A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. Read More »
Tag Archives: Australia
Ned Kelly (1970) Tony Richardson, Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus
Based on a true story, Ned Kelly is unable to support his family in the Australian outback Read More »
Fever (1988) Craig Lahiff, Bill Hunter, Gary Sweet, Mary Regan
When a police officer chases a suspicious car, the car crashes and the driver dies. Read More »
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995) George Whaley, Leo McKern, Joan Sutherland, Geoffrey Rush
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman Read More »
Over the Hill (1992) George Miller, Olympia Dukakis, Sigrid Thornton, Derek Fowlds
Alma can’t stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter Read More »
A Family (2019) Jayden Stevens, Maksym Derbenyov, Larysa Hraminska, Tetiana Kosianchuk
A man living in solitary seeks emotional refuge in the organising Read More »
Echoes of Paradise AKA Shadows of the Peacock (1987) Phillip Noyce, Wendy Hughes, John Lone, Steve Jacobs
Maria was married to the politician George a long time ago. Read More »
Lucky Break AKA Paperback Romance (1994) Ben Lewin, Gia Carides, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Gibney
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library Read More »
The Restless and the Damned AKA L’ambitieuse (1959) Yves Allégret, Edmond O’Brien, Richard Basehart, Andréa Parisy
Set in French Polynesia, a man trades his old life for one in the Pacific. Read More »
The Daughter (2015) Simon Stone, Geoffrey Rush, Anna Torv, Sam Neill
The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret Read More »
Island (1989) Paul Cox, Irene Papas, Eva Sitteová, Anoja Weerasinghe
A formerly rich Czech-Australian emigrant comes to a tiny, poor and sleepy Greek Island to rethink her life. Read More »
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001) Richard Lowenstein, Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton, Romane Bohringer
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences Read More »
To Become One (2002) Neil Johnson, David Vallon, Emma Grasso, Jamie Giddens
One by one, all of Melinda’s friends and family are being murdered. Read More »
The New Girlfriend AKA Envy (1999) Julie Money, Linda Cropper, Anna Lise Phillips, Jeff Truman
A mother tracks down the woman responsible for her home being invaded and her son molested. Read More »
High Tide (1987) Gillian Armstrong, Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan
Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when Read More »