John Stanton

케리 그린우드의 범죄 소설 시리즈였던 '미스 피셔 머더 미스터리'에 기초하며 데이비스가 글래머러스란 1920년대 사립 탐정으로 출연한다.

호주 한적한 동네에 살고 있는 평범한 남자 대런. 동네 바비큐 용품 판매원인 그의 취미는 주말에 친구들과 이웃들을 초대해 바비큐를 해주는 일이다. 그는 호주에 처음으로 바비큐를 들여온 사람이 캡틴 제임스 쿡이고, 자신이 그의 후손이라고 굳게 믿고 있다. 특히 제임스 쿡의 (것이라 믿는) 럼주통 바비큐 그릴은 그의 큰 자랑이다. 여느 때처럼 이웃들에게 바비큐를 해주던 어느 주말, 이웃들은 덜 익은 새우로 인해 단체식중독에 걸리게 된다. 이 일이 텔레비전에 방송되며 그는 호주 최고의 ’근육바보’로 유명해진다. 그러던 중 동네에서 국제바비큐대회가 열리자 대런은 등 떠밀려 지역 대표로 출전하게 되면서, 베일에 가린 미스터리 셰프 ‘도살자’에게 특훈까지 받게 된다. 한편, 12살 아들 제이든은 아빠가 캡틴 제임스 쿡의 자손이라는 연결고리를 찾기 위해 고군분투한다. ‘쿡’ 가족의 자존심을 걸고 각자의 싸움을 하게 된 이들은 과연 가족의 명예를 지켜낼 수 있을까?

Archive footage of Australia and New Zealand forces during WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam conflict. Plus home life between the wars, especially focusing on the homage we pay to those who so bravely sacrificed themselves on our behalf. This is all held together by a wonderful script narrated by John Stanton.

제1차 세계대전 당시 호주 제1터널굴착중대(1st Australian Tunnelling Company)에 복무했던 올리버 우드워드(Oliver Woodward) 대위의 일기를 바탕으로 제작된 전쟁영화이다.

Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.

Sixteen years after returning home, three disillusioned Australian Vietnam conscripts use their army skills to plan and execute the country's biggest bank robbery. And they get away with it. Seven years pass and a petty criminal convicted as the driver in the heist is released from gaol. When his body is fished out of the harbour the grim murder reignites the case.

Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.

Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the race is on to get into the power station where she is being held and battle an army of ninjas. Only then can he face Baxter, his arch-enemy, and stop a bomb from exploding to save his sweetheart, and show her that he is a man. A man who can commit. A man who is strong.

A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.

A sex worker seeks protection from an ex-cop after a failed drug bust throws their lives into turmoil.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.

Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life

뉴질랜드의 말을 싼 값에 사들인 미국인 데이브 데이비스는 형편없는 말의 모습에 실망한 나머지 팔아 버리려고 결심한다. 그러나 코치인 헤리는 이 말이 경주에서 이길 수 있다는 확신을 갖는다. 험한 훈련과 고된 연습으로 파렙은 차차 경주마다 우승을 하며 주목을 받게 된다. 몇 년이 지나자 드디어 파렙은 멜버른컵에서 우승하는 등 어느 말도 감히 도전하지 못하는 챔피언이 된다. 그러던 중 주위의 시기와 질투 속에 불길한 음모가 꾸며진다. 파렙을 죽이려는 사건이 발생하자 파렙은 은신처에 숨겨진다. 다시 파렙이 컵데이에서 대승리를 거두고 파렙의 명성은 미국까지 퍼져 세계에서 제일 빠른 말로 알려지기 시작한다. 그러나 아구아칼렌테 스테이크에서 승리한 파렙은 16일 후에 원인 모르게 죽고 만다.

The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out shepherd, played by Bill Kerr. The dog gives Kerr a reason for living, and vice versa. Be sure to have plenty of Kleenex handy for some of the mistier passages of Dusty.

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.

Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.