Mercury was an Australian TV series that launched in 1996. It featured Geoffrey Rush.
Various stories of Bruno and his German Australian family, living in early 1930s rural South Australia.
Napoleon is a golden retriever who embarks on a cross-country adventure across Australia, encountering various animals and obstacles along the way. With his playful and affectionate nature, Napoleon forms friendships and learns important lessons about family and loyalty.
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
Larceny, adultery, sabotage and treachery. Yes, just your typical Christmas with the Dredge family! Twelve-year-old Joey Dredge is in trouble again. Expelled for jumping off the school roof, he's haunted by his father's death and hates his mother's new boyfriend and his bullying son. Compounding his misery is the knowledge he has to spend Christmas with them at the family beach house. Things look grim until the unexpected arrival of great-grandfather Albert, fresh from a stint in prison. Forced to share the back shed with this swearing, farting and devious octogenarian, Joey's life changes. Between barbecuing the family dog, performing a self-burial and causing his intended step-father to consume a startling amount of hash, Joey learns a few life lessons from Albert, who despite his many vices may give Joey the strength to accept the past and embrace the future.
In a Savage Land follows a newlywed couple, a colonial governor and a missionary, as they navigate the complexities of love, lust, and power play in 1930s Papua New Guinea. Their relationship is tested during the Japanese invasion, revealing the sexism and machismo prevalent at the time. The couple also encounters an old woman, anthropologists, pearl divers, and a mysterious tomb. Amidst their struggles, the husband-wife relationship takes unexpected turns and explores themes of anthropology, native culture, and the South Pacific.
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying theatre director. The young man has been given a tape of instructions; over a weekend he must perform scenes from the director's life. He visits different rooms encountering five actresses who all portray key women in the director's life. They rehearse the boy to play the lead role in an as yet 'unmade film'. The dying director watches young boy's progress as he searches to inhabit the director's identity. It's an Alice in Wonderland tale and an unpredictable journey of self discovery for all concerned...
A young Aboriginal policeman and a detective from the city investigate a series of apparently unmotivated murders taking place in the remote outback.
Australia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle.
Lawyer Jeff Warren takes over a compensation case after the sudden death of one of his legal partners. His subsequent investigations, and growing obsession with the enigmatic Ellen Fielding, compromise his values and his view of himself as a winner. His attempts to solve the complex intrigues lead him to be accused of the murder of Ellen's husband, Harry, and even his longtime partner and friend, Alison, finds it difficult to believe that he is innocent. His moral dilemma leads him into a final graphic confrontation, with unexpected results.
Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
A young man is caught in his mother's dreams. This is an exploration of mother-son love, fantasies, and deceit.
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