The Australian Film Commission Popular Movie

Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Powell

Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bruce Lyons

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse...

Genre: War

Cast: Peter Phelps

A glossy thriller about a show-business tycoon with a shady background, and a young documentary filmmaker and his girlfriend who are making a film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lou Brown

A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Cassandra Delaney

Two childhood friends who marry brothers in the Army soon discover that their lives will take a different path from what they first expected.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Julie Nihill

MARY is based on the true life story of Mary MacKillop who in the 1860s began an order of nuns to teach poor Catholic children in rural Australia....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucy Bell

The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Roxburgh

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bill Hunter

Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road hoping to find her and makes a friend along the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Moir

The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ben Oxenbould

A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carol Kane

Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for life and Frances his much younger companion...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo McKern

The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leo McKern

A twelve year old boy and a common criminal are being transported in the same ship from England to Australia in the last century. When the ship...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Brett Maxworthy

After the start of WW2, a mother takes her children from Sydney to the countryside.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Remick

Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bronwyn Mackay-Payne

Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Helen Buday

After his troopship is sunk in 1942, John Sullivan is saved by members of the Yugoslav group, the Chetniks. He is later sold to the opposing group,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew McFarlane