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Films from the country "australie", sorted by revenue
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Crawlspace (2012)
, 1h26Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Nicholas Bell, Ditch Davey, Fletcher Humphrys, Peta Sergeant, Samuel Johnson, Bridget Neval
After receiving a distress signal, a team of elite commandos are dispatched to extract a scientific team in a secret military base. The team is instructed to shoot on sight any prisoners that they see. When they arrive, the commandos split into three teams. However, team leader Romeo (Ditch Davey) disobeys orders when he recognizes one of the prisoners, Eve (Amber Clayton), as his dead wife. Confused, Romeo asks how this is possible, but Eve claims to be suffering from amnesia and can only remember bits and pieces of her life. The others dispute this and want to kill her, but Romeo is adamant that she accompany them. After an encounter with a mutant gorilla, Elvis (John Brumpton) is killed and tensions begin to rise; the team begin to wonder what kind of experiments could have been performed at the base.
Burning Man (2011)
, 1h50Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Matthew Goode, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis, Rachel Griffiths, Elizabeth Blackmore, Kerry Fox
Burning Man tells the story of Tom (Matthew Goode), a British chef in a Bondi restaurant, who seems to have chosen to disobey his boss, and his actions are tolerated by everyone around him. As Tom descends into darkness from a car crash in his Volkswagen, pieces of a different story start to emerge. Every woman around him tries, in different ways, to help Tom put himself back together.
Blame (2010)
, 1h29Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Sophie Lowe, Kestie Morassi, Saskia Hampele, Simon Stone, Ashley Zukerman, Damian De Montemas
A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out, they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
Butterfly Crush (2010)
, 1h30Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Amelia Shankley
Moana and Eva are the song and dance duo "Butterfly Crush". During a performance at Circular Quay in Sydney, a riot engulfs their show. In the midst of the riot, Moana awakens, to discover that the performance and riot was just a virtual dream. She is in the building of the Dreamguides, a cult operating in the Kings Cross neighborhood of Sydney. Eva has recently become involved with the Dreamguides.
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
, 2h2Directed by Jeremy Sims
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantley, Harrison Gilbertson, Aden Young, Harrison Gilbertson, Bella Heathcote
As seen in flashbacks that occur throughout the film, Oliver Woodward is an Australian miner supplying copper for the war effort. He falls in love with Marjorie Waddell, a young woman ten years his junior. However, he is under constant pressure to enlist, especially from Waddell's father. He has the opportunity to do so when the British Army forms the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company to supplement the Royal Engineers; Woodward is commissioned to lead the unit.
Malibu Shark Attack (2009)
, 1h26Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about sharks, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Disaster films
Actors Peta Wilson, Warren Christie, Chelan Simmons, Remi Broadway, Sonya Salomaa, Mungo McKay
Heather (Peta Wilson) is the head-lifeguard on a Malibu beach, alongside her ex-boyfriend Chavez (Warren Christie), Doug (Remi Broadway) and Barb (Sonya Salomaa). Also on the beach are Jenny (Chelan Simmons), a teenage girl who is reluctantly cleaning the beach for community service after she got caught shoplifting, and Bryan (Nicholas G. Cooper), Barb's boyfriend who proposes to her. Meanwhile, a tremor unleashes a group of Living fossil goblin sharks who begin to devour swimmers along the beach. Chavez travels to a nearby house that is undergoing construction and meets with the workers Colin (Jeffery Gannon), who is Heather's new boyfriend, George (Mungo McKay), Yancey (Renee Bowen) and Karl (Evert McQueen). A warning of a tsunami arises and Chavez returns to the beach, saving Heather who had been knocked into the water by a shark after being sent to investigate some people causing trouble in the water. Doug and Barb evacuate the beach, and take shelter in the lifeguard hut with Heather, Chavez, Jenny and Bryan.
