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.

Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.

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.

An attorney plays match-maker for her ex-husband, by hiring an actress to seduce him - all in an attempt to try and rid herself of alimony payments.

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.

남아공의 특혜받는 백인 국민으로 태어난 도날드 우즈(Donald Woods: 케빈 클라인 분)는 지방 신문의 편집 국장으로 흑인민권운동가 스티브 비코(Steve Biko: 덴젤 워싱턴 분)에 대한 비방기사를 실었다가 흑인 여의사 람펠레 박사(Dr. Bamphele: 조셋 사이몬 분)의 항의 방문을 받는다. 그녀의 권유로 비코를 직접 찾아가 만난 우즈는 아프리카인 고유의 문화와 생존권을 회복하기 위해 평화투쟁의 방법을 지도하고 있는 비코에게 깊은 감명을 받고 조국 남아프리카의 장래는 흑백인이 공존하는 민주적 체제여야 한다는 확신을 갖게 된다. 백인사회의 하급노동만을 전담하면서 그들이 길들이는 방식대로 교육을 받던 흑인들이 비코의 지도로 의식화되고 고유의 문화운동으로 삶의 보람을 찾는 것을 기사에 반영하던 우즈는 정부당국으로부터 불온의 딱지가 붙어서 요시찰 인물이 된다. 그러나 그는 비코가 당국에 의해 체포되고 고문사 당한 다음 단식투쟁에 의해 죽었다고 허위발표되자 시체를 촬영하여 세계 언론기구에 우송한 다음 보안당국에 의해 연금상태가 되고, 흑백차별에 반대하는 모든 백인의 운명도 흑인과 같아진다는 것을 체험한다. 그는 탄압을 견디다 못해 비코의 전기를 출간하기 위해 국외로 탈출할 결심을 하고 호주방송의 특파원인 브루스 기자의 도움으로 남아공 국경밖으로 극적으로 탈출하고, 첩보영화를 방불케 하는 기발하고 대담한 작전으로 아내와 다섯 아이들로 국경을 넘게 하여 비행기편으로 영국 망명에 성공한다.

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.

영국 도싯셔의 탈퍼들이라는 마을에서 노동조합을 결성했다는 이유로 1834년 3월 7년 동안의 오스트레일리아 유배형을 선고받은 6명의 농업 노동자. 이들 가운데 지도자인 조지 러블리스(또는 러블레이스)와 제임스 러블리스 형제는 영국 전역에 노동조합 운동의 물결이 크게 일어났던 1833~34년에 농업노동자 공제조합 지부를 결성했다. 휘그당 정부는 노동계급의 불만이 대규모로 분출되는 것에 놀라 탈퍼들의 노동자 6명(러블리스 형제, 제임스 브라인, 토머스 스탠필드와 그의 아들 존, 제임스 해밋)을 체포했다. 표면상 이유는 그들이 불법적인 선서식을 거행했다는 것이었지만, 실제 이유는 유산 계급의 횡포에 나날이 어려워져만 가는 무산 계급들의 생존을 위한, 형편없는 수준의 임금이었지만 그것만이라도 지키기 위해 조합을 결성했기 때문이었다. 법치국가라는 제도의 미명하에 치루어진 법정에서 이들 6명은 역시 유산 계급인 적대적인 판사와 배심원들에게서 유죄판결을 받았지만 상대적으로 열악한 생활고에 시달리던 당시 민중에게는 영웅이 되어 버렸다. 결국 유배형에 처해져 영국에서 지구 반대편인 오스트레일리아까지 긴 항로를 떠나 길고 험한 수형 생활을 면치 못하게 되는데... 이 판결 직후 영국 전역에서 민중의 반발이 일어났다. 특히 런던에서는 대규모 시위가 벌어져, 미래의 차티스트 운동 지도자들이 시위에 많이 가담했다. 정부는 민중의 감정을 묵살하다가 결국 1836년 3월에야 형벌을 면제하고 만다.

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.

Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.

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.

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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

Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.

On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.

골드 러시 시대 호주 빅토리아 지역에서 악명 높았던 아일랜드계 무법자 댄 모건의 실화

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.