Noise (2007), Salaam Namaste (2005), Ballets Russes (2005), The Castle (1997), Animal Kingdom (2010), Candy (2006), The Home Song Stories (2007), Strictly Ballroom (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Melbourne, Australia movies.
Storyline: Diagnosed with tinnitus, a lawman (Brendan Cowell) works the night shift while a murderous gunman remains at large.
Plot Keywords: police officer, witness, girlfriend, murderer, survivor, dark, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A chef (Saif Ali Khan) and a medical student (Preity Zinta) test their compatibility by living together for a year.
Plot Keywords: indian, cook, radio host, lighthearted, heartwarming, airy, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For many, modern ballet began with the Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo, originally made up of Russian exiles from the Russian Revolution. This film tells the story of this landmark company with its stars and production as well as its power games, rivalries and tribulations that marked its turbulent history.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: ballerina, ballet instructor, impresario, endearing, striking, creative, st. petersburg, russia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it's "practically their back yard"). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by the Government and airport authorities. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their house, taking their case as far as the High Court.
Plot Keywords: tow truck driver, wife, hairdresser, son, lawyer, inspector, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Despite being no saint herself, Julia Cody has shielded her seventeen year old son, Joshua "J" Cody, from her Melbourne-based criminal relatives who they have not seen in years. After Julia dies in front of J's eyes from a self-inflicted heroin overdose, J, who is slightly detached from life, feels he has no choice but to contact his maternal grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, the family matriarch, for a place to live. Smurf rules the family with a borderline incestuous love over her three sons, the quietly menacing Andrew "Pope" Cody, the hyperactive Craig Cody, and the barely of age Darren Cody. Pope and his best friend, Barry "Baz" Brown, are armed robbers, with Darren their up and coming apprentice, while Craig is a mid level drug dealer. Melbourne's Armed Robbery Squad is after specifically Pope, who is hiding out. But when the standoff between the Codys and the Armed Robbery Squad is brought up a notch, an all out war ensues, with some casualties and J caught in the middle. The ...
Plot Keywords: grandchild, young boy, uncle, criminal, cop, engaging, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
Plot Keywords: poet, artist, professor, drug addict, student, dark, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rose, a Shanhainese songstress singing at nightclubs in HongKong during the 60's, marries an Australian sailor and migrates with her young son and daughter to Melbourne. Her past filled with lost innocence, she begins a cycle of dependence and desperation to create a family for herself and her children, culminating with her affair with Qi, an illegal immigrant from HongKong. Watched through the eyes of her young son, the mother's journey reveals painful truths about the human condition, the love of family and self, and the price we pay for growing up.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: singer, young boy, sailor, narrator, mother-in-law, sister, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scott Hastings is a champion caliber 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 duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!"
Plot Keywords: dancer, dance instructor, chairman, mother, father, fan, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Plot Keywords: jockey, woman, horse, australian, brother, daughter, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After their late-life marriage, a middle-aged Australian couple move to the countryside. Their life and tempestuous marriage is detailed.
Plot Keywords: communist, widower, retiree, second wife, daughter, doctor, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
Plot Keywords: neo-nazi, best friend, drug addict, father, bar owner, gritty, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1970s, Jessica Hathaway (Angela Punch McGregor) joins the staff of Brentwood Hospital, a government facility for handicapped children in Melbourne, Australia. One of her patients is Annie O'Farrell (Tina Arhondis), whose cerebral palsy has kept her institutionalized since the age of 3. Convinced the girl, now 13, has been misdiagnosed as legally retarded, Jessica teaches her to communicate through a Ouija board in this true story about the fight to free Annie from institutional care.—Elora Matthias
Plot Keywords: therapist, disabled person, boyfriend, administrator, mother, doctor, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.—L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
Plot Keywords: greek person, homosexual, teenager, mother, father, immigrant, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a psychologist, returns to bury his father. Back in his hometown, he meets a woman called Ruby who reminds him in so many ways of his lost love.—Ploy P.
Plot Keywords: psychologist, professor, mysterious woman, amnesiac, young boy, young girl, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham (Susannah Fowle).—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: pianist, teenager, minister, teacher, charming, endearing, moving ...
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