Movies produced in Australia
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Ocean's Eleven
Comedy / Crime / Thriller , produced in 2001, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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24 hours after Danny Ocean (George Clooney), a cunning and smart thief, has released from prison in New Jersey, he is already planning the most sophisticated and high-tech casino heist in history. He decides to rob three prosperous Las Vegas casinos owned by a dapper, unscrupulous and ruthless mogul, Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), who happens to date Danny's ex-wife Tess (Julia Roberts). In one night, Danny assembles professionals from all over the country. The gang is comprised of Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), a card fraud; Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), a perfect pickpocket; Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), a cardsharper; Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner), a retired swindler who will play a weaponry dealer; Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle), an explosives expert, and others. Eveyone plays his own part in the classic game of Gambit. Ocean's accomplices will do their utmost to steal $150 million during a big boxing event on New Year's Eve.
Dark City
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1998, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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John's life has become a nightmare. He is hunted by the police for a series of murders he knows nothing about, a woman who claims to be his wife is after him, and so is a mysterious "doctor". But his worst trouble is the strangers, a series of vastly powerful beings who seem to manipulate just about everything in the city, and want him because of the extraordinary powers he manifested. John decides to find out what is happening in his city; why is it always night? And why can nobody tell him a way to leave the city?
The Matrix
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1999, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life—in what he thinks is the year 1999—until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life—the "Matrix"—to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "The One" who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.
Moulin Rouge!
Drama / Musical / Romance , produced in 2001, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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In 1899 a young talented poet, Christian (Ewan McGregor), comes to Paris, Montmarte, where he plunges into the bohemian world of freedom, sex, drugs and love. Soon enough, Christian falls fathoms deep in love with Satin (Nicole Kidman), the most gorgeous Parisian courtesan and the Moulin Rouge's highest paid star. Meanwhile, the Duke (Richard Roxburgh), a wealthy nobleman, is also obsessed with Satin. He is determined to invest in the Moulin Rouge's latest musical in order to have Satin. However, Satin reciprocates Christian's affection, and they must conceal their love affair. Unfortunately, they are fated never to be happy: Satin is ill with consumption so she is not long for this world...
Training Day
Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2001, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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A rookie cop named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) starts working in the Los Angeles Police Department's undercover narcotics unit. Jake is trained by a corrupt veteran officer Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), who excels the most inveterate criminals in perfidy and brutality. Fighting with the very dregs of the population, Harris keeps neither laws nor morals. He lives by the maxim: "One must howl with the wolves." At the end of his first workday idealistic Jake is confronted with the moral dilemma whether he will obey the rules of his partner or make a stand against them.
Pitch Black
Action / Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2000, Australia, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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He is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel). He is a stranger to fear. More than once he has been within hair's breadth of death. This time fortune doesn't smile upon him: the dangerous escaped criminal is being caught, shackled and headed for a new prison in a large cargo spacecraft. After being damaged in a meteor storm, the spaceship crash-lands on a seemingly desolate distant planet. As a matter of fact, there is life on the eerie planet. Nasty carnivorous creatures dwelling in the subterraneans come out onto the surface and start seeking for flesh and blood, as three suns set and the planet plunges into pitch-darkness. The spaceship crash survivors – Riddick's captor William J. Johns (Cole Hauser), a Muslim Imam (Keith David ) with his three sons, Sulieman (Les Chantery), Hassan (Sam Sari) and Ali (Firass Dirani), a young stowaway, Jack (Rhiana Griffith), an antiquary, Paris P. Ogilvie (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), and two Australian settlers, Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery (Claudia Black) and John "Zeke" Ezekiel (John Moore) – have hope for the criminal Riddick who can see in the dark owing to an illegal prison surgery. Riddick get into a terrible fight with the vicious monsters so as to survive and leave the planet from whose bourn no traveller returns...
Ghost Ship
Adventure / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2002, Australia, USA , added: 14 Feb 2005
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When Canadian Air Force pilot Jack Ferriman recruits the team to investigate a mysterious vessel he has spotted floating adrift off the coast of Alaska in a remote region of the Bering Sea, they discover the remains of the fabled Antonia Graza, thought lost at sea for more than 40 years. It's a hell of a find # the salvage rights alone could be worth a fortune. And by the law of the sea, any vessel discovered on international waters can be claimed by whomever is fortunate enough to find her and skilled enough to haul her back to port. But once onboard the eerie, cavernous ship, the crew of the Arctic Warrior discovers that the decaying vessel is anything but deserted. It's home to something more deadly and horrific than anything they've encountered in all their years at sea.
Superman Returns
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2006, Australia, USA , added: 04 Dec 2006
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After a long period in the space, looking for the remains of planet Krypton, Superman returns to Earth. He misses Lois Lane, who lives with Richard White and has a son. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor plots an evil plan, using crystals he stole from the Fortress of Solitude, to create a new land and submerge the USA.
The Proposition
Drama , produced in 2005, Australia, UK , added: 14 Dec 2006
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The story and screenplay of this successful movie was written by famed singer-songwriter Nick Cave. In the press notes he says that he set out to write "a cohesive but mythical story that moved forward and was simple and affecting, as well as highly emotionally charged". This fine-tuned allegory relates to the cyclical bloodshed and is brutally violent, but its message is also brutally honest and meditative. The renegade Murphy brothers are in conflict with the controversial law enforcer (Ray Winstone). When two of the brothers are captured by authorities, the older (Guy Pearce) is given by a no-win choice: hunt and kill the lunatic Murphy Gang mastermind, his eldest brother Arthur (Danny Huston), otherwise the youngest (Richard Wilson) gets a hemp-tie on the gallows. This western reeks of the dry desert, with flies buzzing, temperatures soaring, and emotions spiraling out of control in the dusty, desolate and virtually lawless air of 1880s of the rural Australia.
