King
A happy, unsuspecting couple, Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic), buy a house in what appears to be a quiet, friendly neighbourhood. Settling in well, they make friends with a nice family on one side and soon meet a more interesting family on the other side. But interesting soon becomes loud and loud soon becomes intolerable. When the intolerable becomes violent and the police are powerless, Max and Therese attempt to take matters into their own hands.
Mick Bruvette
Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.
Nick
In a climate change ravaged world in 2012, after 240 days without rain Sydney has only two weeks of water left. When the city is then ringed by severe bushfires, the question becomes, how do you fight fire when you have no water?
Vince
After surviving the terrifying outback abduction of her boyfriend, Joanne Lees became the victim of a relentless trial by media across two continents. With no body to speak of, reported 'sightings' of Peter, and revelations Joanne had cheated on her boyfriend, the public and media in both Britain and Australia refused to accept Joanne's innocence on face value. This is the story of one young woman's courage in the face of one of the most mysterious crimes in Australian history.
Officer Davenport
일가족 3명을 살해한 Burns 삼 형제를 쫓던 Captain Stanley(레이 윈스턴)은 창녀촌에 숨어 있던 둘째 Charlie Burns(가이 피어스)와 셋째 Mike Burns를 검거하는 데 성공한다. 둘을 모두 감옥으로 끌고 가는 대신 Stanley는 Charlie에게 제안(The Proposition)을 한다. 경찰도 추적자들도 쫓기 힘든 곳으로 도망 갔다고 알려진 Charlie의 형 Arthur Burns(대니 휴스턴)을 크리스마스 전까지 생포해 온다면 동생을 살려주겠다는 것이다. 제안을 받아들인 Charlie는 Arthur를 찾던 중 원주민의 습격을 받아 죽을 위험에 처하는데, 마침 근처에 소굴이 있던 Arthur 일당이 나타나 구해주고 상처를 치료해준다. 몸을 추스른 Charlie는 Arthur 일당과 함께 동생을 구하기 위해 마을로 잠입한다. 태형을 맞아 목숨이 위태로운 상태였던 동생을 구출하는 데는 성공했지만, 결국 동생은 죽고 만다. Arthur는 Captain Stanley의 집에 쳐들어가 그의 아내와 그를 살해하려 하는데, 동생을 묻고 뒤늦게 도착한 Charlie는 더 이상 죄를 지을 수 없어 Arthur 일당을 쏴 죽여버리고 떠난다.
Dennis Obst
의외의 결말이 흥미로운 범죄물. 누명을 쓰고 8년의 수감 생활을 마친 남자, 자폐 증세를 가진 그의 친구, 전과자의 과거를 씻고 레스토랑을 운영하며 평범하게 살아가는 남자가 등장해 범죄조직과 부패 경찰들에 엮여 새로운 ‘건수’를 만든다는 내용이다. 서로 무관하거나 유관한 캐릭터들이 다수 등장해 종착지에서 만나는 구성이고, 공권력에 대한 비판적 시선이 가볍게 담겼다. 중년의 전과자 역을 맡은 티모시 스폴의 연기가 뛰어나다. 연애와 섹스에 관한 쿨한 해석을 던진 의 감독 조너선 테플리츠키의 두 번째 극장편이다.
Constable Jones
1958년 크리스마스, 평화롭기만 하던 애들레이드에서 끔찍한 살인사건이 발생하고 맥스 스튜어트는 9살 소녀를 강간 및 살해한 혐의로 체포된다. 이 사건을 맡은 젊은 변호사 데이빗 오설리반과 그의 파트너 헬렌은 사건을 조사하던 중 맥스가 지역 경찰에 의해 누명을 쓰게 된 것이라는 확신을 갖게 되고, 경찰 배후에 국왕 검찰관이 있다는 사실을 발견한다. 그리고 이들은 보수적이고 폐쇄적인 상류 사회에 대항해 무망한 싸움을 시작한다. 영화의 대부분 장면은 사건이 실제 벌어졌던 장소에서 촬영이 되었으며, 에 출연하여 깊은 인상을 남겼던 ‘로버트 칼라일’이 데이빗 오설리반으로 출연한다.
Freddie
Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
Kevin Darcy
차퍼(chapper: 도끼)라는 별명을 얻을 정도로 잔인하고 폭력적인 마크 리드는 범죄를 통한 자기만족과 우월의식에 쌓여있는 인물이다. 호주 멜버른의 한 교도소에 수감되어 있는 마크는 계획적으로 다른 죄수들과 잔혹한 파워 게임을 벌여나가지만 , 추종자들을 얻기는 커녕, 점점 더 경원과 멸시의 대상이 되어가고, 심지어 가장 친한 친구 지미에게까지 공격받기에 이른다. 생명의 위협을 느낀 마크는 한 동료를 부추겨 자신의 귀를 베어버리게 한 후, 다른 감옥으로 이감된다. 그리고 얼마 후 석방이 된 마크는 인간 쓰레기를 소탕해야된다는 망상에 사로잡힌 채 곳곳을 돌아다니며 잔혹한 살인 행각을 계속한다. 이처럼 사실과 환상의 경계를 오가며 세상과 부믿치던 마크는 결국 다시 감옥에 들어가게 되는데, 이때부터 타고난 이야기 실력을 발휘하여 자신의 삶과 범죄 행각에 대한 책을 쓰기 시작한다. 자서전이 출판되면서 마크는 드디어 명성과 부를 거머쥐고, 호주 사회의 전설적인 범죄자라는 악명을 얻기에 이른다.
Ben
Set on a famous nudist beach, Maslin Beach is a film about crazy people involved in crazy misunderstandings and romantic squabbles, a naked and hilarious search for the meaning of life. And it's also a gentle story about love. Simon attempts to summon the courage to face the truth about his relationship with Marcie over the course of one afternoon, leading to a bittersweet jolt to his life. With other relationships on the beach interfering with his objective to propose, a myriad of characters attempt to make sense of life, love and it all.
Mack
Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.
Sonny Jim
A black comedy about a family terrorised by their father who feeds his family tripe at every meal, every day. Eventually, the kids revolt, but it isn't long before the eldest son steps into his father's shoes.
Eddie Weaks
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Hennessey
Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a super-criminal with an army of killers operating in the Australian outback.
Corporal R.B. Fletcher
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Dave
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Maxie
Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road hoping to find her and makes a friend along the way.
Charlie
Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.
Deadlegs
Suburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack (featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks and Renee Geyer) and the screen debut of future star Sigrid Thornton. THE FJ HOLDEN forged a strong connection with 70s mainstream youth audiences and today
Guitarist / Bikie
Dorothy is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a rock band when, suddenly, the van is in a road accident, and she hits her head. She wakes up in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as the one she came from and learns she killed a young thug in the process. A gay clothier called the Good Fairy gives her a pair of red shoes as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard, an androgynous rock singer. She is pursed by the thug's brother who attempts to rape her on several occasions. She also meets a dumb surfer, a heartless mechanic, and a cowardly biker.
Lou
Four young heroin addicts scour the streets of Melbourne in search of some good-quality narcotics – or as they call it, 'pure shit’. In the space of 48 hours, a friend dies of an overdose, they are ripped off by criminals and arrested and assaulted by police. They bungle a break-in, get chased by hooligans and one is sent to a methadone clinic. The search for drugs veers between farce and tragedy, but it never stops.