The Nun and the Bandit
Outlaws kidnap their 14-year-old cousin and hold her for ransom. The girl is being chaperoned by a visiting nun, who refuses to abandon her during the kidnapping.
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
More Winners: The Journey
An orphan girl seeks her true inheritance in this Australian TV movie. On an isolated Tasmanian mountain, 12-year-old Ada lives with her wealthy father Justus. Housekeeper Martha is plotting to…
Sky Trackers
NASA’s Tidbinbilla Tracking station in Australia prepares for the re-entry of a decaying satellite containing a dangerous biological experiment. It is decided to bring it down near the station, for…
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
The Pursuit of Happiness
A drama with strong documentary elements, set in the port city of Fremantle, WA, at a time of American nuclear fleet visits. The film traces the conflicts Anna faces within…
Shame
Street of Dreams
Unfinished documentary about two of pop artist Martin Sharp’s obsessions: performer Tiny Tim, and the Luna Amusement Park in Sydney, Australia.
Prisoners of Propaganda
In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Secret Service made a film called Calling Australia! to show the “exemplary conditions” under which prisoners of war were kept, and to “soften up” the…
The Odyssey
The Last of the Mohicans
Slate, Wyn & Me
Meandering drama of Brothers Burke and Sacks, who rob a bank, kill a cop and kidnap Thornton, a witness to their crime.
Australian Dream
The Perfectionist
Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as housewife and start…
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.
The Old Curiosity Shop
Bush Christmas
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year’s race. But…
Psycho II
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother’s infamous old house,…
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…
Fourteen’s Good, Eighteen’s Better
Profile on three young Adelaide women. Diana, Kerry and Josie are now 18 years old, and continue to have open and frank discussions about their lives.
…Maybe This Time
Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister’s aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town…
Harlequin
In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe,…
Beyond Hell’s Gate
A film about the rediscovery of the infamous opening into the Palmer River goldfields of northern Queensland by three young explorers on trail bikes. This documentary reveals, in graphic detail,…