Australia movies

Happy Feet (2006)

Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Alazraqui, Carlos | Boyar, Lombardo | Garcia, Jeffrey | Sanchez, Johnny A. | Williams, Robin | Wood, Elijah | Murphy, Brittany | Jackman, Hugh | Kidman, Nicole | Weaving, Hugo | Daily, Elizabeth | Szubanski, Magda | Margolyes, Miriam | Joe, Fat | Shafer, Alyssa
Directors: Coleman, Warren
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown ‘alien’ source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn’t a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

Dark City (1998)

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Sewell, Rufus | Hurt, William | Sutherland, Kiefer | Connelly, Jennifer | O'Brien, Richard | Richardson, Ian | Spence, Bruce | Friels, Colin | Bluthal, John | Butel, Mitchell | George, Melissa | Gallacher, Frank | Singer, Ritchie | Monjo, Justin | Bell, Nicholas
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Children of Huang Shi, The (2008)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Australia | China | Germany
Actors: Rhys Meyers, Jonathan | Mitchell, Radha | Chow, Yun-Fat | Yeoh, Michelle | Li, Guang | Ji, Lin | Walker, Matt | Kolpakova, Anastasia | Su, Ping | Hideaki, Imai | Hashimoto, Sciichiro | Takashima, Shinichi | Mang, Xing | Zhu, Ruixiang | Fang, Yuelong
Directors: Spottiswoode, Roger
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Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And of how, in doing so, he came to understand the true meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.

Cactus (2008)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: McMahon, Travis | Lyons, David | Brown, Bryan | Jacobson, Shane | Krige, Daniel | Ireland, Celia | Tuckwell-Smith, Zoe | Baird, Elspeth | Bartlett, Craig | Eckert, Seymon | Hunt, Russell | Rodgers, Steve | Shearim, Robert | Walker, Wayne | Whiteside, Robert
Directors: Carrucan, Jasmine Yuen
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A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly, embarks on a journey into the Australian Outback towards the place where his hostage is due for delivery. As time and distance roll by, the strength and endurance of both men will be tested to the very end.

Restraint (2008)

Friday, September 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Moyer, Stephen | Palmer, Teresa | Fimmel, Travis | Jones, Nate | Hunt, Joanne
Directors: Denneen, David
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A young couple on the run hole up in a country estate with a hostage in tow.

Rogue (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Vartan, Michael | Worthington, Sam | Curry, Stephen | Jarratt, John | Morrell, Geoff | Richardson, Damien | Taylor, Robert | Otto, Barry
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An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another ‘city-slicker’ in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a ‘rogue’ crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.

Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | Germany | USA
Actors: Van Dien, Casper | Waddington, Steven | Ntshona, Winston | Seiphemo, Rapulana | Roberts, Ian | Taylor, Sean | De Villiers, Gys | Savadier, Russel | Buckby, Paul | Meas, Zane | Berk, Barry | Gritten, Michael | Cassar, Dimitri | Caprari, Tony | Wustman, Kurt
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On the eve of his wedding, John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke (better known as Tarzan), receives a message from the witch doctor Mugambe that his homeland is in danger. It turns out that a treasure hunter named Ravens is searching for the lost city of Opar, and is destroying the jungle and desecrating the villagers’ burial grounds in the process. Only Tarzan can stop Ravens and set things right in the African jungle, but will Jane stand for her fiance being away for so long?

Pocket Full of Rye, A (1985)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | West, Timothy | Drake, Fabia | Merrison, Clive | Bell, Rachel | Davison, Peter | Low, Frances | Dorning, Stacy | Stanbridge, Martyn | Wilkinson, Tom | Glover, Jon | Cadell, Selina | Badland, Annette | Kendall, Merelina | Mills, Frank
Directors: Slater, Guy
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Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon however Rex’s young wife also turns up poisoned. The maid, Gladyes, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to Miss Marple asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladyses’ body is found strangled and strung up on the clothes line. Now it’s personal, and Miss Marple is determined to see the murderer punished.

Murder Is Announced, A (1985)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Hickson, Joan | Howells, Ursula | Asherson, Ren?e | Bond, Samantha | Shepherd, Simon | King, Nicola | Ives-Cameron, Elaine | Michael, Ralph | Syms, Sylvia | Solon, Matthew | Kerridge, Mary | Sims, Joan | Dionisotti, Paola | Moore, Vivienne | Collings, David
Directors: Giles, David
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A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock’s two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of “just walking by” or “Was in the neighborhood”. At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone’s face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.

Clubland (2007)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Blethyn, Brenda | Callan, Peter | Chittenden, Khan | Clearkin, Brendan | Russell Dykstra | Holden, Frankie J. | Quast, Philip | Wilson, Richard | Booth, Emma | Gibney, Rebecca | Wall, Katie
Directors: Nowlan, Cherie
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The shy son (Chittenden) of an aging comedienne (Blethyn) tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend (Booth), and his mother’s second chance at fame.