Screen Australia
21) Winchester
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
24) Ride like a girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The inspirational true story of Michelle Payne. As a little girl, Michelle dreamed of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup. However, a near-fatal fall threatens to end her hopes of competing in the race. With the love and support from her father and brother Stevie, she overcomes all odds to become the first female to win the Melbourne cup.
29) Drift
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The Kelly brothers spend their youth searching for the perfect wave in Australia. Out of necessity the family launches a backyard surf business, re-thinking board design, crafting homemade wetsuits, and selling merchandise out of their van. Battling big waves, small-town conservatism, and criminals, the brothers give rise to a global brand. A story of passion, corruption, friendship and loyalty, deadly addictions, and fractured relationships.
30) The railway man
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Follow the Honorable Phryne (fry-nee) Fisher through the back alleys, shady markets, and jazz clubs of late 1920s Melbourne. A glamorous lady detective in a mostly male world, she goes about her work with a pear-handled pistol and dagger-sharp wit, leaving a trail of male admirers in her wake. Includes 8 episodes.
33) Jungle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.
34) Goldstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry, and what seems like a simple investigation unearths a web of crime, corruption human trafficking, and the exploitation of aboriginal lands.
Pub. Date
[2018]-
Description
When an angry client firebombs her offices, consulting solicitor Josephine Newton is forced to take a new job as a barrister at Knox, a high-powered legal firm where her old flame Lewis works. Worried about leaving behind her former clients turned colleagues, Josephine sets up a new legal office in the building's basement for Johnny, a reformed car thief, and Helena, a brilliant legal mind with a crippling fear of courtrooms.
37) The dressmaker
Formats
Description
The Dressmaker tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong....
39) Deep water
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When the mutilated corpse of a young gay man is found in a smart Bondi Beach apartment, Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned the case. Is this brutal murder a domestic disturbance, a robbery gone wrong, or a gay hate crime? With mounting evidence to suggest the perpetrator has killed before, they start digging through old investigations and the discovery is shocking. They uncover up to 80 possible murders of gay men in New South...
40) The furnace
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with Crown-marked gold bars. Together the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace, the one place where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown.
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