Australia movies

Romper Stomper (1992)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Crowe, Russell | Daniel Pollock | McKenzie, Jacqueline | Alex Scott | Wright, Jeffrey
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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins’ merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

Battle of Long Tan (2006)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: Australia
Actors: Worthington, Sam
Directors:
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In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger’s situation seemed hopeless. Long Tan is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.

Gabriel (2007)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: Australia
Actors: Whitfield, Andy | Stevenson, Dwaine | Noble, Samantha | Heynatz, Erika | Piccirilli, Michael | Pavlidis, Harry | Campbell, Jack | Copeland, Kevin | Clearkin, Brendan | Todd, Matt Hylton | Toro, Valentino del | Kleut, Goran D. | Mathews, Amy | Clark, Christian | Earl, Johan
Directors: Abbess, Shane
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GABRIEL tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory - a place where darkness rules - and save the souls of the city’s inhabitants.

Zoolander (2001)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery
Countries: Australia | Germany | USA
Actors: Wilson, Owen | Taylor, Christine | Ferrell, Will | Jovovich, Milla | Stiller, Jerry | Duchovny, David | Voight, Jon | Friedlander, Judah | Graham, Nathan Lee | Manning, Alexandre | Highsmith, Asio | Skarsgård, Alexander | Trump, Donald | Slater, Christian
Directors: Stiller, Ben
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Male supermodel Derek Zoolander is on his way down after three years of continuously winning the “Male Model of the Year” award. When he is beaten by the hot newcomer Hansel, Derek starts searching for a new meaning in his life. Just then fashion czar Mugatu offers Derek a comeback in his new “Derelicte”-line. What nobody suspected is that Mugatu plans to assassinate the new Malaysian Prime Minister on his visit to New York, so that cheap child labor is still available for Mugatu’s fashion producing. By brainwashing Zoolander, Mugatu and his evil associate Katinka create a dumb and willing killer to do the job. Only in Time Magazine journalist Matilda suspicion arises slowly, and she tries to stop Derek.

Mad Max (1979)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Samuel, Joanne | Hugh Keays-Byrne | Bisley, Steve | Burns, Tim | Ward, Roger | Aldenhoven, Lisa | Bracks, David | Cadart, Bertrand | Cameron, David | Chaffey, Robina | Clark, Stephen | Constantine, Mathew | Day, Jerry | Evans, Reg
Directors: Miller, George
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It is a couple of years in the future… The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything… Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader “The Knight Rider”. Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as “Mad Max”.

Clubland (2007)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama
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.

Shine (1996)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: Australia
Actors: Rush, Geoffrey | Braine, Justin | Todd, Sonia | Haywood, Chris | Rafalowicz, Alex | Poole, Gordon | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Bell, Nicholas | Cox, Danielle | Gooden, Rebecca | Kaczmarek, Marta | Cousins, John | Taylor, Noah | Linkson, Paul | Berger, Randall
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.

Sleeping Murder (1987)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Alexander, Geraldine | Moulder-Brown, John | Treves, Frederick | Anderson, Jean | Hardiman, Terrence | Bennett, John | Newman, Geraldine | Watson, Jack | Scott, Joan | Heywood, Jean | Anderson, Georgine | Jewesbury, Edward | McAllister, David | Boxer, Amanda
Directors: Davies, John
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BBC TV adaption of the Agatha Christie’s novel. A young recently married woman, Gwenda Reed, comes back to England after living most of her life in New Zealand. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country she buys a house for them and starts recalling memories which make her start to think that perhaps she had lived in the house before. It’s only then, while dining out with friends, that a chance remark triggered off a frightening memory, as a little girl, looking down at a woman’s body and the murderer with “monkey paws” hands. Gwenda is determined to find out the sources of this memory. The killer, thought that he/she was safe after eighteen years and is prepared to kill to cover up the past. But Gwenda has help as one of her dining friends is Raymond West, who has a very special Aunt who is willing to help Gwenda - Miss Jane Marple…

Pocket Full of Rye, A (1985)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | West, Timothy | Drake, Fabia | Merrison, Clive | Bell, Rachel | Davison, Peter | Low, Frances | Dorning, Stacy | Stanbridge, Martyn | Wilkinson, Tom | Glover, Jon | Cadell, Selina | Badland, Annette | Kendall, Merelina | Mills, Frank
Directors: Slater, Guy
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Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon however Rex’s young wife also turns up poisoned. The maid, Gladyes, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to Miss Marple asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladyses’ body is found strangled and strung up on the clothes line. Now it’s personal, and Miss Marple is determined to see the murderer punished.

Murder Is Announced, A (1985)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Howells, Ursula | Asherson, Renée | Bond, Samantha | Shepherd, Simon | King, Nicola | Ives-Cameron, Elaine | Michael, Ralph | Syms, Sylvia | Solon, Matthew | Kerridge, Mary | Sims, Joan | Dionisotti, Paola | Moore, Vivienne | Collings, David
Directors: Giles, David
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A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock’s two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of “just walking by” or “Was in the neighborhood”. At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone’s face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.