The Plains of Heaven is a 1982 Australian film directed by Ian Pringle, about two men at a remote satellite relay station who contemplate their obsessions.
Ian Pringle shared the Interfilm Award win for The Plains of Heaven at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film festival in 1982.
, 1h34 Directed byRussell Hagg GenresWestern ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films ActorsGerard Kennedy, Gus Mercurio, Rod Mullinar, Norman Yemm, Michael Carman Rating62% In the 1870s, the colonial administrator hires bounty hunter Palmer and gun salesman Ben to wipe out an army of Irish Catholic revolutionaries in their stronghold. Palmer and Ben recruit three gun men to help them and their mission is successful but when they go to get their payment they are trapped by treacherous officials. Ben and Palmer must fight their way to safety.
, 22minutes Directed byAdam Elliot OriginAustralie GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation ActorsGeoffrey Rush, John Flaus Rating78% The story revolves around the life of Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, born in Poland in 1922. As a child, he begins to collect pieces of information he calls "fakts", which are presented throughout the film. At the outbreak of World War II, shortly after his parents' death in a house fire, he migrates to Australia as a refugee, settling in Spotswood, Victoria, and changing his name to Harvie Krumpet.
, 1h21 OriginAustralie GenresScience fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror ThemesFilms about computing, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Cyberpunk films ActorsGerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Vincent Gil, Matthew Newton, Lesley Baker Rating53% The film is about the residents of the small town of Pebbles Court who are the unknowing test subjects for a new variety of "Vimuville" dietary supplement pills that arrive for free in their mailboxes. The pills are designed to produce the ultimate healthy human, but have unexpected side effects including hallucinations and mutations. Despite the attempts made to warn the townsfolk from a previous test subject, who is now undergoing rapid cellular decay, he arrives too late, and crashes his car and is killed by tentacles growing out of his throat. The pills are consumed by the residents, and produce liquefying flesh, elongated tongues, exploding stomachs, exploding penises, imploding heads, monstrous births, tentacles growing out of the face, living mucus, sentient placentas, and other gruesome mutations. Ultimately more and more of the residents of the Pebbles Court mutate or die horrific deaths, until almost every character has been dispatched.
, 1h55 OriginFrance GenresDrama, Adventure, Historical ThemesFilms about writers ActorsMathilda May, Peter O'Toole, Tchéky Karyo, Foued Nassah, Richard Moir, Arthur Dignam Rating51% Isabelle Eberhardt (Mathilda May) travels from North Africa to be with her father, who is dying in Geneva. Shortly after his death, the wife of Marquis de Mores summons Eberhardt to Paris. de Mores has disappeared in North Africa, and his wife wished to hire Eberhardt to track him down, as she is familiar with the region. Eberhardt settles in Algiers, though she quickly abandons the search for de Mores due to interference from the French authorities, and assumes that de Mores is dead. Eberhardt often journeys into the desert, and writes about her experiences there for her publisher Victor Barrucand (Claude Villers). She falls in love with Slimene (Tchéky Karyo), a French Foreign Legion soldier. Through Slimene, Eberhardt makes contact with the secretive Sufi brotherhood, the Qadiriyya.
, 1h37 OriginAustralie GenresDrama ActorsRichard Moir, Jo Kennedy, Robbie McGregor, Esben Storm Rating62% David (Richard Moir), a disillusioned doctor, travels with a junkie female (Jo Kennedy) who has her own problems, across the state of Victoria.