Archive for the ‘Australia’ Category

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Sandra Bullock | Regina King | Enrique Murciano | William Shatner | Ernie Hudson | Heather Burns | Diedrich Bader | Treat Williams | Abraham Benrubi | Nick Offerman | Eileen Brennan | Elisabeth Röhm | Leslie Grossman | Lusia Strus | Molly Gottlieb
Directors: John Pasquin
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The FBI agent Gracie Hart is assigned to promote the FBI, touring with the brutal agent Sam Fuller as her bodyguard. While traveling around the country, her friend and Miss USA is kidnapped with Stan Fields, and Gracie decides to investigate the abduction in Las Vegas by her own and against the direct orders of local chief Collins.

Beautiful Kate (2009)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Beautiful Kate
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Bryan Brown | Robbie Clissold | Josh McFarlane | Ben Mendelsohn | Scott O'Donnell | Maeve Dermody | Rachel Griffiths | Sophie Lowe
Directors: Rachel Ward
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A writer, Ned Kendall, is asked to return to the family home by his sister Sally, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. The family home is in a very remote and isolated area. While back home, Ned starts having memories of his beautiful twin sister and himself when they were children. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family’s past.

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Mao’s Last Dancer
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Suzie Steen | Sam Anderson | Chi Cao | Robin Choi | Laurence Fuller | Bruce Greenwood | Chengwu Guo | Tony Hall | Steven Heathcote | Ferdinand Hoang | Christopher Kirby | Yang Li | Kyle MacLachlan | Ian Meadows | Jack Thompson
Directors: Bruce Beresford
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A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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 fell 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.

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Malibu Shark Attack (2009)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Malibu Shark Attack
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Peta Wilson | Remi Broadway | Joel Amos Byrnes | Warren Christie | Nicholas G. Cooper | Jeff Gannon | Mungo McKay | Evert McQueen | Daniel West | Renee Bowen | Brooke Cullen | Sonya Salomaa | Chelan Simmons
Directors: David Lister
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An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.

The Boys Are Back (2009)

Friday, February 19th, 2010
The Boys Are Back
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Tommy Bastow | Timothy Giessauf | Tim Glanfield | George MacKay | Nicholas McAnulty | Adam Morgan | Clive Owen | Erik Thomson | Julia Blake | Emma Booth | Laura Fraser | Lynda-Maree Gerritsen | Felicity Jurd | Natasha Little | Emma Lung
Directors: Scott Hicks
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Inspired by a true story, THE BOYS ARE BACK is a deeply moving, wryly confessional tale of fatherhood, that intimately evokes both the fragility and wonders of family life. It follows a witty, wisecracking, action-oriented sportswriter (Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe winner CLIVE OWEN) who, in the wake of his wife’s tragic death, finds himself in a sudden, stultifying state of single parenthood. With turbulent emotions swirling just below the surface, Joe Warr throws himself into the only child-rearing philosophy he thinks has a shot at bringing joy back into their lives: “just says yes.” Raising two boys – a curious six year-old (NICHOLAS MCANULTY) and a rebel teen (GEORGE MACKAY) from a previous marriage — in a household devoid of feminine influence, and with an unabashed lack of rules, life becomes exuberant, instinctual, reckless . . . and on the constant verge of disaster. United by unspoken love, conflicted by fierce feelings and in search of a road forward, the three multi-generational boys of the Warr household, father and sons alike, must each find their own way, however tenuous, to grow up. Their story is not just about the transforming power of a family crisis — but the unavoidable grace of everyday life and love that gets them through. Academy Award® nominee Scott Hicks (“Shine”) directs from a screenplay by Allan Cubitt based on the acclaimed 2001 memoir by Simon Carr, The Boys Are Back, an unflinchingly funny and honest recounting of his journey from grieving husband to full-contact fatherhood in the aftermath of profound loss. Shot on location in the stunning countryside of South Australia, the film is produced by Greg Brenman (“Billy Elliot”) and Tim White (“Ned Kelly”). The executive producers are Peter Bennett-Jones and Clive Owen.

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Howling III (1987)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Howling III
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Barry Otto | William Yang | Imogen Annesley | Deby Wightman | Leigh Biolos | Christopher Pate | Max Fairchild | Jerome Patillo | Dagmar Bláhová | Ralph Cotterill | Michael Pate | Frank Thring | Carole Skinner | Jenny Vuletic | Glenda Linscott
Directors: Philippe Mora
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A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?

