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Synopsis: Filmmaker Mark Hartley explores Australia's hidden genre in this documentary that casually casts aside "official" film history to celebrate the demented genius of director Brian Trenchard-Smith, and the exciting wave of little-known but supremely entertaining films that entertained adventurous Read More
Crew: Stunts Coordinator
Actors: Nigel Lunghi, Nigel Martin, Paul Blackwell, Magda Szubanski, Wayne Anthoney, Phoebe Paterson de Heer
Synopsis: An eccentric but brilliant early 19th Century scientist attempts to convince the Prime Minister that the world will end in 2008 in director Rolf de Heer's silent, monochromatic tribute to the slapstick classics of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach. Dr. Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) may be living in the year 1907 Read More
Actors: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page, Noel Wilton
Synopsis: Experimental director Rolf DeHeer's film The Tracker depicts a controversial moment in the Australian justice system, in doing so taking on a popular topic among Australian filmmakers--the complicated and too often racist relationship between Aboriginals and locals. When an Aboriginal tracker Read More
Crew: Stunts
Actors: Valentine Nonyela, Saffron Burrows, Suzette Llewellyn
Synopsis: Racial conflicts provide the impetus for this heavy, socially conscious British drama. The film begins in North Carolina, 1652, as an Ibo family calmly walks into the sea to drown themselves. To them death was preferable to slavery. The film quickly shoots into a future time, not too distant from Read More
Actors: Jo Kennedy, Nique Needles, Anna Phillips, Robert Menzies, John Polson
Synopsis: A diverse group of seedy characters live their lives in the tawdry King Cross district of Sydney, Australia in this low-budget romantic drama. Mitch (Jo Kennedy) is a female hairdresser who loves Rex (Nique Needles), a petty crook and drifter who is jailed after he is convicted of attempted Read More
Actors: Jon Blake, Peter Phelps, Tony Bonner, Bill Kerr, John Walton
Synopsis: An elite Australian cavalry unit attacks the Turkish-held stronghold of Beersheba in this World War I adventure drama. Four friends goes through the trials of battle in this epic $10 million production. The Australians resent being led by the British who continually misuse the cavalry. They Read More
Actors: Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames, Donna Pescow
Synopsis: An adventure tale for movie buffs, Jake Speed deftly lifts scenes from detective films of the '40s through the '70s to bring an added dimension to its spoof of the detective and adventure genres. When a family gets word that their daughter has been kidnapped in Paris, her father comments that they Read More
Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Angelo Rossitto, Helen Buday, Bruce Spence, Rod Zuanic
Synopsis: About 15 years after the events of Mad Max 2, nuclear war has finally destroyed what little was left of civilization. Grizzled and older, former cop Max (Mel Gibson) roams the Australian desert in a camel-drawn vehicle -- until father-and-son thieves Jebediah Sr. (Bruce Spence) and Jr. (Adam Read More
Actors: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick
Synopsis: An introverted girl who yearns for popularity (Kristy McNichol) attends a pirate festival in her seaside community, featuring a swordplay demo led by a curly haired hunk (Christopher Atkins). After selecting Mabel (McNichol) to participate in the act, the instructor invites her aboard his boat for Read More
Actors: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Bill Stacey
Synopsis: Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee Curtis Read More
Actors: Paul Winfield, Rod Taylor, Beau Cox, Shirley Cameron
Synopsis: In this routine but still interesting "B"-movie, Harry (Paul Winfield) is an escaped convict from the U.S. who has found shelter for awhile in Australia, at least until he meets Paul (Beau Cox), an orphan who has just witnessed an assassination. Because of what he saw, Paul becomes the next target Read More
Synopsis: Australian stuntman Grant Page accepts a job on an American television series and travels to Los Angeles, where he reunites with old friend and fellow daredevil Curtis Hyde. The hirsute Hyde performs magic tricks and feats of daring for a heavy metal act called Sorcery, each gig playing the part Read More
Actors: Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt, Bryan Brown, Graeme Blundell
Synopsis: In The Odd Angry Shot director Tom Jeffrey provides a cathartic Australian answer to Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War was as much of an alienating and soul-searching experience for Australians as for Americans, and Jeffrey's frank portrayal of a group Read More
Crew: Stunts, Stunts Coordinator
Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward
Synopsis: This stunning, post-apocalyptic action thriller from director George Miller stars Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, a policeman in the near future who is tired of his job. Since the apocalypse, the lengthy, desolate stretches of highway in the Australian outback have become bloodstained Read More
Actors: Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Henry Silva, Max Phipps, Shirley Cameron
Synopsis: This cold-blooded, thinly wrought horror film has a warm-blooded theme -- the regular imbibing of said substance by a certifiably crazy cult. Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is slowly drawn into this cult against her (and everyone else's) better judgment. Once involved, she discovers that they have Read More
Actors: Joseph Bottoms, Greg Taylor, Judy Davis, John Clayton, Wendy Hughes
Synopsis: In this Australian action comedy, Texas and Alby (Joseph Bottoms and Grigor Taylor) mostly work as roustabouts at carnivals, but they are bored with the kind of work they do and take to the road together, looking for some fun and adventure. They are picked up in a beautiful green Corvette owned by Read More
Actors: Robert Bettles, Jan Kingsbury, Ben Gabriel, Sally Whiteman, Matthew Wilson
Synopsis: Based on a children's novel by Ivan Southall, this sentimental story is an account of a boy stricken with polio during World War I. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: John Hargreaves, Grant Page, Margaret Gerard, Noel Ferrier, Judith Woodroffe
Synopsis: Two veterans of Vietnam special-forces (John Hargreaves, Grant Page) have retired to the relatively painless field of stuntwork. They return to active duty, however, when the Australian government hires them to retrieve documents and destroy the fortress of a Filipino overlord. ~ John Bush, All Read More
Crew: Technical Advisor
Actors: Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil, Judy Dick, Tony Allison
Synopsis: Storm Boy (Greg Rowe) is a rambunctious Australian youth, living along the coastline with his freewheeling father. At the behest of an aging aborigine, Storm Boy takes care of an uncared-for nest of pelicans. As he develops a sense of responsibility, the boy's outlook on the world matures. This Read More
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate
Synopsis: Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a life of crime. A six-year stint in jail doesn't provide reform, but does introduce him to an Aboriginal partner-in-crime (David Gulpilil). The duo then proceed to terrorize the Read More
Actors: Jimmy Wang Yu, George Lazenby, Ros Spiers, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward
Synopsis: The Far East and the Land Down Under are about to have a head-on collision in this action drama. Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu) is an undercover detective from Hong Kong sent to Australia to crack open the operation of a Sydney mob boss named Wilton (George Lazenby). Fang puts his skills as a hang glider Read More
Actors: Michael Laurence, Ros Spiers, Peter Reynolds, Grant Page
Synopsis: 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. Factual segments are interspersed with humorous skits depicting how people of varying degrees Read More
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