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Australian Cinema
Top 500 films from Australia (out of 1,091 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live | 2,015 | Jonas Åkerlund | Music | 8.5 | 155 | English | Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal, and special guest footage from her 1989 Tour. |
| Dominion | 2,018 | Chris Delforce | Documentary | 8.5 | 88 | English | Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through drones, hidden & handheld cameras, the feature-length film explores the morality and validity of our dominion over the animal kingdom. |
| P!NK: Funhouse Tour - Live in Australia | 2,009 | P!nk | Music | 8.5 | 21 | English | P!nk brings her greatest hits down under on the most successful tour in Australian history. This set features "Get the Party Started" and more! |
| David Bowie: Glass Spider | 1,988 | David Mallet | Music, Documentary | 8.4 | 12 | English | A chronicle of the eight shows held by the British singer David Bowie at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia, in November 1987, during the Glass Spider Tour, in promotion of his album Never Let Me Down. |
| The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World | 2,018 | Annámaria Tálas | Documentary | 8.3 | 12 | English | You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is covered with them. Fungi are the most under appreciated and unexplained organisms, yet they could cure you from smallpox and turn cardboard boxes into forests. They could even transform Mars into Eden. There are vastly more fungi species than plants and each and every one of them play a crucial role in life’s support systems. Join us on a journey into the mysterious world of Fungi to witness their beauty, unravel their mysteries and discover how this secret kingdom is essential to life on Earth, and may in fact hold the key to our future. |
| Hacksaw Ridge | 2,016 | Mel Gibson | Drama, History, War | 8.2 | 14,609 | English | WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
| Memoir of a Snail | 2,024 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Drama, Comedy | 8.1 | 733 | English | Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life. |
| Tyke Elephant Outlaw | 2,015 | Stefan Moore | Documentary | 8.1 | 21 | English | This is the gripping and emotionally charged story of Tyke, a circus elephant that went on a rampage in Honolulu in 1994, killed her trainer in front of thousands of spectators and died in a hail of gunfire. Her break for freedom - filmed from start to tragic end - traumatised a city and ignited a global battle over the use of animals in the entertainment industry. Looking at what made Tyke snap, the film goes back to meet the people who knew her and were affected by her death - former trainers and handlers, circus industry insiders, witnesses to her rampage, and animal rights activists for whom Tyke became a global rallying cry. Like the classic animal rebellion film King Kong, Tyke is the central protagonist in a tragic but redemptive drama that combines trauma, outrage, insight and compassion. Ultimately, this moving documentary raises fundamental questions about our deep and mysterious connection to other species. |
| Lion | 2,016 | Garth Davis | Drama | 8 | 6,872 | English | A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. |
| My First Summer | 2,020 | Katie Found | Drama, Romance | 8 | 265 | English | Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden. |
| Driving Miss Daisy | 2,015 | Peter Ots | Drama, Comedy, TV Movie | 8 | 15 | English | Driving Miss Daisy tells the affecting story of the decades-long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur. An iconic tale of pride, changing times and the transformative power of friendship, the play has warmed the hearts of millions of theatergoers worldwide. |
| Chasing Asylum | 2,016 | Eva Orner | Documentary | 8 | 12 | English | Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and moral impact of current and previous policy. |
| In My Blood It Runs | 2,019 | Maya Newell | Documentary | 8 | 11 | English | The story of Dujuan, a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy living in Alice Springs, Australia, who is struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education. |
| Mary and Max | 2,009 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 7.9 | 2,200 | English | A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. |
| Hannah Gadsby: Nanette | 2,018 | Madeleine Parry | Comedy | 7.9 | 291 | English | The Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby is taking an anti-comedy stance in her newest special. |
| Lost & Found | 2,018 | Andrew Goldsmith | Animation, Drama | 7.9 | 64 | English | A bumbling knitted dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life. |
| U2: Zoo TV - Live from Sydney | 1,994 | David Mallet | Music, Documentary | 7.9 | 17 | English | 1. Show Opening 2. Zoo Station 3. The Fly 4. Even Better Than The Real Thing 5. Mysterious Ways 6. One 7. Unchained Melody 8. Until The End Of The World 9. New Year's Day 10. Numb 11. Angel Of Harlem 12. Stay (Faraway, So Close!) 13. Satellite Of Love 14. Dirty Day 15. Bullet The Blue Sky 16. Running To Stand Still 17. Where The Streets Have No Name 18. Pride (In The Name Of Love) 19. Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car 20. Lemon 21. With Or Without You 22. Love Is Blindness 23. Can't Help Falling In Love U2 had been a major entity in the rock music world for many years by the time they released the ACHTUNG BABY album. Yet, it was this album that brought the band from popular rock act to multimedia force as their concerts began to include the video screen as an important part of the show. Following ACHTUNG BABY was the ZOOROPA album and one of U2's most successful tours, the Zoo TV Tour, in which the multimedia experience was expanded upon. |
| Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles | 2,023 | Sally Aitken | Documentary | 7.9 | 14 | English | Hot Potato is a backstage pass to the global phenomenon, The Wiggles. The documentary chronicles the story of three preschool teachers, Anthony, Murray and Greg, and their friend Jeff, as they triumph over the odds to become one of the most successful children’s acts of all time. |
| One Life | 2,023 | James Hawes | History, Drama | 7.8 | 912 | English | British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport. |
| Double King | 2,017 | Felix Colgrave | Animation, Fantasy | 7.8 | 46 | English | A king steals crowns from various other rulers. |
| Waltz with Bashir | 2,008 | Ari Folman | Animation, Documentary, Drama, War | 7.7 | 1,033 | Hebrew | An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. |
| Holding the Man | 2,015 | Neil Armfield | Drama | 7.7 | 455 | English | Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them. |
| Puff: Wonders of the Reef | 2,021 | Nick Robinson | Documentary | 7.7 | 103 | English | A baby pufferfish travels through a wondrous microworld full of fantastical creatures as he searches for a home on the Great Barrier Reef. |
| Jackie Chan: Building an Icon | 2,021 | Antoine Coursat | Documentary | 7.7 | 11 | French | Jackie Chan is a true icon of Asian and Chinese culture. Over a 45-year-long career, he has carved a niche for himself as an actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter, but also singer and formidable businessman. After starring in almost 200 films, Jackie Chan has reconciled fans of genre film and Hollywood blockbusters, whilst bridging the gap between Asian and Western cinema. Through film excerpts, archive footage and images, and an offbeat approach inspired by the visual codes of the golden age of kung fu films, this documentary will take a look back at the creation of a popular hero who has come to be an icon for China, and for the entire Asian continent. |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 2,015 | George Miller | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 23,769 | English | An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. |
| Better Man | 2,024 | Michael Gracey | Music, Drama | 7.6 | 792 | English | Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring. |
| Threads | 1,985 | Mick Jackson | War, Drama, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 385 | English | Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization. |
| Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | 1,992 | Mark Achbar | Documentary | 7.6 | 93 | English | A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda. |
| We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year | 2,005 | Matthew Saville | Comedy | 7.6 | 19 | English | The story of five unique Australians who have been nominated for the Australian of the Year Award. Phil, a rescue hero who saved nine children in a jumping castle accident. Ricky, a Chinese physics genius and aspiring actor. Ja’mie, a charity-minded schoolgirl who sponsors 85 Sudanese children. Daniel and Nathan, hearing impaired teenage twin farm boys embarking on a world first eardrum transplant. And Pat, a disabled suburban housewife turned elite athlete. |
| Ward 13 | 2,003 | Peter Cornwell | Animation, Horror, Action, Comedy | 7.6 | 18 | English | After a car accident, Ben wakes up in hospital. Not knowing where he is or what is going on, he starts exploring the corridors...only to find that the staff don't have his health in mind! The hapless patient must pull himself together and do everything he can to escape. It's an action/horror/comedy — ending with the wheelchair chase from hell! |
| Australia: Land Beyond Time | 2,002 | David Flatman | Documentary | 7.6 | 17 | English | Australia: Land Beyond Time takes viewers on a breathtaking journey back in time to witness the birth and evolution of a mysterious land that harbors remnants of Earth's earliest life and many of it's strangest creatures that exist nowhere else on the planet. |
| Fight Club But With Tennis And No Fight | 2,019 | Sylvie Le Couteur | Animation, Comedy | 7.6 | 13 | English | Drama descends upon two tennis-obsessed women as the tension moves from off the court and into the café. |
| Pocahontas | 1,995 | Ryszard Słapczyński | Animation | 7.6 | 13 | English | Set in Colonial America, Pocahontas has become a story of historical value known and loved internationally, among children of all ages. The film tells the story of the first English settlers in Virginia and the Native Americans who lived there. It highlights the very different values of the two civilisations and particularly their attitude and respect for the land. It's a culture shock story and, on a personal level, a love story |
| We Were Once Kids | 2,021 | Eddie Martin | Documentary | 7.6 | 12 | English | In the early nineties, before the massive gentrification of many of New York's then slums, several young people from very disparate backgrounds left their broken homes and ventured onto the brutal streets of the city. United by their love of skateboarding, they formed a family and built a unique lifestyle that eventually inspired Kids, a groundbreaking and outrageous film directed by photographer Larry Clark and released in 1995. |
| Playing with Sharks | 2,021 | Sally Aitken | Documentary | 7.6 | 11 | English | Valerie Taylor is a shark fanatic and an Australian icon – a marine maverick who forged her way as a fearless diver, cinematographer and conservationist. She filmed the real sharks for Jaws and famously wore a chainmail suit, using herself as shark bait, changing our scientific understanding of sharks forever. |
| Forbidden Lies | 2,007 | Anna Broinowski | Documentary | 7.6 | 10 | English | The film meticulously unravels the case of Norma Khouri, whose best-selling memoir about an honor killing captivated the world before her entire story began to collapse under the weight of its own fabrications. More than just a look at a spectacular con, this is a timely and unsettling exploration of media manipulation, cultural differences, and the dangerous power of a compelling narrative. Broinowski’s film is a riveting study of a pathological liar, but it also holds a mirror up to a world eager to embrace a good story, fact or fiction. |
| Upgrade | 2,018 | Leigh Whannell | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.5 | 4,853 | English | A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life. |
| Moulin Rouge! | 2,001 | Baz Luhrmann | Drama, Romance, Music | 7.5 | 4,769 | English | A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star. |
| Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | 2,024 | George Miller | Action, Science Fiction, Adventure | 7.5 | 4,665 | English | As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home. |
| Elvis | 2,022 | Baz Luhrmann | Drama, Music, History | 7.5 | 3,793 | English | The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker. |
| Hotel Mumbai | 2,019 | Anthony Maras | Thriller, History, Drama, Action | 7.5 | 1,700 | English | Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives. |
| Control | 2,007 | Anton Corbijn | Drama | 7.5 | 911 | English | The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980. |
| The Maker | 2,011 | Christopher Kezelos | Animation, Music, Fantasy | 7.5 | 157 | English | A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life. |
| Swimming for Gold | 2,020 | Hayley MacFarlane | Family | 7.5 | 96 | English | Young elite swimmer Claire is sent to Australia to coach a boys swimming team, where she must overcome an old rival and a secret fear to save the swimming camp from closing. |
| The House I Live In | 2,012 | Eugene Jarecki | Documentary | 7.5 | 75 | English | In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong? |
| All This Mayhem | 2,014 | Eddie Martin | Documentary | 7.5 | 63 | English | A searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas' intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction. |
| The War on Democracy | 2,007 | John Pilger | History, Documentary, War | 7.5 | 41 | English | Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger says that the film "...tells a universal story... analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the film’s message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow". |
| Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard | 2,011 | Richard Lowenstein | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 12 | English | From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt and gothic aristocrat, the unique distinctive fury of his guitar style shot him directly into the imagination of a generation. He was impeccable, the austerity of his artistry embodied in his finely wrought form, his obscure tastes and his intelligently wry wit. He radiated a searing personal integrity that never seemed to tarnish. Despite the trials and tribulations of his career, in an age of makeover and reinvention, Rowland Howard never ‘sold out’. With recent and moving interviews, archival interviews and other fascinating and original footage, AUTOLUMINESCENT traces the life of Rowland S Howard. Capturing moments with the man himself and intimate missives from those who knew him behind closed doors; words and images etch light into what has always been the mysterious dark. |
| David Attenborough's Tasmania | 2,018 | Matt Hamilton | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.5 | 11 | English | Tasmania lies on the Australian continent, but is a world apart. It is home to an extraordinary cast of black devils and white wallabies. Trees here tower to one hundred metres and green lights dance in the southern sky. As the last landfall heading south before Antarctica, Tasmania's isolation, cooler climate and distinct seasons influence everything. |
