John Hargreaves

A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.

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.

Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir in Sorrento and in her family when it is supected that the book is not as fictional as she claims.

Adaptación de "Tío Vania", de Chejov, ambientada en Australia en los años veinte y que obtuvo buenas críticas en USA. Alexander y su reciente y bella esposa Deborah abandonan el ambiente cosmopolita de Londres y regresan a la vida del campo en Australia para vivir con Jack, hermano de Alexander. Pero una vez allí tanto Jack como el mujeriego médico local se encaprichan de Deborah...

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

Young Aboriginal Doug has done his time for petty theft, but quickly drifts back under the bad influence of ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. Doug knows where he’s heading – he’s seen it all before, in the hard life of his father. Returning to his traditional country and the love of girlfriend Polly is the way out. But Floyd’s mateship is hard to shake.

David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with a flight to the other side of the world. The woman he finds on the day of the appointment is not the one he loved, but another, his double, his own daughter who bears the same name of Clara. Intimate ties are formed between them as they wander through Rome.

Linda es una joven abogada norteamericana afincada en París, donde trabaja en un importante bufet. Un caso de máxima importancia le obliga a trasladarse a Nueva York.

A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.

A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into asking her one more time. Stella's father Billy (Norman Kaye) is a former cricket star whose career ended early when he was involved in a sex scandal. She spends the night with vacationing Arthur (Michael Siberry) when his car breaks down. Andy elects not to pop the question to Stella in lieu of her one-night stand with the stranger. When Billy elects to marry June Thompson (Julie Nihill), the local gossipmongers have a field day recalling the woman's promiscuous past.

Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on board a leaky old fishing boat called 'The Krait'. Their mission, code-named Operation Jaywick, became a tense voyage through thousands of kilometres of Japanese held territory to launch a daring attack on Singapore Harbour. The raid is a success but within sight of safety they encounter a Japanese destroyer, and all prepare to die rather than be taken prisoner.

Narra la amistad entre Donald Woods, un periodista blanco sudafricano, y el carismático líder del movimiento negro Steve Biko. Premiada en Berlín, obtuvo además tres candidaturas a los premios Oscar.

Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and places that preserve the memory of her late mother.

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

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.

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.

My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the impending tragedy. Slowly he is sucked into a tunnel of despair – fighting his conservative nature and the romantic memories of his married life.

The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.

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.

Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy sister, Vanessa, returns from England and takes an interest in PS.

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.

Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.

Una pareja se toma unas vacaciones en el bosque, con el fin de solucionar sus problemas matrimoniales. Sin embargo, esto es a lo que menos podrán dedicarse. En 2008, el director Jamie Blanks realizó un remake protagonizado por James Caviezel.

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.

The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies. After four tense days, hopes wanes. At last, a group of searchers spot the young Stephen, and its members are able to convice him that they want to help him reach home and family. - Written by

Dos mejores amigos, los veteranos de la guerra de Vietnam convertidos en especialistas, son enviados como espías a Filipinas en una misión secreta para el gobierno australiano.

El Partido de Don protagoniza a John Hargreaves como Don Henderson, un maestro de escuela que vive con su esposa, Kath (Jeanie Drynan), en 1969. Por aburrimiento, invita a un pequeño grupo de amigos a celebrar una victoria electoral predicha del Partido Laborista Australiano (ALP), mucho para consternación de su esposa.

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)

An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.