Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family. Read More »
Tag Archives: Australia
Stone (1974) Sandy Harbutt, Ken Shorter, Sandy Harbutt, Deryck Barnes
Members of the Grave Diggers Motorcycle Club are being knocked off one by one, and someone needs to find out why! Read More »
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) Peter Weir, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Kevin Miles
A small town in rural Australia (Paris) makes its living by causing car accidents and salvaging any valuables from the wrecks. Read More »
Needle (2010) John V. Soto, Ben Mendelsohn, Travis Fimmel, Murray Bartlett
After the death of his father, archaeology student Ben Rutherford inherits an 18th century mechanical device known as “Le Vaudo Mort”. Read More »
Travelling North (1987) Carl Schultz, Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Henri Szeps
After their late-life marriage, a middle-aged Australian couple move to the countryside. Read More »
Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Carl Schultz, Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill
His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. Read More »
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988) Mark Joffe, Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks. Read More »
We of the Never Never (1982) Igor Auzins, Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan
Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. Read More »
Praise (1998) John Curran, Peter Fenton, Sacha Horler, Marta Dusseldorp
An unfocused twentysomething (Peter Fenton) moves in with a former co-worker (Sacha Holder) Read More »
Fantasm Comes Again (1977) Colin Eggleston, Rick Cassidy, Con Covert, Uschi Digard
An intern and a professional writer at a newspaper agency read over 10 different erotic letters Read More »
Fantasm (1976) Richard Franklin, John Holmes, Uschi Digard, Candy Samples
Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality Read More »
The Tracker (2002) Rolf de Heer, David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau
It’s 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman 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 »
Strictly Ballroom (1992) Baz Luhrmann, Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter
Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community Read More »
Japanese Story (2003) Sue Brooks, Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman Read More »