| The Lego Movie | 2,014 | Phil Lord | Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.4 | 8,299 | English | An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe. |
| Predestination | 2,014 | Michael Spierig | Science Fiction, Thriller | 7.4 | 6,931 | English | Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost. |
| Mad Max 2 | 1,981 | George Miller | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 4,075 | English | Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape. |
| The Piano | 1,993 | Jane Campion | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 1,617 | English | When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. |
| Bring Her Back | 2,025 | Michael Philippou | Horror | 7.4 | 1,427 | English | Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret. |
| Leo | 2,023 | Robert Smigel | Animation, Comedy, Family | 7.4 | 1,307 | English | Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher. |
| Shine | 1,996 | Scott Hicks | Drama | 7.4 | 691 | English | Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. |
| Harvie Krumpet | 2,003 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 194 | English | The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck - but still optimistically lives own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer. |
| The Cat Piano | 2,009 | Eddie White | Animation, Fantasy | 7.4 | 35 | English | A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony. |
| S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine | 2,003 | Rithy Panh | Documentary, History, War | 7.4 | 33 | French | Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened. |
| Rebooted | 2,019 | Michael Shanks | Comedy, Drama, Animation | 7.4 | 31 | English | Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect. Refusing to succumb to his own irrelevance, Phil takes drastic measures when he learns the film for which he was created is being rebooted without him. |
| Vitamania: The Sense and Nonsense of Vitamins | 2,018 | Sonya Pemberton | Documentary | 7.4 | 23 | English | Dr Derek Muller takes us on an epic adventure, a world-spanning investigation of vitamin science and history, asking how do we decide whether to take vitamin supplements, or not? |
| Redux Riding Hood | 1,997 | Steve Moore | Animation, Comedy | 7.4 | 15 | English | Years after failing to catch Little Red Riding Hood, the obsessed Wolf tries again. |
| Terror Nullius | 2,018 | Soda Jerk | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.4 | 13 | English | Hitch a ride into the dark heart of Australia with Soda_Jerk's TERROR NULLIUS, a blistering, badly behaved sample-based film that confronts the horror of our contemporary moment. Equal parts political satire, eco-horror and road movie, TERROR NULLIUS is a rogue remapping of national mythology, where a misogynistic remark is met with the sharp beak of a bird, feminist bike gangs rampage and bicentenary celebrations are ravaged by flesh-eating sheep. By intricately remixing fragments of Australia's pop culture and film legacy, TERROR NULLIUS interrogates the unstable entanglement of fiction that underpins this country's vexed sense of self. |
| The Death and Life of Otto Bloom | 2,017 | Cris Jones | Drama | 7.4 | 13 | English | The chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse - passing backwards through the years only remembering the future. |
| Beauty from Pain | 2,025 | Christine Luby | Romance, Drama | 7.4 | 12 | English | After a devastating heartbreak, an aspiring musician escapes to Australia. She agrees to a no-strings romance with a billionaire winemaker, but when she falls in love she must choose to walk away or risk her heart on a man afraid to love. |
| Saving Mr. Banks | 2,013 | John Lee Hancock | Comedy, Drama, History | 7.3 | 3,435 | English | Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen. |
| Dark City | 1,998 | Alex Proyas | Mystery, Science Fiction | 7.3 | 3,102 | English | A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans. |
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1,994 | Stephan Elliott | Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 889 | English | Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret. |
| Red Dog | 2,011 | Kriv Stenders | Drama, Comedy, Family | 7.3 | 421 | English | The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master. |
| Ride Like a Girl | 2,019 | Rachel Griffiths | Drama | 7.3 | 162 | English | The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. |
| Life After Fighting | 2,024 | Bren Foster | Action, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 66 | English | Retired martial arts world champion Alex Faulkner has settled into a simple life, when the disappearance of two of his students leads to an unthinkable discovery close to home. Just when all hope of finding the children is lost, he locates the imprisoned girls and unsurfaces an international child trafficking operation, which draws him back into the fight of his life against those behind it. |
| Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story | 2,014 | Alex Holmes | Documentary | 7.3 | 64 | English | A portrait of the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth. But the former friends whose lives and careers he destroyed would finally bring him down. |
| Mystify: Michael Hutchence | 2,019 | Richard Lowenstein | Documentary, Music | 7.3 | 52 | English | Michael Hutchence was flying high as the lead singer of the legendary rock band INXS until his untimely death in 1997. Richard Lowenstein’s documentary examines Hutchence’s deeply felt life through his many loves and demons. |
| A Prince in Paradise | 2,023 | Adrian Powers | TV Movie, Romance, Comedy | 7.3 | 50 | English | Olivia, struggling with writer's block after a break up, takes a tropical holiday in hope of some inspiration and meets Prince Alexander, who needs some distance from his duty to marry royalty. |
| Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour | 2,016 | Nathan Rissman | Documentary, Music | 7.3 | 28 | English | Concert special featuring the iconic superstar as she performs in packed arenas around the globe. Featuring new hits and beloved classics that showcase Madonna's signature visual theatrics, exquisite costumes and awe-inspiring choreography. With exclusive behind-the-scenes access that reveal the pop icon and her legion of dancers as they pour blood, sweat and tears into creating an astonishing arena show celebrated by fans around the world. |
| Barbecue | 2,017 | Matthew Salleh | Documentary | 7.3 | 20 | English | Barbecue is about more than grilling a piece of meat. It’s a ritual performed religiously across the world. For some it’s a path to salvation. It is the pride of nations. And the stories told around the fires become a way to bring the world together. |
| I'm You, Dickhead | 2,014 | Lucas Testro | Science Fiction, Comedy | 7.3 | 12 | English | A man travels back in time to force his 10 year old self to learn guitar, so that he can get more action with the ladies in the present day. |
| Sunflower | 2,024 | Gabriel Carrubba | Drama | 7.3 | 10 | English | A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne's edge. |
| The Lego Batman Movie | 2,017 | Chris McKay | Animation, Action, Comedy, Family | 7.2 | 5,305 | English | A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick. |
| The King | 2,019 | David Michôd | Drama, History, War | 7.2 | 3,487 | English | England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V. |
| Escape from Pretoria | 2,020 | Francis Annan | Drama, History, Thriller | 7.2 | 1,448 | English | South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison. |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1,975 | Peter Weir | Drama, Mystery | 7.2 | 865 | English | In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously. |
| Wake in Fright | 1,971 | Ted Kotcheff | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 328 | English | A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia. |
| Dance Academy: The Movie | 2,017 | Jeffrey Walker | Drama | 7.2 | 146 | English | This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now. |
| Signs | 2,008 | Patrick Hughes | Romance | 7.2 | 118 | English | Where do you find love? Sometimes all you need is a sign. |
| Hannah Gadsby: Douglas | 2,020 | Madeleine Parry | Comedy | 7.2 | 80 | English | Hannah Gadsby returns for her second special and digs deep into the complexities of popularity, identity, and her most unusual dog park encounter. |
| Zero | 2,010 | Christopher Kezelos | Animation, Drama | 7.2 | 62 | English | In a world that judges people by their number, Zero faces constant prejudice and persecution. He walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something. |
| Nullarbor | 2,011 | Alister Lockhart | Animation, Comedy | 7.2 | 39 | English | An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain. |
| Phar Lap | 1,983 | Simon Wincer | Drama, Family, History | 7.2 | 28 | English | Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation. |
| Ernie Biscuit | 2,015 | Adam Elliot | Comedy, Drama, Animation | 7.2 | 22 | English | The world of a lonely deaf Parisian taxidermist is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep. |
| South | 1,919 | Frank Hurley | Documentary | 7.2 | 21 | English | The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton. |
| Around the World in 80 Days | 1,988 | Geoff Collins | Adventure, Comedy, Animation | 7.2 | 17 | English | English Lord Phileas Fogg has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, he has made a wager with several other lords that he will be able to travel around this world in a mere 80 days. Joined by his butler Passepartout, Fogg begins his journey. However, hot on his heels is Scotland Yard detective Mr. Fix. |
| A Christmas Carol | 1,969 | Zoran Janjic | Animation, Family | 7.2 | 14 | English | On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. |
| One Perfect Match | 2,024 | Jo-Anne Brechin | TV Movie, Romance, Comedy | 7.2 | 13 | English | The matchmaker Lucy Marks meets a handsome businessman and immediately feels a spark, but that spark is ruined when she learns he is her newest client. |
| The Australian Dream | 2,019 | Daniel Gordon | Documentary | 7.2 | 10 | English | AFL legend Adam Goodes shares the story of his life and career to offer a deeper insight into race, identity, and belonging. |
| The Madness of Max | 2,015 | Gary McFeat | Documentary | 7.2 | 10 | English | The Madness of Max is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most influential movie of the past thirty years. With over forty cast-and-crew interviews, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and never-before-seen film footage of the shoot, this is without a doubt the last word on Mad Max (1979).Interviews include: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward, Joanne Samuel, David Eggby, Jon Dowding and many more. From the Producers to the Bike Designers to the Traffic Stoppers, this is the story of how Mad Max was made. |
| The Invisible Man | 2,020 | Leigh Whannell | Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror | 7.1 | 6,130 | English | When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see. |
| Talk to Me | 2,023 | Michael Philippou | Horror | 7.1 | 3,590 | English | When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces. |
| Late Night with the Devil | 2,024 | Cameron Cairnes | Horror | 7.1 | 1,977 | English | A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms. |
| The Nightingale | 2,018 | Jennifer Kent | Drama, Thriller, Western | 7.1 | 642 | English | In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. |
| Candy | 2,006 | Neil Armfield | Drama, Romance | 7.1 | 629 | English | A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair. |
| Lorenzo's Oil | 1,992 | George Miller | Drama | 7.1 | 555 | English | Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history. |
| Gallipoli | 1,981 | Peter Weir | War, History, Drama | 7.1 | 522 | English | Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. |
| The Castle | 1,997 | Rob Sitch | Drama, Comedy | 7.1 | 221 | English | The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport. When a building inspector condemns the building and reveals that the government plans to use their land for an airport expansion, Darryl Kerrigan and his brood recruit hack attorney Dennis Denuto and prepare themselves for the fight of their lives. |
| Breaker Morant | 1,980 | Bruce Beresford | Drama, History, War | 7.1 | 157 | English | During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom. |
| Storm Boy | 2,019 | Shawn Seet | Drama, Adventure, Family | 7.1 | 149 | English | Storm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close bond with a pelican, Mr. Percival, his life takes a new and unexpected turn. |
| Penguins | 2,019 | Jeff Wilson | Documentary, Family | 7.1 | 55 | English | The story of Steve, an Adélie penguin, on a quest to find a life partner and start a family. When Steve meets with Wuzzo the emperor penguin they become friends. But nothing comes easy in the icy Antarctic. |
| Charlie's Country | 2,013 | Rolf de Heer | Drama | 7.1 | 53 | English | Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser. |
| The Eleven O'Clock | 2,016 | Derin Seale | Comedy | 7.1 | 34 | English | The delusional patient of a psychiatrist believes he is actually the psychiatrist. As they each attempt to treat each other the session gets out of control. |
| Cousin | 1,999 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Drama | 7.1 | 31 | English | Adam reminisces about the time he spent with his older cousin who suffered from cerebral palsy. Revisiting his eighth birthday celebrations, Adam talks about a tragedy that separated them forever. |
| A Journey | 2,024 | RC Delos Reyes | Drama | 7.1 | 27 | Filipino | Refusing treatment for her cancer, a woman goes on a road trip across Tasmania to check off items on her bucket list with her husband and best friend. |
| Crackerjack | 2,002 | Paul Moloney | Comedy | 7.1 | 19 | English | When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances. |
| A Christmas Carol | 1,982 | Jean Tych | Animation, Family | 7.1 | 18 | English | Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. |
| The Seen and Unseen | 2,018 | Kamila Andini | Drama | 7.1 | 14 | Indonesian | Tantra and Tantri are inseparable. When they secretly steal eggs from the family’s sacrificial offering, Tantri always gets the whites and Tantra the yolks. One day, however, the yolk is missing, as is Tantra. Her brother gravely ill and in hospital, Tantri starts slipping into magical parallel worlds, approaching the inevitable farewell through costumes, body paint and dance. When at one point Tantri’s mother washes the paint from her face, it is as if tenderly to expel the illusion that things can remain as they are. In long dream sequences and against the background of the Balinese philosophy of sekala – the seen – and niskala – the unseen – Andini relates how one ten-year-old girl deals with parting and grief. |
