Australia movies

Murder Is Announced, A (1985)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Howells, Ursula | Asherson, Renée | Bond, Samantha | Shepherd, Simon | King, Nicola | Ives-Cameron, Elaine | Michael, Ralph | Syms, Sylvia | Solon, Matthew | Kerridge, Mary | Sims, Joan | Dionisotti, Paola | Moore, Vivienne | Collings, David
Directors: Giles, David
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A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock’s two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of “just walking by” or “Was in the neighborhood”. At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone’s face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.

Kenny (2006)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Jacobson, Shane | Golland, Travis | Davis, Chris | Scerri, Alf | Preusker, Hayley | Fuller, Saxon | Uerata, Thomas | Ogston, Kevin 'The Captain' Roy | Preusker, Glenn | Roy, Kevin | Carter, Craig | Smith, Pete | Atkinson, Adrian | Robertson, Mark | Ogston, Kevin 'Matey' Lee
Directors: Jacobson, Clayton
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From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Ignored and unappreciated, he is one of the cogs in society’s machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful ‘Splashdown’ crew. Follow Kenny as he tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, culminating in a pilgrimage to that Mecca of waste management, the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville Tennessee - or as Kenny affectionately calls it, “Poo HQ”. With fly-on-the-wall honesty and wit, ‘KENNY’ lifts the lid on one of Australia’s roughest diamonds as he juggles family tensions, fatherhood and sewage with charm, humour and unflinching dignity. “It takes a certain kind of person to do what I do… No-one’s ever impressed; no-one’s ever fascinated… If you’re a fireman, all the kids will want to jump on the back of the truck and follow you to a fire. There’s going to be no kids willing to do that with me. So, I don’t do it to impress people - it’s a job, it’s my trade, and I actually think I’m pretty good at it.” - Kenny Smyth Part philosopher, part comedian and all heart, KENNY is living proof that in sewage, like life, the best will always rise to the top.

Moving Finger, The (1985)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Culver, Michael | Counsell, Elizabeth | Appleby, Deborah | Gleeson, Lucy | Mansfield, Stuart | Bicknell, Andrew | Franklyn, Sabina | Pearson, Richard | Mason, Hilary | Hamlett, Dilys | Arnatt, John | Payne, Sandra | Fisk, Martin | Lee, Penelope
Directors: Boulting, Roy
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Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar’s wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor’s wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right.

Control (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Morton, Samantha | Riley, Sam | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Anderson, Joe | Kebbell, Toby | Parkinson, Craig | Pearson, James Anthony | Treadaway, Harry | Sheridan, Andrew | Shelly, Robert | McNulty, Matthew | Naylor, Ben | Grönemeyer, Herbert | Harris, Nigel | Plester, Tim
Directors: Corbijn, Anton
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Turner, Tina | Spence, Bruce | Cockburn, Adam | Thring, Frank | Rossitto, Angelo | Larsson, Paul | Anderson, Angry | Grubb, Robert | Spartels, George | Hodgeman, Edwin | Hornery, Bob | Oh, Andrew | Hall, Ollie | Rice, Lee
Directors: Miller, George
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Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie’s rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie’s Bartertown.

Catwoman (2004)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Berry, Halle | Bratt, Benjamin | Stone, Sharon | Wilson, Lambert | Conroy, Frances | Borstein, Alex | Massee, Michael | Mann, Byron | Smith, Kim | Heyerdahl, Christopher | Wingfield, Peter | McKenzie, Berend | Nelson-Murray, Chase | Petruzzelli, Manny | Reiner, Harley
Directors: Pitof
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Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips (Halle Berry), a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

Storm Warning (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Australia
Actors: Farès, Nadia | Brumpton, John | Taylor, Robert | Lyons, David | Wilkinson, Mathew | Oldham, Jonathan
Directors: Blanks, Jamie
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On a weekend boating excursion, husband and wife, Rob and Pia become lost in a heavy storm and end up in the most unlikely place - a desolate swamp surrounded by thick forest. With their boat in disarray their only solution is to look for help or seek shelter of some kind. They finally come across a decrepit house and barn with no one home. However, there are definite signs of the house being inhabited, and the enormous crop of marijuana in the barn suggests the homeowners may not welcome their presence. Even worse, there is no telephone or means of communication to the outside world. But when the deranged, redneck owners, Brett, Jimmy and their even more terrifying father Poppy return, Rob and Pia realize a fear far beyond anything they have ever known, and resentful of the affluent intruders, the monstrously sadistic hillbillies imprison and enslave the couple, who fearing for their lives, submit to appalling degradation and humiliation. When Rob and Pia learn their kidnappers have no intention of ever letting them go alive, they finally understand they must do whatever it takes just to survive, and whatever it takes means going to a limit they could never have imagined… STORM WARNING is directed by internationally renowned horror maestro, Jamie Blanks, whose debut film URBAN LEGEND grossed in excess of US $100 Million world wide. STORM WARNING sees the local director return home to create a visceral, gore drenched odyssey that will terrify millions around the world yet again.

No Reservations (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Eckhart, Aaron | Breslin, Abigail | Clarkson, Patricia | Wade, Jenny | Balaban, Bob | O'Byrne, Brian F. | Rabe, Lily | Silver, Eric | Bareikis, Arija | McMartin, John | Weston, Celia | Kravitz, Zöe | Rauch, Matthew | Molloy, Dearbhla
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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A master chef, Kate (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan—with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivattes and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.

Brave One, The (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Foster, Jodie | Howard, Terrence | Katt, Nicky | Andrews, Naveen | Steenburgen, Mary | Oloja, Ene | Da Silva Jr., Luis | Foster, Blaze | Sardina, Rafael | Adams, Jane | MacDonald, Gordon | Kravitz, Zöe | Magaro, John | Colicchio, Victor | Howard, Jermel
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Lion King 1½, The (2004)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Lane, Nathan | Sabella, Ernie | Kavner, Julie | Stiller, Jerry | Broderick, Matthew | Guillaume, Robert | Kelly, Moira | Goldberg, Whoopi | Marin, Cheech | Cummings, Jim | Hibbert, Edward | Rudofsky, Jason | Weinberg, Matt | Anselmo, Tony | Bennett, Jeff
Directors: Raymond, Bradley
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Imagine a cross between _Lion King, The (1994)_ (qv) and _Back to the Future Part II (1989)_ (qv). This is a separate story thread, that of Timon and Pumbaa, intertwined with the original story. Thus, along with seeing new events (e.g. Timon’s departure from the meerkat colony, Timon and Pumbaa’s first meeting, the origin of “Hakuna Matata”), we get to see a new perspective on (and some previously unseen causes for) some of the events in the original film. Oh, and the whole thing is told in a _”Mystery Science Theater 3000″ (1988)_ (qv) framework, with Timon and Pumbaa narrating and interacting with the “onscreen” movie.