8.2

Mary and Max

2009, Australia

• Actors: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore, Renée Geyer, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, John Flaus, Julie Forsyth, Michael Ienna, Chris Massey, Shaun Patten, Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen, Leanne Smith
• Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Adam Elliot
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. He's Max Horowitz, living alone in New York, overweight, subject to anxiety attacks. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?

  7.7

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

2008, Australia, USA

• Actors: Phillip Adams, Glory Annen, Christine Amor, Victoria Anoux, Briony Behets, Steve Bisley, Jamie Blanks, Graeme Blundell, Russell Boyd, Richard Brennan, Tom Burstall, Dan Burstall, Robin Copping, Barry Crocker, Lynette Curran, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cassandra Delaney, Everett De Roche, Ross Dimsey, David Eggby, Bob Ellis, Alan Finney, Richard Franklin, Belinda Giblin, Rebecca Gilling, Antony I. Ginnane, Deborah Gray, David Hannay, Gregory Harrison, Rod Hay
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Mark Hartley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story of "Ozploitation" movies - a time when Australian cinema showed an explosion of sex, violence, horror and action. Includes anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking and a genuine love of Australian movies. It moves through Aussie genre cinema of the 70s and early 80s - claiming it's an unjustly forgotten cinematic era of boobs, pubes, tubes... and even a little kung fu.

  8.1

Finding Nemo

2003, Australia, USA

• Actors: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Vicki Lewis, Joe Ranft, Geoffrey Rush, Andrew Stanton, Elizabeth Perkins, Nicholas Bird, Bob Peterson, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana, Bruce Spence, Bill Hunter, LuLu Ebeling, Jordan Ranft, Erica Beck, Erik Per Sullivan, John Ratzenberger
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
• Director(s): Andrew Stanton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A clown fish named Marlin living in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.

  5.5

Napoleon

1994, Australia, Japan

• Actors: Jamie Croft, Philip Quast, Susan Lyons, Coralie Sawade, Brenton Whittle, Anne-Louise Lambert, Carole Skinner, Catherine Lambert, Tracey Canini, Annabel Sims, Neusa Timms, Debbie Horn, Lucia Mastrantone, Frank Whitten, Fiona Press, Steven Vidler, David Argue, Edward McQueen-Mason, Stuart Pankin, Mignon Kent, Michael Wilkop, Barry Humphries, Casey Siemaszko, Joan Rivers, Stuart Zagnit, Carolyn Sloan, Olivia Hack, Carol Kane, Bronson Pinchot, Wallace Shawn
• Genre: Family, Adventure
• Director(s): Mario Andreacchio
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Napoleon is a little dog that lives in Sydney. He and his mother live with a family, but Napoleon loves to dream about meeting the wild dogs that live far away, and eventually becoming one himself. One day he gets into a basket hung from some balloons and flies away into the sky. The wind carries him to a nearby island where the basket finally lands. There he meets all kinds of different animals; some of them are friendly, but some aren't. With the help of a parakeet friend he learns the secrets of living alone in the island and defending himself from wild animals. He goes in search of the wild dogs, whom he finally finds. He is very happy with them, but then he gets homesick and starts to miss his mother, so he decides to go home again.

  7.2

Immortal Beloved

1993, UK, USA

• Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes, Barry Humphries, Valeria Golino, Gerard Horan, Christopher Fulford, Alexandra Pigg, Luigi Diberti, Michael Culkin, Donal Gibson, Matthew North, Geno Lechner, Claudia Solti, Rory Edwards, Hannes Flaschberger, Leo Faulkner, Fintan McKeown, Everton Nelson, Sandra Voe, Bernard Rose, Jindra Petráková, Marek Vasut, Hugo Kaminský, Stanislav Behal, Arnostka Mohelská, Stepan Hlatky
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Bernard Rose
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.

  2.7

Howling III

1987, Australia

• Actors: Barry Otto, William Yang, Imogen Annesley, Deby Wightman, Lee Biolos, Christopher Pate, Max Fairchild, Jerome Patillo, Dagmar Bláhová, Ralph Cotterill, Michael Pate, Carole Skinner, Frank Thring, Jenny Vuletic, Glenda Linscott, Roger Eagle, Richard Carter, Lionel Curtin, Bob McCarron, Mary Acres, Steve Shaw, Megan Shapcott, Bob Barrett, Bill Collins, David Cahill, Mary Haire, Alec Maksimovich, Penny Linden, Fred Welsh, Brian Adams
• Genre: Comedy, Horror
• Director(s): Philippe Mora
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?

  6.9

Bedazzled

1967, UK

• Actors: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Alba, Robert Russell, Barry Humphries, Parnell McGarry, Danièle Noël, Howard Goorney, Michael Bates, Bernard Spear, Robin Hawdon, Michael Trubshawe, Evelyn Moore, Charles Lloyd Pack, Lockwood West, Betty Cooper, Martin Boddey, Erik Chitty, Valentine Dyall, Max Faulkner, Peter Hutchins, John Steiner, Robin Tolhurst, Anna Turner
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Stanley Donen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Stanley is a short order cook, infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works at Whimpy Burger with him. Despondent, he prepares to end it all when he meets George Spiggott AKA the devil. Selling his soul for 7 wishes, Stanley tries to make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for. He also meets the seven deadly sins who try and advise him.