| Troll Bridge | 2,019 | Daniel Knight | Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Comedy | 7.1 | 12 | English | Set in the phenomenally successful Discworld series, Troll Bridge is about the world's last Barbarian hero (now at the age of 87) embarking on a suicide mission to battle a bridge troll in mortal combat. In a land where the undead have formed an equal rights movement, goblins are on the endangered species list and the evil Cutshade Forest is being logged; the world has truly gone mad for Cohen the Barbarian. Time has moved too fast... Troll Bridge aims to be the largest scale short film in history. Using resources garnered over a decade of dedication, love, sweat and toil, Troll Bridge has already broken records and set benchmarks internationally. Written by SnowGum Films |
| What's With Wheat? | 2,016 | Justin Brown | Documentary | 7.1 | 10 | English | Why are so many people wheat-intolerant or sensitive to wheat? And why is wheat linked to so many modern-day health problems, when it has been a staple of the human diet for thousands of years? In this documentary, a nutritionist interviews 14 experts, to understand how wheat has changed since it was first cultivated, how these changes could be affecting human health, and how people can break a dietary cycle that could be making them sick. |
| A Goofy Movie | 1,995 | Kevin Lima | Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Animation, Family | 7 | 1,878 | English | Goofy’s teenage son Max is desperate to impress his crush and fit in at school. After well-meaning but ignorant Goofy suddenly whisks him away on a cross-country road trip—messing up Max’s first date plans in the process—Goofy’s old-school parenting and Max’s desire for independence lead to a vacation of hilarious mishaps, as they both learn to understand and listen to eachother. |
| The Dressmaker | 2,015 | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Drama, Comedy, Western | 7 | 1,739 | English | In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town. |
| Boy Erased | 2,018 | Joel Edgerton | Drama | 7 | 1,465 | English | Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith. |
| Together | 2,025 | Michael Shanks | Horror, Romance | 7 | 930 | English | Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh. |
| Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | 2,021 | Will Gluck | Family, Comedy, Adventure | 7 | 871 | English | Peter Rabbit runs away from his human family when he learns they are going to portray him in a bad light in their book. Soon, he crosses paths with an older rabbit who ropes him into a heist. |
| The King's Daughter | 2,022 | Sean McNamara | Fantasy, Adventure, Family | 7 | 711 | English | King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature. |
| The Proposition | 2,005 | John Hillcoat | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western | 7 | 692 | English | In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence. |
| Saw | 2,003 | James Wan | Horror, Thriller | 7 | 659 | English | David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival. |
| Lee | 2,024 | Ellen Kuras | History, Drama, War | 7 | 579 | English | The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence | 2,002 | Phillip Noyce | Adventure, Drama, History | 7 | 379 | English | In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback. |
| Bad Boy Bubby | 1,993 | Rolf de Heer | Crime, Drama, Comedy | 7 | 293 | English | Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world. |
| True Spirit | 2,023 | Sarah Spillane | Adventure, Drama, History | 7 | 255 | English | When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days. |
| Nitram | 2,021 | Justin Kurzel | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 7 | 199 | English | Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts. |
| An Angel at My Table | 1,990 | Jane Campion | Drama | 7 | 180 | English | Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life. |
| The Man from Snowy River | 1,982 | George T. Miller | Drama, Romance, Adventure, Western, Family | 7 | 155 | English | Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. |
| Cargo | 2,013 | Yolanda Ramke | Fantasy, Drama | 7 | 121 | English | Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter. |
| Curve | 2,016 | Tim Egan | Thriller, Horror | 7 | 76 | English | Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death. |
| Love Never Dies | 2,012 | Brett Sullivan | Drama, Music, Romance | 7 | 54 | English | Set ten years after the events at the Paris Opera House, the Phantom has fled to New York, where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of C... |
| An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It | 2,022 | Lachlan Pendragon | Animation, Comedy | 7 | 48 | English | When a young telemarketer is confronted by a mysterious talking ostrich, he learns that the universe is stop motion animation. He must put aside his dwindling toaster sales and focus on convincing his colleagues of his terrifying discovery. It's scary business living in a stop motion world, where your faces come off and a giant hand controls your every move. |
| The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello | 2,005 | Anthony Lucas | Adventure, Animation, Mystery | 7 | 45 | English | Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself. |
| The Year My Voice Broke | 1,987 | John Duigan | Drama, Romance | 7 | 37 | English | 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. |
| Buoyancy | 2,019 | Rodd Rathjen | Drama, Crime | 7 | 31 | Thai | An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors. |
| Brother | 2,000 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Drama | 7 | 30 | English | After a short introduction of the whole family, the story of the elder brother is told. |
| Love in Bloom | 2,022 | Rogue Rubin | TV Movie, Romance, Comedy | 7 | 22 | English | When Chicago florist Amelia Hart travels to a small town in Australia to help plan her sister’s wedding, she finds new meaning in the town’s beautiful gardens, and love where she least expected. |
| Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown | 2,016 | Grégory Monro | Documentary | 7 | 16 | French | Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just a clown. He was also a groundbreaking filmmaker whose unquenchable curiosity led him to write, produce, stage and direct many of the films he appeared in, resulting in such adored classics as The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, and The Nutty Professor. |
| The Landing | 2,013 | Josh Tanner | Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller | 7 | 16 | English | A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960. |
| Take My Hand | 2,024 | John Raftopoulos | Romance, Drama | 7 | 14 | English | Living in London, at the peak of her career, a mother of three is diagnosed with MS. Following the sudden death of her husband and the loss of her job, she moves back home to Australia; where a chance encounter with her high school sweetheart gives her renewed hope in love as she battles the disease. |
| Under the Volcano | 2,021 | Gracie Otto | Documentary, Music | 7 | 12 | English | The story of George Martin’s AIR Studios Montserrat and the island that changed music forever. |
| Nursery Rhymes | 2,018 | Tom Noakes | Drama | 7 | 11 | English | On the side of a rural highway, a bizarre encounter with a metalhead takes a profound turn. |
| Triangle | 2,009 | Christopher Smith | Horror | 6.9 | 2,887 | English | When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. |
| Three Thousand Years of Longing | 2,022 | George Miller | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.9 | 1,615 | English | A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories. |
| Tracks | 2,013 | John Curran | Adventure, Drama | 6.9 | 554 | English | Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. |
| Babyteeth | 2,020 | Shannon Murphy | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.9 | 386 | English | A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer. |
| Penguin Bloom | 2,021 | Glendyn Ivin | Drama | 6.9 | 331 | English | When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life. |
| Emily | 2,022 | Frances O'Connor | History, Drama, Romance | 6.9 | 243 | English | The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises. |
| He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | 2,001 | Richard Lowenstein | Comedy | 6.9 | 150 | English | A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective. |
| Oddball | 2,015 | Stuart McDonald | Family, Adventure | 6.9 | 97 | English | An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town. |
| Oranges and Sunshine | 2,010 | Jim Loach | Drama, History | 6.9 | 88 | English | The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. |
| The Lost Thing | 2,010 | Andrew Ruhemann | Animation, Drama, Science Fiction | 6.9 | 86 | English | A boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to. |
| Ali's Wedding | 2,017 | Jeffrey Walker | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.9 | 78 | English | After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl. |
| Mountain | 2,017 | Jennifer Peedom | Documentary | 6.9 | 76 | English | An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, that explores humankind's fascination with high places. |
| Scarygirl | 2,023 | Ricard Cussó | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.9 | 67 | English | As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light, save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her planet. |
| Mia and Me: The Hero of Centopia | 2,022 | Matthias Temmermans | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Family | 6.9 | 63 | English | Mia discovers her magic stone is part of an ancient prophecy and embarks on a thrilling journey to the farthest islands of Centopia to face a great evil, and shape her own destiny. |
| A Second Chance: Rivals! | 2,019 | Clay Glen | Drama, Family | 6.9 | 58 | English | As Maddy takes on coaching a team of young twelve-year-old gymnasts, she faces up to intense city versus country rivalry, racism, cyberbullying and her own self-doubt but eventually takes the challenge head on. |
| Where the Green Ants Dream | 1,984 | Werner Herzog | Drama | 6.9 | 55 | German | The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium. |
| Storm Boy | 1,977 | Henri Safran | Drama, Family | 6.9 | 30 | English | Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans. |
| The Disappearance of Willie Bingham | 2,015 | Matthew Richards | Crime, Horror, Drama | 6.9 | 29 | English | Progressive Amputation is introduced as a new form of punishment for particularly heinous crimes, in this pitch-black social satire by Matt Richards. |
| The Trials of Henry Kissinger | 2,002 | Eugene Jarecki | Documentary | 6.9 | 28 | English | This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor, as well as the assassination of a Chilean leader in 1970. Based on a book by journalist Christopher Hitchens, the film includes interviews with historians, political analysts and such journalists as New York Times writer William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter. |
| The Magic Pill | 2,017 | Robert Tate | Documentary | 6.9 | 27 | English | Doctors, scientists and chefs around the globe combat illness with dietary changes, believing fat should be embraced as a source of fuel. |
| Romance on the Menu | 2,020 | Rosie Lourde | Romance, TV Movie | 6.9 | 26 | English | New York restaurateur Caroline inherits a café in Lemon Myrtle Cove, Australia. While there, she starts falling for the place and its people, particularly Simon, the café’s charming local chef. |
| The Furnace | 2,020 | Roderick MacKay | Western, History | 6.9 | 23 | English | To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold. |
| The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years | 1,996 | Kevin James Dobson | Drama, Romance | 6.9 | 22 | English | At the height of WWII and ten years after their union in Matlock Island, Father Ralph reunites with Meggie who faces a deep crisis. Now, he must make up his mind, as the burden of choice is insufferable. Will he risk it all for love? |
| The Mahabharata | 1,990 | Peter Brook | Drama, War | 6.9 | 18 | English | One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a series of enlightened fables at the heart of countless beliefs, legends, and teachings; indeed, its very title means "the great story of mankind." Brook and writer Jean-Claude Carriere worked for eight years to develop this epic concerning two sides of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, whose struggle leads to a fascinating voyage of emotions, passion and vision of glory. Briefly, the Mahabharata is a tale of two rival sets of brothers, cousins to eachother, each born into royalty and with divinely guided paths in life. The result, however, is a great war, death, destruction - a vast epic. |
| Burning | 2,021 | Eva Orner | Documentary | 6.9 | 16 | English | Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an exploration of what happened as told from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists. |
| South Solitary | 2,010 | Shirley Barrett | Drama | 6.9 | 11 | English | Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper. |
| Romeo + Juliet | 1,996 | Baz Luhrmann | Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 5,262 | English | In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains. |
| The Bank Job | 2,008 | Roger Donaldson | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.8 | 2,527 | English | Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | 2,010 | Zack Snyder | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.8 | 2,425 | English | When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace. |
| The Water Diviner | 2,014 | Russell Crowe | War, Drama | 6.8 | 1,304 | English | In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace. |
| Animal Kingdom | 2,010 | David Michôd | Crime, Drama | 6.8 | 884 | English | Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him. |
| The Dry | 2,021 | Robert Connolly | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | 6.8 | 792 | English | Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl. |
| The Railway Man | 2,013 | Jonathan Teplitzky | Drama, History | 6.8 | 766 | English | A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story. |
| A Perfect Pairing | 2,022 | Stuart McDonald | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 | 589 | English | To land a major client, an LA wine exec travels to an Australian sheep station, where she signs on as a ranch hand and hits it off with a rugged local. |
| Muriel's Wedding | 1,994 | P.J. Hogan | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 480 | English | Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies. |
| Chopper | 2,000 | Andrew Dominik | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 403 | English | The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes. |
| Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan | 2,019 | Kriv Stenders | War, Action, Drama, History | 6.8 | 348 | English | Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them. |
| Go! | 2,020 | Owen Trevor | Family | 6.8 | 328 | English | Jack is a charismatic larrikin who has just discovered the one thing he's really good at — go-kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race car driver with a secret past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his recklessness if he is to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including the ruthless champion Dean, and win the National title. |
| Lore | 2,012 | Cate Shortland | Drama, War, Thriller | 6.8 | 307 | German | After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world. |
| The Magician's Elephant | 2,023 | Wendy Rogers | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Comedy | 6.8 | 227 | English | Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure it, sets Peter off on a journey to complete three seemingly impossible tasks that will change the face of his town forever. |
