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Island is a film directed by Paul Cox with Irène Papas
Island (1989)
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There are 110 films with the same actors, 20 films with the same director, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Island, you will probably like those similar films :
Lonely Hearts (1982)
, 1h35Directed by Paul Cox
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson, Chris Haywood, Julia Blake, Jonathan Hardy
Rating67%
A middle-aged man, Peter, goes to a dating agency in search of a companion. He is introduced to a shy bank clerk Patricia.
Man of Flowers (1983)
, 1h31Directed by Paul Cox
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood, Alyson Best, Werner Herzog, Julia Blake, Bob Ellis
Rating70%
Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye) is a wealthy, reclusive man. He finds erotic satisfaction in the beauty of art, flowers, and a young woman (Alyson Best), who undresses for him. During the undressings he listens to operatic music such as Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor". Throughout the film, he reads letters he has sent to his mother. His mother had long since died, and the letters, it is later revealed, are addressed to himself.
Island (1989)
, 1h35Directed by Paul Cox
Actors Irène Papas, Chris Haywood, Anoja Weerasinghe, Norman Kaye, Thomas James Longley
Rating59%
A Czech-born woman arrives on a Greek island having fled Australia to sort out her problems. She becomes friends with a deaf mute and two other women, a Sri Lankan abandoned by her husband and an older Greek woman.
A Woman's Tale (1991)
, 1h33Directed by Paul Cox
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Sheila Florance, Gosia Dobrowolska, Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood
Rating71%
Martha (Florance) is an elderly woman living alone in her flat and dying of cancer. Her love of life leads to an ambivalence about her age; her unique moral code leads to her playing cupid for her friend and nurse Anna (Dobrowolska) and Anna’s married lover (Gray); her worrisome son (Haywood) wants her to move into a home; her neighbour Billy (Kaye) has dementia.
Lust and Revenge (1996)
Directed by Paul Cox
Actors Claudia Karvan, Nicholas Hope, Gosia Dobrowolska, Chris Haywood, Norman Kaye, John Hargreaves
Rating64%
Illuminations (1976)
, 1h14Directed by Paul Cox
Genres Drama
Actors Norman Kaye, Sheila Florance
A couple living together have a tense relationship. The woman's father dies and she becomes preoccupied with death. She almost drowns in the bath but then recovers her enthusiasm for life.
Inside Looking Out (1977)
, 1h28Directed by Paul Cox
Genres Drama
Actors Norman Kaye
The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a week in their lives. Robert sleeps with their babysitter, Marianne, while Elizabeth talks with their friends, Juliet and Alex.
Cactus (1986)
, 1h33Directed by Paul Cox
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Norman Kaye, Monica Maughan, Sheila Florance, Julia Blake, Maurie Fields
Rating61%
Golden Braid (1991)
Directed by Paul Cox
Genres Drama
Actors Chris Haywood, Gosia Dobrowolska, Paul Chubb, Jo Kennedy
Rating61%
The Nun and the Bandit (1992)
Directed by Paul Cox
Themes Films about religion
Actors Gosia Dobrowolska, Chris Haywood, Norman Kaye, John Flaus
Rating53%
In the 1940s, two outlaw brothers kidnap their wealthy 14-year-old second cousin, but things get complicated when her chaperoning nun refuses to abandon her charge.