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Set around the riots in Redfern during 2004 AROUND THE BLOCK is about breaking family and cultural cycles for a hopeful future. A contemporary story of love, revenge and triumph, a young Aboriginal boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
A drama series of monumental events, unsung heroes and buried surprises of history from Australia's penal beginnings to the present day.
Stella Heikkenen's fall from grace is as spectacular as it is life threatening. Betrayed by her own and in immediate danger - Stella has no option but to move her young family to the last place on earth anyone would expect.
Money changes everything. It turns good people bad and bad people worse.
In a single moment, life can change forever. Jason Masterman is a successful New York stockbroker whose career comes to a bitter end. Having lost everything, he returns home to Sydney, where a chance meeting will change the way he lives the rest of his life. Jason returns to New York with a renewed sense of purpose. But did his fall from grace ever really happen? BEING IN HEAVEN is a journey of revelation and awakening that reveals the truth about meaning, freedom and personal happiness.
Jared is 17 and lives with his mother in Blackrock, a suburb in a large industrial city on the coast of New South Wales. Finishing strongly in his second last year at school, he is starting to get a handle on life. Then Ricko, the young local hero and Jared's idol, returns. Jared throws a welcome home party for him at the local surf club. Everyone is there. A 15-year-old girl is found dead on the beach. Jared is torn between loyalty and truth.
An exploration of the police/criminal culture that existed in Sydney in the 1980s.
An anarchic comic look at contemporary urban Australia, both through the work of 'Melbourne Confidential' - part marriage bureau, part detective agency - and the personal lives of the characters involved in running it.
Soon after big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted to a quiet town on the Australian coast the whole community is thrown into unrest by the murder of a local philanthropist, a man with some very disturbing secrets.
Few ever knew that Josef Stalin's last conscious night on the planet was spent in the loving and devoted arms of a young Australian, Joan Fraser. Fewer still knew that their love child would bring Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now...
Computers and ghosts come together in a zany futuristic comedy.
THE CUT is a comedic look at the soft underbelly of professional sport through the eyes of a small, family-owned sports management business.
An adaptation of the delightful Steele Rudd stories written at the turn of the century about the trials and tribulations of rural life, in particular those of the Rudd family. Dad Rudd moves his family out into the scrub to 'select' 150 acres of fly-blown land that would hardly grow a cabbage. Riley, his squatter neighbour, hates selectors and wants the Rudds' land. Riley is also the local MP. The Rudds make a go of it and Dad decides to stand for parliament. Dad wins! Dad Rudd MP, the farmers f
Former ballet student, Tara Webster, was destined to become one of the top dancers of her generation before a devastating injury crippled her career. Over the last eighteen months she has tried to move on but cannot get over her dream of dancing professionally with the National Ballet Company. In her quest to defy the odds in a near impossible comeback, Tara leaves her life and love behind in Sydney and travels to New York, determined to prove she still has what it takes. But as the rejections p
Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster has grown up on a farm in outback Australia and has dreamt of being a dancer ever since she was a little girl. When she makes it into the National Academy of Dance - the best school in the country - she is sure her life is about to be spectacular. What Tara doesn't realise is how far behind she is in her training, and that there's a whole lot more to surviving the Academy than just dancing.
Tara returns to the National Academy of Dance with the goal of representing Australia in the world's most prestigious ballet competition. But perhaps she should be more focused on just surviving Second Year where having climbed to the top in her first year at the Academy - in dance, in life, in love - she now has a very long way to fall.
Tara and her friends are now seniors at the Academy and no one can forget for a second that the Company is watching. It will be a nail-biting chase to the finish line to see who will be offered a contract and finally achieve what they have been working towards for so long… and who will have to find a new dream...
An ordinary bloke rockets out of his loveless relationship into a new world in which he gets the chance to stand out from the crowd and fall in love.