| The Sapphires | 2,012 | Wayne Blair | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 216 | English | It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires. |
| Beneath Hill 60 | 2,010 | Jeremy Sims | Drama, History, War | 6.8 | 160 | English | The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers. |
| The Interview | 1,998 | Craig Monahan | Crime, Mystery, Drama | 6.8 | 160 | English | A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted? |
| LOL Surprise: The Movie | 2,021 | Alex Kamb | Animation, Family | 6.8 | 136 | English | Dazzling doll sisters Queen Bee and Royal Bee make their first movie with help from their fashionable friends in this one-of-a-kind magical adventure. |
| Fortress | 1,985 | Arch Nicholson | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.8 | 94 | English | After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals. |
| Not Quite Hollywood | 2,008 | Mark Hartley | Comedy, Documentary | 6.8 | 92 | English | As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves. |
| Last Cab to Darwin | 2,015 | Jeremy Sims | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Adventure | 6.8 | 76 | English | Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it. |
| The Tracker | 2,002 | Rolf de Heer | Drama, History | 6.8 | 60 | English | Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man. |
| The Man From Snowy River II | 1,988 | Geoff Burrowes | Adventure, Western | 6.8 | 48 | English | After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed. |
| Cane Toads: An Unnatural History | 1,988 | Mark Lewis | Documentary | 6.8 | 39 | English | A documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests. |
| Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale | 1,986 | Murray Ball | Comedy, Animation | 6.8 | 23 | English | Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats" (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip), questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the selectors at Saturday's rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Cooch's prize stag from the depths of Blackwater Station, home of the Murphys, their vicious dogs and deadly croco-pigs? All this and more will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen. |
| Man | 2,014 | Richard Hughes | Drama | 6.8 | 17 | English | A worn-out, aging shearer who once rained king of the high country, gets on the gear to keep up his numbers. But when the drugs take over he must learn what it really means to be a man, before he loses so much more than his country pride -- MAN. |
| The Killing Field | 2,014 | Samantha Lang | Mystery, Drama, Crime, TV Movie | 6.8 | 16 | English | A task force is sent to a small country town to investigate a shocking crime. |
| Yardbird | 2,012 | Michael Spiccia | Drama, Fantasy | 6.8 | 16 | English | A young girl who lives in a remote wrecking yard takes on the local bullies when they travel out to torment her father. |
| ONEFOUR: Against All Odds | 2,023 | Gabriel Gasparinatos | Documentary, Music | 6.8 | 14 | English | A group of Sydney-based, Pacific Islander kids start recording drill raps to avoid a life of crime. Two years into their meteoric rise, a police task force shuts down their sold-out national tour due to concerns that the group's music will incite violence. |
| A Sunburnt Christmas | 2,020 | Christiaan Van Vuuren | Comedy, Crime, Family | 6.8 | 14 | English | The lives of a struggling family are upended when a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes onto their property. A wily teenager seizes the opportunity to save the farm—and bring her fractured family back together. |
| Lou | 2,010 | Belinda Chayko | Drama | 6.8 | 12 | English | Rhia's relationship with her daughter Lou hits an all-time low when she lets her father-in-law, Doyle, who has Alzheimer's, move in. More problems arise when Doyle mistakes Lou for his late wife, Annie. |
| Cane Toads: The Conquest | 2,010 | Mark Lewis | Documentary, Comedy | 6.8 | 12 | English | Cane Toads: The Conquest is a comic yet provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker Mark Lewis. Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, Cane Toads: The Conquest tracks the unstoppable journey of the toad across the continent. Director Mark Lewis (Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, The Natural History of the Chicken) injects his trademark irreverence and humor into the story as he follows a trail of human conflict, bizarre culture and extraordinary close encounters. Filmed with high-resolution 3D technology, Cane Toads is the first Australian digital 3D feature film. Custom designed equipment allows viewers to get up close and personal with these curious creatures like never before. The unique viewing experience is like being immersed in the world of the toad. |
| Mad Max | 1,979 | George Miller | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 6.7 | 4,838 | English | In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. |
| The Gift | 2,015 | Joel Edgerton | Thriller, Mystery, Drama | 6.7 | 3,427 | English | Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin. |
| The Power of the Dog | 2,021 | Jane Campion | Drama, Western | 6.7 | 2,893 | English | A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light. |
| I Am Mother | 2,019 | Grant Sputore | Science Fiction, Thriller | 6.7 | 2,761 | English | A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news. |
| Peter Rabbit | 2,018 | Will Gluck | Animation, Adventure, Family | 6.7 | 1,881 | English | Peter Rabbit's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door. |
| Slow West | 2,015 | John Maclean | Western, Drama, Adventure, Romance | 6.7 | 1,030 | English | In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated. |
| The Loved Ones | 2,010 | Sean Byrne | Horror | 6.7 | 821 | English | When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge. |
| The Son | 2,022 | Florian Zeller | Drama | 6.7 | 546 | English | A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior. |
| The Little Death | 2,014 | Josh Lawson | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 519 | English | A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies. |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | 1,982 | Peter Weir | Romance, Drama | 6.7 | 349 | English | A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer. |
| Primitive War | 2,025 | Luke Sparke | Action, Horror, War, Science Fiction | 6.7 | 232 | English | During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs. |
| Evil Angels | 1,988 | Fred Schepisi | Drama | 6.7 | 222 | English | Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder. |
| The Dish | 2,000 | Rob Sitch | Comedy, Drama, History | 6.7 | 221 | English | A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon. |
| Long Story Short | 2,021 | Josh Lawson | Romance, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.7 | 215 | English | Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. Trapped in an endless cycle of time jumps, transported another year ahead every few minutes, he is faced with a race against time as his life crumbles around him. |
| The Last Wave | 1,977 | Peter Weir | Drama, Mystery, Fantasy | 6.7 | 209 | English | A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions. |
| Ladies in Black | 2,018 | Bruce Beresford | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 183 | English | Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney. |
| The Children of Huang Shi | 2,008 | Roger Spottiswoode | Drama, War | 6.7 | 164 | Chinese | About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937. |
| Going for Gold | 2,018 | Clay Glen | Drama, Family | 6.7 | 131 | English | Seventeen year old, Emma joins a high school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer. |
| Before Dawn | 2,024 | Jordon Prince-Wright | War, Drama, History | 6.7 | 87 | English | After leaving his family's sheep farm in the Australian outback, a young man joins his countrymen on the western front of World War I with hopes of helping expedite an end to the bloody conflict. But as war rages on, he is forced to grapple with the brutal realities of trench warfare, including a near-constant battle to keep himself alive—without leaving another man behind. Inspired by the real-life diary entries of local ANZACs, the feature film details the untold story of some of Australia’s greatest military victories. |
| Flirting | 1,991 | John Duigan | Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 80 | English | Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently. |
| Ten Canoes | 2,006 | Rolf de Heer | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 73 | English | A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can slip in and cause havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law. |
| The Sum of Us | 1,994 | Geoff Burton | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 72 | English | A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right." |
| The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1,978 | Fred Schepisi | Crime, Drama, History | 6.7 | 66 | English | 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. |
| Of an Age | 2,023 | Goran Stolevski | Romance, Drama | 6.7 | 65 | English | A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother. |
| Maya the Bee: The Honey Games | 2,018 | Noel Cleary | Comedy, Family, Animation, Adventure | 6.7 | 65 | English | Following an unproductive harvest season, it’s up to Maya and her brave friends to save their hive by competing in a series of games. |
| The Panama Papers | 2,018 | Alex Winter | Documentary, Crime | 6.7 | 63 | English | A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story. |
| Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks | 2,019 | Serge Ou | Documentary, History | 6.7 | 58 | English | The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema. |
| Food Matters | 2,010 | James Colquhoun | Documentary | 6.7 | 49 | English | With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally. |
| 2040 | 2,019 | Damon Gameau | Documentary | 6.7 | 47 | English | A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.” |
| Swimming Upstream | 2,003 | Russell Mulcahy | Drama | 6.7 | 45 | English | A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own demons. |
| Jack Irish: Black Tide | 2,012 | Jeffrey Walker | Crime, Drama, TV Movie | 6.7 | 40 | English | Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading photo on the pubs football wall of fame. So when Des Connors, the last link to his dad, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is more than happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason... As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide, and his friends are people with yet darker and even more deadly secrets. |
| Monster | 2,005 | Jennifer Kent | Horror, Thriller | 6.7 | 39 | English | A mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. |
| Uncle | 1,997 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Drama | 6.7 | 34 | English | A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his beloved uncle. |
| Combat Wombat | 2,020 | Ricard Cussó | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6.7 | 30 | English | Maggie Diggins, a wombat turned Wonder Woman, unintentionally becomes the city's superhero after she begrudgingly saves a rookie superhero sugar glider from certain doom. |
| Time Trap | 2,014 | Michael Shanks | Comedy, Adventure, Science Fiction | 6.7 | 26 | English | After losing control of his engines, bumbling spaceman Fripp finds himself at the mercy of his spaceship. A thrilling descent through an asteroid belt ensues, after which he finds himself marooned on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Without a working spacecraft, the interstellar time-traveler must dip into the dead planet’s history in order to find a way home. |
| Streamline | 2,021 | Tyson Wade Johnston | Drama | 6.7 | 25 | English | A prodigious 15-year-old swimmer with the world at his feet self-destructs after his father is released from prison. Inside of the pool, he lives a life of rigorous perfectionism and outside of it, his existence is lonely and hollow. |
| Oranges | 2,004 | Kristian Pithie | Romance, Drama | 6.7 | 25 | English | Two boys are talking after a bicycle accident. The older is bragging about his experience with girls, but is that just a boast? |
| Housekeeping for Beginners | 2,024 | Goran Stolevski | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 23 | MK | Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family's struggle to stay together. |
| Miso Hungry | 2,015 | Tim Delmastro | Documentary | 6.7 | 20 | English | Imagine eating nothing but traditional, authentic Japanese cooking for 12 weeks. What sort of health benefits would this kind of diet have on one's body? In a dieting experiment similar to Supersize Me, but towards improving health, award-winning actor and comedian Craig Anderson does just this. Through a series of entertaining and educational scenarios filled with culinary secrets and cultural chaos, Craig investigates how the traditional Japanese diet, along with their active lifestyles, results in the Japanese population being the healthiest and longest living people on the planet. Miso Hungry is a light-hearted documentary about one man's journey to find a simple, painless path towards a healthier life. |
| Virtual Nightmare | 2,000 | Michael Pattinson | Science Fiction, TV Movie | 6.7 | 18 | English | Advertising executive Dale Hunter (Michael Muheny) works at the agency Arora. But after a car accident, his life changed abruptly. He has nightmares at night and by day he suffers from hallucinations. The world looks like from a computer. Numbers and names adhere to the objects. A doctor can not help him and the hallucinations are getting worse. Librarian Wendy seems to be the only person he can trust. Together they try to find out the truth. |
| Shayda | 2,023 | Noora Niasari | Drama | 6.7 | 16 | Persian | Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran. |
| Blessed | 2,009 | Ana Kokkinos | Drama | 6.7 | 16 | English | Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home. |
| Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story | 2,001 | Nadia Tass | Drama, Family, TV Movie | 6.7 | 13 | English | As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. |
| Jirga | 2,018 | Benjamin Gilmour | Drama, War | 6.7 | 12 | English | Made under extraordinary, and extremely dangerous, conditions, Jirga tells the emotional story of a former Australian soldier who travels to Afghanistan to seek forgiveness. |
| GAGA Live at Sydney Monster Hall | 2,011 | Bernie Zelvis | Music | 6.7 | 12 | English | Lady Gaga takes over Sydney in a one night only exclusive event promoting her second studio album 'Born This Way' alongside her biggest hits. |
| Australia | 2,008 | Baz Luhrmann | Adventure, Romance, Drama | 6.6 | 2,408 | English | Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand. |
| Jungle | 2,017 | Greg McLean | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 | 2,088 | English | In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival. |
| Dead Calm | 1,989 | Phillip Noyce | Thriller, Horror | 6.6 | 806 | English | An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems. |
| The Hunter | 2,011 | Daniel Nettheim | Drama, Thriller, Adventure | 6.6 | 693 | English | Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger. |
