Movies Produced in Australia
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Beautiful
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Actors: Liam Goodes, Sebastian Gregory, Aaron Jeffery, Socratis Otto, Erik Thomson, Deborra-Lee Furness, Asher Keddie, Rebekah Rimington, Tahyna Tozzi, Peta Wilson
Director(s): Dean O'Flaherty
Searing and luscious, "Beautiful" tells the story of Daniel, a shy and introverted 14 year old boy residing in Sunshine Hills, a suburb living in the grip of fear following the rumoured abductions of three teenage girls. Daniel's two main obsessions are photography and Suzy, a 17 year old Lolita, a dangerous combination of youth and sexuality.
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3 Acts of Murder
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Actors: Bille Brown, Luke Ford, Nicholas Hope, Trevor Jamieson, Lee Jankowski, Bill McCluskey, Greg McNeill, Robert Menzies, Emma Booth, Anni Finsterer, Ningali Lawford
Director(s): Rowan Woods
In 1929 Arthur Upfield, Australia's premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stock-man Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia's most sensational murder trials of the 1930's and catapulted Upfield's name onto the world stage.
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Saw VI
[ 2009, Canada, USA, UK, Australia ] starting from $1.99Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Actors: Shawn Ahmed, Tobin Bell, Devon Bostick, James Gilbert, Costas Mandylor, Peter Outerbridge, Mark Rolston, James Van Patten, Caroline Cave, Karen Cliche, Tanedra Howard, Shauna MacDonald, Jon Mack, Betsy Russell
Director(s): Kevin Greutert
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.
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The Voyage That Shook the World
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99If Darwin had known what we now know...
Genres: Documentary
Actors: Dale Simmons, John Unicomb
Director(s): Steve Murray
In 1831 a young amateur scientist, Charles Darwin, boarded HMS Beagle on an epic five-year voyage of discovery. 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, 'Origin of Species'. The Voyage that Shook the World retraces Darwin's journey, exploring the places and discoveries crucial to the formulation of his Theory of Evolution. Filmed in South America, UK, North America, Australia and Europe, The Voyage features dramatic period recreations and stunning nature cinematography interwoven with scholars sharing their perspectives on the man and the controversy. A fascinating and thought provoking opportunity to gain new insight into The Voyage that Shook the World.
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Closed for Winter
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama
Actors: Natalie Imbruglia, Daniel Frederiksen, Deborah Kennedy, Danielle Catanzariti, Tiahn Green, Tony Martin, Sophie Ross, Adam Morgan, Kaliopi Eleni
Director(s): James Bogle
Tells the story of a woman's journey to overcome the events of the past and to find a way to move on. It is a story of dark secrets and the power of and celebration of letting go.
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Last Ride
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama
Actors: John Brumpton, Mick Coulthard, Adam Morgan, Levine Ngatokorua, Kelton Pell, Tom Russell, Hugo Weaving, Chris Weir, Rachel Francis, Anita Hegh, Chrissie Page, Sonya Suares
Director(s): Glendyn Ivin
A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.
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Mary and Max
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Actors: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore, Renée Geyer, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, John Flaus, Michael Ienna, Chris Massey, Shaun Patten, Julie Forsyth, Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen, Leanne Smith
Director(s): Adam Elliot
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.
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Coffin Rock
[ 2009, UK, Australia ] starting from $1.99Be careful what you wish for...
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Terry Camilleri, Joseph Del Re, Geoff Morrell, Sam Parsonson, Robert Taylor, Lisa Chappell, Jodie Dry
Director(s): Rupert Glasson
This tense psychological thriller tells the story of a woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying. In a desperate and drunken mistake, she sleeps with a young stranger. Determined to prove his paternity, his intentions soon become terrifyingly psychotic and the young woman finds herself at the centre of a psychological and brutally physical battle which she must win if she is to survive and have the family she longs for.
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Samson and Delilah
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99True Love.
Genres: Drama
Actors: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton, Matthew Gibson, Steven Brown, Gregwyn Gibson, Noreen Robertson Nampijinpa, Kenrick Martin, Peter Bartlett, Patricia Rigby
Director(s): Warwick Thornton
Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone the discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.
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Nine Miles Down
[ 2009, UK, USA, Hungary, Australia ] starting from $1.99Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil...
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Yousef Amin, Arcadiy Golubovich, Adrian Paul, Andrew Rybak, Anthony Waller, Caroline Couret-Delegue, Amanda Douge, Kate Nauta, Meredith Ostrom
Director(s): Anthony Waller
In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. Thomas "Jack" Jackman (Paul) a security patrolman, battles through the high winds to find out why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth's crust than ever before.