Through a series of hilarious mishaps, Bobby McCain, the son of US International Resort Developer 'Big Mike McCain', finds himself transferred from California to the isolated Mullet Beach, Australia on an Exchange Lifeguard Program. Set against a backdrop of beautiful girls and beaches, life is not as it seems at Mullet Beach.
On a stifling hot Christmas Eve in 1803 William Buckley, an English 23-year-old court-martialled soldier, transported to Australia on Victoria's first fleet, escaped the doomed settlement of Sorrento in Port Phillip. Buckley exhausted and near death, took a spear from an Aboriginal grave to help him walk - the luckiest decision he ever made in his life. Thirty-two years later at 2pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambles into the camp recently established by John Batman at Indented He
Whilst visiting her family in Townsville for her sister Alice's engagement festivities, tea shop owner Lia finds herself at a comedically tumultuous family luncheon with her best friend Mason and is gifted an unwelcome prophecy that she will soon meet her suitor. Her family, unsure of Lia's ability to discern a partner for herself, decides to set her up on five blind dates. Even though her true passion and current focus lies in saving her tea-shop, a legacy left to her from her grandmother, Lia
Set in Sydney's western suburbs, FOOTY LEGENDS tells the story of Luc Vu, a young Vietnamese-Australian man with an obsession about football. Out of work, and with welfare authorities threatening to take away his little sister, Luc reunites his old high school football team to win a competition that could change all their lives.
The Lady Gorillas are a down-and-out basketball team from the country town of Goondi. They are at the bottom of the regional basketball ladder and are scheduled to play the last match of the season against The Sharks, who are not only at the top of the ladder, but are also mean and dirty players. There are five main players for the Lady Gorillas, and they're a hopeless lot, covering the gamut of 'social problems'. The last match of the season is about to commence, and the Lady Gorilla's coach, G
Based on the 1983 spy scandal involving David Combe. A story of intrigue, power, politics and murder set in Australia's national capital, Canberra.
In a secluded country valley something or someone is killing the animals. The four frightened residents, each scarred by life and love, form an uneasy alliance in search of things they do not know, in places they should not be.
Sophie Hartley is convinced she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her children, her husband and her life. But no-one believes Sophie. Forced to prove her sanity, Sophie grows increasingly paranoid - is she imagining things? Sophie becomes completely caught up in her obsession, turning stalker herself - and makes a discovery more shocking than her worst fear.
Lawson, an eccentric adventurer and famous writer, and Man, his offbeat manservant, create a fiasco of comedy and duplicity as they set about convincing the world that Lawson has 'gone off the deep end'.
Jack's back in this six-part thriller which takes us from the cultural atoll of Fitzroy to the bustling city of Manila, where Jack's on-again-off-again lover Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp) has landed a job as a foreign correspondent. In the wake of Linda's departure, Jack is engaged to track down a missing man, Wayne Dilthey (Dan Hamill), but the investigation goes pear-shaped when his quarry is killed before his eyes. The client becomes an enigma and the job is revealed to be an elaborate set
Jack Irish is a part-time lawyer, mug punter and finder of people who'd rather remain lost. When a high profile Judge, Justice Loder commissions him to locate a mysterious red book, Jack is thrown into a world of sexy club owners, dodgy drug dealers, blackmailers, and unhinged killers. Anyone who touches the red book turns up dead. Jack should follow his instinct and back away - if only the judge wasn't family. Instead he finds himself chasing the red book in a dangerous race to a remote coastal
James Grant is the most admired school captain ever bred at Lawley Grammar, the most legendary rugby captain to ever lead the First Fifteen and the Dux of the school. James is on the path to success, and nothing is going to stop him...except one small thing. James loves to ballet dance. He secretly auditions for a small ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet and wins the part. James' other world is falling apart...his girlfriend wants to break up and his coach forces him to play a match that's s
Andrew Fraser was one of Australia's most successful criminal lawyers. His upward trajectory seemed limitless until he himself began to believe the hype. A weekend dabble in cocaine quickly spiralled into a horrendous addiction that eventually saw him sentenced to seven years in maximum security prison. Now, surrounded by serial killers and murderers, Fraser must try and look back over his life to discover just where it went so wrong.
