Bill Hunter

Drama ambientado en la carrera de caballos de la Copa de Melbourne de 2002. Cuenta la historia de Damien Oliver (Stephen Curry), un jinete que ganó el trofeo con el caballo Media Puzzle, sorteando numerosas dificultades, gracias al apoyo del entrenador irlandés Dermot Weld (Brendan Gleeson).

Soren es un joven búho que tendrá que luchar heroicamente para salvar a su pueblo de las fuerzas del Mal. Vive en el bosque Tyto, donde siempre ha reinado la paz entre las lechuzas. En su lucha contra el Mal, emprende un largo y angustioso viaje para buscar el Gran Árbol Ga'Hoole. Cuando lo encuentra, él y sus amigos tendrán que someterse a pruebas y afrontar desafíos inimaginables. Si son capaces de aprender de sus jefes y unos de otros, pronto se convertirán en verdaderas lechuzas de Ga'Hoole: honradas y valientes, sabias y sinceras.

El matrimonio secreto de conveniencia de Steve es descubierto por su familia, que se encuentra en el centro de la boda más ridícula del mundo, el único problema es que él está enamorado de otra persona.

Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), una aristócrata inglesa, se ha pasado la vida persiguiendo la perfección superficial, pero un matrimonio sin amor y sin hijos le ha privado de cualquier cosa importante que no sea su cuadra de caballos. Convencida de que su marido le es infiel, la empecinada Sarah viaja desde Londres hasta el remoto reducto tropical de Darwin (Australia) para enfrentarse a él. Su reacio guía a través del inmenso e inmisericorde terreno del territorio septentrional es Drover (Hugh Jackman), un ganadero tan tosco y basto como refinada es Sarah. Su profunda antipatía mutua se ve aminorada por la tragedia cuando Sarah, de repente, se halla cuidando a un encantador y joven huérfano llamado Nullah (Brandon Walters), un muchacho mestizo a la deriva en una sociedad segregada que le trata como un paria.

Para escapar del aburrimiento de su matrimonio sin amor, Raymond comienza una relación con la problemática Carla. Casada con un delicuente, Carla le propone a Raymond robar el botín de la última fechoría del marido y huir juntos. Raymond prepara el plan, pero comete un error fatal: contratar a Billy, un consumado pirómano profesional...

Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a different path and cuts ties with his normal life.

Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force.

Nemo, un pececillo, hijo único muy querido y protegido por su padre, ha sido capturado en un arrecife australiano y ahora vive en una pecera en la oficina de un dentista de Sidney. El tímido padre de Nemo se embarcará en una peligrosa aventura para rescatar a su hijo. Pero Nemo y sus nuevos amigos tienen también un astuto plan para escapar de la pecera y volver al mar.

A small-time horse trainer has successfully screwed up his life. His wife hates him, hie mistress loathes him and his father-in-law wants to kill him. With nothing to lose, he enlists the help of his best friend and concocts a plan to rig the biggest horse race in Australia.

Charlie Carbone (Jerry O'Connell) y Louis Booker (Anthony Anderson) son dos buenos amigos incapaces de progresar en la vida. El primero es peluquero, mientras que el segundo trata de triunfar en el mundo de la música. Ninguno de los dos podrá seguir adelante con sus planes hasta que no cumplan un pequeño encargo para la mafia: deben entregar 50.000 dólares a un mafioso de Australia. Louis guarda el dinero en su cazadora roja, donde cree que estará seguro. Ya en Australia, su coche choca contra un canguro, y Charlie y Louis le hacen fotos con la cazadora roja. Entonces, el animal sale corriendo con ella.... y con el dinero.

When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.

Miniserie de TV. 3 episodios. Versión televisiva de la novela de Neil Shute, ya llevada al cine en 1959, en una memorable película con Gregory Peck. Aquí Rachel Ward y Bryan Brown interpretan a dos amantes que encaran la muerte por radiactividad luego del estallido de la guerra nuclear y la posterior llegada de la nube mortal a Australia.

Anne (Caroline Goodall) is a successful pathologist for a top pharmaceutical corporation, and her life couldn't be better. That is, until one of her oldest and dearest friends is murdered, turning Anne's world upside down. Not satisfied with the status of the investigation, she takes it on herself, and what she finds out could threaten her career -- and her life.

The Violent Earth is a 1998 French-Australian mini series set in New Caledonia from 1888 to 1977.

An adult's memoir of a childhood spent with his mother and two sisters in Australia in the closing year of WWII. While his father off fighting the Japanese, two Italian prisoners of war are assigned to help out on the family's estate. Later they are joined by two German refugee women. Problems of country life and personal tensions come to a head.

