Allan Penney

7.1

Australian graffiti

Oct 15, 1987

Australian graffiti

1987 105 min 35 vues

Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.

Drama

5.9

Backroads

Jun 27, 1977

Backroads

1977 61 min 8 vues

Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.

Action

7

Harbour Beat

Oct 23, 1990

Harbour Beat

1990 89 min 1 vues

Neal McBride is a Glasgow cop who likes to go undercover - the rest of the police wish he would stay there. When he arrests a politician he gets reassigned to where they used to send criminals: Australia. Lancelot Cooper is a Sydney cop but a country boy at heart; he is as trusting as McBride is suspicious. The two are partners on a case where death, deception and betrayal propels them into a desperate fight for survival.

Action

5.6

Newsfront

Jul 29, 1978

Newsfront

1978 110 min 11 vues

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.

Drama

1

Around the World in Eighty Ways

Jan 01, 1988

Around the World in Eighty Ways

1988 91 min 1 vues

Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...

Comedy

1

Afraid to Dance

May 05, 1989

Afraid to Dance

1989 87 min 1 vues

An out-of-luck youth gets a lift from a shoplifter whose car he had planned to steal. They become involved in crime and romance together.

5

Resistance

Jan 01, 1992

Resistance

1992 112 min 2 vues

Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.

Action

6.3

Tim

Jul 13, 1979

Tim

1979 109 min 49 vues

Adulte en apparence, Tim n'en reste pas moins un enfant. Un être innocent, naïf et fragile selon les uns, un débile mental selon les autres. Sa vie bascule le jour où il rencontre Mary Horton, une séduisante quadragénaire qui l'engage pour quelques petits travaux dans sa propriété. Entre Mary et Tim naît une amitié, une affection si forte qu'elle se transforme rapidement en amour. Mais, aussi pure soit-elle, leur liaison dérange...

Romance

1

Gone to Ground

Mar 13, 1978

Gone to Ground

1978 75 min 1 vues

A man is brutally beaten so he and 4 others head to the beach for refuge and relaxation. It soon becomes clear that they've been imprisoned by person or persons unknown. Then an unknown mad killer begins picking off the vacationers, one by one.

Mystery

1

Matchless

Mar 01, 1974

Matchless

1974 55 min 1 vues

The film looks at the life and lot of three disturbed and lonely people, misfits and outcasts making an uphill attempt to live together in a condemned house in Sydney: a young epileptic Cynthia (Sally Blake), a middle-aged alcoholic Victor (Allan Penny) and a schizophrenic Annie (Denise Otto). When various doctors, social workers and freaks interfere in their lives without real understanding, a dangerous imbalance is created.

Drama

3

Demolition

Jun 21, 1979

Demolition

1979 90 min 2 vues

When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.

TV Movie

6.2

The Earthling

Jul 24, 1980

The Earthling

1980 97 min 25 vues

Patrick Foley sent que son cancer va le vaincre. Il décide de retourner sur ses terres d'enfance pour mourir dans les bois. Sur sa route, il rencontre une famille en train de faire du camping. Quand les parents décèdent accidentellement, il prend en charge leur petit garçon de dix ans.

Action

6

Rafferty's Rules

Aug 31, 1990

Rafferty's Rules

1990 min 1 vues

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.

Drama

6

Rafferty's Rules

Aug 31, 1990

Rafferty's Rules

1990 min 1 vues

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.

Drama