Brendan Maher

Películas

Regreso a la isla de Nim
Director
Retorno a la Isla de Nim para ver cómo van las cosas con Nim y su padre. Un día reciben un mensaje de que algunas personas va a comprar la isla para construir una atracción allí, pero Nim no tolerarlo y viene con algunas cosas que hacer para salvar a lo que ella llama hogar.
Sisters of War
Director
Sisters of War is a World War II memoir that re-creates events in New Britain during the Japanese invasion and occupation. It is a story about the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, especially Sister Berenice Twohill and her working friendship with nursing sister, Lorna Whyte. The Australians pulled out of the mission in Vunapope outside Rabaul, leaving the nurses and wounded who took refuge there. They were captured and about to be executed when Bishop Leo Scharmach MSC bluffed the Japanese by saying that he was the representative of Hitler and his people could not be executed.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Director
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
Asesinatos de la Sociedad
Director
Basada en un caso real, este film se centra en la desaparición de Margaret Wales-King y su esposo, Paul, un matrimonio de avanzada edad de la clase alta australiana.
Kidnapped
Director
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.
After the Deluge
Director
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
The Road from Coorain
Director
A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
Doom Runners
Director
In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of children move from one uncertain world to another in their quest for sanctuary.
The Bit Part
Director
Career counsellor Michael Thornton decides to change his career and become an actor. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television ad where only his hands appear on camera. He finds a friend in actress Mary McAllister (Nicole Kidman) until she is called to Hollywood to star in a horror feature. Katrina Foster plays Michael's understanding wife Helen, who supports him while he pursues his elusive dream.