The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (
2002) | IMDb:
5.4
Steve Irwin, AKA The Crocodile Hunter, has avoided the death-roll and saved a croc from poachers. But what he doesn't know is that the crocodile has swallowed a top secret U.S. satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it.
Directed by:
John Stainton
Holy Smoke (
1999) | IMDb:
5.9
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
Directed by:
Jane Campion
Babe: Pig in the City (
1998) | IMDb:
5.8
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Starring:
Magda Szubanski
,
Elizabeth Daily
,
James Cromwell
,
Mary Stein
,
Julie Godfrey
,
Mickey Rooney
Oscar and Lucinda (
1997) | IMDb:
6.6
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Ciarán Hinds
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Richard Roxburgh
,
Christian Manon
Directed by:
Gillian Armstrong
Muriel's Wedding (
1994) | IMDb:
7.2
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Starring:
Toni Collette
,
Bill Hunter
,
Rachel Griffiths
,
Sophie Lee
,
Jeanie Drynan
,
Gennie Nevinson
The Piano (
1993) | IMDb:
7.5
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
Reckless Kelly (
1993) | IMDb:
5.1
A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for his own benefit (all money goes to the poor). Ned is forced to find another way to come up with the $1 million required to save his family island.
Starring:
Yahoo Serious
,
Melora Hardin
,
Alexei Sayle
,
Hugo Weaving
,
Kathleen Freeman
,
John Pinette
Vietnam (
1987) | IMDb:
7.7
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (
1985) | IMDb:
6.2
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
The Year of Living Dangerously (
1982) | IMDb:
7.1
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
Gallipoli (
1981) | IMDb:
7.4
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Mark Lee
,
Bill Kerr
,
Harold Hopkins
,
Charles Lathalu Yunipingu
,
Heath Harris
Directed by:
Peter Weir