Frank Gallacher
Nacimiento : 1943-04-07, Glasgow, Scotland
Muerte : 2009-02-23
Un hombre que ha perdido la fe y está en plena crisis de la mediana edad recupera la esperanza en el lugar más insospechado: su ciudad natal. James Moore (Corbin Bernsen, nominado a un Globo de Oro®) es un ex-pastor que vuelve a casa para descubrir que una familia de recién llegados ha muerto en circunstancias misteriosas en un incendio y que su amigo de la infancia está implicado en el asesinato. Convencido de la inocencia de su amigo, James decide ir en busca de la verdad... y al hacerlo, recupera la fe. Este es un drama sobre la fe, la familia y los estrechos lazos que unen a una comunidad.
Cuatro huérfanos salen del orfanato durante el verano para pasar las vacaciones en un pueblo de mar. Pero el idílico plan se verá enturbiado por el rumor de la posible adopción de uno de ellos, lo que causará tensiones en el grupo, ya que todos anhelan formar parte de una familia. Los cuatro jóvenes competirán por ganarse el afecto de la pareja poniendo a prueba su amistad.
Jack Beasley
1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
Malcolm
Tommy Matisse, a gifted musician, undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.
Alsation Fogarty
Adaptación de la historia de J. M. Barrie acerca de un niño que nunca creció. Los tres niños de la familia Darling reciben una visita de Peter Pan, quien los lleva a la Tierra de Nunca Jamás, donde una guerra continua entre la pandilla de Peter y los Niños Perdidos y el malvado pirata Capitán Garfio está teniendo lugar.
Justice Reed
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.
Maurie Lewis
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a psychologist, returns to bury his father. Back in his hometown, he meets a woman called Ruby who reminds him in so many ways of his lost love.
Schenk
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.
Det. Sgt. Kernahan
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
Chief Inspector Stromboli
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.
Dr. Urquhart
Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
Macca
Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murder and looks like he will be spending the rest of his days behind bars before he has an affair with a female guard. She helps him escape and they spend the next few days on the run. Can they make it?
Don Ferguson
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.
Duncan White
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
Stephen Sommers
Dallas, an American golf tutor, arrives in a quiet Sydney suburb to teach at the local school and sets about causing chaos with the family she stays with.
Mr. Thomas the Preacher
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
Malcolm Turnbull
Dame Victoria Market, under instructions from the Queen, holds an enquiry into why the Australian ecconomy does not work.
Mick Thornton
A drama about Aboriginal deaths occurring in police custody.
Vet
Martin toma fotografías guiado por las percepciones y descripciones de los otros. Martin es ciego y, con esta rara práctica para un invidente, él prueba que el mundo es realmente cómo los otros se lo describen. A pesar de su carácter prepotente y autosuficiente, Martin necesita de los cuidados de Celia, una atractiva mujer que lo ama desde hace tiempo y con quien mantiene una sádica relación. La llegada de Andy, un fornido y solitario lavador de platos de un restaurante a la vida de Martín, hace que estos personajes se involucren en un triángulo de relaciones en el que alternadamente se abusan y aman entre sí...
Gaspard
The 'White Mouse' was at one point top of the Gestapo's Most wanted list in France. A saboteur who went on to lead 7,000 resistance members and rescued over 200 Allied airmen, the 'White Mouse' was also a woman. The New Zealand born Australian; Nancy Wake.
Paddy Ryan
Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.