Hurlements III
May 15, 1987En Australie, de dangereuses créatures aux airs de Diables de Tasmanie mais de taille humaine apparaissent...
Horror
Ralph Cotterill
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Le Pays où rêvent les fourmis vertes
Aug 31, 1984Dans une contrée désolée de l'Australie, deux tribus vivent à l'abri de la civilisation industrielle. Leur existence paisible se trouve brusquement menacée lorsqu'une société s'implante dans un de leurs lieux sacrés : le pays où rêvent les fourmis vertes…
Drama
Bad Boy Bubby
Sep 01, 1993Bubby, 35 ans, vit enfermé dans un taudis depuis sa naissance et ne connaît rien d'autre. Sa propre mère le séquestre en lui faisant croire que l’air extérieur est empoisonné. Elle le maintient à un état infantile, le terrorise en lui parlant de Dieu, le bat ou lui fait l'amour au gré de son humeur. Lorsque le père de Bubby revient de manière impromptu, l’univers et la place de l’homme enfant est bousculé. Il tue ses parents et s’aventure dans le monde extérieur, tout en agressions sonores et physiques. Ne maîtrisant pas le langage, il reproduit tous les mots, gestes et sons qu’il perçoit. Un jour, il rencontre un groupe de rock qui se prend d'affection pour lui et l'emmène sur la route. Un soir de concert, il rejoint le groupe sur scène et s'empare du micro. Tout ce qu’il a pu entendre va ressortir dans un flot ininterrompu. Il devient une rock star culte.
Crime
Réaction en Chaîne
Sep 25, 1980Suite à un tremblement de terre qui a atteins des déchets atomiques hautement toxiques dans une décharge, l'Australie est menacée par une contamination radioactive. Heinrich Schmidt, blessé au cours de la catastrophe, souhaite informer la population du danger, mais son patron veut cacher l’événement afin de limiter les conséquences financières.
Action
Hoodwink
Nov 05, 1981Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Crime
Nice Coloured Girls
Jun 01, 1987Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present.
Drama
The Beat Manifesto
Jan 12, 1995I've Come About The Suicide
Dec 16, 1988
Blue Fin
Dec 01, 1978Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Drama
Starship
Dec 13, 1984Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...
Science Fiction
Hospitals Don't Burn Down
Jun 20, 1978A fire breaks out in a multi-story hospital in the middle of the night and a male nurse and a nursing sister save many lives during a fire in a major hospital.
Documentary
The Blue Lightning
May 07, 1986Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a super-criminal with an army of killers operating in the Australian outback.
Drama
Whipping Boy
Nov 11, 1996A female lawyer heads a government taskforce investigating a suspected paedophile racket in Sydney. Based on the novel by Gabrielle Lord.
TV Movie
Burke & Wills
Oct 30, 1985A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
History
Rikky and Pete
Jun 09, 1988Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Action
Sons of Steel
Jun 18, 1989The film is set in Australia, where an accidental future time traveler finds himself going back in time to change events to prevent a calamity.
Science Fiction
The Proposition
Oct 06, 2005Dans l'arrière-pays australien, à la fin du XIXème siècle, deux hommes situés aux deux extrémités de la loi passent un marché secret et décisif... Le Capitaine Stanley s'est juré de "civiliser" le pays sauvage australien. Ses hommes ont capturé deux des quatre frères du gang Burns : Charlie et Mike. Les bandits ont été jugés responsables de l'attaque de la ferme Hopkins et de l'assassinat de toute une famille. Arthur, le plus âgé des frères Burns et chef du gang, s'est réfugié dans la montagne. Le capitaine Stanley propose alors un marché à Charlie : retrouver son frère aîné en échange de son pardon, et de la vie sauve pour le jeune Mike. Charlie n'a que neuf jours pour s'exécuter...
Action
Resistance
Jan 01, 1992Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Action
This Won't Hurt a Bit
Nov 12, 1993An incompetent rogue dentist travels from Australia to the UK, where he wreaks havoc on English teeth until the law catches up with him.
Comedy
Down Rusty Down
Oct 21, 1997An anthromorphic tale, humans representing canines, of compulsive traits and raging desires. A gang of neutered men; fat, subdued and lazy, look out for their younger 'pup'- Rusty (Noah Taylor) who is always active and mischievous.
Shark's Paradise
Mar 13, 1986A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off the sharks is $2 million. Our heroes do everything from escaping jail to risking death in a chemical factory, to stop him.
Comedy
Wind
Jan 01, 1999Australia, 1867. In the bleak high country, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant follow the trail of a killer, a traditional Indigenous man.
Drama
Ultraman - The Alien Invasion
Feb 01, 1993Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are astronauts doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine mission to survey the desolate landscape, they found out that there are other living creatures on the planet! Their biggest threat is Goudis, whose monsters have been ordered to kill all life on earth. Returning from a mission on Mars, the Ultraman has to take on Goudis to save the planet and all the human beings on Earth!
