Screen Australia
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Legends say there's a world beneath this one where a dragon lies sleeping. They say be careful how you wake the dragon. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the most profound change in the history of human enterprise on Earth: the unleashing of the elemental force within uranium, the explosion of an atomic bomb, the unleashing of the dragon. The story of uranium is part science, part history and all epic adventure. From its creation in an...
2) Mystery road
Series
Publisher
Mystery Road Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Detective Joe Swan returns to his small home town to investigate the murder of a teenaged Aboriginal girl. He finds himself alone and in growing danger as the towns secrets unravel.
Series
The Doctor Blake mysteries volume season 1
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Dr. Lucian Blake returns to his Australian hometown to continue his late father's medical practice, but it is his additional responsibility as the town's chief medical officer that leads him to investigating cases of suspicious death.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the Snowy Mountains, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson is pushed to her limits. With the burden of a dark secret and intruders to her property, Molly does whatever it takes to protect her children"--
Molly Johnson's husband is away droving cattle, leaving her alone to care for their four children at their remote Snowy Mountains homestead. Despite being heavily pregnant, Molly keeps various threats, from nature and other people, at bay. But when...
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Facing Monsters digs deep into the psyche of West Australian surfer Kerby Brown, a man whose connection with the ocean runs as deep as his love for his family. Far more than just a surfing story, it's an unapologetic musing into the essence of Kerby and his family as we join them on his quest to ride a ferocious slab wave in the deep Southern Ocean that no one on the planet has surfed before.
7) Sando
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Charismatic but conceited Victoria 'Sando' Sandringham made a name for herself as the 'package deal queen' of her furniture empire. But after an outrageous indiscretion at the wedding of her daughter, Susie, Sando's family cut her out of their lives. Ten years later, Sando is being forced out of her company, too. With nowhere to go, she tries to worm her way back into her family's good graces, but they have problems of their own. As tension builds...
8) Dirt music
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The fervent attraction between Georgie, a woman stuck in a loveless relationship, and Lu, a musician with a tragic past, gets the better of them when secrets are uncovered that will change their lives.
Series
Mr. Inbetween volume season 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Juggling a relationship, parental responsibilities, friendships, and a sick brother while earning a living would be difficult for anyone, but it's particularly difficult when you're a criminal for hire. Ray Shoesmith takes care of people collecting debts, relieving them of drugs and guns, and often taking care of them on a more permanent basis. Ray demands respect and does not tolerate it when someone disregards his very clear code of ethics.
10) Seriously red
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Red lost her job as a real estate agent, but there's something no one can take away from her: her dream of becoming the world's greatest Dolly Parton impersonator. After her act attracts the attention of an amorous Elvis impersonator and a powerful booking agent, Red is catapulted into the top tier of copycat acts, becoming the onstage and romantic partner of the top Kenny Rogers impersonator. But when Red's life as an imitator starts to feel false,...
11) Girls can't surf
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. The film follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more. A wild ride of clashing personalities,...
12) Swinging safari
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
1970s Australia: A 200-ton blue whale washes up on a local beach and it's the biggest thing that's ever happened in the lives of the local kids. Behind closed doors, the parents of this quiet suburban cul-de-sac celebrate in their own special way. It's a time of boxed wine, bad hair, bad styles, bad choices, but good times. And like the rotting whale, it's all about to go spectacularly wrong.
13) The royal hotel
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Human trafficking, a woman seized by cannibalistic urges, a serial killer with a crush, and a ghostly presence. A horror anthology of four tragic, interlocking, and intertwined stories that take place within one seemingly normal neighborhood.
14) Deep water
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the mutilated corpse of a young gay man is found in a smart Bondi Beach apartment, Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned the case. Is this brutal murder a domestic disturbance, a robbery gone wrong, or a gay hate crime? With mounting evidence to suggest the perpetrator has killed before, they start digging through old investigations and the discovery is shocking. They uncover up to 80 possible murders of gay men in New South...
15) Lion
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
16) Rams
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two estranged brothers, Colin and Les, are at war raising separate flocks of sheep both descended from the family's bloodline. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
18) 2040
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if the solutions already available to improve our planet were embraced. Structured as a letter to his daughter, Gameau blends documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision of how these solutions could regenerate the world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
20) I am woman
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of singer Helen Reddy, who wrote and sang the song that became the anthem for the women's movement in the 1970s.