Death Bet (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Death Bet
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
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Justin, a second-generation immigrant, has just returned home to the town of Hawkersham. It is a port town where illegal immigrants come in search for a new life. Instead they are used as slave labour, sex workers and are forced to fight with their lives at stake in an underground combat rink. All Justin wants is to live a quiet life with his long lost love Leelu. Unfortunately, the ruthless owner of ‘the Cage’ wants her as well. Justin is forced to fight to protect her. They forced him to fight. They should have known better!

Return to Snowy River (1988)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Return to Snowy River
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Tom Burlinson | Brian Dennehy | Nicholas Eadie | Mark Hembrow | Bryan Marshall | Rhys McConnochie | Peter Cummins | Tony Barry | Wyn Roberts | Alec Wilson | Peter Browne | Alan Hopgood | Mark Pennell | Charlie Lovick | Wayne Lovick
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Young Jim Craig returns to the Australian high country, after being away herding the horses he caught and sold, in order to provide a stake for his future. He finds things quite different than when he left: his girlfriend, Jessica Harrison, is being pursued by a rich suitor, Jessica’s father wants him out of her life, and the residents of the high country are being driven out by the wealthier low country ranchers. Jim definitely has his work cut out for him.

Phar Lap (1983)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Phar Lap
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Tom Burlinson | Richard Morgan | Robert Grubb | Simon Wells | Kelvyn Worth | Justin Ridley | Martin Vaughan | Brian Granrott | Steven Bannister | Richard Terrill | Ron Leibman | Ross O'Donovan | Ashley Grenville | Les Foxcroft | Warwick Moss
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Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford. Phar Lap loses his first races, but Telford’s faith in the animal is unshakable. Suddenly the horse becomes a winner, thanks to the love and diligence of stableboy Tommy Woodcock. American-promoter Dave Davis arranges for Phar Lap to be entered in several top races, where his “long shot” status results in heavy losses for the professional gamblers. Just after winning an important race in Mexico, Phar Lap collapses and dies; though the film never comes out and says as much, it is assumed that the horse was “murdered” by the gambling interests.

Ned Kelly (2003)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Ned Kelly
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Heath Ledger | Orlando Bloom | Geoffrey Rush | Naomi Watts | Joel Edgerton | Laurence Kinlan | Phil Barantini | Kerry Condon | Kris McQuade | Emily Browning | Kiri Paramore | Rachel Griffiths | Geoff Morrell | Charles 'Bud' Tingwell | Saskia Burmeister
Directors: Gregor Jordan
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This film is based on “Our Sunshine” by Robert Drew, a novel based on the life of Australian bushranger and icon, Ned Kelly. It tells of his life as a bushranger in north-west Victoria, where he lived all his life. He, his brother Dan, and two other men, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, formed a gang. These four robbed a bank and hijacked an entire town for 3 days. They killed three policemen who were hunting them. They then took over a pub in Glenrowan, where they basically held a party, waiting for a train full of police to derail at a part of the track that they tore up. However a school teacher warned the train, so the gang and all the others in the pub ended up in a shootout with scores of policemen.

‘Crocodile’ Dundee II (1988)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
‘Crocodile’ Dundee II
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Paul Hogan | Linda Kozlowski | John Meillon | Hechter Ubarry | Juan Fernández | Charles S. Dutton | Kenneth Welsh | Dennis Boutsikaris | Ernie Dingo | Jace Alexander | Jose Andrews | Luis Arriaga | Steven Arvanites | Hisayo Asai | Tom Batten
Directors: John Cornell
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Mick and Sue continue where they left off in “‘Crocodile’ Dundee”. New York gangsters are pursuing Sue, so for her safety, Mick takes her back to Oz. When the gangsters follow them, Mick demonstrates his outback skills once more.

Flipper & Lopaka: The Secret Weapon (1999)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Flipper & Lopaka: The Secret Weapon
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
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House of Wax (2005)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
House of Wax
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Elisha Cuthbert | Chad Michael Murray | Brian Van Holt | Paris Hilton | Jared Padalecki | Jon Abrahams | Robert Ri'chard | Dragicia Debert | Thomas Adamson | Murray Smith | Sam Harkess
Directors: Jaume Collet-Serra
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Carly Jones (Elisha Curtberth), her bad boy brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray), her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki), and her friends Paige (Paris Hilton) and her boyfriend Blake (Robert Richard) and Dalton (Jon Abrahams) travel to another city to watch an important game. They decide to camp in a field halfway and proceed their journey on the next day. However, the fan belt of Wade’s car breaks and he stays with Carly to buy a new one in a close town, where there is a house of wax. When they arrive in the place, they realize that the place is a ghost town, and two deranged former Siamese brothers have transformed people in wax statues.

