Australia movies

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | King, Regina | Murciano, Enrique | Shatner, William | Hudson, Ernie | Burns, Heather | Bader, Diedrich | Williams, Treat | Benrubi, Abraham | Offerman, Nick | Brennan, Eileen | Röhm, Elisabeth | Grossman, Leslie | Strus, Lusia | Gottlieb, Molly
Directors: Pasquin, John
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The FBI agent Gracie Hart is assigned to promote the FBI, touring with the brutal agent Sam Fuller as her bodyguard. While traveling around the country, her friend and Miss USA is kidnapped with Stan Fields, and Gracie decides to investigate the abduction in Las Vegas by her own and against the direct orders of local chief Collins.

The Boys Are Back (2009)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Bastow, Tommy | Giessauf, Timothy | Glanfield, Tim | MacKay, George | McAnulty, Nicholas | Morgan, Adam | Owen, Clive | Thomson, Erik | Blake, Julia | Booth, Emma | Fraser, Laura | Gerritsen, Lynda-Maree | Jurd, Felicity | Little, Natasha | Lung, Emma
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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Inspired by a true story, THE BOYS ARE BACK is a deeply moving, wryly confessional tale of fatherhood, that intimately evokes both the fragility and wonders of family life. It follows a witty, wisecracking, action-oriented sportswriter (Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner CLIVE OWEN) who, in the wake of his wife’s tragic death, finds himself in a sudden, stultifying state of single parenthood. With turbulent emotions swirling just below the surface, Joe Warr throws himself into the only child-rearing philosophy he thinks has a shot at bringing joy back into their lives: “just says yes.” Raising two boys - a curious six year-old (NICHOLAS MCANULTY) and a rebel teen (GEORGE MACKAY) from a previous marriage — in a household devoid of feminine influence, and with an unabashed lack of rules, life becomes exuberant, instinctual, reckless . . . and on the constant verge of disaster. United by unspoken love, conflicted by fierce feelings and in search of a road forward, the three multi-generational boys of the Warr household, father and sons alike, must each find their own way, however tenuous, to grow up. Their story is not just about the transforming power of a family crisis — but the unavoidable grace of everyday life and love that gets them through. Academy Award® nominee Scott Hicks (”Shine”) directs from a screenplay by Allan Cubitt based on the acclaimed 2001 memoir by Simon Carr, The Boys Are Back, an unflinchingly funny and honest recounting of his journey from grieving husband to full-contact fatherhood in the aftermath of profound loss. Shot on location in the stunning countryside of South Australia, the film is produced by Greg Brenman (”Billy Elliot”) and Tim White (”Ned Kelly”). The executive producers are Peter Bennett-Jones and Clive Owen.

Wake in Fright (1971)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Pleasence, Donald | Bond, Gary | Rafferty, Chips | Kay, Sylvia | Thompson, Jack | Whittle, Peter | Thomas, Al | Meillon, John | Armstrong, John | DeGrey, Slim | Dence, Maggie | Erskine, Norm | Moase, Owen | Dalleen, John | Fiddess, Buster
Directors: Kotcheff, Ted
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Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left…

My Brilliant Career (1979)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia
Actors: Davis, Judy | Neill, Sam | Hughes, Wendy | Grubb, Robert | Cullen, Max | Britton, Aileen | Whitford, Peter | Kennedy, Patricia | Hopgood, Alan | Blake, Julia | Franklin, David | Shad, Marion | Wood, Aaron | Davies, Sue | Piper, Gordon
Directors: Armstrong, Gillian
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The heroine, Sybylla (Davis), a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry played by Niel) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Australia | Belgium | Finland | France | Germany | Israel | Switzerland | USA
Actors: Ben-Yishai, Ron | Dayag, Ronny | Harazi, Dror | Lazarov, Yehezkel | Leon, Mickey | Sivan, Ori | Solomon, Zahava
Directors: Folman, Ari
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One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

Clubland (2007)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Blethyn, Brenda | Callan, Peter | Chittenden, Khan | Clearkin, Brendan | Russell Dykstra | Holden, Frankie J. | Quast, Philip | Wilson, Richard | Booth, Emma | Gibney, Rebecca | Wall, Katie
Directors: Nowlan, Cherie
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The shy son (Chittenden) of an aging comedienne (Blethyn) tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend (Booth), and his mother’s second chance at fame.

Dark City (1998)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Sewell, Rufus | Hurt, William | Sutherland, Kiefer | Connelly, Jennifer | O'Brien, Richard | Richardson, Ian | Spence, Bruce | Friels, Colin | Bluthal, John | Butel, Mitchell | George, Melissa | Gallacher, Frank | Singer, Ritchie | Monjo, Justin | Bell, Nicholas
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Law, Jude | McAdams, Rachel | Strong, Mark | Marsan, Eddie | Care, Andrew | Child, Sam | Currie, James | Egan, Joe | Ewens, Martin | Fox, James | Garrick, David | Hope, William | Houston, William | Maillet, Robert
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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After finally catching serial killer and occult “sorcerer” Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with his partner’s new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the dauntless detective must unravel the clues that will lead him into a twisted web of murder, deceit, and black magic - and the deadly embrace of temptress Irene Adler.

Beautiful Kate (2009)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia
Actors: Brown, Bryan | Clissold, Robbie | McFarlane, Josh | Mendelsohn, Ben | O'Donnell, Scott | Dermody, Maeve | Griffiths, Rachel | Lowe, Sophie
Directors: Ward, Rachel
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A writer, Ned Kendall, is asked to return to the family home by his sister Sally, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. The family home is in a very remote and isolated area. While back home, Ned starts having memories of his beautiful twin sister and himself when they were children. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family’s past.

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Steen, Suzie | Anderson, Sam | Cao, Chi | Choi, Robin | Fuller, Laurence | Greenwood, Bruce | Guo, Chengwu | Hall, Tony | Heathcote, Steven | Hoang, Ferdinand | Kirby, Christopher | Li, Yang | MacLachlan, Kyle | Meadows, Ian | Thompson, Jack
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.