
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Read More »
Tag Archives: Australia
Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns (2000) John Tatoulis, Lakis Lazopoulos, Zoe Carides, John Bluthal, Comedy, Romance, Drama

Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. Read More »
South (1919) Frank Hurley, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, J. Stenhouse, Documentary, Adventure

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. The ship sails south, breaking the ice, and ultimately getting trapped by the fast-changing weather. Read More »
Smiley Gets a Gun (1958) Anthony Kimmins, Sybil Thorndike, Chips Rafferty, Keith Calvert, Comedy, Drama

Set in the outback where a local policeman tries to help a rambunctious scamp settle down by promising the lad a new gun if he can stay out of mischief and treat other people with respect. Read More »
Lovers and Luggers (1938) Ken G. Hall, Lloyd Hughes, Ann Richards, James Raglan, Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Read More »
Shame (1988) Steve Jodrell, Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Bill McCluskey, Drama

Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis Read More »
Blutige Schreie / Strange Behavior (1981) Michael Laughlin, Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Widowed John Brady is the Chief of Police in small town Galesburg, Illinois, where he has lived most of his life. Read More »
Death Cheaters (1976) Brian Trenchard-Smith, John Hargreaves, Grant Page, Margaret Gerard, Action, Adventure

Australia sends two ex-commando stuntmen (John Hargreaves, Grant Page) to steal documents from a Philippine mobster.
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Ninety Nine Per Cent (1963) Giorgio Mangiamele, Comedy

In Ninety-Nine Percent, Mangiamele’s only comedy, Italian widower Joseph Pino and his young son Peter live a chaotic and deeply opposed life. Read More »
Mabo (2012) Rachel Perkins, Jimi Bani, Deborah Mailman, Ewen Leslie, Biography, Drama

Mabo tells the story of one of Australia’s national heroes – Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15 Read More »