Australian
see all genres ›A frequent exporter of international stars (from Errol Flynn to Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman), Australia didn't make a significant splash with its own movies until the 1970s when a bold new generation of filmmakers including Peter Weir, George Miller, Fred Schepisi, Gillian Armstrong and Bruce Beresford made waves around the world. Today, Australian cinema remains a regular provider of fresh voices and idiosyncratic storytelling.
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Genres / International / Oceania / Australian
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Alexandra's Project
It's Steve's birthday and he's just been promoted at the office. In a good mood, he goes home to his family expecting to celebrate. Instead, he finds an empty suburban home and videotape labeled "Play Me." The tape begins with his loving wife providing birthday wishes and quickly segues, to his pleasant...Start your free trial to watch -
Beneath Clouds
In a tiny desolate town, there is only one road in and out. A fair skinned, blue eyed teenage girl rejects the indigenous blood of her mother for the blood of her Irish father. A teenage indigenous boy spends all of his time in a plantation pine forest. Years of incarceration have molded a tough exterior and separated him...Start your free trial to watch -
Body Melt
Injected with an experimental drug, research chemist Ryan (Robert Simper) leaves a mysterious rural health farm and drives to the outer-city suburbs. As Ryan's body starts to deteriorate and his driving becomes more erratic, a cruising police car starts to chase him. Charging towards a group of houses, Ryan leaves a cryptic...Start your free trial to watch
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Catch My Disease
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless media scrutiny. This is a playful yet deeply intimate portrait of Lee, exploring his meteoric rise to pop stardom and the issues of celebrity...Start your free trial to watch -
City Loop
It’s a slow night at Speedies in Brisbane. This time for reflection leads to a collision between the six young kids working at the pizza parlor. A comedy about one night in the lives of six kids as they confront questions of love, identity and sex between dough tossing, order taking and scooter deliveries through treacherous...Start your free trial to watch -
The Director's Cut
A bloody, black comedy set in the harsh Australian outback, THE DIRECTOR'S CUT tells the tale of a tyrannical director attempting to shoot his first feature film on a farm in the middle of nowhere. When people start dying he has to decide which is more important: his crew, or his film.Start your free trial to watch
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Fantasm
Incest, group sex, religion, role reversal, lesbianism… FANTASM is a sexy, sin-sational comedy spoof of classroom sex educational films. Join Professor Jurgen Notafreud as he takes you on an erotic visual tour of the top ten most erotic female fantasies. Directed by Richard Franklin under the pseudonym “Richard Bruce,”...Start your free trial to watch -
Fantasm Comes Again
From the producers of the original sex-comedy hit FANTASM comes the outrageous sequel, FANTASM COMES AGAIN. Libbie, a young up-and-coming journalist, is taking over as a writer for a “Dear Collette” sexual advice column in a local newspaper. Harry, the fellow who’s been impersonating “Collette” for years,...Start your free trial to watch -
15 Amore
A story of love and loss, set in the final months of WWII. With her husband off at war, the beautiful and independent Dorothy has remained in the Australian countryside to raise three young children. Living with them are two Italian POW's Alfredo and Joseph, who assist with the homestead upkeep. Dorothy and Alfredo have...Start your free trial to watch
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The Garth Method
In 2001, unemployed actor Garth Petridis was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history. Desperate for success, he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform, at gunpoint, in scenes for a bizarre movie intended to make Garth a household name.Start your free trial to watch -
The Getting of Wisdom
In THE GETTING OF WISDOM, Oscar®-nominated director Bruce Beresford crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham. Chronicling her stormy passage through the sedate halls of an expensive Melbourne finishing...Start your free trial to watch -
The Hemp Revolution
THE HEMP REVOLUTION tells the amazing and little-known story of the hemp plant. Hemp, probably the first plant ever to be cultivated, was among the world’s largest agricultural crops until the 1800s. This feature-length documentary explores the plant’s facinating history, it’s thousands of uses, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Intangible Asset no.82
After hearing a rare recording of Korean Shaman Kim Seok-Chul’s music, Australian drummer Simon Barker knew right away that he was listening to one of the world’s greatest improvisers. So unique, in fact, is the artistry of the Shaman that the Korean Government bestowed upon him the honorary title...Start your free trial to watch -
The Line
Amidst a volatile underworld, a member of an Asian crime family is brutally murdered in cold blood. To prevent a gang war, recently promoted detective James Jewel is teamed with rogue undercover cop Mike Calis. Against the clock, the officers must unravel the truth behind the killing. The deeper they delve, the greater the...Start your free trial to watch -
Long Weekend
Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch their differences. They are a careless couple, littering the countryside with...Start your free trial to watch
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Look Both Ways
In her live action feature debut LOOK BOTH WAYS, award winning Australian animator Sarah Watt explores the timeless frontiers of love, life, death and imagination with humor, originality and honesty. Meryl (Justine Clarke), a lonely artist, literally envisions disaster around every corner. Through Meryl's whimsically mordant...Start your free trial to watch -
Love the Beast
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter in the hope that you could tell a great car story of the likes of GRAND PRIX. Then, one day, you happened to open your garage door and sitting there, right in...Start your free trial to watch -
Modern Love
John, his wife Emily and their small son Edward leave the city for what they believe will be a brief foray to the countryside to claim John's inheritance: a small shack. They find themselves in a strange back-woods rural setting. Nothing is what it seems. John's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre as he crosses paths with...Start your free trial to watch




