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.
The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a campaign by a group of non-anglo students to form a soccer club in a school where the racist PE teacher only supports Australian Rules Football, Christina starts falling in love with aspiring soccer player, 17 year old Nick (Alex Dimitriades). The ensuing affair forces Christina to challenge herself, her family and the culture she lives in. Managing to effectively combine comedy with a refreshing examination of contemporary ethnic relationships in Australia, beautifully acted by a young cast, and insightfully scripted.
Golpista sai da prisão e vai para cidade costeira com novo plano em mente: recolher fundos para expedição em busca de tesouro perdido e fugir com o dinheiro. Mas tudo se complica quando sua expedição vira notícia, seu ex-companheiro de cela aparece e, ele se apaixona por uma mulher.
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..