Scenic settings in Australia enhance this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, a simple yet engaging tale about a teenage girl's adjustment to a new family.

Four women bowlers on their way home to Pyramid Hill (population 550) from a tournament roll their car on a deserted road in rural Victoria. They are coping fairly well until the local men and emergency services start trying to help.

Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station. Sentenced to community service at a local day centre, Ben's influence with a young tearaway forces him to question his values and he learns to see life from a different angle when he falls in love with Wendy, the centre's formidable and devoted manager...

Un grupo de alumnos de una escuela de Hawaii construyen una serie de coches solares, embarcándose en una aventura que les llevará a competir en el campeonato mundial de coches solares que tendrá lugar en Australia.

Detective Sergeant Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson got fame because he knew how to take care of most dangerous and violent criminals. His success was, however, also due to the sinister alliance with violent underworld figures like Neddy Smith who got police protection in exchange for tips and money.

A jockey is found dead in the street after falling from a balcony of a Hotel. What is thought to be a routine suicide inquiry becomes a murder investigation leading Cody to uncover a race-fixing scam

Is an Australian drama film directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos and released in 1994. Based on a play of the same name, written by Ray Mooney, the film details the early life of contract killer Christopher Dale Flannery and is set inside Melbourne's HM Prison Pentridge's maximum security H Division.[1] Filming was undertaken at HM Prison Geelong. Dale, a remandee, is awaiting a court hearing and yet to be sentenced, highlighting the horrific injustice of the repeated beatings he's subjected to. Gradually Dale becomes indifferent to the bashings and horrors of prison life and develops an alternative, subversive way to exist and express his rage. As Dale walks defiantly from the prison in the last scene to be tried, the failure of the correctional system to produce docile, disciplined bodies pulls its last punch. Even if the system has enframed Dale he has maintained his sanity and his voice.

Muriel es una chica con sobrepeso que vive en un mundo de fantasía, canciones de ABBA y catálogos nupciales. Sueña con un príncipe azul que algún día la liberará de su odiosa familia y de sus burlonas amigas. Cansada de esperar su llegada, decide irse a la ciudad y buscarlo. Uno de los mayores éxitos del cine australiano de los noventa.

Tres artistas de cabaret que viven en Sidney son contratadas para actuar durante cuatro semanas en un hotel de Alice Springs, en medio del desierto rojo de Australia. Les espera una gran aventura, pero una cosa es atravesar el país en autobús, dejando atrás todos sus problemas, y otra llegar a su destino sanas y salvas. Sobre todo si Felicia y Mitzi son reinas del drag y Benardette transexual. Inician así un periplo de dos semanas, con música sonando a toda pastilla y el autocar repleto de un llamativo vestuario y zapatos de plataforma.

Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.

Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.

In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts, a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium.

The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.

La Federación de Baile es una poderosa organización que no quiere que ninguno de sus miembros haga las cosas por su cuenta. Esta Federación tiene sus propias normas, entre las que estipula lo que se puede y lo que no se puede hacer en las salas de baile profesionales. Scott Hastings es un bailarín con mucho talento. Liz es su pareja de baile. Ambos se entienden a la perfección, y tienen muchas posibilidades de ganar el Gran Premio Pan Pacific. Pero todo se va al garete cuando a Scott se le ocurre improvisar con unos pasos que no están permitidos por la Federación. Por este motivo, Liz le abandona. Scott se queda sin pareja de baile a consecuencia de su atrevimiento. La salvación se presenta con Fran, una bailarina principiante, pero con una calidad indiscutible.

A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.

A teenage girl has to terms with her family and herself when her mother falls critically ill. She decides to leave school to look after her family, which turns outto be an enormous challenge, as she has to deal with her father’s fanatical religion, her brother’s experimentation with drugs and homosexuality, her desire for the wrong boy, and her younger brother and sister’s inability to cope with the family’s instability.

An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anything since the convict era. Based on real events.

A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.

Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.

Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance.

La fuerza aérea, el teniente Harris, comienza a volar a Boa Boa, a bordo del Reverendo Mitchell, con una caja que contiene una parte de una llave extraterrestre de alto secreto. Se pierden en una tormenta sobrenatural y se encuentran después de un aterrizaje de emergencia en una especie de triángulo de las Bermudas, a 5,000 millas de su curso. Otra vez en casa, nadie cree la historia de Harris, y su tripulación lo niega con sospecha. Harris es lanzado a la cárcel, pero logra escapar. Junto con la hija de Mitchell, busca la parte perdida de la llave y su secreto.

Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him

Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.

