Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Lantana (2001), The Last Wave (1978), Newsfront (1978), Man of Flowers (1983), Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Australian Cinema movies.
Storyline: A teacher and three schoolgirls at Appleyard College disappear in 1900.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, psychological thriller, historical, literary adaptation, female perspective, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of "Ozploitation" movies - a time when Australian cinema showed an explosion of sex, violence, horror and action. Includes anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking and a genuine love of Australian movies. It moves through Aussie genre cinema of the 70s and early 80s - claiming it's an unjustly forgotten cinematic era of boobs, pubes, tubes... and even a little kung fu.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, film history, behind the scenes, independent film, filmmaking, violence, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. The movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, not the answering of them. Even though both the movie and the book it was based on claim to be inspired by real events, the story is completely fictional.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, thriller, historical, literary adaptation, female perspective, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Trust. A dead body in bracken. A cop cheats on his unhappy wife who, in secret, sees a psychiatrist whose own marriage is corroded by grief: she thinks her husband is having an affair with a gay patient of hers. The cop's lover, Jane, is recently separated, and her neighbors - a couple with children - include a muscular unemployed man. Late one night, the doctor skids off a back road, finds a call box, and tries in vain to reach her husband. She sees headlights and flags down the driver. Later that night, Jane sees her neighbor park his truck and throw something into the lantana in a vacant lot. It's a woman's shoe. Unraveling the mystery lays bare five couples.
Plot Keywords: drama, mystery, crime, psychological, marriage, betrayal, emotion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: supernatural, mystery, suspense, dreams, prophecy, indigenous culture, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie-going public.—David Spalding <dspalding@korova.com>
Plot Keywords: history, journalism, docudrama, media ethics, based on true events, brotherhood, press freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.
Plot Keywords: art film, psychological drama, surrealism, loneliness, sexual repression, father-son relationship, mental illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he's six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS's feckless, absent father, she asserts her rights and convinces Lila to have PS live with her weekdays. PS is happy at Lila's, playing with children, running about, speaking up. At Vanessa's, there's a regimen of private school, round vowels, piano and riding lessons, and lonely indoor play with fancy toys. He's miserable and when he objects, she sues for complete custody. Will anyone listen to him? And will he take on Vanessa's challenges to find out who he is and to love someone?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, australian, childhood, emotional conflict, coming of age, inheritance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Amelia, who lost her husband in a car crash on the way to give birth to Samuel, their only child, struggles to cope with her fate as a single mom. Samuel's constant fear of monsters and violent reaction to overcome the fear doesn't help her cause either, which makes her friends become distant. When things can not get any worse, they read a strange book in their house about the 'Babadook' monster that hides in the dark areas of their house. Even Amelia seems to feel the effect of Babadook and desperately tries in vain to destroy the book. The nightmarish experiences the two encounter form the rest of the story.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, monster, motherhood, grief, mental health ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical event, based on true story, judicial injustice, social criticism, conspiracy theory, courtroom drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: JASPER JONES is a coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1969, Charlie defeats the local racists, faces the breakup of his parents and falls head over heels in love as he discovers what it means to be truly courageous.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, mystery, drama, australian, small town, racism, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, australian, rural, period piece, farm life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "Dead Letter Office" stamped on the front. As an adult, she becomes consumed with a desire to find him and takes a job with the Dead Letter Office, convinced that she can use them to fulfill her romantic notions of a reunion with her father. What awaits her at the DLO is far more than that ...—Peter Webb <tjebi@mpx.com.au>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, independent film, social critique, bureaucracy, office politics, existentialism, workplace stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale. Their daughter Jan sees, and daughter Ellie hears, the voice of a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before...—Michael Ducharme <ducharme@escape.ca>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, 1980s, independent film, urban life, emotional conflict, marital crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Characters adrift in an isolated landscape collide with the past and each other as they unravel the secrets of a dead man's dreams. A moody meditation on anti-heroism, the film pays tribute to the black and white style of cinema noir.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, australian, independent film, film noir, road movie ...
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