Film Finance Corporation Australia.
2) Jindabyne
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
3) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Noise: Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffering from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the people affected...
4) Restraint
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Two lovers seek a safe haven to hide out after a brutal crime has been committed. However, what they thought was an abandoned mansion is inhabited by a rich agoraphobic, who becomes their hostage. Or does he? Who is the victim in this threesome? Whatever you think is right is wrong.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Meryl is a lonely artist who literally envisions disaster around every corner. Nick is a photojournalist whose work keeps him emotionally distanced from the tragedies he documents. When the two meet in the aftermath of a real train accident, their lives, and the lives of a handful of other witnesses and victims, are revealed and transformed.
6) Little fish
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After years of treading water in her career and redeeming herself after a troubled past, Tracy Heart sets a goal of owning her own business. Her goals are torn apart by the return of her ex-boyfriend and the criminal intentions of her brother.
7) Irresistible
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Sophie Hartley is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her children, her husband, and her life.
Publisher
Distributed by Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In 1788, Mary Bryant, a starving young Cornwall girl, is convicted of a petty crime and sentenced to seven years in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay. When Mary initiates an escape, she embarks on an arduous four thousand-mile journey toward freedom in a tragic and triumphant story that would make her one of history's most fascinating and courageous unsung heroines.--Container.
10) December boys
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1960s, four orphan boys go for a holiday by the sea on the South Australian coast. Since they share the same birth month, the orphanage calls them December boys. But these teens--Maps, Spit, Spark and Misty--have much more in common. With no hopes of ever joining a family, they form their own familial bonds. Then the unexpected news comes that a young couple may adopt one of them, and the long-time pals suddenly share something else: a...
11) Macbeth
Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Driven by ambition and an unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders the King of Scotland and claims the throne for himself. Haunted by ghosts and vexed by witches, he and his wife descend into the depths of madness and paranoia as they crumble beneath the weight of their crimes.
12) Candy
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dan is a poet who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. As Dan goes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, Candy changes from an actress to a streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to try and go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir, this film 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, ultimately, a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between a father and a son.
14) Ten canoes
Publisher
[Distributed by] Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
Australian
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mary McGarvie is a beautiful con artist who, with the help of her young daughter, fools audiences into believing she is psychic. The legendary magician Harry Houdini comes to town with a skeptic's challenge. He is going to give $10,000 to anyone who can correctly 'channel' his mother's dying words. Mary accepts the challenge. Houdini enters into a passionate affair with the charming clairvoyant even as he prepares for the most dangerous stunt of his...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Shy, warm-hearted, good-looking Tim Dwight has two women crazy about him. One is a dream girl named Jill. The other is his mum, Jean, a bawdy aging comedienne who doesn't realize she's past her sell-by date for a big break. As Jean tries to make it in show biz, she also struggles to hold her family, including Tim and his disabled brother Mark, together. Will the arrival of Tim's dream girl bust them up?
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rod Blue, a down-on-his-luck rock promoter, struggles to find the one act that will turn his life and business around. Just as a relationship is blooming with his assistant, Audrey, Rod secures the coup of his career: bringing Frank Sinatra to perform.
19) 1-800-INDIA
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Over the past decade, India has emerged as the leader in the global market for outsourced white-collar jobs, one reason for the nation's rapid economic growth. This WIDE ANGLE case study explores the experiences of emerging Indian professionals who have been recruited into positions requiring long hours, late-night shifts, and Westernized work habits. The program reveals the human and cultural impact of a controversial yet essentially unstoppable...