The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
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The shy son of an aging comedienne tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend, and his mother's second chance at fame.
Perched on the edge of the continental shelf, 300km from the Australian mainland lies Scott Reef. This ancient coral atoll, isolated for millions of years from other reef systems and mainland influences, has developed its own sub populations of unique species. Formed more than 15 million years ago Scott Reef is home to more than 1200 species including endangered seas snakes, green turtles and spectacular corals. Endangered pygmy whales and other rare cetaceans stop at Scott Reef on their annual migrations to feed on the abundant krill. It is one of only a few spots along the west coast of Australia where krill can be found in sufficient quantities to replenish the needs of these large creatures. But Scott Reef is under threat.
Set in the Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, this love story explores how two teens navigate their mutual feelings while maintaining cultural boundaries and kinship.
The damning files which expose the evil of American billionaire and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Tara Brown investigates.
Two estranged brothers come together and discover old family secrets after inheriting their grandfather's property. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by a creature lurking in the shadows.
A happy, unsuspecting couple, Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic), buy a house in what appears to be a quiet, friendly neighbourhood. Settling in well, they make friends with a nice family on one side and soon meet a more interesting family on the other side. But interesting soon becomes loud and loud soon becomes intolerable. When the intolerable becomes violent and the police are powerless, Max and Therese attempt to take matters into their own hands.
A vendetta between two Corsican families is the background to Alexandre Dumas' story of the strange bond between twin brothers, who are separated at birth.
This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
The Lady Bone Demon is close to complete her final plan to achieve her destiny! With the heroes scattered, things look grim for MK and his friends. It's up to him to reunite the team and take the fight back to the Lady Bone Demon. With the fate of the world in the balance, the heroes will need to embrace their destiny if they're going to stand a chance to save the universe!
A saucy comedy treat from the vaults that stars cast members from "Blankety Blanks", "The Celebrity Game" and "No 96" as a group of misfits attempting to run a holiday resort. The adventures of various guests and staff at Sea Island Resort in Queensland. It is run by Mr Blimer with the help of John Bright. Blimer tries to seduce his assistant; a waitress, Joy, is constantly harassed by the guests but is working her own agenda; employee Mike likes Maryanne but winds up sleeping with the seemingly proper Miss Farrow; Arthur Pickering, is a government minister; a reverend, Parslow, is actually a thief.
‘Sunshine Sally’ is a perceptive and professional portrayal of the life-style and characters of the working-class area of Sydney known as the ‘Loo (Woolloomooloo) and the luxurious houses and spacious gardens of the rich Sydney area of Potts Point. Following the story of the spirited Sally who works in a sweatshop, the ‘White Star Laundry’, the film introduces us to Sally’s best friend Tottie and their larrikin friends, Skinny Smith and Spud Murphy. Sally’s family origins are unknown and when she is rescued from the surf at Coogee by bronzed lifesaver Basil Stanton, she becomes involved with Basil and his mother’s rich and cultured lifestyle.
Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a treaty between man and nature whereby neither one of us shall pass these thresholds lest we become subject to the law of the other.
The lifecycle of Southern tobacco tycoon Florence Francis "Papa" Frog.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Australian desert and bushland, see life through the eyes of a very special Red Kangaroo as he struggles to survive drought, bush fires, dingoes and roo hunters.
1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat's dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence.
Intimacy coordinator Claire Warden guides actors through sex scenes on a film set, negotiating the vision of a director, the physical and psychological needs of the performers, and a documentary crew filming her every move.
After witnessing her Daddy's tragic death in the ring Charlie sets out to become a wrestler in his memory. The only things stopping her are a disapproving boyfriend, an overwhelming day job, and her corporate psycho boss - whose dodgy business practices threaten to unleash hordes of brain eating wrestling-monsters on the earth! Faced with a wrestle-pocalypse Charlie has no choice but to open up a can of whoop-ass and take these monstrous Jabronis for a stroll down smack down boulevard! From the director of the international cult film MURDERDROME comes FROM PARTS UNKNOWN: FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. The story of a young girl wrestling with life's issues - and some brain eating wrestle-monsters.
