Australia movies

Wake in Fright

1971 | Australia | Drama | Thriller | USA

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 ...

My Brilliant Career

1979 | Australia | Biography | Drama | Romance

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 ...

Waltz with Bashir

2008 | Animation | Australia | Belgium | Biography | Drama | Finland | France | Germany | Israel | Switzerland | USA | War

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 ...

Ten Empty

2008 | Australia | Drama

A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.

Bastardy

2008 | Australia | Documentary

Provocative, funny and profoundly moving, Bastardy is the inspirational story of one man's journey into the light. For forty years and with infectious humour and optimism, Jack Charles has juggled a life of crime with another successful career - acting. Since founding the first Aboriginal theatre company in the 1970s, Jack has performed with Australia's ...

Nine Miles Down

2009 | Australia | Hungary | Thriller | UK | USA

In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. Thomas "Jack" Jackman (Paul) a security patrolman, battles through the high winds to find out why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over ...

Samson and Delilah

2009 | Australia | Drama

Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone the discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.

Mary and Max

2009 | Animation | Australia | Comedy | Drama

It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and New Yorker Max Horovitz. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs.

Coffin Rock

2009 | Australia | Thriller | UK

This tense psychological thriller tells the story of a woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying. In a desperate and drunken mistake, she sleeps with a young stranger. Determined to prove his paternity, his intentions soon become terrifyingly psychotic and the young woman finds ...

Saw VI

2009 | Australia | Canada | Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller | UK | USA

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

Last Ride

2009 | Australia | Drama

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.

Until the End of the World

1991 | Australia | Drama | France | Germany | Sci-Fi

Sometimes-muddled road movie-turns-sci fi. Hurt plays a man who is traveling the world taking pictures with a special camera that will enable the blind to see (specifically, his blind mother). He meets up with Dommartin on the way, and they predictably hit it off. Set in 1999, a subplot about ...