Colin Friels

Una teniente del ejército usa sus años de entrenamiento táctico para salvar a la humanidad de dieciséis misiles nucleares lanzados contra los EE. UU. mientras un violento ataque coordinado amenaza simultáneamente su estación remota de interceptores de misiles.

Schapelle Corby es una joven australiana que decide pasar una vacaciones haciendo surf en Bali en compañía de sus amigas, pero en la aduana le interceptan una inmensa cantidad de marihuana en la funda de su tabla de surf. Aturdida y angustiada por la gravedad del delito, la joven insiste en su inocencia pero la policía no atiende a razones y, de forma inmediata, es detenida para ser puesta a disposición judicial.

Película dividida en episodios que adapta historias del escritor australiano Tom Winton. The Turning explora el impacto del pasado en la actualidad, cómo los incidentes aparentemente aleatorios que cambian y nos dan forma no se pueden escapar o dejar de lado. Todas las historias están unidas entre sí por temas recurrentes; el paso del tiempo, el arrepentimiento, la adicción y la obsesión.

Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) es un hombre que recupera su vida juntos otra vez. Un ex abogado criminalista cuyo mundo implosionó, él ahora gasta sus días como un investigador de media jornada, cobrador, ebanista del aprendiz, jugador y algún día amante - el hombre completo realmente. Jack es un experto en el descubrimiento de aquellos que no quieren encontrarse - muertos o vivos. Echa una mano a sus compañeros evitando el pasado. Esto es hasta que el pasado le encuentre.

Mabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.

Elizabeth Hunter, una mujer de extraordinaria belleza, ejerce un férreo control sobre todo lo que la rodea: hijos, servicio, actos sociales; pero pronto tendrá que hacer frente al mayor reto de su vida: decidir el momento para morir.

A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition.

Una mujer lucha para hacer frente a la enfermedad de su hijo y a la infidelidad de su marido, pero, después de un encuentro casual con un marinero irlandés y su hijo, su vida da un vuelco.

Lo que comienza como una aventura veraniega para adolescentes despreocupados adquiere pronto tintes apocalípticos al estallar una imprevisible guerra contra Australia. Ellie (Caitlin Stastey) y sus amigos del instituto deciden pasar una semana de acampada en un valle paradisíaco que los aísla completamente de la realidad. Pero una noche aparecen en el cielo aviones de guerra que vuelan a poca altura. A partir de ese momento, tendran que aprender a sobrevivir y a luchar contra fuerzas militares hostiles. Stuart Beattie, guionista de las entregas de "Piratas del Caribe" y "Collateral", debuta en la dirección adaptando una novela que causó furor en Australia en los 90

Geoff Brewster has retreated to the family’s isolated, coastal shack to die in peace. He is also going blind. Geoff spends his days walking on the beach and leaving tape-recorded confessions to his estranged wife, Sally. But Geoff’s solitude is interrupted when his Porsche driving nephew, Josh, turns up and decides to stay. Tension fills the shack as Josh’s strange behaviour sets Geoff on edge and when Sally arrives for her weekly cleaning, the shack is ready to explode. Sally encourages Geoff to audition for an amateur production of Hamlet and Geoff takes to Hamlet like Olivier. But Geoff goes totally blind. The arrival of two strangers bearing the ashes of one of Geoff’s lovers sets Geoff and Josh on a collision course that threatens to destroy the both of them. Blind Company was adapted from Austin Pendleton's stage production Uncle Bob, that was set in New York. Quite the difference in location from Tasmania.

McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.

Cacatúas y loros son las aves más numerosas de Australia. Hace 200 años llegaron allí de la mano de los colonos europeos y, a partir de ese momento, comenzó su continuo ascenso tanto en número como en diversidad de especies provocando un cambio notable en el paisaje del país. Odisea viaja hasta tierras australianas para comprobar cómo es la vida de estas coloridas aves así como los problemas a los que deben enfrentarse diariamente, como las inclemencias del clima extremo de Australia, la falta de alimento motivado por los incendios de bosques o la escasez de agua en las temporadas de sequía. Además, se analiza cómo es la convivencia entre cacatúas, loros y humanos.

Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.

Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has comes to Jack for help. Jack agrees to look into the still unsolved crime but in looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. In the end, Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.

A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.

After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted away' to the basement, where old files get transferred to the national computer database. Thus he comes across fingerprints, now identifiable, in the 30 year old case of Ashley, the kidnapped son of lottery winners. Although he's too late to help him now, he tracks the perpetrators down behind his boss's back.

An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.

Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.

Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?

Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be falling apart. A black comedy about coping with the modern world, based on the novel by David Snell.

Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.

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.

Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her life and marriage to her husband, Robert Wagner,and her biggest fear that ended up being the cause of her death

Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral barometer. He turns a blind eye to the dubious methods employed by some of his contemporaries — prepared to let dodgy means be justified by the noble end.

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.

Mientras Estados Unidos atravesaba la Gran Depresión en la década de 1930, una niña con grandes hoyuelos y un encanto indescriptible se abrió paso en los corazones de los espectadores de todo el mundo.

