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War crimes. War guilt. War responsibility. Captain Robert Cooper, prosecutor during the largest war crimes trial of the Japanese in the Pacific, faces an explosive showdown. Australian justice versus American politics versus the ancient Japanese code of Bushido. Who will be held responsible? Who will pay the greatest price?
CHARLOTTE GRAY is a moving story set in Vichy, France, during the Nazi occupation. It centres on a young girl who parachutes into France to help the Resistance and to search for her English lover, a pilot shot down over enemy territory. During her time there Charlotte becomes close to two Jewish children whom she tries to protect from Nazi persecution. When it is time for her to return home, Charlotte realises that her love of France and its people has become more important than anything else, including the man she thought she loved.
Lewis, a young university graduate, accepts a job directing mental patients in a therapeutic drama course. His control is usurped by Roy, a manic depressive, who demands that they stage an opera by Mozart despite the fact that none of the inmates can sing, speak Italian or act.
Life on the Dickens' Australian sheep station is disrupted by the arrival of a long-lost son-in-law whose arrogant demands, European standards and young English wife overturn the family's orderly routine.
It has been 13 years since Harry Houdini's beloved mother passed away. Now obsessed with the afterlife and the possibility of contacting the dead, he offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can reveal her dying words to him, that only he would know. Enter psychic Mary McGregor and her daughter who set their sights on the world's greatest escape artist as their ultimate target. But what begins as a con soon evolves into something much more complicated and dangerous...
A story of love lost and found, in a remote wintry coastal town in Australia.
A bank robber pretends to be blind in order to avoid a lengthy jail term.
An irreverent and frequently riotous look at group-living in the 90s. Three young people with intellectual disabilities are forced to share their rented house with bankrupt builder and his vitriolic daughter. A richly wayward comedy of foiled expectations ensues.
Two sisters, eldest and youngest daughters of a domineering father, are reunited after a time apart. While Beth is away trying to sort things out with their father, Vicki and Beth's husband begin an involvement which tears the household apart. A desperate little domestic comedy.
Frank Kennedy is a 51-year-old woman who enrols at the same university as her son David. Armed with nothing more than intelligence and humour she creates a place for herself in the strange new world of the university ... becoming an icon and inspiration to those around her who want to change their lives but are afraid to take the chance.
A story about fate, love, gambling and faith - based on Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel.
After finding strange Latin inscriptions on a cave wall in the hills, three high school students from a north Queenland coastal town seek the help of their Latin teacher to discover their meaning. When an authentic Roman boat is found, the news leaks out and the quiet town is transformed into a tourist centre. Translating the inscriptions, the kids find that the boat is 'cursed' and desperately devise a plan to rid the town of it and at the same time liberate a young Roman boy, Pompey.
A young girl, caught in the crossfire of love, life and her coming of age must face the change both in the relationship with her father and her beloved place at the coast.
Loosely based on the experiences of writers Richard Neville and Julie Clarke during their time in Asia writing and researching their book 'The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj'.
Perry's perfect life creating colours for an English paint company has become one of constant misfortune. In desperation, he travels to one of the most desolate parts of Australia, where he hopes to find a special colour called 'Siam Sunset' that will somehow bring about his salvation from the natural disasters which mysteriously torment him. Along the way, he meets Grace, a woman as troubled by the world as he is. Together they decide to give life, and maybe love, another chance. But will the universe let them?
A majestic saga sweeping two suburbs. It is the late 1960s. A 'time and motion' expert is called in to moderate Ball's moccasin factory. Amidst this upheaval an 18-year-old youth attempts a major romantic takeover.
Engaging rock and roll comedy about a teenage boy who bends a few rules to makes his singing cousin a superstar.
The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.
Shakespeare's play derived from Neil Armfield's 1983 Adelaide Arts production - an essay on pleasure with Caribbean setting and calypso music.
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