| The Secret of Moonacre | 2,009 | Gábor Csupó | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance | 6.6 | 483 | English | When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor. |
| Bright Star | 2,009 | Jane Campion | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 475 | English | In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife. |
| The Secret | 2,006 | Drew Heriot | Documentary | 6.6 | 378 | English | Interviews with leading authors, philosophers and scientists, with an in-depth discussion of the Law of Attraction. The audience is shown how they can learn and use 'The Secret' in their everyday lives. |
| Strictly Ballroom | 1,992 | Baz Luhrmann | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 369 | English | Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed? |
| You Won't Be Alone | 2,022 | Goran Stolevski | Horror, Drama | 6.6 | 349 | MK | In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others. |
| Sweet Country | 2,018 | Warwick Thornton | Western, Crime, Thriller, Drama | 6.6 | 204 | English | In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse. |
| Boys in the Trees | 2,016 | Nicholas Verso | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.6 | 159 | English | On Halloween 1997, two estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears. |
| Two Hands | 1,999 | Gregor Jordan | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 | 149 | English | 19-year-old Jimmy is just scraping by in the red-light district of Sydney. When local crime lord Pando offers him a shot at working for his syndicate, Jimmy jumps at the chance to deliver a costly package. But, when Jimmy gets jacked by a couple of kids, he's indebted to the dangerous gangster for $10,000. Running out of time, he schemes to rob a bank to save himself and a beautiful girl he desires from a gruesome demise. |
| 2:37 | 2,006 | Murali K. Thalluri | Drama | 6.6 | 145 | English | A contemporary, ensemble drama that tells the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragedy will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. |
| Mao’s Last Dancer | 2,009 | Bruce Beresford | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 119 | English | At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet. |
| Back of the Net | 2,019 | Louise Alston | Drama, Family | 6.6 | 110 | English | A new student at a soccer academy is determined to beat her rival's team in the national tournament. |
| Tanna | 2,015 | Bentley Dean | Romance, Drama | 6.6 | 108 | English | In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom. |
| Proof | 1,991 | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 107 | English | Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him. |
| Maya the Bee: The Golden Orb | 2,021 | Noel Cleary | Adventure, Animation, Family | 6.6 | 102 | English | When Maya, a headstrong little bee, and her best friend Willy, rescue an ant princess, they find themselves in the middle of an epic bug battle that will take them to strange new worlds and test their friendship to its limits. |
| ABBA: The Movie | 1,977 | Lasse Hallström | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.6 | 81 | English | A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Australia. |
| Where Is Anne Frank | 2,021 | Ari Folman | Animation, Drama, Family, History | 6.6 | 78 | English | The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe. While the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy. |
| Brothers' Nest | 2,018 | Clayton Jacobson | Comedy, Crime | 6.6 | 65 | English | With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late. |
| The Rocket | 2,013 | Kim Mordaunt | Drama | 6.6 | 64 | LO | Laos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition. |
| The Man from Hong Kong | 1,975 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Action, Crime, Adventure, Drama | 6.6 | 55 | English | Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way. |
| Machete Maidens Unleashed! | 2,010 | Mark Hartley | Documentary | 6.6 | 51 | English | In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary. |
| Balibo | 2,009 | Robert Connolly | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 | 44 | English | As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifie |
| The Coming War on China | 2,016 | John Pilger | Documentary | 6.6 | 29 | English | The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance. |
| A Boy Called Sailboat | 2,018 | Cameron Nugent | Drama, Comedy, Family | 6.6 | 27 | English | A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a "little guitar", Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told. |
| Hotel Coolgardie | 2,016 | Pete Gleeson | Documentary | 6.6 | 25 | English | Fresh off the plane and in need of money, two Finnish backpackers find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” sent to work as barmaids at the only pub in a remote Australian mining town. |
| Riot | 2,018 | Jeffrey Walker | Drama, TV Movie | 6.6 | 20 | English | A look at the 1970s Gay Rights Movement in Australia through the eyes of dedicated activist Lance Gowland. As Lance deals with his sexuality, he must also juggle work, family and relationships. |
| Lonesome | 2,023 | Craig Boreham | Drama | 6.6 | 18 | English | Casey, a country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in big city Sydney. When he meets city lad Tib both men find something they have been missing but neither of them knows quite how to negotiate it. |
| Kangaroo | 2,025 | Kate Woods | Family, Comedy | 6.6 | 16 | English | Ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, becomes stranded in an Outback town outside Alice Springs. There, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote but stunning Outback community—an endeavour that proves to be life-changing for them both. |
| Solarmax | 2,000 | John Weiley | Documentary | 6.6 | 16 | English | Solarmax is a 40-minute giant-screen documentary that tells the story of humankind's struggle to understand the sun. The film will take audiences on an incredible voyage from pre-history to the leading edge of today's contemporary solar science. |
| Reach | 2,009 | Luke Randall | Animation, Drama | 6.6 | 15 | English | A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable. |
| Birthday Boy | 2,004 | Sejong Park | Animation | 6.6 | 11 | Korean | Korean War, 1951 Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life. |
| The Babadook | 2,014 | Jennifer Kent | Drama, Horror | 6.5 | 6,318 | English | A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home. |
| Return to Never Land | 2,002 | Robin Budd | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Family | 6.5 | 2,378 | English | In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Peter Pan. |
| Aquamarine | 2,006 | Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum | Fantasy, Romance, Family, Comedy | 6.5 | 1,559 | English | Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard. |
| The Lego Ninjago Movie | 2,017 | Charlie Bean | Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation, Action | 6.5 | 1,143 | English | Six young ninjas are tasked with defending their island home of Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors using their skill and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’re ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy....high school. |
| Ricky Stanicky | 2,024 | Peter Farrelly | Comedy | 6.5 | 749 | English | When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, the trio still uses the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. But when their spouses and partners get suspicious and demand to finally meet the fabled Mr. Stanicky, the guilty trio decide to hire a washed-up actor and raunchy celebrity impersonator to bring him to life. |
| These Final Hours | 2,014 | Zak Hilditch | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 598 | English | What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption. |
| Romper Stomper | 1,992 | Geoffrey Wright | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 547 | English | Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? |
| Dangerous Animals | 2,025 | Sean Byrne | Horror, Thriller | 6.5 | 461 | English | A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. |
| Frequencies | 2,013 | Darren Paul Fisher | Romance, Science Fiction, Mystery | 6.5 | 430 | English | The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'. |
| Bloody Hell | 2,020 | Alister Grierson | Horror, Comedy, Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 | 271 | English | A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience. |
| The Portable Door | 2,023 | Jeffrey Walker | Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy | 6.5 | 261 | English | Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices. |
| Roadgames | 1,981 | Richard Franklin | Mystery, Thriller, Horror | 6.5 | 192 | English | A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway. |
| LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace | 2,011 | David Scott | Family, Animation, Science Fiction | 6.5 | 156 | English | Master Yoda must go retrieve secret battle plans. However, things become a little more complicated when a class of younglings join the mission. |
| Spider | 2,007 | Nash Edgerton | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 131 | English | A young man tries to make things right again in his relationship after he and his girlfriend get in a fight. |
| Convict | 2,014 | David Field | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.5 | 120 | English | Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance. |
| Black Robe | 1,991 | Bruce Beresford | Adventure, Drama, History | 6.5 | 114 | English | Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion. |
| Red Dog: True Blue | 2,016 | Kriv Stenders | Family, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 101 | English | When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever. |
| Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism | 2,023 | Nick Kozakis | Horror | 6.5 | 95 | English | Lara is a woman tormented, torn between science and faith. Pushed by her husband to seek treatment from a congregation of zealots, a ruthless exorcist will try to save her soul by putting an innocent woman through hell. |
| Breath | 2,017 | Simon Baker | Drama | 6.5 | 88 | English | A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando. |
| Falling for Figaro | 2,021 | Ben Lewin | Romance, Comedy, Music | 6.5 | 60 | English | A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. |
| Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) | 2,020 | Monica Zanetti | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 56 | English | School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she's been brought back from the dead to be Ellie's fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the '80s. |
| Jack Irish: Bad Debts | 2,012 | Jeffrey Walker | Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie | 6.5 | 56 | English | Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him. |
| Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage | 1,986 | Julian Amyes | Mystery, Drama, Crime, TV Movie | 6.5 | 52 | English | Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple. |
| Witches of Blackwood | 2,020 | Kate Whitbread | Thriller, Horror | 6.5 | 51 | English | When Claire returns to her hometown, she discovers her former home riddled with terrifying witchcraft, the town in the grip of fear, decay, and madness. |
| The Cup | 1,999 | Khyentse Norbu | Comedy | 6.5 | 44 | BO | While the World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery in India. The atmosphere of serene contemplation is soon disrupted by soccer fever, as the two students desperately seek a TV to watch the final. |
| Malcolm | 1,986 | Nadia Tass | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.5 | 44 | English | 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. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime. |
| Blueback | 2,022 | Robert Connolly | Family, Drama, Adventure | 6.5 | 41 | English | Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world. |
| Embrace | 2,016 | Taryn Brumfitt | Documentary | 6.5 | 40 | English | Embrace follows body image activist Taryn Brumfitt's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies. |
| June Again | 2,021 | J.J. Winlove | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 37 | English | A woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame. |
| The Devil's Playground | 1,977 | Fred Schepisi | Drama | 6.5 | 33 | English | A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions. |
| The Last Time I Saw Richard | 2,013 | Nicholas Verso | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 | 29 | English | Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills. |
| When Love Springs | 2,023 | Jo-Anne Brechin | TV Movie, Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 27 | English | A talented PR professional, Rory, enlists the manager of a Bed & Breakfast, Noah, to pretend to be her boyfriend in front of her ex while she helps save his failing family business. |
| Love the Beast | 2,009 | Eric Bana | Action, Adventure, Documentary | 6.5 | 26 | English | What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? Eric Bana is such a star! |
| Hercules Returns | 1,993 | David Parker | Comedy | 6.5 | 24 | English | When Brad gets fired from his job, he goes to reopen an old cinema, he enlists his frends to help him show the last film the cinema aired before it closed... Only they don't know, the film is in Italian. With everyone sitting ready they begin to dub the movie... on the fly! |
| Kidnapped | 2,021 | Vic Sarin | Thriller, Drama, TV Movie | 6.5 | 21 | English | Savannah Duke-Morgan realizes her lifetime dream to bring her husband Brad and her five-year-old daughter Aria back to her birthplace on the Gold Coast of Australia until it turns into her worst nightmare when Aria goes missing from the resort’s Kidz Klub. |
| Top Knot Detective | 2,017 | Aaron McCann | Comedy, Action | 6.5 | 17 | English | In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning roughly Deductive Reasoning Ronin), it was soon known in the West as Top Knot Detective. The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all. |
| All These Creatures | 2,018 | Charles Williams | Drama | 6.5 | 13 | English | An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all. |
| Romance at the Vineyard | 2,023 | Colin Budds | TV Movie, Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 11 | English | Follows Allee, as she meets Ethan, a charismatic Wine Inc. representative who wants to convince Allee's grandparents to sell their family vineyard, and things get complicated as Allee and Ethan get closer but want different outcomes. |
| Storm Surfers | 2,012 | Christopher Nelius | Adventure, Documentary | 6.5 | 11 | English | This pulse-racing real-life adventure follows two of Australia's greatest surf legends on their quest to hunt down and ride the Pacific's biggest and most dangerous waves. With 3D cameras installed on their boards, Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll defy middle age by pushing the limits of what they — and cinema technology — can do. |
| The Video Dating Tape of Desmondo Ray, Aged 33 & 3/4 | 2,013 | Steve Baker | Comedy, Drama, Animation | 6.5 | 10 | English | His name is Desmondo Ray. He enjoys peeing in the rain, altering offensive graffiti, and listening to sad music while having happy thoughts… This is his video dating tape. |
