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Holidays On The River Yarra
(1990) [M]

Eddie and his buddy Mick have entered their young adulthood without any plans, skills, or regular employment. They live in urban Australia, subsisting on the fringes of everything, looking for a bit of action and a bit of a good time. They fall into a job working for a mysterious, monied and very...  More

We Of The Never Never
(1982) [G]

This fine Australian drama is based on the memoirs of Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, the first white woman ever to journey into the Australian Outback. It received six Australian Academy Award Nominations.  More

Waiting (1991)
(1991) [M]

Clare (Noni Hazlehurst), a talented artist and first time mother to be, becomes the subject of a grand plan. In her isolated country farmhouse, she awaits what she hopes will be the perfect home birth, while her three closest with their various men, children and animals converge from all...  More

The Last Days Of Chez Nous
(1992) [PG]

Vicki returns to her elder sister Beth's house in Australia after an affair in Italy. Beth, with a teenage daughter, has become involved in something of a marriage of convenience with Frenchman J.P., and her rather prickly house proud ways are causing frictions counterpointed by Vicki's more...  More

Storm Boy
(1977) [G]

Storm Boy lives with his recluse father on South Australia's lonely and beautiful coast. Here his free spirit roams with his pet pelican, Mr Percival, and his secret Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill. He knows no other world. Suddenly there are intruders, the local school teacher who wants...  More

Betty Blokk-Buster Follies
(1976) [M]

The gay-themed, enormously popular stage act of the Australian female impersonator/impressionist/comedian Reg Livermore, is recorded here on film. His song impressions include Lou Reed, Billy Joel, and Charles Azanavour. The characters he enacts include Betty Blokk-Buster, a German maid who wears...  More

Beyond The Glass Ceiling
(1982) [M]

Early short films from the acclaimed director of "The Piano" & "Portrait of a Lady" etc  More

Travelling North
(1987) [PG]

After their late-life marriage, a middle-aged Australian couple move to the countryside. Their life and tempestuous marriage is detailed. Adapted from the Play by David Williamson.  More

The Sum Of Us
(1994) [M]

Set in Sydney, Australia. A (heterosexual) father and his gay son are trying to find Ms/Mr Right respectively. The film shows their relationships with one another and the objects of their affection as tragedy strikes.  More

Country Life
(1994) [M]

Starring Sam Neill, Creta Scacchi and Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore's delightfully evocative comedy is a tale of love, lies and betrayal. Set on a rambling Australian sheep station shortly after the first world war , Country Life is a beautiful and sensual adaptation of Chekhov's tragic comedy...  More