Ray Barrett

В основе сюжета положена история английской аристократки, получающей в наследство огромное ранчо на севере австралийского материка. Перед началом Второй мировой войны она приезжает в имение для того, чтобы оберечь его от попыток английских скотоводов заполучить ранчо под названием «Faraway Downs» в свою собственность, и сталкивается с необходимостью при помощи героя Джекмена перегнать 1500 голов скота через тысячи миль в город Дарвин. Там двое попадают под массированные бомбардировки со стороны японского Императорского флота.

The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.

Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.

Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon entered into the greyhound races. Soon residents are betting on the outcome of the races, and they are given a new reason to live. But the board of trustees learn what is going on, through the disgruntled daughter of one of the residents, and heavily handedly put an end to the fun and games. After the board's intervention the residents sink into a new form of despair as life becomes even duller and more boring than before. That is until the aloof pensioner, played by Ray Barrett, reveals he was once a high profile barrister and challenges the decision in court.

Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.

Японскую невесту по имени Мидори похищают во время медового месяца в качестве заложницы при ограблении банка в Сиднее. Как свидетельницу (она увидела грабителей без масок), ее ждет верная смерть, но ее спасает Колин, водитель машины «ухода». Защищая Мидори, Колин убивает младшего брата главаря банды, вызывая на себя гнев и месть Махуда и его крутого отца Бурджана. Защищая хрупкую женщину, уходя от погони гангстеров и мужа, Колин и Мидори несутся через всю страну и в пути страстно влюбляются друг в друга…

10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.

Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.

Австралийское захолустье осваивается фермерами-поселенцами. Они прибыли сюда семьями, чтобы найти лучшую жизнь благодаря своему труду и усердию. Начинается обработка земли, высаживается кукуруза, развиваются животноводчество (точнее птицеводство и свиноводство). Многое, если не сама жизнь на австралийском континенте зависит от дождя... Простой крестьянин и немолодой отец Джозеф Радд не может дальше продолжать тянуть нелегкую лямку. Решившись на кардинальные перемены в своей судьбе, герой пробует баллотироваться в парламент...

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.

A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.

A teenage boy wants to leave his home town.

В декабре 1945 года на индонезийском острове Амбон было обнаружено захоронение трёхсот убитых австралийцев. В чудовищной расправе подозревается японский вице-адмирал барон Такахаши. Капитан Роберт Купер назначен австралийским военным трибуналом вести расследование этого случая. У него нелёгкая задача — ведь все потенциальные свидетели либо мертвы, либо репатриированы.

A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.

A real estate agent is lured to a run-down mansion only to be trapped and tortured by ghosts.

An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car, time reverts to normal, but unable to convince anyone of her story, she investigates the crime herself.

The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him

Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marlon, believes he's still alive and she employs the investigative skills of the tough, no-nonsense private eye, Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) to find him. Battered and bruised, Hardy battles through the filth of corruption and the stench of political blackmail. He comes face to face with the crime bosses, who feed off human misery and eliminate their rivals without thinking twice. From the high life and low life of Sydney, to the seediness and splendour of Bondi Beach, Cliff Hardy uncovers the ultimate truth.

A family reunion among the squattocracy leads to conflict as various members assert their egos.

Племена Ворора и Риратингу в течение 40 тысяч лет хранили и передавали из поколения в поколение легенды, мифы и песни, сложенные в самом сердце австралийских пустынь. И вот теперь сюда пришла цивилизация -— в лице компании, разрабатывающей урановые месторождения. Но аборигены говорят, что здесь нельзя ничего взрывать. Потому что здесь ‘мечтают зеленые муравьи...

Australian sport documentary about the first ever winning of the America's Cup by a non-US country. Shows the background story of the preparation, design, construction, testing, and trials of Australia's winning yacht, the Australia II. Documents the preliminary races, elimination of British yacht Victory '83 and the final main race itself where Australia is victorious over the Americans on 26 September 1983.

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.

The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.

Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.

When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.

Проведя всю жизнь в путешествиях, смертельно больной мужчина решает встретить свои последние дни в австралийской долине, где он провёл детство. По дороге туда ему встречается мальчик-сирота, родители которого погибли, и он вынужден взять его с собой...

The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner. When the man is killed in the airport, Loomis ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life with the help of Terry McKenna, a woman from Austin working for the Sydney Opera House.

In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.

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.

Children on lonely farm outwit escaped Dartmoor prisoners.

Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.

A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.

A stressed television producer and his unhappy lounge singer wife are growing tired of each other.

When the launch of a mission to Mars goes awry due to sabotage, International Rescue is requested to assist in the mission's second attempt.

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.

On the planet Dido, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara meet two survivors from a crashed spaceship who are terrorised by the monster Koquillion.

Two children on a holiday with archaeologist parents expose the villainy of Arab workmen and help their father find the treasure he is after.

A young woman is harassed by a man and seeks help from the police. The officer who visits her falls in love with her, but shortly after she is murdered.

A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.

Через шесть тысяч миль азарта, через целый мир приключений проходит потрясающая история настоящих людей, называемых Бродягами.

The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.