| The Shallows | 2,016 | Jaume Collet-Serra | Horror, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 5,260 | English | While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude. |
| Crocodile Dundee | 1,986 | Peter Faiman | Adventure, Comedy | 6.4 | 2,061 | English | When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat. |
| Cargo | 2,017 | Yolanda Ramke | Drama, Thriller, Horror | 6.4 | 1,821 | English | After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter. |
| The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea | 2,000 | Jim Kammerud | Animation, Adventure, Family, Comedy | 6.4 | 1,766 | English | Set several years after the first film, Ariel and Prince Eric are happily married with a daughter, Melody. In order to protect Melody from the Sea Witch, Morgana, they have not told her about her mermaid heritage. Melody is curious and ventures into the sea, where she meets new friends. But will she become a pawn in Morgana's quest to take control of the ocean from King Triton? |
| Ticket to Paradise | 2,022 | Ol Parker | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 1,363 | English | Divorced couple Georgia and David find themselves on a shared mission: they team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter Lily from making the same mistake they once made 25 years ago. |
| Possessor | 2,020 | Brandon Cronenberg | Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 1,008 | English | Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her. |
| Son of a Gun | 2,014 | Julius Avery | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 | 806 | English | Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price. |
| Wolf Creek 2 | 2,013 | Greg McLean | Horror, Thriller | 6.4 | 703 | English | Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site's most infamous local, the last man any traveller to the region ever wants to meet—Mick Taylor. As the backpackers flee, Mick pursues them on an epic white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland. |
| An Extremely Goofy Movie | 2,000 | Douglas McCarthy | Animation, Family, Comedy | 6.4 | 679 | English | It's all extreme sports and a life of freedom as Max sets off for college -- but Goofy misses Max so much he loses his job and goes to finish college alongside Max and his friends. But as Goofy tries to get closer to Max, both must go to the extreme to learn how to live their own lives together. |
| FernGully: The Last Rainforest | 1,992 | Bill Kroyer | Family, Fantasy, Animation, Adventure | 6.4 | 618 | English | When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally unleash after chopping down a magic tree. |
| OtherLife | 2,017 | Ben C. Lucas | Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery | 6.4 | 462 | English | Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate. |
| Monsters of Man | 2,020 | Mark Toia | Science Fiction, Action | 6.4 | 392 | English | A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets. |
| X | 2,011 | Jon Hewitt | Action, Thriller, Romance | 6.4 | 314 | English | A veteran call girl and a runaway prostitute witness a murder which sends them on an out-of-control roller coaster ride through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale. |
| Words and Pictures | 2,014 | Fred Schepisi | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 239 | English | An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important. |
| Raising the Bar | 2,017 | Clay Glen | Family, Drama, TV Movie | 6.4 | 178 | English | 16-year-old Kelly quits an elite gymnastics program and moves to Australia. To help out a new friend and show up an old rival she re-enters competitive gymnastics, she'll have to find a way to move forward while making amends with her past. |
| John Doe: Vigilante | 2,014 | Kelly Dolen | Thriller, Crime | 6.4 | 150 | English | When John Doe is convicted of being a vigilante serial killer, a vigilante group named 'Speak for the Dead' emerges in support of John's cause—elevating the debate about justice versus vengeance. |
| The Black Balloon | 2,008 | Elissa Down | Drama | 6.4 | 94 | English | Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in his swim class, Charlie presents any number of obstacles when she drops by their house, when the three of them go for a walk, and during a family birthday dinner. Can Thomas find a way to enter the world of teen romance and still be his brother's keeper, or is Charlie's disability going to prove more than Thomas can handle? |
| Paradise Road | 1,997 | Bruce Beresford | War, Drama, History | 6.4 | 91 | English | A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II. |
| Jasper Jones | 2,017 | Rachel Perkins | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 | 90 | English | Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister. |
| The Wishmas Tree | 2,020 | Ricard Cussó | Animation, Family, Adventure, Action | 6.4 | 82 | English | A young possum's misguided wish for a white Wishmas not only freezes her entire hometown of Sanctuary City, but also threatens the lives of all who live there. Before the magical Wishmas Tree dies, she must undertake a perilous journey into the WILD; battling self-doubt, ghostly predators and ultimately, Extinction itself, to reverse the damage she has caused and save her city. |
| Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | 2,021 | Ricard Cussó | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.4 | 78 | English | When an unbearably adorable, eternally optimistic Quokka named Daisy wants to achieve the impossible – to win the annual ‘World’s Scariest Animal’ championship, she enlists the guidance of a washed-up, former champion, a grouchy Saltwater Crocodile, to help her achieve her dreams and prove that champions can come in all sizes. |
| The Man Who Sued God | 2,001 | Mark Joffe | Comedy | 6.4 | 70 | English | 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. |
| Sahara | 1,995 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Action, Adventure, TV Movie, War | 6.4 | 70 | English | After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well. |
| I Met a Girl | 2,020 | Luke Eve | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 53 | English | An aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to chase after him. |
| Last Ride | 2,009 | Glendyn Ivin | Drama | 6.4 | 49 | English | A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law. |
| Summerfield | 1,977 | Ken Hannam | Drama, Mystery | 6.4 | 47 | English | When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance. |
| 200% Wolf | 2,024 | Alexs Stadermann | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Action, Comedy | 6.4 | 46 | English | When Freddy Lupin's wayward wish transforms him into a werewolf and deposits a mischievous moon sprite on Earth, Freddy must restore the cosmic order before the earth and moon collide. |
| Harlequin | 1,980 | Simon Wincer | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 6.4 | 46 | English | Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events. |
| Love Me | 2,014 | Jonathon Narducci | Documentary | 6.4 | 37 | English | Western men and Ukrainian women embark on an unpredictable and riveting journey in search of love through the modern "mail-order bride" industry. |
| The Rage in Placid Lake | 2,003 | Tony McNamara | Comedy | 6.4 | 34 | English | Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. To his parents' horror, he gets a normal job. |
| Looking for Alibrandi | 2,000 | Kate Woods | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 31 | English | Josie Alibrandi is 17 and doesn't know where she belongs. This year, however, everything is going to change. Josie will face her fears, uncover secrets, and even discover the true identity of her father. |
| Paradise Found | 2,003 | Mario Andreacchio | Drama | 6.4 | 29 | English | Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France. |
| The Boys | 1,998 | Rowan Woods | Drama | 6.4 | 26 | English | Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well. |
| The Sloth Lane | 2,024 | Tania Vincent | Animation, Family | 6.4 | 25 | English | After a terrifying storm destroys their home, a speedy sloth named Laura and her kooky family move to the big city in their rusted old food truck, Gordito, hoping to make their business a success. The family's delicious food catches the eye of a quick-witted cheetah who will stop at nothing to revive her failing fast-food business. |
| Angel Baby | 1,995 | Michael Rymer | Drama, Romance | 6.4 | 22 | English | Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere... |
| High Tide | 1,987 | Gillian Armstrong | Drama | 6.4 | 21 | English | A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death. |
| Sunday Too Far Away | 1,975 | Ken Hannam | Drama | 6.4 | 19 | English | The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion. |
| Stir | 1,980 | Stephen Wallace | Thriller, Action, Drama | 6.4 | 18 | English | Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons. |
| Toomelah | 2,011 | Ivan Sen | Drama, Crime | 6.4 | 15 | English | In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town. |
| Black Button | 2,007 | Lucas Crandles | Science Fiction | 6.4 | 13 | English | Mr Roberts finds himself awoken inexplicably in a white room. A man sits before him at a desk and in between them stands a black button. If Mr Roberts pushes it, he will receive a briefcase filled with millions of dollars. Or he can take the key to the door and leave penniless. The catch? Pushing the button will result in the death of a human being. What would you do? |
| Lasseter's Bones | 2,012 | Luke Walker | Documentary | 6.4 | 12 | English | Australia’s El Dorado was found by Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter – if we believe his claims in the late 1800s to have discovered a vast gold deposit in central Australia. This mysterious place has never again been found, and many believe it doesn’t exist. But one thing is certain: Lasseter was a larger-than-life character. Seen by some as an eccentric conman, he was ridiculed for his extravagant assertions, which he held until his tragic end. But Lasseter remains the embodiment of the Australian folk hero, who lived a life full of incredible adventures, tall tales and outrageous claims – including a possible faked death and his insistence that he designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge. |
| Mercy Road | 2,023 | John Curran | Thriller, Mystery | 6.4 | 11 | English | Racing against time to save his kidnapped daughter, a driver receives chilling phone calls from a man claiming to know her location. As he follows the increasingly unhinged instructions, he learns exactly how far he's willing to go to save his child. |
| Babe | 1,995 | Chris Noonan | Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Family | 6.3 | 3,063 | English | Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be. |
| Killer Elite | 2,011 | Gary McKendry | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.3 | 2,268 | English | Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey. |
| Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure | 2,001 | Darrell Rooney | Animation, Family, Romance, Adventure | 6.3 | 1,303 | English | Lady and Tramp's mischievous pup, Scamp, gets fed up with rules and restrictions imposed on him by life in a family, and longs for a wild and free lifestyle. He runs away from home and into the streets where he joins a pack of stray dogs known as the "Junkyard Dogs." Buster, the pack's leader, takes an instant disliking to the "house-dog" and considers him a rival. Angel, a junkyard pup Scamp's age, longs for the safety and comfort of life in a family and the two become instant companions. Will Scamp choose the wild and free life of a stray or the unconditional love of his family? |
| The Rover | 2,014 | David Michôd | Crime, Drama | 6.3 | 1,020 | English | Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his only possession. When a gang steals it, Eric comes across the injured Rey, left behind by the car thieves. The pair form an unlikely and uneasy alliance. |
| Rogue | 2,007 | Greg McLean | Action, Horror, Thriller | 6.3 | 747 | English | When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds. |
| Nights in Rodanthe | 2,008 | George C. Wolfe | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 613 | English | Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn where she is staying. |
| Mary Magdalene | 2,018 | Garth Davis | Drama | 6.3 | 567 | English | In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher named Jesus. |
| Snowtown | 2,011 | Justin Kurzel | Crime, Drama | 6.3 | 342 | English | Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder. |
| Force of Nature: The Dry 2 | 2,024 | Robert Connolly | Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 | 253 | English | When five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head deep into the Victorian mountain ranges to investigate in the hopes of finding their whistle-blowing informant, Alice Russell, alive. |
| The Boys Are Back | 2,009 | Scott Hicks | Drama | 6.3 | 188 | English | When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting. |
| The Mule | 2,014 | Tony Mahony | Crime, Comedy, Thriller | 6.3 | 143 | English | In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally. |
| The Daughter | 2,015 | Simon Stone | Drama | 6.3 | 90 | English | In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart. |
| Rams | 2,020 | Jeremy Sims | Drama, Comedy | 6.3 | 83 | English | In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley—so the brothers must work together to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together. |
| Peter Pan | 1,988 | Richard Trueblood | Action, Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 82 | English | This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. Determined never to become an adult, Peter stays forever young in a magical word called Neverland, where he leads a band of mischevious kids called the Lost Boys. Unfortunately, Neverland's chief other inhabitant is a pirate named Captain Hook, who would like nothing more than to put a permanent end to Peter's fun. |
| High Ground | 2,021 | Stephen Johnson | Thriller, Action, Drama, Western | 6.3 | 80 | English | In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other. |
| Oscar and Lucinda | 1,997 | Gillian Armstrong | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 78 | English | After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies. |
| Japanese Story | 2,003 | Sue Brooks | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 77 | English | Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth. |
| The Secret Kingdom | 2,023 | Matt Drummond | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 6.3 | 76 | English | Verity and Peter’s trip to the old family mansion takes a turn when the floor of their room suddenly gives way and they fall into an underground ch... |
| The Suicide Theory | 2,014 | Dru Brown | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 75 | English | Steven Ray was never quite normal. But when tragedy strikes in the form of a deadly hit-and-run incident at a city cross walk, his violent and bizarre behavior becomes uncontrollable. One night, as Steven plots his next murder, he meets Percival, whose unsuccessful attempt at suicide not only interferes with Stevens plans, but the chance encounter also introduces the two into each others sad and lonely lives. Percival believes hes cursed after miraculously surviving each suicide attempt and concludes fate brought he and Steven together. So he hires Steven to assist him in suicide. Steven does not believe in fate and thinks Percival is desperate and delusional. But he accepts the offer. Easy money. After Percival continues to miraculously survive each attempt on his life, Steven starts to believe. He tries to help Percival figure out ways to break the curse. And in the process, they form an unlikely friendship through the common bond of tragedy. |
