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Tag Archives: Australia
They’re a Weird Mob (1966) Michael Powell, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist Read More »
Wake in Fright (1971) Ted Kotcheff, Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
John Grant, a teacher working in the remote Australian town of Tiboonda, is under a financial bond with his Government job. Read More »
Bitter Springs (1950) Ralph Smart, Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson
Wally King, with his family and stockmen, drive livestock over hundreds of kilometres of dry country Read More »
Patrick (1978) Richard Franklin, Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar
After the shocking bathtub death of his mother and her lover, the sinister Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital Read More »
Remember Me (1985) Lex Marinos, Wendy Hughes, Jenny Ellis, Jack Ellis
A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. Read More »
Until the End of the World AKA Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991) Wim Wenders, William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone
Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers Read More »
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) Charles Chauvel, Arthur Greenaway, Mayne Lynton, Errol Flynn
The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Read More »
Drown (2015) Dean Francis, Matt Levett, Maya Stange, Jack Matthews
In the cloistered world of competitive surf-lifesaving, an Australian hero is de-throned as the reigning champion by a younger, gay competitor. Read More »
One Night Stand (1984) John Duigan, Tyler Coppin, Cassandra Delaney, Jay Hackett
In Australia, four teenagers in the Sydney Opera House are horrified to hear the news that nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. Read More »
The Year My Voice Broke (1987) John Duigan, Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn
In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love Read More »
Flirting (1991) John Duigan, Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman
Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequel to The Year My Voice Broke. Read More »
Map of the Human Heart (1992) Vincent Ward, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin
Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years Read More »
Money Movers (1978) Bruce Beresford, Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux
Filmed in Adelaide, South Australia, Bruce Beresford’s adaptation of Devon Minchin’s novel Read More »
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 »