Roy Billing, Krew Boylan
Set against the backdrop of the early eighties Cliffy retraces his extraordinary journey from famously training in gumboots among cow paddocks through the epic six-day period of the ultra marathon and his emergence as Australias most unlikely sporting...
Director: Rachel Ward
Stars: Marie Bunel, Dan Spielman, Julia Zemiro
Based on the novel Silent Parts by John Charalambous An Accidental Soldier is about an Australian soldier who flees the carnage of the Western Front and finds refuge with a French woman in a remote farmhouse. Harry Lambert is a shy thirty five year old Australian soldier working as a baker behind the lines. He is a gentle man a reluctant soldier but a man like many who has been shamed by...
Director: Anne Fontaine
Stars: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel
Lil Naomi Watts and Roz Robin Wright are two lifelong friends having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds...
Director: Ralph Moser
Stars: Stewart Faichney, Eloise Grace, Abbe Holmes
Celebrates the wrongest jokes ever told. Its a coming of age story thats brimming with irreverent humor larger-than-life characters and crackling action to boot! It will remind you of the great cartoons of...
Director: David Scott
Stars: Anthony Daniels, Nika Futterman, Phil LaMarr
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Director: Ann Turner
Stars: Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural...
Director: Darrell Rooney, Jeannine Roussel
Stars: Scott Wolf, Alyssa Milano, Chazz Palminteri
Lady and Tramps mischievous pup Scamp gets fed up with rules and restrictions imposed on him by life in a family and longs for a wild and free lifestyle. He runs away from home and into the streets where he joins a pack of stray dogs known as the Junkyard Dogs. Buster the packs leader takes an instant disliking to the house-dog and considers him a rival. Angel a junkyard pup Scamps...
Director: Paul Goldman
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatras tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a two-bit hooker every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an...
Director: Adam Elliot
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kamahl, John Flaus
The sad strange life of Harvie who is born into an impoverished Middle European existence and whose one constant is the book of fakts he keeps adding to worn around his neck. After a childhood tragedy he emigrates to Australia where he has a succession of menial jobs eventually ending up in a retirement home. Along the way he has a string of bad luck leaving him with among other...
Director: Joseph Sims
Stars: John Jarratt, Lindsay Farris, Dwaine Stevenson
Emma and Peterson encounter their fierce predator Voyte Parker a cop confronts his sons murderer and a man finds his wife is cheating on him. Intersecting story lines; murderers coppers teachers and...
Director: Ian Darling
Stars: Paul Kelly, Michael Barclay, Kasey Chambers
An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly Australias foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country described its landscapes and cities and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs penned lyrics for many other singers co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul...
Director: John Duigan
Stars: Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett
In Australia four teenagers in the Sydney Opera House are horrified to hear the news that nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration. At the films end it is left uncertain whether Sydney will be hit by nuclear weapons although the US spy facility at Pine Gap has been...
Director: Murray Ball
Stars: John Clarke, Peter Rowley, Rawiri Paratene
Featuring the characters from Murray Balls Footrot Flats New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip . Questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the All Black selectors at Saturdays rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Wals...
Director: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall
In Las Vegas Huck Cheever is a poker player brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. Its the week of the poker world series and Huck must come up with the $10000 entry fee which he wins loses borrows and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer an earnest young woman whos new in town and who catches Hucks eye. By the time the tournament starts Huck owes everyone....
Director: Ian Coughlan
Stars: Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke
A Young girl is puzzled by a sequence of strange events which occur during the days leading up to her 19th birthday. Slowly and with growing horror she becomes aware of the celebrations which her relatives have planned for...
Director: George Miller, Warren Coleman
Stars: Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman
This is the story of a little penguin named Mumble who has a terrible singing voice and later discovers he has no Heartsong. However Mumble has an astute talent for something that none of the penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing. Though Mumbles mom Norma Jean thinks this little habit is cute his dad Memphis says it just aint penguin. Besides they both know that without a...
Director: Claire Gorman
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First Love is about love friendship and following your dreams. This feature length surf film documents the lives of three passionate teenagers from Phillip Island and follows them to Hawaii - the first step on their journey to making surfing a...
Director: Ben Nott, Morgan O'Neill
Stars: Myles Pollard, Xavier Samuel, Sam Worthington
In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf...
Director: Jon Hewitt
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory
James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. Theyre going to kill Gary; Wandering alone around an isolated forest - the suspected site of the disappearance of a local girl - 17 year old Mark strays...
Director: Rolf de Heer
Stars: Colin Friels, Miles Davis, Helen Buday
Traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson an average guy with a passion for jazz from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris to meet his idol jazz trumpeter Billy...
Director: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
Stars: Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan
The use of dead car crash victims in the Morgan Brothers Blood and Bone fertiliser has been a huge boon to business. But its been months since their last find and an important new customer is waiting on a delivery. When Reg Morgan the junior partner in the business comes across three young people stranded on a remote country road he sees a radical solution to their supply problems and a...
Director: Douglas McCarthy
Stars: Bill Farmer, Jason Marsden, Jeff Bennett
Its a big time in Maxs life. Hes college bound with his friends and finally free of his embarrassing father as he strives to be a top contender for the X-Games. Unfortunately Goofy loses his job and learns that he cannot get another job without a college degree. To his sons mortification Goofy decides to join him in his campus to get that degree. Desperate to distract his father Max talks...