Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Read More »
Tag Archives: Australia
Balibo (2009) Robert Connolly, Jane Hampson, Bea Viegas, Christine Martins
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Read More »
Return Home (1990) Ray Argall, Dennis Coard, Frankie J. Holden, Ben Mendelsohn
A man and his wife are partners in a small business, a service station, that is stuggling to survive financially. Read More »
Radiance (1998) Rachel Perkins, Deborah Mailman, Trisha Morton-Thomas, Rachael Maza
With the death of their mother, two sisters (Nona and Cressy) return to their childhood home in Northern Australia where their third sister, Mae, lived looking after their mother. Read More »
Vincent (1987) Paul Cox, John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek
This documentary, on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, is told through his letters to his brother Theo, from 1872 until his tragic death. Read More »
Turtle Beach (1992) Stephen Wallace, Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen, Jack Thompson
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. Read More »
The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Tom Jeffrey, Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war Read More »
Never Tell Me Never (1998) David Elfick, Claudia Karvan, Michael Caton, Diane Craig
This is the story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.
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Tunnel Vision (1995) Clive Fleury, Patsy Kensit, Robert Reynolds, Rebecca Rigg, Mystery, Thriller
This Australian whodunit, in which partners’ personal lives fall apart during the hunt for a serial killer, unintentionally captures the drudgery of real police work. Read More »
The Pirate Movie (1982) Ken Annakin, Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A parody/homage to Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, The Pirate Movie is a comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original Read More »