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A deadpan comedy of teenage love gone wrong. Sensitive 17-year-old Mick O'Brien reluctantly cross-dresses and joins an all-girl band in a hopeless attempt to reunite his family. He falls in love with lead singer Angela who, jilted by one too many lying men, is flirting with lesbianism. She's hot for Mick, not just because he is cute and talented but, being a woman, Mick is sure to be honest.
Bubby? Bubby's been locked away in a room without a view for 35 years. Now he's coming out.
Based on Christopher Koch's novel about the youthful journey from innocence to experience. Set on the island of Tasmania and in Melbourne, the story moves from pastoral love affair to an odyssey of crime and metropolitan excitement.
He's Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter. He's Steve Irwin: wildlife crusader. He's Steve Irwin: real-life action hero. But Steve Irwin: international spy? Crikey! That's the absurd assumption that lands the world's favourite adventurer smack in the middle of an espionage incident that goes from the Aussie outback all the way up to the White House.
DANCING WITH DICTATORS is a film about Burma from the inside through the journalists that work on The Myanmar Times. Myanmar has been isolated since the military denied Aung San Suu Kyii government in 1990. Coming up is the first election in 20 years and with it the end of 45 years of military rule. Australian Ross Dunkley owns papers in Myanmar and Cambodia and in many ways his hopes of forging a media empire in Asia rest on the outcome of the Burma election.
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.
John 'Dingo' Anderson spends his days in the vast sun-scorched Australian outback. By night he sits alone playing his trumpet reminiscing about the day, 20 years ago, when he met and played with the legendary trumpet player, Billy Cross. Ever since that first meeting, 'Dingo' has dreamed of nothing but playing with his idol in Paris. Now is the time to make the dream come true.
A young Chinese girl and a Western boy are visiting their archaeologist parents in China. The girl hears mysterious flute sounds that lead her to an eccentric temple keeper. The two young people uncover a hidden dragon who has been without its pearl of power for centuries. Has the pearl been found? Is now the time to reunite the pearl with the dragon so it can go home? Nobody believes them. Or so it seems until one of their parent's co-workers offers to help...
Set on a remote island off the southern coast of Australia. After a car accident a young woman is haunted by nightmares of a time when Aborigines were massacred by whalers. Her dream-warnings and reality merge when her father discovers bones and whalers' weapons in a cave.
A young, enthusiastic, but naive, motorbike rider crashes into another bike while on a journey through the Australian desert.
A moving and magical tale of two elephant brothers in search of their mother. Just days after the birth of baby elephant Tutu, hunters decimate the herd. Faced with the loss of their family, Tutu and Zef set off across the African plain in search of a future. Spectacular in scope and rife with the exotic beauty of Africa, ELEPHANT TALES weaves a heartwarming tale of trust and leadership between siblings and new friends.
An Asian family migrates from Hong Kong to Australia and finds it is caught between two cultures. A compelling, poignant story about how to be a family in a new land.
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.
Jack is a small-time filmmaker who dreams of being a hero fireman, a soccer star, a rock guitarist when he gets older; in fact, he is 29. Kit is an unknown piano-accordion-playing artist with a green/red conscience. Kit and Jack's long-term relationship has reached an all-time low. It may or may not be reinvigorated by sharing a house with E. E is a part-time university student who is more into writing 'Pretty Ugly' - a zine about herself, what she does and who she is with - than studying. Instead of having careers, kids, influence and money Jack, Kit and E are having fun! Or are they?
A docu-drama on the mysterious world of the private investigator in Australia, as seen through investigators, their clients and their most intriguing cases. Warren Mallard is an insurance surveillor, whose staff of clandestine operatives often go underground for months at a time to secure evidence. Peter Royle has specialised in missing persons for the past 20 years, and is looking for a 15-year-old runaway. Les is an insurance surveillance expert who demonstrates some of his intriguing techniques. Michael Oliver is a debt collector, who always gets his money, and also specialises in bugging and de-bugging. And criminal lawyer Chris Murphy balances the picture by putting the case against private eyes.
Erica Yurken, certain of her glittering career on the stage and her place in the world, is upstaged and forced to come to grips with her own reality when Alison Ashley arrives at the school. A comedy about the trials and tribulations of schoolyard rivalries, embarrassing family situations and the awkwardness of teenage years.
A powerful, redemptive tale charting the relationship between two men from very different backgrounds, who find a common bond through the most unusual catalyst.
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.
Sci-fi action thriller set in the Australian wheat fields, where a series of never-explained phenomena disrupts the locals, driving many of them mad.
Eddie Fleming is a nobody. The sort of person you'd pass in the street without a second glance. At 5am this morning he was at home, asleep. Now he sits in a darkened and locked room. Opposite Eddie is John Steele. He's asking the questions. Eddie's confused, scared and desperately in need of some answers...any answers. Why is he here? Who are these people and what do they want with him? But unknown to Eddie or Steele, there are other forces at work in this psychological drama that explores guilt, innocence and the uncertain nature of the truth.
From a secret base in Antarctica, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late '45 to fund the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base was to build a powerful invasion fleet and return to take over the Earth once the time was right. Now it is 2018 and the Nazi invasion is on its way to earth.
It's a rags to riches story of a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Six action-packed telemovies featuring fantasy, fun, mystery, historical drama and suspense.
An exploration of the hopes and expectations of three working class women from Adelaide, and the differences and similarities they share with their daughters.
A tender and passionate portrayal of intertwined love stories, set in two timeframes in the river-town of Swanreach. Having survived the freak accident that killed her parents, Stephanie is raised by her caring but life-worn guardian. On Steph’s birthday her life is changed in two ways: she starts work in the peach cannery under the watchful eyes of Alan; and she is given her late mother's diary.
ROMULUS, MY FATHER is based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir. It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Orville is a 10-year-old aircraft buff whose ambitions can't get off the ground because his inner-Sydney peers won't admit him to their model-plane circle. Then he meets old Harry and soon his wildest dreams come true.
On his wedding day, Guy remembers his previous long-standing relationship with Jenny.
John Woldring wakes one morning to find a young woman stumbling semi-consciously towards his farmhouse. She is dark (Middle Eastern perhaps) and has no English. There is great beauty hidden beneath the blood and bruises. She has obviously run from something truly terrible. But John Woldring doesn't call the police. He will handle this his own way. Has she landed in a sanctuary or another nightmare?
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