No Reservations
Comedy / Drama / Romance , produced in 2007, Australia, USA , added: 14 Jan 2008
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Master chef Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is so addicted to her work that her whole life revolves around pans and pots. But her existence is drastically changed when she becomes the sole caregiver for her ten-year-old grief-stricken niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin) after the death of her sister in a car accident. As is known, misfortunes never come alone. Kate also must contend with a self-assured, free-wheeling sous-chef named Nick Palmer (Aaron Eckhart) who is hired without her prior approval and whom she perceives as a serious rival. As their rivalry grows into a romance, Kate has to learn to express herself outside the sanctuary of her kitchen.
Storm Warning
Horror , produced in 2007, Australia , added: 14 Jan 2008
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In this nail-biting horror movie, Rob (Robert Taylor) and Pia (Nadia Farès), a young couple, embark on a romantic boating excursion and get into a heavy storm. After their sailboat is wrecked, they become stranded in a desolate, creepy swamp surrounded by impenetrable forest. In an attempt to take shelter from raging rain and a ferocious wind, the husband and wife come across a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. After discovering a large amount of marijuana growing in the barn, they come to realize that it will turn out badly for them when the homeowners show up at the cabin...
Catwoman
Action / Crime / Fantasy , produced in 2004, Australia, USA , added: 24 Jan 2008
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Patience Philips (Halle Berry) inadvertently discoveres a sinister secret of a mammoth cosmetics company she has the misfortune to work for as a graphic designer. She learns that a new beauty product has deadly side effects. Afraid of the disclosure, George Hedare (Lambert Wilson), the mean CEO, and his cold-blooded wife Laurel (Sharon Stone), the longtime "face" of the company, decide to get rid of the unwanted employee. But she was mystically resurrected and granted superhuman powers by an Egyptian cat. With incredible feline agility, strength, speed, heightened reflexes and senses, Patience becomes Catwoman who sets out to wreak vengeance on those who murdered her.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi , produced in 1985, Australia, USA , added: 12 Feb 2008
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This is the third film in the popular series about a deserted and cruel post-apocalyptic world inhabited by fierce barbarians and criminals. Max (Mel Gibson) finds himself in the city of Bartertown trying to get back some of his stolen goods. He eventually becomes involved by Aunt Entity, the head of this weird city, in a death struggle with a huge creature known as "The Blaster." And that's only the beginning of his incredible and dangerous adventures! Max will be later betrayed and seeking shelter in the wild desert, rescued by a tribe of orphans and... See the continuation of the wonderful Mad Max saga!
Control
Biography / Drama / Music , produced in 2007, Australia, Japan, UK, USA , added: 12 Feb 2008
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A biographic film. Based on the memoir Touching From A Distance by Deborah Curtis, Control is a cinematographic story telling us of the Joy Division band and its leader Ian Curtis (Sam Riley). It is also a skillfully and beautifully featured film about ravaging effects of love, fame and repentance, and the salvation we turn to art for. Formed as a rock band in 1976 in salford, Greater Manchester, originally named Warsaw, Joy Division quickly went off their initial punk rock influences and created a sound and style that shaped the tendencies of the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Control, however, is virtually about Curtis’s difficult relationships with his wife Deborah (Samantha Morton) and the way his personal pain, epileptic sufferings, guilt and depression got manifested through Joy Division’s music. Playing all the instruments themselves, the actors must be given credit.
Mad Max
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1979, Australia , added: 08 Apr 2008
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It is a couple of years in the future... The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything... Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader "The Knight Rider". Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as "Mad Max".
The Ruins
Horror / Thriller , produced in 2008, Australia, USA , added: 23 Jun 2008
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A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
The Children of Huang Shi
Drama / History , produced in 2008, Australia, China, Germany , added: 03 Oct 2008
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Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And of how, in doing so, he came to understand the true meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.
Happy Feet
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical , produced in 2006, Australia, USA , added: 13 Nov 2008
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown 'alien' source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn't a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.
Australia
Adventure / Drama / War / Western , produced in 2008, Australia, USA , added: 18 Feb 2009
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Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
Saw VI
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2009, Australia, Canada, UK, USA , added: 27 Oct 2009
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Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
Mary and Max
Animation / Comedy / Drama , produced in 2009, Australia , added: 09 Nov 2009
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It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and New Yorker Max Horovitz. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs.
My Brilliant Career
Biography / Drama / Romance , produced in 1979, Australia , added: 25 Nov 2009
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The heroine, Sybylla (Davis), a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry played by Niel) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.
Wake in Fright
Drama / Thriller , produced in 1971, Australia, USA , added: 08 Dec 2009
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Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...
Cedar Boys
Crime / Drama , produced in 2009, Australia , added: 10 Dec 2009
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A journey into the lives of Middle-Eastern Australians in Sydney's outer-west.
Cedar Boys
Crime / Drama , produced in 2009, Australia , added: 10 Dec 2009
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A journey into the lives of Middle-Eastern Australians in Sydney's outer-west.
Balibo
Thriller , produced in 2009, Australia , added: 14 Dec 2009
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As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifies and an unlikely friendship develops between the last foreign correspondent in East Timor and the man who will become President. BALIBO is a political thriller that tells the true story of crimes that have been covered up for over thirty years.
Triangle
Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2009, Australia, UK , added: 25 Jan 2010
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When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realized when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced she's been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone... Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.
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