Filmed in Adelaide, South Australia, Bruce Beresford’s adaptation of Devon Minchin’s novel Read More »
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Tender Is the Night (1985) Robert Knights, Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, Sean Young
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920’s are slowly drawn Read More »
Man of Flowers (1983) Paul Cox, Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress. Read More »
Whiteforce (1988) Eddie Romero, Sam J. Jones, Kimberley Pistone, Tim Hughes
Johnny Quinn has been set up by a drug lord Read More »
My First Wife (1984) Paul Cox, John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Lucy Angwin
The film follows the dissolution of John and Helen’s marriage and the aftermath. Read More »
Breaker Morant (1980) Bruce Beresford, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Read More »
Freedom (1982) Scott Hicks, Jon Blake, Candy Raymond, Jad Capelja
Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger Read More »
The Sum of Us (1994) Geoff Burton, Kevin Dowling, Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson
Set in Sydney, Australia. A (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. Read More »
Man-Thing (2005) Brett Leonard, Jack Thompson, Matthew Le Nevez, Steve Bastoni
When a greedy oil baron sets his sights on drilling in a Louisiana swamp, a monstrous creature is awakened. Read More »
Wrath (2011) Jonathan Neil Dixon, Louise Janelle Bartlett, Bianca Bradey, Jazz Cohn
Traveling south to the coast through the remote Boanyoo Ranges, a group of friends encounter a stranger. Read More »
Dusty (1983) John Richardson, Bill Kerr, Noel Trevarthen, Carol Burns
The story of a friendship between an older Australian man and his instinctively wild dog. Read More »
Weekend of Shadows (1978) Tom Jeffrey, John Waters, Wyn Roberts, Graham Rouse
In the 1930s, a farmer’s wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him. Read More »
The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004) Peter Bogdanovich, Justine Waddell, Michael Weatherly, Matthew Settle
Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood Read More »
Lonely Hearts (1982) Paul Cox, Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant Read More »
Floating Life (1996) Clara Law, Annette Shun Wah, Annie Yip, Anthony Brandon Wong
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. Read More »