Science Fiction
Trouble in Paradise
May 16, 1989Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a freighter along with her husband's casket bound for the U.S. She begins to regret this decision when she meets one of the crew members, a handsome rogue named Jake Fontaine - who has smuggled his liquor above in Arthur's coffin! Suddenly, a typhoon hits and the freighter breaks apart. Marooned on a desert island with Jake they fall in love. Shortly thereafter, Jake comes to suspect that Rachel's "late" husband Arthur might not be dead at all. Rachel is stunned when Arthur arrives on the island with his heroin smuggling partners. In the ensuing chaos, Jake overcomes each of the smugglers and heroically rescues his new love, Rachel.
Adventure
My Brother Tom
Sep 22, 1986Set in Australia, against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the religiously divided town of St. Helens and the innocent romance between a pair of star-crossed teenagers that threatens to tear it apart.
Alison's Birthday
May 01, 1981During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three years later.
Horror
Le Survivant d'un monde parallèle
Jul 09, 1981Un 747 s'ecrasse dans un champ. Seul le pilote en rechappe. L'accident semble inexplicable et le pilote, incapable de se souvenir se lance dans une enquete aidee par une jeune femme medium.
Horror
Deathcheaters
Dec 16, 1976Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Adventure
Going Down
Jul 01, 1983Karli's over the Sydney scene and its small-pond bohemian excesses. That's why she's moving to New York City in the morning. But over the course of one unforgettable night, Karli's best friends will show her that a little Sydney goes a long way .
Drama
The Right Hand Man
Oct 02, 1987A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.
Drama
La Chevauchée de feu
Sep 10, 1987Pendant la première guerre mondiale, une unité de cavalerie australienne est envoyée pour supporter les troupes britanniques au Proche-Orient. Partez sur les traces de quatre jeunes soldats qui vont affronter les troupes allemandes bien supérieures en nombre et mieux armées dans une formidable aventure de courage et d’amitié.
War
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
To Make a Killing
Dec 01, 1988Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin university life. On the other side of the tracks live Terry (Craig Pearce, co-author of Strictly Ballroom), Felix (John Godden) and Benny (Kelly Dingwall) — who get their kicks out of robbing houses and chasing girls. But they're broke and all out of cash. During a routine burglary the gang discover an innocent Damon. Brushing off the intrusion and pretending they are looking for some mates, the gang flee the scene but bored Damon follows them and joins their group for the day, hoping to find some fun.When the gang picks up two girls, things become unhinged as a drunk Damon brags about some of his family's many affluent friends. Forced to take them to one of his cash-rich contacts, Damon's nightmare has only just begun. As Terry discovers that the wealthy don't always carry cash, what starts as a burglary soon turns into a killing spree.
Horror
ウルトラマンG ゴーデスの逆襲
Sep 25, 1990The first of two compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack Shindo is an astronaut doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine mission to survey the desolate landscape, he discovers mankind's greatest threat, Gudis, whose monsters have been ordered to kill all life on Earth. Jack must work with the mysterious colossal alien Ultraman and the Universal Multipurpose Agency to save humanity from extinction!
Science Fiction
Ultraman Great: The Battle for Earth
Sep 26, 1990The second and final compilation films for Ultraman Great (aka Ultraman: Towards the Future). Jack Shindo is an astronaut doing research on the planet Mars. On a routine mission to survey the desolate landscape, he discovers mankind's greatest threat, Gudis, whose monsters have been ordered to kill all life on Earth. Jack must work with the mysterious colossal alien Ultraman and the Universal Multipurpose Agency to save humanity from extinction!
Science Fiction
The Flying Doctors
Oct 06, 1992The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish.
The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
Drama
The Boy in the Bush
Mar 01, 1984n the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia. When he arrives, he is met at the dock by Mr. George, who introduces him to his mother's relatives. Jack's life is to be full of adventures, including taming horses and fighting kangaroos. Jack also competes for the love of two cousins.
Action & Adventure
E Street
May 20, 1993An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
Soap
E Street
May 20, 1993An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
Soap
Ultraman: Towards the Future
Jun 27, 1991Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the red planet find a giant slug-like monster, Goudes/Gudis. Shindo is pinned by a rockslide and Haggard tries to escape in their ship but is blown up by Gudis. Suddenly a giant warrior, Ultraman Great, arrives and fights Goudes, but when Ultraman is on the verge of victory Goudes changes into a virus and travels to Earth where it mutates other creatures into monsters and awakens existing ones. Needing a human host to survive on Earth, Ultraman joins with Jack, allowing him to become the mighty alien when all seems lost. He joins UMA in order to help them battle the monsters.
Action & Adventure
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
Halifax f.p.
Jul 07, 2002Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne.
The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd
21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries.
The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.
Drama
Water Under the Bridge
Nov 20, 1980Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.
Drama
