Alison Barrett

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.

For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks off regularly to meet a mystery man who may be her ex-husband. The third & youngest daughter is an unmarried nurse aware of her ticking biological clock. The only son chases after his grumpy father who seems to not care a whit about his wife's circumstances. The four are also faced my their mother's dreams to accomplish a few things before she dies - to visit a beach she had visited in the past, to see her youngest married, and to visit Paris. She also wants to be embalmed and be honored with a 21 gun salute. Thus the whole group has to set off in the quest to fulfill their mother's wishes.

Contrariando sua família, Ruth Baron (Kate Winslet), uma jovem australiana, viaja para Índia numa viagem de descobertas e aventuras. Lá se junta à legião de fanáticos do guru Chidaatma Baba. Sua mãe vai ao seu encontro para convencê-la a voltar para a casa. Seus pais chamam, então, o conselheiro espiritual americano P.J. Waters (Harvey Keitel) para tentar trazê-la de volta a normalidade.

Quando descobre que sua dona está prestes a perder sua fazenda, Babe, o leitão-pastor, vai para a cidade com ela e amigos animais para levantar fundos e, assim, salvar a propriedade.

In Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the station; he's mid-40s, detached, thrice divorced, hatchet faced. But both sisters next door find him attractive: awkward Dimity, only 20, who works in a Chinese restaurant with few patrons, and perky Vicki-Ann, a hairdresser with a hope chest who invents a happy future with Sherry based on little but his arrival. First Dimity then Vicki-Ann spend the night with Ken, one concluding he's her boy friend, the other her fiance. Then Dimity begins to smell something fishy.

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

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.

Porpoise Spit, Austrália. Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) tem 22 anos e nunca teve muitos amigos, já que as roupas que usa são fora de moda e, ainda por cima, vive ouvindo as canções do ABBA. Além disto, está acima do peso e nunca demonstrou muitos talentos. Sua vida muda ao conhecer Rhonda Epinstalk (Rachel Griffiths), que também é excluída do meio social. Sonhando com uma vida livre, elas fogem para Sydney. Apesar das críticas de seu pai, Muriel acredita que possa enfim encontrar a felicidade e coloca como primeira meta se casar. É quando ela conhece e se apaixona por um famoso nadador.

A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.

Policial honesto tem de enfrentar a corporação corrupta no front externo e tentativas de desmoralizá-lo. Em casa, sua mulher, insatisfeita com a vida modesta, também o vê com maus olhos.

The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.

BREATHING UNDER WATER is the story of a woman's journey into an imaginary underworld city. The birth of her daughter into an increasingly perilous world has unsettled everything in Beatrice's (Anne Louise Lambert) life. Her growing unease prompts Beatrice to undertake a journey - an investigation into human nature, a confrontation with the fears of our time, and a search for clues that will ultimately give her an answer to the central riddle of the film: why has humankind set the stage for its own extinction? The director’s preoccupation with humankind’s tendency to self-destruct was one factor that lead to the creation of this complex film.

Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.

Situado em um mundo futurista onde o único esporte que sobreviveu em uma sociedade desperdiçada é o jogo brutal conhecido como jugging. Sallow, o líder de uma equipe de trapos, jogou nas principais ligas antes, mas foi expulso por causa de indiscrições com uma dama. No entanto, agora acompanhado por um talentoso recém-chegado, Kidda, uma jovem camponesa ambiciosa, ele e sua equipe descobrem que têm uma última chance para a glória.

Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.

The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.

The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.

Em uma era pós-apocalíptica, Mad Max chega a uma cidade cheia de desordeiros e governada por Turner. Lá, ele se torna um gladiador e é abandonado no deserto. Um bando de órfãos selvagens, os quais procuram por ajuda há muitos anos, acaba resgatando Mad Max. Quando vários dos órfãos acreditam que a chegada de Max é um sinal, ele decide retornar para a cidade.

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.

Sue is an Australian teenager in the late '70s, and her life mainly consists of doing what all the other girls do: watching the surfing boys and having sex with those same surfing boys. The girls have to follow lots of strange customs, e.g. do not eat or go to the bathroom when a boy is around. Ugly girls have two choices - being bitches and hating boys, or being generally cheap and looked down upon by everyone. The afternoons are spent on the beaches, in the backseats of cars, or at home-alone parties where sex and alcohol are the main ingredients. Parents and teachers are trying to straighten the kids out, but it's not easy.

Mel Gibson apresenta uma eletrizante performance, nesta empolgante história do diretor Peter Weir, sobre a amizade e a aventura de dois soldados australianos em 1915. Eles cruzam continentes e oceanos, sobre pirâmides e caminham pelas antigas areias do Egito para juntar-se a seu regimento na batalha de Gallipoli. Os ecos da história misturam-se com o destino desses amigos, à medida que eles se tornam parte de um lendário confronto na 1ª Guerra Mundial, entre Austrália e os turcos, aliados da Alemanha – uma batalha que significou para os australianos o que Álamo significou para os americanos. Estrelando Mel Gibson e Mark Lee..

The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.

Durante a Guerra dos Boers, na África do Sul, três tenentes australianos estão sendo julgados por atirar em prisioneiros Boers. Apesar de terem agido sob ordens, eles estão sendo usados como bodes expiatórios pelos ajudantes do General, que espera se livrar dessas práticas irregulares da guerra. O julgamento não transcorre tão bem como esperado pelos ajudantes, isso porque a defesa resolve empreender uma forte luta no tribunal.

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.