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The Boys are Back (2009)

After successful Adelaide sports journalist Joe Warr (Clive Owen) loses his second wife Katy (Laura Fraser) to cancer, his relationship with his two sons from two different marriages is put to the test. Joe had moved from the UK to ... [read more]

Sunshine Sally (1922)

Sally (Yvonne Pavis) resigns from her job at a laundry after supporting her friend Tottie (Joy Revelle), who has been sacked. She rejects marriage proposals from Spud Murphy (John Cosgrove) and Skinny Smith (Dinks Paterson), who embark on a boxing ... [read more]

Expedition South (1961)

The Thala Dan brings relief supplies and 33 new men to Mawson, Australia’s largest Antarctic station, in early 1960. They will relieve the winter party, who have spent a year on the ice. In fine weather, teams erect new huts ... [read more]

That Eye, the Sky (1994)

Twelve–year-old Morton ‘Ort’ Flack (Jamie Croft) lives in the outback with his father, Sam (Mark Fairall), mother Alice (Lisa Harrow), older sister Tegwyn (Amanda Douge) and senile Grandma Flack (Alethea McGrath). On his way to work for local mechanic Cherry ... [read more]

Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? (2006)

Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler retraces the investigation into the deaths of brilliant CSIRO scientist Dr Bogle and his lover, Mrs Margaret Chandler, whose bodies were found beside the Lane Cove River, ... [read more]

Floating Life (1996)

As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee), and two teenage sons, follow their second daughter Bing ... [read more]

The Games – Series 1 Episode 8, Rural and Environment (1998)

The Games charts the progress of the fictitious Logistics and Liaison Division of SOCOG (the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games), the real-life authority charged with staging the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000. ... [read more]

The Home Song Stories (2007)

In Hong Kong in 1964, a beautiful nightclub singer meets an Australian naval officer. Rose (Joan Chen) comes to Australia with her two young children, Tom and May, but leaves Bill (Steven Vidler) after one week of marriage. Seven years ... [read more]

Kiss or Kill (1997)

Young lovers Nikki (Frances O’Connor) and Al (Matt Day) are confidence tricksters. She lures men to her hotel room where she drugs them and with Al’s help steals their money, but the scam goes sour in Adelaide when she accidentally ... [read more]

Seven Little Australians (1973)

This is the story of the Woolcot family – Captain John Woolcot (Leonard Teale) from the NSW Regiment, his young second wife Esther (Elizabeth Alexander), and his seven children and their adventures in late 19th century Sydney. It is ... [read more]

Mad Max 2 (1981)

After a disastrous war over oil, Max (Mel Gibson) has become a desert wanderer with few ties to the world. His family is dead; his only companion is a smart and ferocious blue heeler called ‘dog’. The desert is a ... [read more]

Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

Mid-19th century England. Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes) is a trainee Anglican priest studying at Oxford University. Taken to the horse races by fellow student Wardley-Fish (Barnaby Kay), Oscar develops an uncontrollable passion for gambling. Despite giving his winnings to charity, ... [read more]

The Ship That Shouldn’t Have (1984)

The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west of Perth, near Antarctica. Bad ... [read more]

Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger (2007)

Esther Blueburger (Danielle Catanzariti) is a feisty loner at a private girls’ school who is constantly beseeched by her mother Grace (Essie Davis) to be normal. Esther invents excuses to explain why no friends are coming to her bat mitzvah, ... [read more]

Black and White (2002)

Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra), a 27-year-old mixed-race Aborigine from Alice Springs, is arrested in December 1958 in Ceduna, on the South Australian border. He is charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, Mary Hattam, whose body was ... [read more]

The Broken Melody (1938)

John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) ruins his good prospects after a drunken brawl in a Sydney nightclub. Expelled from his musical studies at the university and thrown off his father’s property, he falls on hard times in a city in the ... [read more]

Blackrock (1996)

Jared (Laurence Breuls) stages a welcome-home party for his mate Ricko (Simon Lyndon), back from up north. During the booze-fuelled evening, Jared gets into a disagreement with his girlfriend’s brother, Toby (Heath Ledger), who accuses Jared of paying too much ... [read more]

Rogue (2007)

US travel writer Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) arrives in the Northern Territory and joins tour operator Kate (Radha Mitchell) and a group of tourists on a riverboat daytrip through Kakadu National Park. As they watch a saltwater croc being fed ... [read more]

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Bubby (Nicholas Hope) has spent all of his 35 years locked in one room. His mother (Claire Benito) feeds and washes him like a baby, but she also uses him for sex. She has raised him to believe that if ... [read more]

Breathing Under Water (1991)

A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve Dermody), and feeling unease with ... [read more]

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