Directed byMaurice Murphy GenresComedy ActorsChristopher Atkins, Julian McMahon, Elliott Gould, Richard Carter, Mark Hembrow Rating42% A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the development and finds himself sympathising with the locals.
, 1h42 GenresThriller ActorsClaudia Karvan, Catherine McClements, Mark Hembrow, Gennifer Flowers, Jacek Koman Roles Brewster Rating57% Lucy unknowingly videotapes the murder of her lover, a corrupt lawyer in the Justice Commission. When fleeing from the murder, Lucy attacks a police car. Her file is given to young lawyer, Diana.
GenresScience fiction, Musical ActorsDagmar Bláhová, Mark Hembrow Roles Mal Rating51% The film is set in Australia, where an accidental future time traveler finds himself going back in time to change events to prevent a calamity. It stars Rob Hartley as Black Alice (who performed most of the songs for the movie) and Australian musician Jeff Duff (who sang "The Burn").
, 1h50 OriginAustralie GenresDrama, Action, Adventure, Western ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Children's films ActorsTom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Mark Hembrow, Bryan Marshall Roles Seb Rating65% Some years after his dangerous ride down the steep mountain to capture the Brumby herd and regain the Colt from old "Regret", Jim Craig, now with a large herd of mountain-bred horses of his own, returns to his home vicinity to take up with his girl, Jessica Harrison. She is still smitten with him, but opposition from her father remains as resolute as ever. Further, she also has a rich would-be suitor endeavouring to court her, Alistair Patton, son of the banker from whom Harrison is seeking a large loan. Before he returns from Harrison's property to his home, Jim meets an army officer seeking quality horses for the remount service on a regular basis.
, 1h44 Directed byGillian Armstrong GenresDrama ActorsJudy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Frankie J. Holden, Colin Friels, Toni Scanlan, Mark Hembrow Roles Mechanic Rating70% Lilli is one of three backing singers for a touring Elvis impersonator until she is fired. Then, left alone at the beginning of winter she is stranded in a ramshackle beach town on the windswept coast of New South Wales. This remote, working class, tourist-town has a pervasive sense of rootlessness and movement. The people survive by changing their occupations with the seasons and work hard in small businesses. Here, stuck in the Mermaid Caravan Park, she encounters her teenage daughter Ally (Claudia Karvan). When Lilli's young surfer husband had died, she felt lost; she gave up her baby to her mother-in-law, Bet. Lilli has been drifting ever since, and getting wasted. Bet is a rowdy, belligerent woman, devoted to Ally—she has taken care of her for 13 years but she has no idea how unhappy the girl is. Lilli has an immediate rapport with the lonely Ally even before she knows that Ally is her daughter, and after she knows, she can't take her eyes off her. They belong with each other. but Lilli's terrified of taking on the responsibilities of motherhood, and Bet tells her she's riff-raff. When we first see Ally she is in the water; surfing is—"her refuge from the noisy junkiness of life with Bet. Bet isn't a monster, she's simply the wrong person to be raising the pensive Ally, whose emotions are hidden away, like her mother's. The drama is in our feeling that Lilli must not leave her daughter in the embrace of this raucous old trouper.
, 1h36 GenresDrama, War ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films, Political films ActorsJohn Howard, Steve Bisley, Atsuo Nakamura, Stuart Wilson, George Mallaby, Tony Bonner Roles Able Seaman F.W. Marsh Rating64% During World War II, a team of Australian soldiers from Z Special Unit, including Ivan Lyon and Robert Page, successfully lead an expedition to destroy ships in Singapore harbour, Operation Jaywick. An attempt to duplicate this success, Operation Rimau, ends in disaster, with the team either killed or captured. Those soldiers who are interrogated by the Japanese in Singapore, with Page forming a friendship with Minoru Tamiya. Eventually all the Australians are convicted of war crimes and are executed.