The Australian Film Commission Popular Movie

Palestine, 1917. The British advance has been stopped by the Turkish line running from Gaza to Beersheba. The latest attack on Gaza has failed. The...

genus: War

cast: Peter Phelps

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian...

genus: Mystery

cast: Stacy Keach

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

genus: Comedy

cast: Richard Roxburgh

In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with...

genus: Drama

cast: Robert Powell

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

genus: Drama

cast: Lee Remick

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...

genus: Action

cast: Bruce Lyons

Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.

genus: Comedy

cast: Olympia Dukakis

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...

genus: Comedy

cast: Carol Kane

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...

genus: Action

cast: Cassandra Delaney

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....

genus: Documentary

cast: Lucy Bell

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...

genus: Family

cast: Ben Oxenbould

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

genus: Romance

cast: Helen Buday

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Leo McKern

Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of...

genus: Family

cast: Pamela Stephenson

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

genus: Drama

cast: Bill Hunter

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take...

genus: Drama

cast: Wendy Hughes

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

genus: Drama

cast: Isabelle Huppert

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...

genus: Adventure

cast: Brett Maxworthy

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,...

genus: Drama

cast: Andrew McFarlane

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

genus: TV Movie

cast: Julie Nihill