| The Plumber | 1,979 | Peter Weir | TV Movie, Thriller, Comedy, Horror | 6.3 | 61 | English | A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom. |
| Underground: The Julian Assange Story | 2,012 | Robert Connolly | Drama | 6.3 | 51 | English | In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security. |
| Bootmen | 2,000 | Dein Perry | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.3 | 47 | English | Sean Odkin loves to dance—much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love, he goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again—dancing. |
| Celia | 1,989 | Ann Turner | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.3 | 45 | English | In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies. |
| How to Please a Woman | 2,022 | Renée Webster | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 42 | English | When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself. |
| Gettin' Square | 2,003 | Jonathan Teplitzky | Comedy, Thriller, Crime | 6.3 | 41 | English | Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought. |
| I Love Sarah Jane | 2,008 | Spencer Susser | Horror | 6.3 | 36 | English | Ah, young love. The air seems clearer. The sun seems brighter. There's a spring in the step. Too bad about the zombie apocalypse. |
| The Goddess of 1967 | 2,000 | Clara Law | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 6.3 | 33 | English | A rich, young businessman travels to Australia with the intention of buying a 1967 Citroën DS. Once he arrives, things do not go to plan, and he must drive the DS into the outback alongside a blind young woman in order to track down its seller. |
| Dating the Enemy | 1,996 | Megan Simpson Huberman | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 6.3 | 32 | English | Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their first anniversary, under a full moon, a frustrated Tash declares her wish that they could swap lives. The next morning, Brett and Tash awaken to find Tash's wish has come true. Forced to confront the unfamiliar sensations of their "new" bodies, both must navigate strange new experiences with friends and co-workers. |
| Down Under | 2,016 | Abe Forsythe | Comedy | 6.3 | 30 | English | A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide. |
| Sisters of War | 2,010 | Brendan Maher | TV Movie, Drama, War, History | 6.3 | 27 | English | An army nurse and a Catholic nun find their friendship and beliefs tested when Japanese forces arrive in Papua New Guinea. |
| Red Obsession | 2,013 | David Roach | Documentary, History | 6.3 | 26 | English | France’s Bordeaux region has long commanded respect for its coveted wine, but shifts in the global marketplace mean that a new, voracious consumer base in China is buying up this finite product. Bordeaux both struggles with and courts the spike in demand, sending prices skyrocketing. Narrated by Russell Crowe, Red Obsession is a fascinating look at our changing international economy and how an obsession in Shanghai affects the most illustrious vineyards in France. |
| Bliss | 1,985 | Ray Lawrence | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 20 | English | An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera. |
| TKG: The Kids of Grove | 2,020 | Damien Giglietta | Crime, Thriller | 6.3 | 18 | English | A group of office employees find themselves in a fight for survival against a ruthless local gang after a long week of work. |
| Miracle Fish | 2,010 | Luke Doolan | Drama, Mystery | 6.3 | 18 | English | 8 year old Joe has a Birthday he will never forget. After friends bully him, he sneaks off to the sick bay, wishing everyone in the world would go away. He wakes up to find his dream may have become a reality. |
| The Jammed | 2,007 | Dee McLachlan | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 18 | English | A young Australian woman reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter and becomes involved in human trafficking and the sex slave trade. |
| Beneath Clouds | 2,002 | Ivan Sen | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 18 | English | The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport. To Lena, Vaughn represents the life she is running away from. To Vaughn, Lena embodies the society that has rejected him. And for a very short amount of time, they experience a rare true happiness together. |
| The Mystery of a Hansom Cab | 2,012 | Shawn Seet | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Drama | 6.3 | 17 | English | Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through the young city, still flush from its gold-rush boom. |
| Porcelain War | 2,024 | Slava Leontyev | Documentary | 6.3 | 16 | English | Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living. |
| H Is for Happiness | 2,021 | John Sheedy | Family | 6.3 | 14 | English | A twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the strange new boy at school, and sets out to mend her broken family – whatever it takes. |
| Don't Tell | 2,017 | Tori Garrett | Drama | 6.3 | 12 | English | Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together. |
| Love's Brother | 2,004 | Jan Sardi | Romance | 6.3 | 12 | English | Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other. |
| The Cost | 2,023 | Matthew Holmes | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 11 | English | Intent on dispensing their own brutal form of justice, two ordinary men abduct a felon who committed a horrific crime many years before. |
| Love and Penguins | 2,022 | Christine Luby | TV Movie, Comedy, Romance | 6.3 | 10 | English | As the Compliance and Outreach Manager for The Animal Discovery Institute, a non-profit animal rights organization headquartered in San Diego, Tilly Monterey finally gets a chance to lead the charge on the company's next project: an Australian penguin sanctuary in dire need of some financial assistance. |
| Backyard Ashes | 2,013 | Mark Grentell | Comedy | 6.3 | 10 | English | Dougie Waters loves nothing more than a weekend barbie and cricket match with his mates. But his paradise on earth is destroyed when his best mate and neighbour Norm is forced to leave town and their new boss, a pompous English administrator called Edward Lords, moves in. The animosity between the two men peaks during one fateful backyard cricket match when Dougie hits a ball that accidentally stuns Edward's prize winning cat, Dexter. The cat falls into the roaring BBQ and is instantly incinerated, leaving only ashes. Dougie's son captures footage of the unfortunate event on camera and it is uploaded onto YouTube where the video instantly goes viral! The idea of a backyard cricketing challenge is hatched, with the winner keeping the ashes of Edward's deceased cat, Dexter. The two teams battle it out in the greatest game of backyard cricket ever for the Backyard Ashes. |
| Careless Love | 2,012 | John Duigan | Drama | 6.3 | 10 | English | Linh (Nammi Le) is a Vietnamese Australian university student who secretly starts part-time work as an escort. She develops a close rapport with one of her clients, an enigmatic American art dealer, who books her on a regular basis. For a time she manages to keep her two lives in separate compartments. But when she falls for a fellow student her worlds collide and she must deal with the emotional chaos that follows. |
| Happy Feet | 2,006 | George Miller | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 5,380 | English | Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce! |
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1,985 | George Miller | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction | 6.2 | 3,181 | English | Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children. |
| Happy Feet Two | 2,011 | George Miller | Animation, Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 1,702 | English | Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to bring together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right. |
| Wolf Creek | 2,005 | Greg McLean | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 1,254 | English | Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local. |
| Blacklight | 2,022 | Mark Williams | Action, Thriller, Adventure | 6.2 | 1,229 | English | Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power. |
| Lake Mungo | 2,009 | Joel Anderson | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 660 | English | After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges. |
| Gold | 2,022 | Anthony Hayes | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.2 | 637 | English | In the not-too-distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty, with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools while the other remains with the gold. The man who remains must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate. |
| Walking with Dinosaurs | 2,013 | Neil Nightingale | Animation, Family, Adventure | 6.2 | 512 | English | In a time when dinosaurs rule the Earth, the smallest dinosaur of the herd, a playful Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi, embarks on the biggest adventure of his life. As he tries to find his place in a spectacular world filled with fun-loving friends and a few dangerous foes, Patchi will discover the courage he needs to become the leader of the herd and a hero for the ages. |
| Sting | 2,024 | Kiah Roache-Turner | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 485 | English | After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival. |
| The Stranger | 2,022 | Thomas M. Wright | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.2 | 398 | English | Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. However, neither is who they appear to be, each carry secrets that threaten to ruin them — and in the background, one of the nation's largest police operations is closing in. |
| Angel of Mine | 2,019 | Kim Farrant | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 6.2 | 297 | English | A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive. |
| Occupation: Rainfall | 2,020 | Luke Sparke | Science Fiction, Action | 6.2 | 272 | English | Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind. |
| Seven Swords | 2,005 | Tsui Hark | Action, Drama | 6.2 | 191 | Chinese | In the middle of the 17th century, the Manchus conquered China and founded the Ching dynasty. Due to widespread uprisings against the new rulers, the study and practice of traditional martial arts is forbidden and punishable by death. The unscrupulous leader of a troop of mercenaries takes advantage of this situation to make a fortune with the bounty on his head. |
| Mystery Road | 2,013 | Ivan Sen | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.2 | 178 | English | A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone. |
| Sissy | 2,022 | Kane Senes | Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Drama | 6.2 | 169 | English | Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream, until she runs into her ex-childhood best friend and is invited away on her bachelorette weekend. Suddenly, Sissy finds herself stuck in a remote cabin with her school bully... and a taste for revenge. |
| Fear Below | 2,025 | Matthew Holmes | Horror, Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.2 | 149 | English | A rag-tag team of divers attempting to salvage a sunken car from a river are thwarted by a highly aggressive bull shark. |
| Next of Kin | 1,982 | Tony Williams | Horror, Mystery | 6.2 | 119 | English | After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil. |
| Love Is in the Air | 2,023 | Adrian Powers | Romance, Comedy | 6.2 | 118 | English | A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever. |
| Somersault | 2,004 | Cate Shortland | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 108 | English | Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles. |
| Beast of War | 2,025 | Kiah Roache-Turner | Horror, Thriller, War, Action | 6.2 | 97 | English | When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark. |
| Salaam Namaste | 2,005 | Siddharth Anand | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 96 | Hindi | Salaam Namaste is about two Indians who have left their houses to make a life on their own, and how they meet and how they tackle their own relationships and problems and overcome them themselves without their families |
| Napoleon | 1,995 | Mario Andreacchio | Adventure, Family | 6.2 | 90 | English | The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci. |
| The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | 1,988 | Vincent Ward | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery | 6.2 | 88 | English | Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s. |
| Disgrace | 2,008 | Steve Jacobs | Drama | 6.2 | 84 | English | Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics. |
| On the Beach | 2,000 | Russell Mulcahy | Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 6.2 | 81 | English | The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right. |
| My Brilliant Career | 1,979 | Gillian Armstrong | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 76 | English | A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married. |
| Kenny | 2,006 | Clayton Jacobson | Comedy | 6.2 | 64 | English | From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Kenny tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, culminating in a visit to the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville Tennessee - or as Kenny affectionately calls it, "Poo HQ". |
| Daddy's Little Girl | 2,014 | Chris Sun | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 63 | English | After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest. |
| Head On | 1,998 | Ana Kokkinos | Drama | 6.2 | 60 | English | Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities. |
| Tim | 1,979 | Michael Pate | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 60 | English | Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love. |
| Dirt Music | 2,020 | Gregor Jordan | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 57 | English | Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back. |
| Samson and Delilah | 2,009 | Warwick Thornton | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 57 | English | Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. The two teenagers soon discover that life outside the community can be cruel. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges. |
| On Halloween | 2,020 | Timothy Boyle | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 54 | English | A journalist goes in search of the truth after a series of brutal deaths and disappearances lead back to an urban legend about a serial killing clown that has stalked the woods of Century Park for over a hundred years. |
| Santa's Apprentice | 2,010 | Luc Vinciguerra | Family, Animation | 6.2 | 51 | French | Santa doesn't want to retire, but rules are rules and he must train someone to replace him. The lucky winner, to be chosen from among millions of children, must be named Nicholas, be an orphan and have a pure heart. On the other side of the planet, there is a little boy who is a perfect match, but his lack of self-confidence and fear of heights make him a poor contestant. Will Santa agree to step down, and help his apprentice take his place? |
