Claudia Karvan

While the older sister throws out her feelings in poetry slams, the 10-year-old Moja attempts in her own way to hold things together and repair the hole that her mother's death has torn in her family. Sara Kern tells of a childlike process of grief and closure which does not shut its eyes to the cracks in the world, but also admires the light that shimmers through them.

Antes de que la demencia se adueñe por completo de su mente, June Wilton decide reunir a sus hijos para intentar salvar el negocio familiar y, de paso, volver a encender el fuego de una hoguera que hace ascuas.

Basada en la novela de Peter Carey, ganadora del Premio Booker, narra la vida del bandido australiano Ned Kelly. Tras la muerte de su padre, el joven Ned tuvo que tratar de hacer lo posible para asegurarse de que su madre sobreviviera. Sin embargo, esta no era una tarea fácil en la Australia de 1870, asolada por la pobreza y por el hambre. Ned comenzará, entonces, un viaje que le convertirá en una leyenda.

Un estadounidense, interpretado por Jim Caviezel, es secuestrado después de que un amigo lo invita a El Cairo para hablar sobre los recientes levantamientos militantes. Su esposa se dirige a la ciudad después de escuchar la noticia, decidida a recuperarlo.

Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers.

An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.

Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are changed forever.

Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the 2008 science ficiton/horror film, Daybreakers featuring interviews with members of the cast and crew and delving into every aspect of the feature including early development, pre-production, production and post-production.

En el año 2019 casi todos los habitantes del planeta han sido infectados por una misteriosa plaga que los ha transformado en vampiros. Los humanos son ahora una especie en peligro de extinción, se han convertido en ciudadanos de segunda, y se ven obligados a vivir recluidos, escondiéndose para escapar de los vampiros que se dedican a cazarlos o a criarlos en granjas donde fuerzan tanto la máquina que están a punto de causar su exterminio.

Una pareja en crisis viaja a un recóndito lugar: ella sólo piensa en largarse, él atropella a un canguro, tira una colilla en el bosque, una botella al mar y dispara por doquier. Remake del film "Largo fin de semana" (Colin Eggleston, 1978).

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The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student persecuted by the government but the Department of Immigration dispute his identity. When Julia meets Amir, he is severely depressed and close to deportation. Julia throws herself obsessively into Amir's case, causing friction between Julia and her husband, Peter. Julia eventually frees Amir and the young Iranian man moves in with Peter and Julia. As Julia helps Amir adjust to ordinary life, she finds herself increasingly attracted to this handsome, damaged young man. But she also starts to see the subtle cracks in Amir's story. Is he really who he claims he is? Or does he have a darker, more dangerous history?

An unemployed sports fan enters an amateur rugby league tournament where losing just isn't an option if he's to keep his family together.

Chrissy and Jo attend Chrissy's university reunion. Surrounded by success, Chrissy begins to question her decision to stay at home with the kids. When an old friend's husband is found dead in the harbour from an apparent heart attack, Chrissy and Jo are drawn to solve the mystery after learning the dead man's blood contained Ketamine, an animal tranquilliser used as a party drug.

Claire y Hailey son dos grandes amigas de trece años de edad que se embarcan en la aventura de sus vidas cuando descubren a una sirena llamada Aquamarine dentro de una piscina. Aquamarine ha aparecido en tierra tras una gran tormenta que ha golpeado duramente el club de playa de una pequeña ciudad de Florida, en la que Claire vive con sus padres. La sirena, guapa y de pelo azul, de dieciocho años, ha abandonado su hogar justo antes de su matrimonio arreglado, en busca del amor verdadero. Si logra demostrar a su padre que ese tipo de amor no es un mito, la dejará cancelar la boda bajo el agua; pero sólo le ha dado tres días. Aqua reclama la ayuda de Claire y Hailey, quienes supuestamente son dos grandes expertas en el tema, las cuales se han instruido a través de las páginas de las revistas que leen y citan a diario.

Jo has a family wedding to attend, but the wedding is in crisis. Chrissy and Jo face the twin tasks of bringing the wedding to a successful conclusion, whilst at the same time, investigating a murder in which all the suspects are key figures in the wedding party.

Último capítulo de la saga de Star Wars, en el que Anakin Skywalker definitivamente se pasa al lado oscuro. En el Episodio III aparecerá el General Grievous, un ser implacable mitad-alien mitad-robot, el líder del ejército separatista Droid. Los Sith son los amos del lado oscuro de la Fuerza y los enemigos de los Jedi. Ellos fueron prácticamente exterminados por los Jedi hace mil años, pero la orden del mal sobrevivió en la clandestinidad.

This movie is about an ex drug dealer on the run. Melinda Fehlers is on the run from her old life. Being known as Leanne in her past this all becoming déjà Vu the people from the past reappear and are here to get her.

Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.

Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?

Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at) which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to love him. It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger's mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).

An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?

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

Catherine and Liz want to have a baby - well, Catherine does anyway. Doesn't she realize this will change everything? Probably not. Spending hours on the phone with the sperm bank doesn't leave a lot of time to think about family matters. A humorous drama dealing with the current debate on the very real issue of gay and lesbian couples starting families, IVF programs and the evolving community attitudes towards these changes. A buoyant and entertaining journey through dial-up sperm banks, relationships and baby clothes.

This is the story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.

Four new mind bending tales where truth takes a detour and nothing is what it seems. The characters in each tale discover that their preconceived notions of reality couldn't be further from the truth.

One messy science journalist (Tash) and a neat television host (Brett). Two very different people whose relationship is nose diving to get the opportunity to experience life in their partners shoes when they wake up one morning in each others bodies. Valuable lessons are learned by each as they both have to adjust to very different lives.

This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.

Three Aussie super-Sheilas and their Big Mack trucks embark on a mission to defend the Earth against the alien invasion.

An idealistic solicitor heads to the bush after a disillusioning encounter with the legal system. In a small country town she witnesses an incident between police and two local Aborigines, and reluctantly becomes embroiled in a fight for justice.

When Peter Costello is exiled to a deserted island for stealing sheep, Mary, a maid, decides to join him there.

Dos mujeres escapan a las montañas donde disfrutan de la compañía del otro, aparentemente decepcionadas con sus parejas masculinas.

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.

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a campaign by a group of non-anglo students to form a soccer club in a school where the racist PE teacher only supports Australian Rules Football, Christina starts falling in love with aspiring soccer player, 17 year old Nick (Alex Dimitriades). The ensuing affair forces Christina to challenge herself, her family and the culture she lives in. Managing to effectively combine comedy with a refreshing examination of contemporary ethnic relationships in Australia, beautifully acted by a young cast, and insightfully scripted.

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.

A biographical movie on the film star Errol Flynn's early life before Hollywood fame.

Lucy is apparently very confident, and quite "forward," as the saying used to be; she has made all the moves to pick up a staid lawyer-type for sex. Once back at her apartment, she sets a video camera going to record their coupling. However, someone breaks into the place while they are having at it, and she is barely able to leave the bed and hide before her sex-partner is killed. She never sees the intruder's face herself. In the aftermath, the terrified lass finds herself with a sympathetic female state-appointed attorney (since she's the obvious suspect) and together, they try to track down the murderer.

Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.

The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.

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...

After Dan collapses at a train station, he enlists Maxie to watch his beloved dog, Molly. Maxie develops a soft spot for her new furry companion - a dog which has a unique ability to sing in tune.

Karli'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 .