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The Shiralee
(1987) [PG]

Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready...  More

Heaven's Burning
(1997) [MA]

Colin (Russell Crowe) is the getaway driver in a bank robbery which is witnessed by an unhappy Japanese bride named Minori. Her life is now in danger and the two outcasts find themselves thrown together in a quest for freedom culminating in a new found love.  More

Kangaroo
(1986)

D.H. Lawrence's tale of an idealist writer who flees the wreck of post-war Europe in search of a freer, more tolerant world in which to re-build his marriage. He and his wife settle in Australia and soon face the leader of a secret Fascist army who tries to bully them into em-bracing his ideas.....  More

Caddie
(1976) [M]

Joan Long's screenplay tells of a fiercely independent young mother who when confronted with her husband's infidelity, takes her children and leaves their comfortable middle class surroundings behind, to fend for herself. Without skills, and faced with the responsibility of housing and feeding...  More

The Hard Word
(2002) [MA]

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.  More

Ghosts Of The Civil Dead
(1988) [R]

Ghosts Of The Civil Dead is a startling and powerful film set entirely within the confines of a maximum security prison - a new generation prison painted in play school colours and resembling a supermarket - it goes beyond traditional prison themes of good and evil to draw a frightening...  More

The Year My Voice Broke
(1987) [M]

During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved.  More

Bliss (2 Disc Set)
(1985) [M]

Harry Joy is a happy man. He has a successful business, a lovely wife and two loving children. Harry suffers a fatal heart attack. But, he comes back to life and takes a good look at the world around him. His wife is sleeping with his partner. His son is a drug dealer and wants to join the Mafia....  More

Proof (1991)
(1991) [M]

Celia (Genevieve Picot) is a young female housekeeper who becomes malicious towards her blind photographer employer, Martin (Hugo Weaving - Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Matrix) when he spurns her advances. To retaliate she befriends Andy (Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential, Gladiator), the...  More

Spotswood
(1992) [PG]

An everyday story about loyalty, betrayal, lust and footwear. An outside consultant is hired to boost profits at a hopelessly inefficient factory. He is forced to question his conscience when he becomes drawn into the lives of the workers.  More