| Contagion of Fear | 2,023 | Enzo Tedeschi | Science Fiction, Thriller | 6.2 | 47 | English | A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading. |
| Harmony | 2,018 | Corey Pearson | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller, Science Fiction | 6.2 | 42 | English | Born with an energetic power to absorb fear from others, a young woman must find love to balance the fears of her own and fight an ever growing storm of negative energy. |
| I Am Woman | 2,020 | Unjoo Moon | Drama, Music | 6.2 | 41 | English | In 1966, Helen Reddy landed in New York with her three year old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change. |
| Kokoda | 2,006 | Alister Grierson | Action, History, War | 6.2 | 41 | English | A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II. |
| Map of the Human Heart | 1,993 | Vincent Ward | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 6.2 | 36 | English | In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair. |
| Hello | 2,003 | Jonathan Nix | Animation, Music | 6.2 | 35 | English | In a digital world, can analogue find true love? It is the wise old gramaphone who has the answers for a lovesick loner. |
| The Chaperone | 2,019 | Michael Engler | Drama | 6.2 | 33 | English | In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City. |
| The Haunting at Saint Joseph's | 2,023 | Jon Cohen | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 32 | English | An engaged Muslim doctor, her fiancé, and their friends go on a holiday at St. Joseph’s Guesthouse, unaware that it was the site of a sacrifice of an innocent centuries before. They soon come to believe that it's haunted and causing them to go crazy, as their emotions spiral out of control. |
| Cut Snake | 2,015 | Tony Ayres | Thriller | 6.2 | 31 | English | Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is that Sparra says precious little about his past — but that past is about to catch up with him, and wrest control of his present. |
| The Earthling | 1,980 | Peter Collinson | Action, Drama, Adventure | 6.2 | 31 | English | Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing. |
| Passionless Moments | 1,983 | Jane Campion | Drama | 6.2 | 30 | English | A series of the awkward trials of everyday living. |
| In Vitro | 2,025 | Tom McKeith | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller | 6.2 | 25 | English | On an isolated cattle farm, a couple experimenting with biotechnology have their lives upended when they discover a disturbing presence on their property. |
| Unfinished Sky | 2,007 | Peter Duncan | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 23 | English | An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel. |
| The Three Stooges | 2,000 | James Frawley | Comedy, Drama, TV Movie | 6.2 | 19 | English | A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe. |
| Inside | 2,025 | Charles Williams | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 16 | English | After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard, Australia’s most despised criminal, and Warren Murfett, a soon to be paroled inmate. As a paternal triangle grows between them, we see that even the worst of men have a little bit of good inside that will be their undoing. |
| Cocaine Prison | 2,019 | Violeta Ayala | Documentary | 6.2 | 16 | Spanish | From inside Bolivia's craziest prison a cocaine worker, a drug mule and his little sister reveal the countries relationship with cocaine. |
| Love Is Now | 2,014 | Jim Lounsbury | Romance, Drama | 6.2 | 15 | English | Love is Now is the intriguing and mysterious drama chronicling a summer of love for experienced photographer Audrey (Van Der Boom) and aspiring snapper Dean (Farren). Propelled by new love and Audrey's free spirit, the couple embarks on a formative country adventure following the NSW Harvest Trail where they discover significantly more than they ever expected along the way. |
| The Correspondent | 2,025 | Kriv Stenders | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 14 | English | December 2013, in the shadow of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Australian journalist Peter Greste is confronted with the brutal realities of reporting from one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Accused of terrorism, Greste becomes a pawn in the middle of a deadly game full of corrupt officials and ancient rivalries – with only his wits keeping him alive. |
| One Less God | 2,017 | Lliam Worthington | Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 13 | English | In 2008, a band of young Islamic militants from Pakistan lands in Mumbai, their primary target, the iconic Taj Mahal hotel. With Indian forces unable to regain control, for 4 days the guests must battle to survive as the terrorists seek to drive them from hiding. The harrowing events that follow will come to be known as India's 9/11 and one of the most audacious terrorist attacks in history. Yet more than a tale of monsters and men, this is a story of our shared humanity at the dark crossroads to which we have now stumbled. Inspired by true events. |
| The Red Shoes: Next Step | 2,023 | Jesse Ahern | Music, Drama | 6.2 | 11 | English | Sam is a gifted young dancer whose world spirals after an unexpected, life-changing event. Sam walks away from dancing and ballet, but the art form is in her blood, and she can’t resist the temptation to return. Life eventually leads Sam back to her old dance school – but not as a dancer. An old rival, a long-time crush, and her former dance teacher guide Sam back to what she loves most, but ultimately, it’s her own emotions and fears that she must confront to reignite her deep passion for dance. |
| Lucky | 2,005 | Nash Edgerton | Action, Thriller | 6.2 | 11 | English | Lucky finds himself in a bind - and it's going to take more than a Houdini act to get out of this situation. |
| Buckley's Chance | 2,021 | Tim Brown | Drama, Family | 6.2 | 10 | English | A fish-out-of-water story of a young boy Ridley who becomes lost in the harsh Australian outback with nothing but his camcorder and new friend, a wayward Dingo. |
| The Rizzle | 2,018 | Josh Tanner | Horror | 6.2 | 10 | English | A mysterious video on the internet provokes viewers to perform an old, ritualistic dance. |
| Chameleon | 1,998 | Stuart Cooper | Science Fiction, Thriller, TV Movie | 6.2 | 10 | English | A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028. |
| The Back of Beyond | 1,954 | John Heyer | Documentary | 6.2 | 10 | English | This 1954 classic follows an outback mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track. |
| Queen of the Damned | 2,002 | Michael Rymer | Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 6.1 | 1,144 | English | Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music awakens Akasha, the vampire queen, who may not rest until she makes Lestat her new king. |
| Adore | 2,013 | Anne Fontaine | Drama | 6.1 | 1,018 | English | Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. |
| Relic | 2,020 | Natalie Erika James | Horror, Mystery | 6.1 | 808 | English | When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. |
| Tomorrow, When the War Began | 2,010 | Stuart Beattie | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6.1 | 539 | English | Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and family have been imprisoned. When the hostile invaders become alerted to their presence, Ellie and her friends band together to escape -- and strike back against -- this mysterious enemy. |
| Green Card | 1,990 | Peter Weir | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 6.1 | 526 | English | Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves. |
| The Inbetweeners 2 | 2,014 | Damon Beesley | Comedy | 6.1 | 524 | English | Neil, Will and Simon receive an invite from Jay to join him in Australia whilst on his gap year, who promises them it’s ”the sex capital of the world”. With their lives now rather dull compared to their hedonistic school days and legendary lads holiday, it’s an offer they can’t refuse. Once again, they put growing up temporarily on-hold, and embark on a backpacking holiday of a lifetime in an awful car, inspired by Peter Andre’s ‘Mysterious Girl’. Will soon finds himself battling with the lads to do something cultural, whilst they focus their attention on drinking, girls, and annoying fellow travelers. |
| Rip Tide | 2,017 | Rhiannon Bannenberg | Family, Drama | 6.1 | 456 | English | There comes a point in everyone’s life when you have to make a decision about the direction you’re going to take. For newly-18 American fashion model Cora, that time is now. She’s moved to an Australian coastal town to be with her favourite aunt, after a 'fashion faux pas’ back home. |
| Ned Kelly | 2,003 | Gregor Jordan | Action, Adventure, Drama, History | 6.1 | 382 | English | After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared. |
| Hounds of Love | 2,016 | Ben Young | Crime, Drama, Horror | 6.1 | 363 | English | When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive. |
| 100% Wolf | 2,020 | Alexs Stadermann | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure | 6.1 | 331 | English | Freddy Lupin, heir to a proud family line of werewolves, is in for a shock when on his 14th birthday his first 'warfing' goes awry, turning him into a ferocious poodle. The pack elders give Freddy until the next moonrise to prove he has the heart of a wolf, or risk being cast out forever. With the help of an unlikely ally in a streetwise stray named Batty, Freddy must prove he's 100% Wolf. |
| Our Lips Are Sealed | 2,000 | Craig Shapiro | Comedy, Family, Crime | 6.1 | 285 | English | Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this Down Under adventure filled with nonstop Aussie intrigue, laughs and romance. After running afoul of a notorious gangster, Mary-Kate and Ashley take refuge in the FBI Witness Protection Program. Unfortunately, the girls are uncontrollable blabbermouths and they blow their cover in town after town until there's only one hiding place left - Australia. |
| Killing Ground | 2,017 | Damien Power | Mystery, Thriller, Horror | 6.1 | 277 | English | A couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime. |
| Black Site | 2,022 | Sophia Banks | Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.1 | 268 | English | A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences. |
| Transfusion | 2,023 | Matt Nable | Crime, Action, Drama | 6.1 | 264 | English | Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife. He is thrusted into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him. |
| Long Weekend | 1,979 | Colin Eggleston | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 | 190 | English | When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood. |
| Monolith | 2,023 | Matt Vesely | Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller | 6.1 | 187 | English | A desperate young journalist turns to podcasting to salvage her career, but her rush to make headlines leads her to an alien conspiracy. |
| You'll Never Find Me | 2,024 | Indianna Bell | Horror, Thriller | 6.1 | 183 | English | Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a myst... |
| Charlotte Gray | 2,001 | Gillian Armstrong | Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.1 | 182 | English | This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks. |
| The Convert | 2,024 | Lee Tamahori | Drama, Action | 6.1 | 166 | English | Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose. |
| This Little Love of Mine | 2,021 | Christine Luby | Romance, Comedy | 6.1 | 143 | English | Laura Price is a successful San Francisco lawyer on the cusp of promotion – a far cry from her childhood growing up on a tropical island with best friends Chip and Gem. When the firm’s biggest client – Chip’s grandfather – asks Laura to travel to the island and deliver a contract to make Chip his heir, she leaves behind her practice and fiancé Owen to convince her childhood friend to sign a contract that will make him a billionaire. |
| Girl Asleep | 2,015 | Rosemary Myers | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 126 | English | The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen, she can’t bear to leave her childhood; it contains all the things that give her comfort in an incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend, Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise fifteenth birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place—a world that’s weirdly erotic, a little bit violent, and thoroughly ludicrous. Only there can she find herself. |
| Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | 2,020 | Tony Tilse | Drama, Adventure, Mystery | 6.1 | 116 | English | After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe. |
| The Square | 2,008 | Nash Edgerton | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 | 110 | English | Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned. |
| Partisan | 2,015 | Ariel Kleiman | Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 109 | English | On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori. Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community - and how to kill. With the birth of a new baby brother weighing on his mind, Alexander begins to question Gregori’s overpowering influence on the children and their training to become assassins. Threatened by his increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son. With the two set dangerously at odds and the commune’s way of life disintegrating, the residents fear a violent resolution is at hand. |
| Judy & Punch | 2,019 | Mirrah Foulkes | Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime | 6.1 | 75 | English | In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge. |
| Thirst | 1,979 | Rod Hardy | Horror, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 | 64 | English | The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them. |
| Carmen | 2,023 | Benjamin Millepied | Drama | 6.1 | 59 | English | A young and fiercely independent woman, Carmen, is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She survives an illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard. When the border guard and his patrol partner Aidan become embroiled in a deadly standoff, the pair is forced to escape together. |
| Charlie & Boots | 2,009 | Dean Murphy | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 42 | English | After a family tragedy, Charlie and his estranged son, Boots, try to put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northernmost tip of Australia. |
| Cosi | 1,996 | Mark Joffe | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.1 | 40 | English | Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways. |
| Matching Jack | 2,010 | Nadia Tass | Drama | 6.1 | 37 | English | A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules. |
| The Return of Captain Invincible | 1,983 | Philippe Mora | Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Science Fiction | 6.1 | 37 | English | In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Aust... |
| Escape and Evasion | 2,019 | Storm Ashwood | Drama, War | 6.1 | 31 | English | After his men are killed in Burma, a lone soldier returns home in search of solace. Hiding a dark secret and confronted by an unrelenting journalist, he's forced to face the ghosts of his past one last time. |
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