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…

  • 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,…

  • 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.

  • Malcolm

    Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank’s help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.

  • Frog Dreaming

    American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange events happening in Devil’s Knob national park associated with an aboriginal myth about “frog dreamings”. Cody tries to investigate…

  • Pandemonium

    Azaria Chamberlain was not killed by a dingo but saved and raised by said dingos. She is raised in an incestuous dingo environment and travels back to Sydney transformed as the second coming… a new messiah for a new age.

  • Howling III: The Marsupials

    A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?

  • Boundaries of the Heart

    A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father’s hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year’s marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into asking her one more time. Stella’s father Billy…

  • Evil Angels

    Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria’s body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

  • The Man From Snowy River II

    After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.

  • Crocodile Dundee II

    Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who’ve followed her down under.

  • Dead Calm

    An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

  • Wind

    In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America’s Cup race against an Australian crew. Determined to get the prize back, Will convinces Morgan to finance an experimental boat designed by his ex-girlfriend Kate’s new beau, Joe Heisler. When the boat is completed, the…

  • Joh’s Jury

    Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.