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Into the Straight (1949)
Prominent Australian horse breeder WJ Curzon (George Randall) hires British trainer Hugh Duncan (James Workman) and his son Paul (Alan White). Soon after arriving at Curzon’s stud farm, St Aubins, Paul makes romantic moves on Curzon’s daughter, June (Nonnie Peifer). ... [read more]
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
Ralph (Matt Day) leaves his parents’ property in western Queensland with his guitar and a ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. His plans to become a country singer take a detour when a flamboyant couple in a large black car stop to ... [read more]
Bridewealth for a Goddess (1999)
Bridewealth for a Goddess follows the preparation and performance of a sacred ritual by the Kawelka people, who live on their tribal land near Mount Hagen in the Wahgi Valley in Papua New Guinea. Ru Kundil, a ‘Big Man’, is ... [read more]
Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica (2007)
In 2007, polar adventurer Tim Jarvis returns to Antarctica to try to answer his own questions about the epic journey made by Douglas Mawson in early 1913. Mawson trekked across almost 500 km of Antarctic terrain after the death of ... [read more]
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
As Indonesian political tensions come to a head in late 1965, Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) arrives in Jakarta to report for the Australian Broadcasting Service on his first overseas posting. Without friends or contacts, he flounders until rescued by a ... [read more]
Feeling Sexy (1998)
Greg (Tamblyn Lord) and Vicki (Susie Porter) are in love. He is studying to be a doctor. She is a painter. They marry, have children and settle into a life together. But Vicki finds her creativity stifled by the monotonous ... [read more]
Petersen (1974)
Retired Australian Rules football star Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson) quits his job as an electrician and enrols at university to study for an arts degree. Married to Susie (Jackie Weaver) and the father of two young children, Petersen is having ... [read more]
Kenny (2006)
Kenny Smyth (Shane Jacobson) provides an essential service, but few people want to shake his hand. As a senior plumber at Splashdown Corporate Bathroom Rentals, he provides portable toilets for any outdoor event – from rock festivals to neighbourhood fairs. ... [read more]
The Bet (2006)
Will O’Connor (Matthew Newton) accepts a challenge from his rich friend Angus McFarlane (Aden Young). Will is a Sydney stockbroker, Angus is a banker, the son of a tycoon. Whoever can make the most money in 90 days takes the ... [read more]
Son of a Lion (2007)
In a town in Pakistan’s mountainous North-West Frontier Province, an 11-year-old Pashtun boy, Niaz Afridi (Niaz Khan Shinwari), makes illegal copies of guns in his father’s arms manufacturing workshop. His widower father, Sher (Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad), also gives him ... [read more]
Let George Do It (1938)
Joe Blake (George Wallace) graduates from stagehand to performer at a vaudeville theatre after upstaging Mysto the Magician (Alec Kellaway). When he discovers that Molly (Gwen Munro), the girl he secretly loves, is going to marry the show’s producer, Joe ... [read more]
Those Who Love (1926)
Sir James Manton (Robert Purdie), a wealthy society figure, bribes Bébé Dorée (Sylvia Newland), a female dancer, to vanish from the life of his son Barry (William Carter). Abandoning his parents and their money, Barry becomes a wharf labourer and ... [read more]
Touch the Sun – The Gift (c1988)
Sophia (Vicki Serbos) and Nikos (Nicholas Hatjiandreou), two Greek-Australian kids living with their family in inner Melbourne, win a plot of land in Western Australia as a prize in a television quiz show. Sophia and her father Con (Con Laras) ... [read more]
Kaboodle – Series 1 Episode 1 (1987)
Kaboodle is an anthology of stories for television produced by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation. Each episode comprises self-contained segments mixing 2D and clay animation, live action and puppetry to tell stories drawn from a variety of sources, including published ... [read more]
Cactus (2007)
In inner-city Sydney at night, John Kelly (Travis McMahon) captures and drugs a young man, Eli (David Lyons), places him in the boot of his beat-up 1972 Ford Fairmont XA and drives him out of the city. The next day ... [read more]
Cactus (1986)
Colo (Isabelle Huppert) has come to Australia from France to stay with family friends, after the failure of her marriage. Tom (Norman Kaye) and his wife Beatrice (Monica Maughan) own a big house with a beautiful garden in the foothills ... [read more]
Black Harvest (1992)
By late 1989, filmmakers Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly were ready to go back to the PNG highlands to make the third film in the Highlands Trilogy, Black Harvest. This film follows First Contact (1983) and Joe ... [read more]
Snapshot (1978)
The remains of a body are removed from a fire at a photographer’s studio. In flashback, successful model Madeleine (Chantal Contouri) introduces her friend Angela (Sigrid Thornton) to leading advertising photographer Linsey (Hugh Keays-Byrne). Recently fired from her job at ... [read more]
Mary and Max (2009)
A tale of friendship between two unlikely penpals: plump, myopic little Mary Daisy Dinkle (voiced by Bethany Whitmore and then Toni Collette) growing up in suburban Melbourne and Max Jerry Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an obese, friendless New York man ... [read more]
Art + Soul (2010)
Senior art curator Hetti Perkins travels across the country meeting with leading Aboriginal artists in an endeavour to answer some fundamental questions. Why do artists make art? Why do they share their stories of home or their journeys away, their ... [read more]