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Crush
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99She's never going to let him go...
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Actors: Christopher Egan, Emma Lung, Brooke Harmon, Christian Clark, Jenna Lind, Kane Manera, Elwyn Edwards, Luke Hewitt, Ian Toyne, Kerry-Ella McAullay, Gemma Pranita, Helen Searle
Director(s): Jeffrey Gerritsen
A university student is stalked by an obsessed girl who has supernatural powers.
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Cedar Boys
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Actors: Vico Thai, Daniel Amalm, Yasser Assadi, Fayssal Bazzi, Les Chantery, Buddy Dannoun, Clint Facey, Bren Foster, Taffy Hany, Martin Henderson, Jayb Hoyt, Eddie Idik, Hani Malik, Hunter McMahon
Director(s): Serhat Caradee
A journey into the lives of Middle-Eastern Australians in Sydney's outer-west.
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Cedar Boys
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Actors: Vico Thai, Daniel Amalm, Yasser Assadi, Fayssal Bazzi, Les Chantery, Buddy Dannoun, Clint Facey, Bren Foster, Taffy Hany, Martin Henderson, Jayb Hoyt, Eddie Idik, Hani Malik, Hunter McMahon
Director(s): Serhat Caradee
A journey into the lives of Middle-Eastern Australians in Sydney's outer-west.
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Balibo
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99East Timor, 1975: Five Journalists Are Missing. One Man Searches For The Truth. One Man Fights For Justice.
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Nathan Phillips, Mark Leonard Winter, Damon Gameau, Gyton Grantley, Oscar Isaac, Anthony LaPaglia, Paul Sonkkila, Mark Winter, Tom Wright, Bea Viegas
Director(s): Robert Connolly
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.
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Charlie & Boots
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99They're on the road to somewhere
Actors: Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Morgan Griffin, Roy Billing, Raheel Abid, T.J. Alcaniz, Danny Baldwin, Christopher Bruce, Adam Cawley, Sam Elia, Reg Evans, Stewart Faichney, Joe Faulkner, Cory Ford, Troy Furley
Director(s): Dean Murphy
After a family tragedy, Charlie and his estranged son Boots put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime. From regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula, they overcome many challenges to reach their destination—to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
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Sherlock Holmes
[ 2009, UK, Australia, USA ] starting from $1.99Crime Will Pay
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan, Andrew Care, Sam Child, James Currie, Joe Egan, Martin Ewens, James Fox, David Garrick, William Hope, William Houston, Robert Maillet
Director(s): Guy Ritchie
After finally catching serial killer and occult "sorcerer" Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with his partner's new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the dauntless detective must unravel the clues that will lead him into a twisted web of murder, deceit, and black magic - and the deadly embrace of temptress Irene Adler.
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Daybreakers
[ 2009, Australia, USA ] starting from $1.99Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Jack Bradford, Joel Amos Byrnes, Gavin Coleman, Vince Colosimo, Michael Dorman, Eddie L. Fauria, Mark Finden, Christopher Kirby, David Knijnenburg, Jay Laga'aia, Mungo McKay, Sam Neill, Paul Sonkkila
Director(s): Michael Spierig
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
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Bright Star
[ 2009, UK, Australia, France ] starting from $1.99First Love Burns Brightest
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance
Actors: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Edie Martin, Thomas Sangster, Gerard Monaco, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Samuel Roukin, Amanda Hale, Lucinda Raikes, Samuel Barnett, Jonathan Aris, Olly Alexander, Theresa Watson
Director(s): Jane Campion
The drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.
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Van Diemen's Land
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Hunger is a strange silence.
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft, Mark Leonard Winter, Torquil Neilson, Greg Stone, John Francis Howard, Jason Glover, Adrian Mulraney, Ben Plazzer, Matt Wilson, Tom Wright
Director(s): Jonathan auf der Heide
The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving.. the Australian wilderness. Abandon all hope you who enter.
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Lucky Country
[ 2009, Australia ] starting from $1.99Actors: Aden Young, Toby Wallace, Pip Miller, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Neil Pigot, Eamon Farren, Robert Menzies, Helmut Bakaitis, Tammy McCarthy
Director(s): Kriv Stenders
1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's beloved father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat's dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence. But their presence becomes more menacing when one of them reveals a secret: he's found gold. As the lure of gold infects everyone around him the cabin becomes a psychological battleground in which Tom's loyalty is put to the ultimate test.