The Last Days Of Chez Nous
(1992) [PG]

Vicki returns to her elder sister Beth's house in Australia after an affair in Italy. Beth, with a teenage daughter, has become involved in something of a marriage of convenience with Frenchman J.P., and her rather prickly house proud ways are causing frictions counterpointed by Vicki's more...  More

The Heartbreak Kid
(1993) [M]

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a schoolteacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a...  More

Come In Spinner (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]

COME IN SPINNER is a mini-series adaptation of the Australian wartime novel of the same name. It's an insightful look into the lives of three women in 1944 who work in the beauty salon of a top hotel in Sydney. The show was directed by Robert Marchand and stars Lisa Harrow and Kerry Armstrong....  More

Strictly Ballroom
(1992) [PG]

Scott Hastings is a champion ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckling who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes...  More

We Of The Never Never
(1982) [G]

This fine Australian drama is based on the memoirs of Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, the first white woman ever to journey into the Australian Outback. It received six Australian Academy Award Nominations.  More

Playing Beatie Bow
(1986) [G]

In modern-day (1985) Sydney, Australia, teen-aged Abigail discovers that she can communicate with at least one apparently dead person, who lived in that town back in 1873. As their communications continue, Abigail suddenly finds herself transported back in time. In this light drama, based on a...  More

Romper Stomper
(1989) [R]

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the...  More

My Brilliant Career
(1979) [G]

Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) is the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Bold and determined, Sybylla dreams of succeeding as an acclaimed writer. But in a time of sexist ignorance and bigotry, Sybylla has frequent clashes with procrustean conformists. Though it is...  More

Picnic At Hanging Rock: Director's Cut (2 Disc Set)
(1975) [PG]

Based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day, Picnic At Hanging Rock is suffused with menace, mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900, a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly...  More

The Big Steal
(1990) [PG]

Danny Clark loves Joanna Johnson and Jaguars. The only problem is he doesn't have either of them. Danny trades his ancient Nissan Cedric in for a Jag with crooked dealer Farkas, and a loan. The Jag has a dodgy motor and Danny is forced to try to steal the original motor from Farkas. Joanna hates...  More

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
(1988) [PG]

Griffin is nine years old. He's haunted by fragments of a dream. He sees a journey - a celestial city, a great cathedral, and a figure roped to the steeple, about to fall... It is Cumbria 1348, the year of the Black Death. A medieval mining town lives in fear of the advancing plague. Griffin's...  More

A Town Like Alice
(1956) [G]

Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna star in this award-winning adaptation of Nevil Shute’s moving novel. Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town and how he hopes to...  More

September (2007)
(2007) [M]

Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy(Clarence John Ryan) have been best friends for as long as they can remember. While Ed goes to school, Paddy works with his father, Michael(Kelton Pell) labouring without pay on the farm owned by Ed's father,Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith). Ed and Paddy spend their...  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

Dead Calm
(1989) [M]

When their intimate sailing holiday is interrupted by the sole survivor of a sinking schooner, the high seas turn into high terror for a husband and wife. They discover the survivor's story of sickness and death is really of madness and murder, and must now match wits in a battle for survival.  More

Man Of Flowers
(1983) [M]

A provocative drama, in which a reclusive art collector and his beautiful model experience a strange love-hate relationship.*BR  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

Cold Chisel, The Last Stand
(1983) [PG]

Last Stand is an energetic feature-length film which deftly combines the story of Cold Chisel's career with multi-camera coverage of their extraordinary farewell concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 15, 1983. The film features live performances of 16 classic Chisel songs, with...  More

Newsfront
(1978) [PG]

An insight into Australia in the 1950's, whilst portraying the turmoil through the tangled love affairs and business ambitions of two brothers in the news media. The lives, loves and loyalties of the newsreel cameraman. When the news ran out... they made their own. Newsfront is the story of...  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

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

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 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

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

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

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

All The Rivers Run (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [M]

Set in the boom town of Echuca, Australia's largest inland port in the 1890s, All the Rivers Run is the classic romantic tale of love between a woman, a man and the river that binds them together. When the young Philadelphia Gordon is shipwrecked and off the coast of Australia and her parents are...  More

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

He Died With A Falafel In His Hand
(2001) [MA]

Danny (Noah Taylor) is a young man seemingly used to chaos, but he soon discovers that the fates are more than capable of dishing out more than he can handle in this offbeat Australian comedy. By his own count, thirty-ish Danny has found himself sharing living quarters with one or more friends...  More

Malcolm
(1986) [PG]

Award-winning Australian movie full of visual jokes and unusual mechanical inventions, revolving around an emotionally and socially under-developed genius who creates an amazing getaway car to embark on the world's most incredible bank robbery.  More