Australia movies

Wake in Fright (1971)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Pleasence, Donald | Bond, Gary | Rafferty, Chips | Kay, Sylvia | Thompson, Jack | Whittle, Peter | Thomas, Al | Meillon, John | Armstrong, John | DeGrey, Slim | Dence, Maggie | Erskine, Norm | Moase, Owen | Dalleen, John | Fiddess, Buster
Directors: Kotcheff, Ted
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Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left…

My Brilliant Career (1979)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia
Actors: Davis, Judy | Neill, Sam | Hughes, Wendy | Grubb, Robert | Cullen, Max | Britton, Aileen | Whitford, Peter | Kennedy, Patricia | Hopgood, Alan | Blake, Julia | Franklin, David | Shad, Marion | Wood, Aaron | Davies, Sue | Piper, Gordon
Directors: Armstrong, Gillian
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The heroine, Sybylla (Davis), a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry played by Niel) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Animation | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | Belgium | Finland | France | Germany | Israel | Switzerland | USA
Actors: Ben-Yishai, Ron | Dayag, Ronny | Harazi, Dror | Lazarov, Yehezkel | Leon, Mickey | Sivan, Ori | Solomon, Zahava
Directors: Folman, Ari
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One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

Clubland (2007)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Blethyn, Brenda | Callan, Peter | Chittenden, Khan | Clearkin, Brendan | Russell Dykstra | Holden, Frankie J. | Quast, Philip | Wilson, Richard | Booth, Emma | Gibney, Rebecca | Wall, Katie
Directors: Nowlan, Cherie
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The shy son (Chittenden) of an aging comedienne (Blethyn) tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend (Booth), and his mother’s second chance at fame.

Dark City (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Sewell, Rufus | Hurt, William | Sutherland, Kiefer | Connelly, Jennifer | O'Brien, Richard | Richardson, Ian | Spence, Bruce | Friels, Colin | Bluthal, John | Butel, Mitchell | George, Melissa | Gallacher, Frank | Singer, Ritchie | Monjo, Justin | Bell, Nicholas
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Lake Mungo (2008)

Friday, December 18th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Zucker, Talia | Traynor, Rosie | Pledger, David | Sharpe, Martin | Jodrell, Steve | Donnellan, Tamara | Terrill, Scott | Armytage, Charles | Ball, Jason | Boltin, Dr. Phillip | Costello, Marcus | Cuming, Robin | Dower, Scott | Dunn, John | Dunn, Laurie
Directors: Anderson, Joel
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Sixteen-year-old ALICE PALMER drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, RAY KEMENY. Ray discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. A series of clues lead the family to Lake Mungo where Alice’s secret past emerges. Lake Mungo is a mystery, a thriller and a ghost story.

Balibo (2009)

Monday, December 14th, 2009
Genres: Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Phillips, Nathan | Winter, Mark Leonard | Gameau, Damon | Grantley, Gyton | Isaac, Oscar | LaPaglia, Anthony | Sonkkila, Paul | Winter, Mark | Wright, Tom | Viegas, Bea
Directors: Connolly, Robert
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As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East’s determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifies and an unlikely friendship develops between the last foreign correspondent in East Timor and the man who will become President. BALIBO is a political thriller that tells the true story of crimes that have been covered up for over thirty years.

The Power of One (1992)

Monday, December 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia | France | USA
Actors: Kubheka, Nomadlozi | Hurle, Agatha | Ivy, Nigel | Brooks Swope, Tracy | Deary, Brendan | Mangwarara, Winston | Witcher, Guy | Masenda, Tonderai | Mamanzi, Cecil Zilla | Turner, John | Bulloch, Robbie | Arnell, Gordon | Mnisi, Jeremiah | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Tingay, Paul
Directors: Avildsen, John G.
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The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion for changing the world. Growing up he suffered as the only English boy in an Afrikaans school. Soon orphaned, he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor von Vollensteen (a.k.a. “Doc”), a friend of his grandfather. Doc develops Peekay’s piano talent and Peekay becomes “assistant gardener” in Doc’s cactus garden. It is not long after WWII begins that Doc is placed in prison for failure to register with the English government as a foreigner.

Cedar Boys (2009)

Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Thai, Vico | Amalm, Daniel | Assadi, Yasser | Bazzi, Fayssal | Chantery, Les | Dannoun, Buddy | Facey, Clint | Foster, Bren | Hany, Taffy | Henderson, Martin | Hoyt, Jayb | Idik, Eddie | Malik, Hani | McMahon, Hunter
Directors: Caradee, Serhat
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A journey into the lives of Middle-Eastern Australians in Sydney’s outer-west.

Crush (2009)

Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Egan, Christopher | Lung, Emma | Harmon, Brooke | Clark, Christian | Lind, Jenna | Manera, Kane | Edwards, Elwyn | Hewitt, Luke | Toyne, Ian | McAullay, Kerry-Ella | Pranita, Gemma | Searle, Helen
Directors: Gerritsen, Jeffrey
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A university student is stalked by an obsessed girl who has supernatural powers.