THE LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE follows the final days of Irish convict Alexander Pearce's life as he awaits execution. The year is 1824 and the British penal colony of Van Dieman's Land is little more than a living hell. Chained to a wall in the darkness of a cell under Hobart Goal, Pearce is visited by Father Connolly, the parish priest of the fledging colony and a fellow Irishman. THE LAST CONFESSION OF ALEXANDER PEARCE will draw a visceral and compelling picture of a hell on earth a
A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL is a Faustian comedy about a scientist on the verge of discovering the key to the ageing process - but he needs more money to finish his work.
The public facade and private life of an aspiring politician and his wife. This film reveals the little white lies that lead to revenge, blackmail and a fight for life.
Simon Chan has returned to his hometown after many years training in a faraway martial arts temple. He is a born hero, defender of the weak and champion of the honest people of Cabramatta… Well, not really. The truth is Simon was at art school but he'd rather risk his life than disappoint his mother. Welcome to MAXIMUM CHOPPAGE, a painfully funny kung fu comedy where identity, family and love is a battlefield.
Muriel, a contemporary Cinderella, is a shy young woman living in the seaside resort of Porpoise Spit, a suburban wonderland of shopping malls, marine parks and holiday homes where the excessive expectations of her friends and family cause her to take refuge in a dreamworld of Abba songs and the search for a Prince Charming who will rescue her from anonymity.
The story of one place on earth told by the children who live there from 1878 to before white settlement. The second part of MY PLACE, the series is based on the Nadia Wheatley/ Donna Rawlins book.
At Maralinga in 1956, atom bombs were not the only things being tested. At the height of the Cold War, the human capacity for loyalty and betrayal were constantly pitted against each other. But not just in terms of espionage. Friend against friend. Lover against lover. Government against its people. If only trust could bloom in an infinite desert. But these are not trusting times.
A pact between four university students is made on the roof of a speeding train. The pact will come back to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Brilliant pianist, innovative composer and radical intellectual, Percy Grainger was an eccentric genius who relished extreme sado-masochism and shared an intense relationship with his mother, Rose. PASSION is the story of this 20th century maverick and his mother.
Martin, blind since birth, trusts nobody. As a young boy he had the feeling that even his mother lied to him as a punishment for being blind. As an adult he copes with his disability by taking his photographs as proof that the world he imagines is the same world that sighted people see. For years he has waited for someone he trusts to describe his photos to him, so when he meets Andy, Martin feels that he is close to knowing the truth. But Andy is only human, and Martin's jealous housekeeper, Ce
RAKE stars Richard Roxburgh (Blue Murder, Moulin Rouge, Mission Impossible II ) as criminal defence barrister Cleaver Greene - defender of the indefensible and champion of the lost cause ... both in the court room and the bedroom.
Last seen dangling from a balloon drifting across the Sydney skyline, Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh) crashes back to earth - literally and metaphorically, when he's propelled through a harbourside window into the unwelcoming embrace of chaos past. Fleeing certain revenge, Cleaver hightails it to a quiet country town, the reluctant member of a congregation led by a stern, decent reverend and his flirtatious daughter. Before long Cleaver's being chased back to Sin City. But Sydney has become a
One year on from taking up residency in Canberra as a Senator in Federal Parliament, Cleaver's chaos has not abated. Having single-handedly caused the downfall of the Governor General, there are old foes and new. David Potter has made the transition to Senator for the Greens (without the extra 'e') and Cleaver has a new nemesis in the formidable and right wing Senator Penny Evans. Nicole Vargas is now Cleaver's Chief of Staff, and Jack lurks in the Parliamentary shadows, ready to make or break
Revelation is a gripping three-part examination of the dark forces behind clerical child sex-abuse in the Catholic Church in Australia and the extraordinary cover up that took place, amounting to an unprecedented criminal protection racket. This is the story no one wanted to hear. A crime no one believed was possible. Committed by the most respected and trusted people imaginable. And concealed by the largest, most powerful organisation in the world.