Nueva Gales del sur. El sargento detective Bob"serpiente" Inkster, trata de averiguar sobre el asesinato de una mujer casada con un empresario croata. Resultó muerta de un tiro en la cama y sospechosamente su marido salió ileso...

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.

After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid.

John Murdoch se despierta solo en un extraño hotel y comprueba que ha perdido la memoria y es perseguido como el autor de una serie de sádicos y brutales asesinatos. Mientras intenta juntar las piezas que componen el puzzle de su pasado, descubre un submundo habitado por unos seres conocidos como "los ocultos" que tienen la habilidad de adormecer a las personas y alterar a la ciudad y a sus habitantes.

All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.

A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.

Dos esquizofrénicos se conocen en terapia y se enamoran. Por desgracia van por una carretera a ninguna parte

Una historia de dinero, sexo, alcohol y vudú en la sábana africana para un filme que, a pesar de contar con reconocidos y consagrados nombres entre su reparto técnico y artístico (el director de la oscarizada "Paseando a Miss Daisy", el director de fotografía habitual de Spielberg y el tambien ganador de un Oscar Sean Connery), obtuvo un rotundo fracaso comercial. La crítica la calificó como poco divertida para ser una comedia y demasiado irreverente para tratarse de un drama.

The spiritual and sexual coming of age of a Seventh-Day Adventist boy in 1950s Australia. Ken Elkin is a "randy young man" who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal Ken wants to accomplish: bedding the love of his life, who just happens to be the local pastor's daughter.

Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy on trumpet and makes a pilgrimage to Paris.

Jedediah Tucker Ward (Gene Hackman) es un legendario abogado de las libertades civiles que ha dedicado su vida a defender a los desprotegidos contra el Estado y las grandes multinacionales. Su hija Margaret (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) es una brillante abogada que será el próximo socio del bufete más prestigioso de San Francisco. Ambos se enfrentarán en un proceso donde deben anteponer su profesionalidad a sus sentimientos de amor y odio en un estremecedor caso que les unirá o separará para siempre.

This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women in his life -- his vivacious wife, Catherine (Catherine McClements), who wants to have a baby -- and Carla (Helen Mutkins), his ambitious mistress, who wants to have Richard.

Un joven y prometedor científico es víctima de un accidente en su laboratorio cuando unos delincuentes lo destruyen. Está al borde de la muerte, pero consigue sobrevivir a pesar de que queda en un estado lamentable. Utiliza sus descubrimientos sobre piel sintética en sí mismo y prepara su venganza contra los que le atacaron.

Tras la muerte de su joven esposa Claudine en un accidente de tráfico, la vida del profesor Morris Martin se convierte en un infierno. Incapaz de aceptar su pérdida, perseguido por los recuerdos y por extrañas teorías conspirativas, el profesor Martin comienza una indiscriminada serie de crímenes. Tom Stewart, un ambicioso reportero de investigación que sigue los casos, no tarda en entrar de lleno en el obsesivo mundo del asesino. Sin embargo, lo peor aún está por llegar. (FILMAFFINITY)

Un operador de cámara de segunda generación en Australia encuentra las evidencias de que su padre había filmado una prueba nuclear que permitía la exposición a la radiación de los aborígenes, que terminaron muriendo. El cámara comienza a investigar sobre un secreto que si es cierto, implica que su gobierno ha asesinado a personas para que no se sepa nada.

Lillie (Judy Davis) es una mujer que ha pasado los últimos veinte años vagando, bebiendo y tratando, en vano, de recomponer su vida. Dieciséis años atrás dió a luz una niña, Ally (Claudia Karvan), pero incapaz de hacerse cargo de ella, la dejó al cuidado de su madre Bet (Jan Adele) y decidió marcharse lejos. Bet y Ally han vivido todo este tiempo como madre e hija, amándose como nunca Lillie fue amada por Bet. Ahora regresa a la ciudad, un deprimente lugar de la costa australiana...

Jenny Nicholson es profesora de arte en un tranquilo colegio católico femenino, es atractiva, cortés y con mucho mundo; sin embargo, cada fin de semana se sube al tren nocturno, transformándose en una peligrosa depredadora. Cambia su apariencia todas las semanas, así como su amaneramiento, personalidad y blanco. Joven y exuberante o mujerzuela cansada del mundo, ella ve a todos los hombres como criaturas idénticas, pero con un cuento diferente que contar. Sus clientes siempre pagan y salen a altas horas de la madrugada, una regla que no se puede romper. Un buen día, se encontrará con uno diferente a los demás: un hombre poderoso, dominante y encantador. Incapaz de poder controlar sus impulsos, Jenny se verá arrastrada hacia una telaraña de seducción, intriga y crimen...

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills and, with Frank's help, Malcom turns to a life of crime.

Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.

Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is burdened by his father's desire for glory, and must win The Coolangatta Gold Tri-Aquathon, It is the greatest endurance test of them all: a marathon involving a 20 kilometer beach run, 6 kilometer swim and a 17 kilometer surf ski from Surfers Paradise along the golden arc of beach to Coolangatta and back to the start. The Coolangatta Gold is a story of human endeavor and endurance against overwhelming odds.

Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly

Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.

Hoodwink 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.