Australian Film Finance Corporation
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam, and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Oscar is an Anglican priest who gambles discreetly and donates his winnings to help the poor. Lucinda is an Australian businesswoman who boldly defies the rules of 19th-century society. When they meet over an innocent game of cards, their passion for gambling leads them both down a road of romance, chance and fate that changes their lives forever.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930's in war-torn China and inspired by true events. George Hogg is a young Englishman who leads sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. During his journey, George 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...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This astonishing documentary investigates how an advertising slogan invented by Madison Avenue executives in 1948 has come to define our most intimate and romantic rituals and ideals. The Diamond Empire, which sent shockwaves through the transnational diamond industry when it first appeared, systematically takes apart the myth that "diamonds are forever." It exposes how one white South African family, through a process of monopoly and fantasy, managed...
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
After a mad, passionate fling on a whirlwind trip to Moscow, party girl Joan Fraser returns home pregnant. And when little Joe is born, everyone wonders who "Daddy" is! Soon, the ball starts rolling on a hilarious sequence of events that includes a clueless husband, a lovesick double agent and even Joseph Stalin himself.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Originally shown at IMAX theaters, this exploration of Antarctica takes you to continent beyond imagination. Discover Antarctica's wildlife and, through the words of explorer Robert Scott, relive the brutal hardships, wonders, and isolation of the first men on this frontier.
9) Lantana
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Lantana: a noxious and troublesome weed with dense and spiky undergrowth, sometimes cultivated for its colorful, aromatic flowers (film website). Like the plant, this film is a thicket: lovely and sweet smelling on its surface, dense and thorny beneath. In Lantana, a quartet of married couples from different strata of urban Australian life--wealthy Valerie and John, the middle-class Zats, working-class Jane and her estranged husband Pete, and struggling,...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia's outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half-sister Claire. Although Tess and Claire have their differences, after an unexpected tragedy, they must work together to save the ranch from bankruptcy.
12) On the beach
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 5
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A comedy drama about two parentally neglected teenagers, Placid Lake and Gemma, who find the courage to believe in themselves.
14) Chopper
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture," says Mark "Chopper" Read. Read is one of Australia's best-selling authors, in part because before he became an author, he was one of Australia's most brutal stand-over men. "Chopper" tells his story with a kind of fascinated horror, a study of the mystique of criminal notoriety, and portrait of a cunning, ruthless killer who is a legend in his own mind. In prison, Chopper...
15) The sum of us
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A heterosexual father and his gay son are trying to find Ms./Mr. Right respectively. The film shows their relationship with one another and the objects of their affection as tragedy strikes.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows three aboriginal girls--Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy--in 1931 Australia as they escape from the internment camp and the Australian government's plan to integrate them into white society and then must avoid capture during their 1,500 mile trek back to their home.
17) Muriel's wedding
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Nobody ever seemed to pay much attention to plain-Jane Muriel, until she heads off to the big city and becomes engaged to a foreign sports hero who needs an Australian wife for citizenship reasons.
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Danny has just moved into his 47th shared house, this time in Brisbane, and the flatmates have not improved. One lives in a closet, another in a tent in the living room and, before Danny takes off for shared house no. 48 in Melbourne, he will have endured satanic worshipers, skinheads and the perennially ubiquitous cane toad. No wonder he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla," this wickedly funny and high-drama trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Extra frills edition.
Language
English
Description
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla, " this wickedly funny and high-drama trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
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