Australia

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Meet plain but privileged multi-millionairess Stephanie Harper, whose sole mistake is to fall for handsome young sporting hero Greg Marsden. Stephanie’s dreams of bliss end before her honeymoon at the hands of her new husband, her traitorous best friend Jilly and the jaws of a convenient reptile. But wait! Undead, unhappy and hideously scarred, Stephanie crawls back to settle the score with the aid of gentle plastic surgeon, Doctor Dan Marshall. He watches her re-emerge as superstar model Tara Welles — but can true love and bitter vengeance coexist in the heady world of fashion? Return to Eden is a breathless trip from the mansions of Sydney Harbour to the deadly rivers of the Australian tropics, from the swaying palms of the Great Barrier Reef to the catwalks of the glitterati and a bloody climax in the ghostly outback estate of Eden.Read More »

Synopsis: After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.Read More »

With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.Read More »

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Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House.Read More »

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THE NIGHTINGALE is a meditation on the horrors of Australian colonization, set at the turn of the 19th century. The film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare’s husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all. When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north. Unfamiliar with the Tasmanian wilderness she enlists the help of an orphaned Aboriginal tracker Billy. Marked by their traumas, the two fight to overcome their distrust and prejudices against the backdrop of Australia’s infamous ‘Black War’.Read More »

Directed by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert, Falling is a “charming, intelligent and low-key” human drama about five independent women, former classmates who have forged different lives since their school days, who are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn child. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has followed the group’s idol into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggling to balance personal needs with professional goals. Cool, calm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while loose cannon Nicole desperately seeks to be closer with her estranged young daughter Daphne.Read More »

Lola, a true-crime podcaster, returns home for Christmas only to face a vengeful ghost reenacting the murders of a historical killer. With her community at risk, she must confront the town’s buried secrets to stop the slaughter.Read More »

A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played…Read More »

“Together with his collaborator, (prominent Australian playwright) Stephen Sewell, Ian Pringle has wisely chosen to avoid the restrictive confines of a birth-to-death biography. They have instead fashioned an involving interior drama, focusing on the final four years of Isabelle Eberhardt’s turbulent existence. This is the period when Isabelle (Mathilda May) returns to North Africa, ostensibly to track down a missing right-wing eccentric, the Marquis de Moyes. Eberhardt operates as a kind of free-roving desert correspondent, outraging authorities both with her published accounts exposing the corruption of the French militia, and also with her rebellious behaviour as an independent, self-styled woman in an exclusively male domain.Read More »