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Actors: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, John Jarratt, Heather Mitchell, Sam Worthington
Synopsis: A handful of tourists looking for adventure get more than they bargained for when they cross paths with a massive man-eating beast in this thriller. Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) is a writer for an American travel magazine who has been assigned to write a story about vacationing in rugged Northern Read More
Actors: John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi
Synopsis: A dream vacation turns into a nightmare in this taut thriller from Australia. Ben (Nathan Phillips), Lizzie (Cassandra Magrath), and Kristy (Kestie Morassi) are three friends who, after a night of celebratory drinking, hit the road for a trip to Wolf Creek National Park, where they plan to spend a Read More
Actors: Bryan Brown, Ernie Dingo, Angie Milliken
Synopsis: Though not quite a western, this gripping Australian drama contains similar themes as it chronicles the unending struggle between native aborigines and ever-encroaching Europeans. Set in the arid red-rock desert west of Alice Springs, a region called Dead Heart by the whites and hailed as a sacred Read More
Actors: Toni Pearen, David F. Price, John Jarratt, Carmen Tanti, Jamie Petersen
Synopsis: Mistaken identity provides the basis for this Australian screwball transvestite comedy. The trouble begins in the rural town of Worondilla in the sugar cane district of northern Australia. The town is preparing for its annual Sugar Week celebrations. This year an all-girl band is being brought in. Read More
Actors: Victoria Longley, Angie Milliken, Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline McKenzie, John Jarratt
Synopsis: Using a blend of fantasy and reality, this film presents an extraordinary day in the lives of two female friends in their mid thirties. The primary focus of the film is upon their conversations at work where they design and write adult comics. Julia is upset because she suspects her husband is Read More
Actors: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Con O'Neill, Rhondda Findleton, John Jarratt
Synopsis: In this made-for-British-TV mystery, Inspector Morse and his sidekick Lewis fly Down Under to locate a key witness against a gang of burglars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The two-part Australian miniseries Fields of Fire III was the third and final annual installment in the Australian TV saga inspired by Robert Marchand's novel Cane. Returning to the fold were Todd Boyce as British expatriate Bluey and Melissa Docker as Aussie lass Dusty, whose romance and marriage Read More
Actors: Deanne Jeffs, Mary Regan, Kaarin Fairfax, Nicolas Lathouris, Hazel Phillips
Synopsis: Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) is a 16-year-old Australian girl who wants to become a ballerina. To make ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a scrungy Sydney cabaret. Eventually she is able to pursue her original goal, but not before experiencing (and enduring) humanity at both its best and Read More
Synopsis: This sequel to the 1987 Australian miniseries Fields of Fire was set in 1946. Having weathered WWII, British expatriate Bluey (Todd Boyce) had wed Dusty (Melissa Docker), one of his co-workers in the Australian cane fields. Once this occurred, the focus of the action shifted to a pair of new Read More
Synopsis: Fields of Fire was the first of three Australian miniseries inspired by Robert Donaldson's novel Cane. Todd Boyce starred as Bluey, an Englishmen who headed "down under" in the late '30s to work in the Australian cane fields. The story picked up momentum -- and a score of new supporting characters Read More
Actors: John Jarratt, Nikki Coghill, Max Phipps, Burnham Burnham, David Gulpilil
Synopsis: This well-made Australian blend of Jaws and Alligator is a tense, action-packed thriller involving a monstrous crocodile, a tough ranger (John Jarratt), and a team of aborigines who worship the monster as the god "Numunwari." This leads to lots of gory clashes with the reptile, interwoven with Read More
Actors: Noni Hazelhurst, Graeme Blundell, John Jarratt
Synopsis: Geoffrey Stubbs has been ignoring his sensual wife Dorothy's sexual needs for some time now. He has a full-time job running his butcher shop and has ambitions as a right-wing politician. Meanwhile, Dorothy has met a real hunk, a rock musician named Todd, who was at a demonstration of sexual Read More
Actors: John Stanton, Rebecca Gilling, Tommy Lewis, John Jarratt
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Morris West, this is a classic American cowboy tale set in Australia's exotic outback, with the Aborigines pitted against a rancher, Lance Dillon (John Stanton) because he is on their land. After a renegade Aborigine, Mundaru (Tommy Lewis), kills one of Lance's Brahma bull's Read More
Actors: Bill Kerr, John Jarratt, Lorna Leslie, Tony Barry, Katy Wild
Synopsis: This charming love story set in the 1950s brings together an older, crafty man, a somewhat innocent young man, and a former call girl with a pure heart in an unconventional menage à trois. When the two men come into an outback town they make the acquaintance of Joycie (Lorna Lesley) who has just Read More
Synopsis: This crime drama features an interesting turn about when the six Australian hostages taken by a group of bank robbers make sure that the crooks cannot escape from them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jackie Kerin, John Jarratt, Gerda Nicolson, Alex Scott, Charles McCallum
Synopsis: Elderly residents of an Australian retirement home fight for their lives after a crazed slasher comes to call in this horror movie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Tony Barry, Tommy Lewis, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Synopsis: Even today, the Australian outback (the never-never of the title) is a daunting place to be left alone. In 1901, it was even more rugged and wild. In this artful drama, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor), a very genteel and citified Victorian-era newlywed, joins her husband in the Northern Read More
Actors: John Jarratt, Patrick Dickson, John Ewart, Michael Caton
Synopsis: A rainmaker leads the village children in a Pied Piper fashion after the villagers refuse to pay him for his services. ~ All Movie Guide 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
Actors: Hardy Kruger, Greg Rowe, Elspeth Ballantyne, Liddy Clark, John Jarratt
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Colin Theile, the Australian Blue Fin stars Hardy Kruger as a taciturn tuna boat captain. Kruger's son, played by Greg Rowe, can't do anything to please his demanding dad. Hoping to prove his worth, Rowe puts his life-and sometimes other lives-on the line. A big box-office hit Read More
Actors: Nathan Dawes
Synopsis: In this fact-based drama, when Stephen Walls (Nathan Dawes), a four-year old, goes missing in the outback near his home in rural Australia, the population of the entire town (and several nearby towns) turns out to search for him. Unfortunately, they raise such a ruckus that they scare the little Read More
Actors: Mel Gibson
Synopsis: Mel Gibson made his feature-film debut in this low-budget Australian teen drama that chronicles the exploits of a quartet of boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they find themselves involved in a murder. Read More
Synopsis: Two deaf people find companionship and love--one a race car driver, the other a hustler. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: John Jarratt, Judy Morris, Kate Fitzpatrick, Barry Humphries
Synopsis: This comedy, based on Barry Oakley's popular novel Salute to the Great McCarthy chronicles the adventurous and amorous exploits of an Australian country boy. The whole mess begins when the strapping lad is kidnapped and taken to Melbourne to play Australian Rules Football. The perpetrator and Read More
Actors: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child
Synopsis: Peter Weir's haunting and evocative mystery is set in the Australia of 1900, a mystical place where the British have attempted to impose their Christian culture with such tweedy refinements as a girls' boarding school. After gauzily-photographed, nicely underplayed scenes of the girls' budding Read More
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