Australia

  • Steve Jacobs – La spagnola (2001)

    2001-2010AustraliaComedyDramaSteve Jacobs

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    Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn’t like or understand, Lola’s quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.Read More »

  • Quentin Masters – Midnite Spares (1983) 

    1981-1990ActionAustraliaCampQuentin Masters

    After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father’s untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.Read More »

  • Malena Szlam – Merapi (2021)

    2021-2030AustraliaExperimentalMalena SzlamShort Film

    A circumlocutory study of Mount Merapi, Indonesia. Shifting back and forth around the volcano, MERAPI is marked by the silent presence of its rumble and lava. Almost always at the centre, the volcano often slips away behind the clouds, a ghost. The work is silently structured around the rippling impression of the volcano on its surrounds: smoke through trees, the breaking of rain against its slopes and the rich fertility of its soils. A work as sensitive to the shift in light through swirls of 16mm grain and atmosphere as it is to what it is like to live within the horizon of the volcano, located near the densely populated Yogyakarta.Read More »

  • Brian Hannant – The Time Guardian (1987)

    1981-1990AustraliaBrian HannantCultSci-Fi

    A time traveling city under attack by cyborg robots in 4039 travels back in time sending two troopers in advance to the Australian desert year 1988 to prepare for its arrival. The enemy tracks them.Read More »

  • Nadia Tass – Rikky and Pete (1988)

    1981-1990ArthouseAustraliaComedyNadia Tass

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    Follow the lives of Rikky, a talanted geologist, and her brother Pete, an off-the-wall mechanical genius. To find peace of mind they travel to the outbacks of Australia and meet up with a desert mining town full of zany individualists.Read More »

  • Donald Crombie – Caddie (1976)

    1971-1980AustraliaClassicsDonald CrombieDrama

    Caddie tells the story of a Sydney woman, Caddie, (Helen Morse) in the late nineteen twenties, early thirties, as she leaves an adulterous, violent husband, and finds work as a barmaid to support herself and her two children, with Jack Weaver and Melissa Jaffer as two friendly barmaids who show her the ropes.

    She is tempted by a flash bookie Ted (Jack Thompson), who calls her Caddie because she has the same class as his new Cadillac.Read More »

  • Kevin James Dobson – Squizzy Taylor (1982)

    1981-1990AustraliaCrimeKevin James Dobson

    The mob wanted to make him a corpse… The public wanted to make him a hero.

    This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
    He earned the nickname ‘Squizzy’ due to a droopy left eyelid and the fact that he ran in a ‘squizzy’ motion.Read More »

  • Tim Burstall – Nightmare at Bitter Creek (1988)

    1981-1990ActionAustraliaTim Burstall

    A group of women go on a horse-riding expedition to an isolated mountain region where they become prey to a gang of crazed white supremacists. Apparently an Ozploitation turkey (IMDb users have no kind words for it) directed by the once-eminent Tim Burstall and starring Lindsay Wagner, Joanna Cassidy and Tom Skerritt.Read More »

  • Peter Maxwell – Plunge Into Darkness (1977)

    1971-1980AustraliaPeter MaxwellThriller

    In this thriller, a former Olympic runner and his young family embark upon a happy vacation and find themselves fighting for their lives at the hands of a homicidal maniac.Read More »

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