A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying theatre director. Read More »
Tag Archives: Australia
Contagion (1987) Karl Zwicky, John Doyle, Nicola Bartlett, Ray Barrett
A real estate agent is lured to a run-down mansion only to be trapped and tortured by ghosts. Read More »
Frog Dreaming AKA The Quest (1986) Brian Trenchard-Smith, Henry Thomas, Tony Barry, Rachel Friend
American boy, Cody, whose parents have died, lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Read More »
Desperate Man Blues (2003) Edward Gillan, Joe Bussard, Susannah Anderson, Barbara Brown
Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it’s 1929! A cultural scavenger, musician and broadcaster Read More »
Starship (1984) Roger Christian, John Tarrant, Donogh Rees, Deep Roy
Things are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa Read More »
Petersen (1974) Tim Burstall, Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Wendy Hughes
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Read More »
Bedevil (1993) Tracey Moffatt, Diana Davidson, Jack Charles, Ben Kennedy
Three Australian stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Read More »
Cactus (1986) Paul Cox, Isabelle Huppert, Robert Menzies, Norman Kaye
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other. Read More »
The Last Bullet (1995) Michael Pattinson, Jason Donovan, Kôji Tamaki, Daniel Rigney
Set during WWII, an Australian and Japanese soldier play a deadly game of Cat and mouse in a South Pacific Jungle. Read More »
Needle (2010) John V. Soto, Ben Mendelsohn, Travis Fimmel, Murray Bartlett
After the death of his father, archaeology student Ben Rutherford inherits Read More »
Darlings of the Gods (1989) Catherine Millar, Anthony Higgins, Mel Martin, Jerome Ehlers
Biographical dramatization of the tempestuous marriage of actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Read More »
Heatwave (1982) Phillip Noyce, Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood
A planned housing development in the mid 70’s designed for an upstart Cockney immigrant developer Read More »
The Wild Duck (1984) Henri Safran, Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Irons, Lucinda Jones
A loving family’s world is shattered by an old friend’s arrival, carrying a dark secret. 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. Read More »
Shine (1996) Scott Hicks, Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine
As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott’s musical ambitions generate Read More »