Samson and Delilah (2009)
, 1h37Directed by Theo Frenkel, Warwick Thornton
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Samson and Delilah are two 14-year-olds who live in an Aboriginal community near Alice Springs. Samson sniffs petrol every morning. He lives in a run-down shelter with his brother's band playing reggae music, all day, right outside his bedroom. Samson is interested in Delilah, who lives with her grandmother. He throws a rock at her outside the local convenience store. In spite of mocking encouragement from her grandmother Delilah is not interested in him. Samson spends a day following Delilah around. He attempts to move in with Delilah. Delilah's grandmother dies and the old women in the community blame her 'neglect' for her grandmother's death and thrash her with sticks. Samson in a fit of rage beats his brother with a stick to shut him and his band up. His brother beats him up. Samson steals a car and takes Delilah with him to Alice Springs where they live rough under a bridge over the dry bed of the Todd River. Gonzo, a deranged homeless man living there helps them. Samson continues to sniff petrol. At one point, he gets so high from the fumes that he does not notice when Delilah is taken by a group of white teenagers in a car. She is raped and bashed, but she eventually comes back to Samson, who is unconscious with petrol intoxication. She begins sniffing petrol too. Under the same circumstances as her abduction, they are both walking along the street and Delilah is hit by a car. When Samson eventually comes to and realises she has been hit he believes she is dead, and cuts off his hair as a sign of respect. He spends weeks sitting in the same position under the bridge sniffing petrol as a means of getting over Delilah's death. Delilah comes back and rescues Samson, and they are both brought back to their old village. As they arrive one of the community's old women begins to beat Samson with a stick for stealing the community's only car. Delilah decides to take Samson away to a secluded area, as a way of rehabilitating, and getting over his petrol sniffing habit. Eventually Samson stops sniffing petrol, and over time Delilah is able to coax him back to his original state.
Beauty and the Beast (2010)
, 1h28Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Estella Warren, Vanessa Gray, Damien Garvey, Peter Cook
A series of horrific murders has the Beast being blamed for the crimes. Belle (Estella Warren) and Beast (Victor Parascos) must work together to investigate the crimes and discover who the true murderer is and why they're committing these murders.
Long Weekend (2009)
Directed by Jamie Blanks
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan, Robert Taylor, Lara Robinson, Robert Taylor (acteur australien), Roger Ward
Peter and Carla have a wasted marriage and constant friction. Peter buys expensive camping gear and, despite the protests of Carla, insists they travel with their dog Cricket to camp on the isolated Moondah Beach in the North Coast with his friend Luke and his girlfriend during the rainy holiday. Peter stops in a pub at the Eggleston Hotel and leaves a message for Luke with the owner of the pub. When Peter takes what he believes to be shortcut to the beach, he gets lost and the couple spends the night sleeping in their SUV. The next morning, Peter organizes the campsite and their intrusion into and abuse of the natural environment begins. During the two days, the couple's relationship deteriorates while the nature avenges the bad treatment the couple has inflicted upon it.
The Horseman (2008)
, 1h36Origin Australie
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Robyn Moore
After the drug-induced death of his teenaged daughter, Christian is sent a video tape, a "snuff film" involving his daughter and several men. Christian then decides to avenge his daughter by killing all those linked to the sex tape. Along the way he meets a young woman named Alice, and a fragile friendship begins to unfold.
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
, 1h30Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes, Steve Bastoni, Mia Wasikowska, Nicholas Evans
Katrina (Emily Barclay) is a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to get away with murder. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blow-jobs. A master manipulator of men living at home with her father in suburban Golden Grove, Katrina will stop at nothing to get what she wants - even murder. When her father threatens to contact social services and take away her child, Katrina sets in motion a plan to wreak suburban mayhem that will leave a community in shock and make Katrina infamous in a way even she never dreamed of.
Macbeth (2006)
, 1h49Directed by Geoffrey Wright
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme, Steve Bastoni, Bob Franklin, Kate Bell
This adaptation of Macbeth takes place in the Melbourne underworld. Macbeth (Sam Worthington), a loyal underboss to his crime boss Duncan (Gary Sweet), is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume great power. Driven by their prophecy, his wife (Victoria Hill) plans to kill Duncan and take the leadership of the gang for herself and her husband. Macbeth's obsessive love for her leads him to agree to her murderous plan, but he finds that maintaining his power will require a lot more from him than first imagined.
, 6h48Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Romola Garai, Jack Davenport, Alex O'Loughlin, Sam Neill, Tony Martin, Garry McDonald
Mary's story begins in her home, Cornwall, England where her village is starving to death. In desperation, she steals, landing her a place on the long voyage to Sydney, Australia along with other convicts.
Harvie Krumpet (2003)
, 22minutesDirected by Adam Elliot
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation
Actors Geoffrey Rush, John Flaus
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.
Walking on Water (2002)
, 1h30Directed by Tony Ayres
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Vince Colosimo, Nathaniel Dean, Judi Farr, Nicholas Bishop, Anna Lise Phillips
When Gavin is finally buried after dying of AIDS, his close friends Charlie and Anna find themselves at odds regarding the way he died. In the weekend that passes, Gavin's estranged family come to stay, which only adds more tension to the strained household. As Charlie tries to cling to his distant partner Frank, and Anna begins a sexual affair with Gavin's married brother, the pair realize now that Gavin has gone and there is no one to keep them together, or even keep them in line. The film is an exploration of human relationships, moral ambiguity and the consequences of difficult choices.