Australia movies

Happy Feet (2006)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Carlos Alazraqui | Lombardo Boyar | Jeffrey Garcia | Johnny A. Sanchez | Robin Williams | Elijah Wood | Brittany Murphy | Hugh Jackman | Nicole Kidman | Hugo Weaving | Elizabeth Daily | Magda Szubanski | Miriam Margolyes | Fat Joe | Alyssa Shafer
Directors: Warren Coleman
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Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown ‘alien’ source. They ask Lovelace, an unwise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn’t a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia
Actors: Magda Szubanski | James Cromwell | Mary Stein | Mickey Rooney | Elizabeth Daily | Danny Mann | Glenne Headly | Steven Wright | James Cosmo | Nathan Kress | Myles Jeffrey | Stanley Ralph Ross | Russi Taylor | Adam Goldberg | Eddie Barth
Directors: George Miller
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After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Margolyes | Danny Mann | Hugo Weaving | Miriam Flynn | Russi Taylor | Evelyn Krape | Michael Edward-Stevens | Charles Bartlett | Paul Livingston | Roscoe Lee Browne | James Cromwell | Magda Szubanski | Zoe Burton | Paul Goddard
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

The Secret (2006)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Bob Proctor | Joe Vitale | John Assaraf | Loral Langemeier | Marie Diamond | Michael Beckwith | Jack Canfield | Bob Doyle | Mike Dooley | Lisa Nichols | Bill Harris | John Hagelin | John Demartini | Fred Alan Wolf | Denis Waitley
Directors: Sean Byrne
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The Secret is a feature length movie presentation which reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries… This is The Secret to everything - the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted. All the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret. The world’s leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it… Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein.

Dark City (1998)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Rufus Sewell | William Hurt | Kiefer Sutherland | Jennifer Connelly | Richard O'Brien | Ian Richardson | Bruce Spence | Colin Friels | John Bluthal | Mitchell Butel | Melissa George | Frank Gallacher | Ritchie Singer | Justin Monjo | Nicholas Bell
Directors: Alex Proyas
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Australia | China | Germany
Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Radha Mitchell | Yun-Fat Chow | Michelle Yeoh | Guang Li | Lin Ji | Matt Walker | Anastasia Kolpakova | Ping Su | Imai Hideaki | Sciichiro Hashimoto | Shinichi Takashima | Xing Mang | Ruixiang Zhu | Yuelong Fang
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And of how, in doing so, he came to understand the true meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.

Cactus (2008)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Australia
Actors: Travis McMahon | David Lyons | Bryan Brown | Shane Jacobson | Daniel Krige | Celia Ireland | Zoe Tuckwell-Smith | Elspeth Baird | Craig Bartlett | Seymon Eckert | Russell Hunt | Steve Rodgers | Robert Shearim | Wayne Walker | Robert Whiteside
Directors: Jasmine Yuen Carrucan
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A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly, embarks on a journey into the Australian Outback towards the place where his hostage is due for delivery. As time and distance roll by, the strength and endurance of both men will be tested to the very end.

Restraint (2008)

Friday, September 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Stephen Moyer | Teresa Palmer | Travis Fimmel | Nate Jones | Joanne Hunt
Directors: David Denneen
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A young couple on the run hole up in a country estate with a hostage in tow.

Rogue (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Michael Vartan | Sam Worthington | Stephen Curry | John Jarratt | Geoff Morrell | Damien Richardson | Robert Taylor | Barry Otto
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An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another ‘city-slicker’ in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a ‘rogue’ crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.

Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | Germany | USA
Actors: Casper Van Dien | Steven Waddington | Winston Ntshona | Rapulana Seiphemo | Ian Roberts | Sean Taylor | Gys De Villiers | Russel Savadier | Paul Buckby | Zane Meas | Barry Berk | Michael Gritten | Dimitri Cassar | Tony Caprari | Kurt Wustman
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On the eve of his wedding, John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke (better known as Tarzan), receives a message from the witch doctor Mugambe that his homeland is in danger. It turns out that a treasure hunter named Ravens is searching for the lost city of Opar, and is destroying the jungle and desecrating the villagers’ burial grounds in the process. Only Tarzan can stop Ravens and set things right in the African jungle, but will Jane stand for her fiance being away for so long?