Saffron's one-night encounter with Ruby creates relationship chaos when her sometime girlfriend Heidi faces unexpected legal challenges
A sapphic royal/guard romance. Princess Ellora has some reservations about inheriting the throne. Her reservations are often quelled by her guard, Brynn, who promises to support her through even the toughest times. After Ellora's betrothal becomes imminent, the girls must decide if their feelings for one another are to be acted upon before it's too late, or extinguished.
17-year-old Jane begins to embrace her background and rekindle her relationship with her mother when she becomes immersed in Chinese culture at her younger sister's new language school.
Retrospective on the making of "Mad Max 2".
A group of eleven recruits, composed entirely of excruciating social stereotypes, and one dorky camp instructor, embark on a weekend-long work retreat in the quasi-wilderness of northern south-east Queensland. Everything goes relatively smoothly, that is to say, lamely, until (you guessed it) one of the group turns out to be a homicidal maniac hell-bent on dispatching the others in a variety of creative ways. Based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel (sic), The Killage is a wacky, fright-filled journey into the darkest recesses of the human intestines. Bring a box of tissues.
Eight strangers gather for an unknown experiment at the University for a quick payday. However, things rapidly get out of control as reality itself begins to turn on them.
The inside story on the colossal crush that Australia had on Swedish super-group ABBA and their music in the 1970's, and how the unequalled and enduring fan worship changed both the group and Australia forever.
Two sisters seek a stolen treasure in exchange for an antidote after one is poisoned by their own father.
Varanasi is the Indian city where Hindus go to die. Stretching along the Ganges, Varanasi holds great spiritual significance because Hindu scriptutres say that anyone who dies there will attain moksha—liberation from the cycle of rebirth. Berlin-based director Dan Braga Ulvestad captures life and death in India’s heartland in this moving documentary filled with exquisite cinematic moments. By the River starts its narrative journey with the city’s “death hotels,” dedicated apartments where people wait to die, sometimes for decades, so they can be cremated on the banks of the Ganges.
Jealous and unstable, Angela plans a dinner party for her student friends - what they do not know is that the nights deadly entertainment is an extra serving of suicide and murder! Determined to end her life after the final course, Angelas friends watch as their hostess becomes obsessed with death. Soon they realise that not all of them will be leaving the table as Angela does not plan to die alone the question is: who is she going to take with her? Accepting an invite to dinner has never been more deadly as drugs, murder and suicide will make you think twice before returning that RSVP!
A comedy drama told from six different perspectives of a family who reunite in Adelaide when Mum plans to sell the family home. Any sense of togetherness quickly crumbles to reveal how fucked and glorious it is to be home.
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.
After killing a cyclist in a car accident, a man becomes obsessed with understanding why he feels no remorse and begins a twisted psychological study to provoke guilt within himself.
In a not-so-distant future, scientists have discovered immortality. What follows is a surreal exploration of the sometimes banal, sometimes chaotic consequences, begging the question: is there meaning in infinity?
A young couple in Sydney return home from a “very special” night out.
In a criminal ridden suburb, it's hard to keep secrets. But you remember one of the most important rules of organized crime? No witnesses. Stupidity meets coincidence in this short action comedy.
One in three of us will get cancer at some stage in our lives. From the moment of diagnosis the common cry is "why me?" Now, across the planet, a select group of scientists is hunting cancer-causing infections. Startling new evidence is revealing that viruses and bacteria are triggering some of the biggest killers of our time. And, believe it or not, this is good news.
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
When a young woman is held captive by a psychotic killer on a remote Australian property, her only hope to save herself is to save his twisted relationship.
