Browse by Country - Australia
Paperback Hero (1998)
Director: Antony Bowman
Starring: Claudia Karvan, Hugh Jackman
Jack (Hugh Jackman) has just become a top selling romance novelist, but being a tough truckie, doesn't want to put his name to the book. He uses his o... Read more
Paradise Road (1997)
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett
Based on actual incidents which occurred in a Japanese POW camp during W.W.II, this is the affecting, hard-hitting story of a group of female Allied p... Read more
Phar Lap (1983)
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Tom Burlinson, Martin Vaughan, Judy Morris
An uplifting story of Australia's greatest race horse (but New Zealand bred), told with wit, intelligence and feeling. The race photography is superb.... Read more
Proof (1992)
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Genevieve Picot, Russell Crowe
A highly original inventive film about Martin, blind since birth and mistrustful, who must rely on others to describe the photographs he takes as 'pro... Read more
Radiance (1997)
Director: Rachel Perkins
Starring: Rachael Maza, Deborah Mailman, Trisha Morton-Thomas
A mixture of the dramatic and humorous unfold as three young women re-unite, after many years apart, for their mother's funeral. Each with a different... Read more
Rats In The Ranks (1996)
Director: Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
Starring: Larry Hand
This bruising political doco follows the squabbles in a Sydney suburb between the Mayor and City Councillors. The filmmakers gained an extraordinary d... Read more
Spider and Rose (1994)
Director: Bill Bennett
Starring: Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, Max Cullen
Spider McCall (Simon Bossell) is an ambulance driver with 'attitude'. His final day on the job lands him the assignment of driving a feisty 70-year-ol... Read more
Storm Boy (1976)
Director: Henri Safran
Starring: Peter Cummins, Greg Rowe, David Gulpilil
A wonderful Australian film dealing with the relationships between a boy, his pelican, his Aboriginal friend and his dour father who disapproves of bo... Read more
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Bill Hunter, Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Barry Otto, Gia Carides
A modern-day, feel-good fairytale, with its tongue locked firmly in cheek, about ballroom champ Scott (Paul Mercurio) who incurs the wrath of the tota... Read more
Thirst (1978)
Director: Rod Hardy
Starring: Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Henry Silva
The strange, stylish, chilling tale of a girl who is taken to a vampire farm where some people are raised to be victims, while other clients drop by f... Read more