The inspirational true story of jockey Michelle Payne, who beat catastrophic injury and odds of a 100-1, to become the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
In 1978, when the push to decriminalize homosexuality has stalled, a group of activists decide they must make one final attempt to celebrate who they are. Led by former union boss, Lance Gowland, they get a police permit and spread the word. On a freezing winter's night, they cloak themselves in fancy dress, join hands and parade down Oxford Street. But they have no idea that angry police lie in wait, and the courage they find that night will finally mobilize the nation.
A funny and compassionate fable about ambition and what happens when it is out of control.
Three people have only seven days to capture an extortionist who is holding the Surfers Paradise Council to ransom for $2 million by threatening to use a shark-attracting formula at a surf carnival.
Detective Martin Bullet is in trouble. After killing a young kid in a drug bust, he comes to terms with his conscience by starting a new life in Australia. But life is not as he imagined 'downunder'. Assigned to a tough undercover cop, Jack Moran (described by his colleagues as a 'walking time bomb'), Martin Bullet gets caught up in the explosion of a major drug ring and the choice of walking away.
Two likable larrikins check into Sundance Inn, Falls Creek, for the weekend of their lives. Aided by a disreputable ski-cum-sex instructor, they relentlessly pursue girls, but all in vain.
It's 1968. Sixteen-year-old Sonja leaves her alcoholic father and troubled past, gets on a bus and never looks back. Twenty years later she decides it's time to find out what she was running from. Single and pregnant, she returns to the migrant worker's camp in the Tasmanian Highlands she once called home and finally uncovers the truth she wasn't told as a child.
Based on Anthony Fingleton's book of the struggle to become an Olympic swimmer despite an overbearing, alcoholic father and his long-suffering mother.
A young girl's first crush leads her into an uncharted world of hidden desires.
Based on the book CRIMSON LAKE by best-selling crime writer Candice Fox. When an ex-cop falsely accused of a disturbing crime escapes to the tropics of Far North Queensland, he finds himself entangled in a newly-formed PI agency run by an eccentric ex-con who served ten years for murder. By-the-book Ted Conkaffey and human whirlwind Amanda Pharrell mix like oil and water, and yet, as they set about unravelling the truth behind the strange death of a local inhabitant, a partnership which seemed
THE TWELVE comes to Western Australia, to the rural township of Tunkwell - a world away from the urban city landscapes of Season One. When local landowner, Bernice Price, was found dead at the bottom of her farm well, two ex-lovers stand accused of her murder. Twelve ordinary citizens from diverse backgrounds have been plucked from the township and surrounds to decide the fate of the co-accused - was Bernice the victim of a crime of passion, a workplace accident or just bad luck? Criminal barris
When beautiful divorcee and single mother Meera meets Will, she finds it hard to resist the tall blonde man with a charming smile... But her family has other ideas in mind, as falling in love with an Australian is not only scandalous - it's UNindian. A cross cultural comedy with a lot of heart and spice.
Nikheel Katira is a gifted Indian-Australian nurse working at Wakefield - a psychiatric hospital in the haunting and majestic Blue Mountains. In the first episode, a series of events trigger song-stickage in Nik and he begins to unravel. The question is: why? This is the psychological mystery that drives eight compelling episodes. A long-repressed trauma from Nik's past is coming back, whether he likes it or not. A rich ensemble of staff and patients surround him, each with their own desires, st
Robbie, a young high school teacher becomes a martial arts champion. After Robbie witnesses the murder of the local thug and drug pusher, he finds himself in the ring, competing with the killer.
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