Ichiro Kataki, a violent Yakuza gang member travels to Melbourne, Australia after his beloved sister Yuko is brutally murdered by a group of criminals. Hell bent on vengeance he teams up with Cassidy Arizona, a lady of the night with a vendetta of her own.
Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.
A desperate horror screenwriter turns to AI for inspiration, only to realise it’s writing him into the role of the victim.
After a strange nightmare, a young factory worker's life and home become haunted by bizarre phantoms.
The crumbling of a couple's relationship manifests itself in mold growing in their bathroom.
To escape the rising sun, three Killer Bikini Vampire Girls hide out in a television station... but all is not what it seems.
A teenaged lucid dreamer begins to quit his dreaming job so he has one last fun dream
Two teenagers in a suburban development channel their confused romantic tension into a series of violent and flirtatious dares. 'Development' documents a moment in time when the pair's push-pull relationship reaches a breaking point.
Still hurting after their breakup, Tabby's stunned when she comes face to face with Heidi at a friend's sleepover. Forced to spend the night together - can Tabby and Heidi put the past behind them? Or will they fall in love again?
Amidst the dusty bellowing of a decrepit cinema complex, a young Theo engages with a strangely familiar elderly man who presents upon him visions of disgust and euphoria.
Saturday 7 February 2009 will forever be known as Black Saturday. On this day the worst bushfires in the history of Australia caused devastation across Victoria like never seen before. The effect this terrible tragedy had was felt not only here, but worldwide. Almost simultaneously Queensland was undergoing its own tragedy, with the state experiencing widespread flooding. In response to our nation's greatest ever natural disasters, Australia's music community, along with some of the biggest music names internationally, banded together for two stadium benefit concerts that ran simultaneously in both Melbourne and Sydney under the unified banner SOUND RELIEF.
This short film recounts the 1996 Sydney Fringe Festival's Drag Race Meet. It includes at home interviews with race hostess Vanessa Wagner plus race footage. Events include 'Clutch Bag Discuss' and '100m Hard Sand Challenge' with an assortment of dragged, wigged and painted-up competitors facing tough competition at Bondi Beach, Sydney.
The first film in a Seven Up-like series examining the lives of three teenage girls in South Australia during the 1970s. It looks at issues such as boys and sex, abortion, marriage, pregnancy, career paths, and education.
Follows Johnny Warren's mission to bring soccer into the mainstream, which secured him a place in Australian sporting history.
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
When faced with the chance to be taken away from your lugubrious state towards an alluring otherworld of opportunity and community, you can't help but run towards that dream. However, when that dream transforms into disturbing distrust, a nobler future entails the pursuit of self-determination.
In the liminal space between the jungle and the wide river that runs through it, steeped in myths of anacondas, piranhas and jaguars, a man has lived alone in a secluded hut for twenty years. A hunter’s voice from the past shares a dream with his wife in which wild animals seek revenge on him, placing into question how everyday life will be lived in their future. While the couple’s human drama unfolds, nature remains unphased, time and the river moving forward – or is it backwards? This film was made in the Amazon Jungle, Peru, during PlayLab Films’ Director’s Lab with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
A writer struggles, trapped in a labyrinth of absurdity.
It is 1853 and in Eastern Australia two men have toiled, driven by the belief that once they strike gold their struggles will be behind them. However they're about to discover that sharing the rare metal will be the hardest test of all.
Tragic story of child prodigy pianist-composer Geoffrey Tozer, inspired by former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s searing eulogy for the artist.
A young woman seduces an older man and reveals her sinister intentions over a dinner date.
Tom E Lewis knows he must die with all of his Songs. After years of haunting silence, he returns to his Grandmothers’ country to seek the permission of the Jungayi (Lawmen) to learn Thumbul corroboree (Morning Star). With the family’s blessing through ceremony, the spirits, stars and ancestors help Tom prepare to find the mysterious Sandy Island of Maawirrangga by singing.
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.