Love’s Brother (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Love’s Brother
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Giovanni Ribisi | Adam Garcia | Joe Petruzzi | Rodney Afif | Bruno Lucia | Mario Di Ienno | Mark Sellito | Dina Panozzo | John Bluthal | Silvia De Santis | Barry Otto | Reg Mombassa | Osvaldo Maione | Eleanor Bron | Anna Burgess
Directors: Jan Sardi
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Despairing of ever finding love, the insecure Angelo uses a photo of his handsome brother Gino to convince a beautiful Italian girl across the sea to marry him. Gino is delighted for Angelo, until he finds out what happened. To complicate matters further, when Angelo introduces his brother to Rosetta it’s love at first sight

Lightning Jack (1994)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Lightning Jack
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Beverly D'Angelo | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Pat Hingle | Paul Hogan | Kamala Dawson
Directors: Simon Wincer
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The Crop (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Crop, The
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: George Elliot | Holly Brisley | Rhys Muldoon
Directors: Scott Patterson
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The Crop, set in the early ’80s, is about a larrikin nightclub owner, Ronnie (Blade) Gillette, and his barmaid girlfriend Geraldine. Two months after random breath testing has been introduced, Blade realises he’s going broke. Afraid of driving under the influence, his customers are not buying his grog-they’re going out to the carpark to smoke dope. Like any good businessman, Blade decides he needs a strategy. He decides to grow some dope as a way out of his financial hole. Diversify and expand-beauty!

The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, The
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Moira Kelly | Neve Campbell | Liz Callaway | Michelle Horn | Ashley Edner | Charity Sanoy | Suzanne Pleshette | Andy Dick | Ryan O'Donohue | Jason Marsden | Gene Miller | Lacey Chabert | Crysta Macalush | Jennifer Lien
Directors: Rob LaDuca
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Simba and Nala have a daughter, Kiara. Timon and Pumbaa are assigned to be her babysitters, but she easily escapes their care and ventures into the forbidden lands. There she meets a lion cub named Kovu and they become friends. What she and her parents do not know is that Kovu is the son of Zira – a banished follower of the now-dead Scar. She plans to raise Kovu to overthrow Simba and become the king of the Pride Lands. This tests not only Kiara and Kovu’s relationship as they mature, but Simba’s relationship with his daughter.

Russian Doll (2001)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Russian Doll
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: David Wenham | | ??????? ???????? | | |
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Harvey (Hugo Weaving), a self-doubting private investigator, plans to marry his girlfriend until he is hired to solve an adultery case and discovers the adulterer is cheating with his fiancée. Lost and dejected, Harvey quits his job and wallows in booze and the occasional odd blind date. Meanwhile, Katia (Natalia Novikova), a Jewish woman from St. Petersburg, arrives in Sydney after answering an ad from an international matchmaking agency. But instead of love, she finds her prospective groom dead on arrival. Stranded in a foreign city with no one to turn to, Katia meets Ethan (David Wenham), a married man and Harvey’s best friend. Ethan is soon scheming to figure out a way to keep Katia in the country without his wife Miriam (Rebecca Frith) discovering the affair. Ethan comes up with the perfect solution: he offers Harvey enough money to start writing the novel he has always dreamed of, if he agrees to marry Katia. Harvey is appalled by the idea. Ethan’s marriage had been his only example that love can faithfully exist. However, since he needs the money to get started on the book, he reluctantly agrees to let Katia move in. But soon this “marriage of convenience” is anything but, as Miriam learns about the upcoming nuptials and is so pleased that her husband’s best friend has finally found someone, she insists on turning the wedding into a grand affair. Inevitably, Ethan and Harvey’s friendship is tested and hidden emotions are revealed between Harvey and Katia. Amid all the chaos of planning the wedding, every one is left to wonder, is this any way to find true love?

Triangle (2009)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Triangle
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Michael Dorman | Liam Hemsworth | Joshua McIvor | Henry Nixon | Rachael Carpani | Melissa George | Emma Lung
Directors: Christopher Smith
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When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realized when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced she’s been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone… Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.

The Piano (1993)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Piano, The
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | France | New Zealand
Actors: Harvey Keitel | Holly Hunter | Anna Paquin | Sam Neill | Peter Dennett | Tungia Baker
Directors: Jane Campion
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It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand’s South Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation.