Bliss (2 Disc Set)
(1985) [M]

Harry Joy is a happy man. He has a successful business, a lovely wife and two loving children. Harry suffers a fatal heart attack. But, he comes back to life and takes a good look at the world around him. His wife is sleeping with his partner. His son is a drug dealer and wants to join the Mafia....  More

Annie's Coming Out (A Test of Love)
(1984) [PG]

Heart-rending heroic story of a spastic female teenager who is incarcerated in a hospital for the handicapped, and believed to be retarded. A new teacher-therapist endeavours to help prove that in reality she does have a fine and sophisticated intelligence.  More

Careful He Might Hear You (2 disc set)
(1983) [PG]

In the turbulent years of the Great Depression an orphaned boy becomes a pawn in a bitter family feud as two aunts - snooty Anglophile Vanessa (Wendy Hughes), and working-class Lila (Robyn Nevin) - battle for his custody. Newly returned from a world tour, wealthy socialite Vanessa lavishes her...  More

Lonely Hearts
(1982) [PG]

The New York Times called director Paul Cox “a bright new film-making talent” for his enchanting story – co-written with John Clarke (The Games) - of unsung hero Peter, a piano tuner, loner and kleptomaniac whose toupee only fools the man underneath. Peter desperately visits a dating...  More

Gallipoli (2 disc set)
(1981) [PG]

Mel Gibson delivers an electrifying performance in Peter Weir's (The Truman Show, Witness) compelling story of friendship and adventure between two Australian soldiers in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans, climb the pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their...  More

Breaker Morant
(1980) [PG]

Hero or villian? His exploits shook an empire... and made him a legend. South Africa, 1901: The British war against the Boers has deteriorated into bitter guerilla warfare. A unit of the Bushveldt Carbineers made up mainly of Australians is ordered by the British High Command to fight the Boer on...  More

My Brilliant Career
(1979) [G]

Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) is the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Bold and determined, Sybylla dreams of succeeding as an acclaimed writer. But in a time of sexist ignorance and bigotry, Sybylla has frequent clashes with procrustean conformists. Though it is...  More

Newsfront
(1978) [PG]

An insight into Australia in the 1950's, whilst portraying the turmoil through the tangled love affairs and business ambitions of two brothers in the news media. The lives, loves and loyalties of the newsreel cameraman. When the news ran out... they made their own. Newsfront is the story of...  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

The Devil's Playground (1976)
(1976) [M]

Fred Schepisi’s celebrated first feature is a lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy’s coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Victoria.

A semi-autobiographical retelling of the director’s own training for the priesthood, the story follows...  More