Dawn!
Mar 07, 1979Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
Drama
Judi Farr
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Walking on Water
Sep 26, 2002Friends and family gather around the death bed of Gavin, where they assist in the dying man's suicide. But though Gavin's pain has been laid to rest, the grief felt by everyone there has only begun, and Walking on Water compassionately follows the attempts of Gavin's closest friends Anna and Charlie to recover from their loss.
Drama
Flirting
Mar 20, 1991Danny dévoile sa relation au grand jour avec une fille d'origine africaine, ce qui ne tarde pas à provoquer des réactions diverses et passionnées auprès de ses camarades de classe, mais également auprès de ses professeurs...
Drama
Australian graffiti
Oct 15, 1987Set 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
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
May 09, 2006An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Action
To The Other Shore
Aug 01, 1996A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life and psychotherapy with world events, including the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to evoke the complex inner world of maternal experience. Grethel’s tale from the fairy story Hansel and Grethel juxtaposes the personal story with a mythical exploration of freedom and individual responsibility.
Thunderstruck
May 20, 2004After a near death experience, five Boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott. 12 years later, having gone their different ways, they come together to fulfill the promise.
Comedy
For Love Alone
May 22, 1986Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.
Romance
The Interpretaris
Oct 07, 1966An evil scientist, Parta Beno, who has been found guilty of imprisoning and reducing in size inhabitants of various planets. As punishment he is exiled to a remote asteroid, with the only amenities being a crude laboratory. All the specimens that Parta Beno collected were sent back to their home worlds by the World Council, except those few that the Council had no knowledge of, let alone any idea about the planets from whence they came. The hand-picked crew of 'The Interpretaris' were given the mission of returning these aliens to their home planets.
TV Movie
Just Out Of Reach
Oct 01, 1979This short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman who retreats from cold British parents into an equally uncommunicative relationship with a former teacher who aspires to be a poet. Cathy's self-destructive behavior is presented as a legacy of her (British) family and past.
Drama
A Colourful Life is a Docu/Drama based on the colourful life of flamboyant design pioneer Florence Broadhurst.
Documentary
Double Sculls
Oct 09, 1986A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
Drama
December Boys
Sep 14, 2007Pendant de nombreuses années, quatre adolescents orphelins d'un couvent australien de l'arrière-pays ont vu leurs jeunes camarades trouver de nouveaux parents et se rendre compte qu'ils pourraient ne jamais être adoptés. La Révérende Mère envoie les quatre garçons en vacances au bord de la mer, où ils rencontrent un couple qui ferait de parfaits parents. Les jeunes se font concurrence pour être celui qui sera adopté.
Drama
Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Oct 14, 2012Un ancien avocat pénaliste reprend sa vie en main et passe désormais ses journées à temps partiel comme enquêteur, collecteur de dettes, apprenti ébéniste, parieur et à la recherche de ceux qui ne veulent pas être retrouvés - morts ou vivants. Lorsqu'un ex-client veut son aide, il la laisse mourir. Mais ensuite, ce type est retrouvé mort, ce qui le force à retourner dans un passé inquiétant qu'il pensait avoir quitté pour de bon.
Crime
My Mother My Son
Sep 01, 2000Mona and her adult daughter, Kymmy, set out from their country home to get Kymmy's young son from foster care in the city. As they travel they face and overcome many setbacks, and their past and future are explored. They argue and part ways. Kymmy gets to the foster home only to find another obstacle in her way. Mona arrives later and brings about a surprising and provocative resolution.
Number 96
Aug 11, 1977Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon of the Cash Harmon Television production company, produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects. The premise, original story outlines, and the original characters were devised by David Sale who also wrote the scripts for the first episodes and continued as script editor for much of the show's run. The series proved to be a huge success, running from 1972 until 1977. Number 96 was so popular it spawned a feature film version, filmed in December 1973. Number 96 was known for its sex scenes and nudity, somewhat risque at the time, and for its comedy characters. The series was the first Australian soap opera to feature an openly gay character.
Comedy
Kingswood Country
Sep 13, 1984Kingswood Country is an Australian sitcom that screened from 1980 to 1984 on the Seven Network. The series started on 30 January 1980 and was a spin-off from a sketch on comedy program The Naked Vicar Show that had featured Ross Higgins as a blustering bigot. It was produced by RS Productions.
Comedy
Farscape : Guerre pacificatrice
Oct 24, 2004Les nouveaux fiancés et futurs parents John Crichton et Aeryn Sun ont été poursuivis dans la galaxie et sont tombés amoureux. Désormais, tout ce qu'ils veulent, c'est que leur bébé naisse et vive en paix. Cependant, ils devront d'abord survivre à une guerre galactique totale entre les Scarrans et les Peacekeepers ainsi qu'à une myriade de surprises farfelues et inattendues.
Action & Adventure
Please Like Me
Dec 14, 2016Après avoir été largué par sa copine, Josh, la vingtaine, réalise qu'il est gay, rencontre un séduisant inconnu et emménage avec sa mère aux tendances suicidaires.
Drama
Rafferty's Rules
Aug 31, 1990Rafferty'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
Father, Dear Father
Jun 28, 1980The hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny trek down under to write the great Australian crime novel, and end up supervising Patricks boisterous young nieces while their own father is abroad.
Comedy
Farscape
Mar 21, 2003John Crichton est astronaute. Le jour où il part dans l'espace pour vérifier l'une de ses théories, son module est aspiré par un vortex et il se retrouve projeté dans une zone inconnue de l'univers où personne n'a jamais entendu parler ni de la terre ni des humains. Il est recueilli par un Léviathan avec à son bord trois prisonniers en train de s'échapper. Dès lors il n'aura de cesse de chercher un moyen pour pouvoir rentrer chez lui. Mais le voyage ne sera pas de tout repos car l'univers grouille de menaces plus dangereuses les unes que les autres...
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
All Saints
Oct 27, 2009Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
Drama
Grass Roots
May 27, 2003Grass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2003.
The series is set around the fictional Arcadia Waters Council near Sydney, and was primarily a satirical look at the machinations of local government. It was written by Geoffrey Atherden.
Part of the series was filmed in the inner west Sydney suburb of Concord. Many external shots of Arcadia waters Council chambers used Concord Council Chambers as a setting and as was other various locations around Concord, particularly in the shopping centre and cafes in Majors Bay Road. Beach scenes were filmed at Mona Vale, New South Wales on Sydney's northern beaches, while the location "Cemetery Point" was filmed at the Mona Vale headland reserve.
Comedy
Brigade des mers
Aug 07, 2001Cette série met en scène la vie d'un commissariat de la police maritime. Deux inspecteurs enquêtent sur les crimes qui ont eu lieu en mer et dans le port de Sydney et ses environs.Et on suit le quotidien des patrouilleurs et des plongeurs de la brigade des mers
Crime