Willie Parker, un antiguo gángster inglés que se convirtió en delator, vive desde hace diez años con una identidad falsa en una remota aldea española. Pero, cuando los mafiosos a los que traicionó descubren su paradero, le encargan a dos asesinos a sueldo que lo secuestren y lo trasladen a París. El plan se complica cuando, tras el rapto de Parker, la policía española empieza a perseguir a los criminales.

Vinnie is a teenage boy who is an outcast at school, alienating teachers and students alike. He is a local courier for the local Mafia boss. He lives in welfare housing with his mother (Peta Toppano), a young brother and sister, and his Mum's lover who he can't stand. Vinnie takes out his aggression with the world practicing boxing at the local gym. He is haunted by images of his father (when just a boy he witnessed his father's murder) and his father's boxing career. His music teacher (Sandy Gore) encourages him to get involved as a drummer with the school band, and his girlfriend Gloria (Sigrid Thornton) and others influence him to stay away from the Mafia.

The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.

En la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el Capitán Invincible usó sus superpoderes contra los nazis, y fue un héroe. Pero cuando lo acusaron de apoyar a los comunistas, se retiró a Australia. Ahora, después de que le roben una súper arma súper secreta de Estados Unidos, se le pide que regrese para ayudar. Desafortunadamente, ahora es un alcohólico ... parodia de historietas de superhéroes.

A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband, an investigative journalist, is prosecuted by the junta for discovering too much.

During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of Sydney.

Primera Guerra Mundial, 1915. Reza la leyenda del filme: "De un lugar del que nunca has oído hablar llega una historia que nunca olvidarás". Dos amigos australianos, ambos atletas, deciden alistarse para ir a la guerra y les toca luchar contra los turcos en la batalla de Gallipoli.

Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.

A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.

A strange warning is followed by near disaster when a speedboat slices John's surfboard in half as his friends look on in horror. His curiosity aroused, John involves himself, his family, and friends in the bizarre mystery surrounding a silent trawler. But his curiosity may get him killed... when a ruthless smuggling ring, with $5,000,000 at stake, makes the situation even more dangerous!

Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road hoping to find her and makes a friend along the way.

Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie-going public.

In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.

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.

Un viejo capitán y su joven esposa comparten muchas aventuras después de que naufragaron y fueron capturados por los aborígenes en una isla cerca de Australia.

En otoño de 1865 el famoso forajido, Bushranger Dan Morgan (Dennis Hopper), cruzó el río Murray, de Nueva Gales del Sur (Australia), para luchar por última vez. Lo que allí ocurrió es un misterio. Pero desde aquel día se le llama Mad "Dog" Morgan. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un inspector de la brigada especial de Hong Kong es mandado a Australia para resolver un caso relacionado con el contrabando de drogas.

A middle-aged alcoholic is sentenced to six weeks in jail for a minor offense. While there he undergoes psychiatric treatment for his alcoholism and is committed to a hospital for the criminally insane for the duration of his sentence. However, under Section 27A of the Queensland Mental Health Act, he can be detained indefinitely until the hospital authorities declare him eligible for release.

Cuando varios miembros del club de motociclistas fuera de la ley de GraveDiggers son asesinados, el detective Stone ( Ken Shorter ) de Sydney es enviado a investigar. Dirigidos por el Undertaker (Sandy Harbutt), un veterano de la guerra de Vietnam, los GraveDiggers permiten que Stone se haga pasar por un miembro de una pandilla. Dejando atrás a la novia de la sociedad Amanda ( Helen Morse ), Stone comienza a identificarse con Undertaker y sus compañeros Hooks ( Roger Ward ), Toad ( Hugh Keays-Byrne ), Dr. Death ( Vincent Gil ), Capitán Midnight ( Bindi Williams ), Séptico ( Dewey Hungerford) y Vanessa ( Rebecca Gilling), la novia del Undertaker. En medio de enfrentamientos violentos con los Black Hawks, una pandilla rival a la que los GraveDiggers consideran responsable, Stone descubre una conspiración política detrás de los asesinatos. Cuando se revela la verdad, Stone debe elegir entre su trabajo y su lealtad a los GraveDiggers.

An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.

A stand-up promoter assembles a roughshod gang of Yobbos for one last comedy tour 'Up The Guts'. A 'Yobbomentary' crew accompany the tour to film an outback roadtrip, shot over a week with no script, no props, and no rest-stops.

A stand-up promoter assembles a roughshod gang of Yobbos for one last comedy tour 'Up The Guts'. A 'Yobbomentary' crew accompany the tour to film an outback roadtrip, shot over a week with no script, no props, and no rest-stops.