Tag: australia

  • Razorback

    In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

  • The Earthling

    Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.

  • The Killing of Angel Street

    Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father’s mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.

  • Winter of Our Dreams

    When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friend’s diary, she discovers she’s repeating her mistakes.

  • Mad Max 2

    Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

  • Monkey Grip

    Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends — a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she’s drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.

  • The Man from Snowy River

    Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father’s farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.

  • On the Loose

    A trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people.

  • The Coca-Cola Kid

    An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After “the Kid’s” persistence is tested he’s given a tour of the man’s plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.

  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

    Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.