7.0

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

2010, USA, Australia

• Actors: Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Essie Davis, Adrienne DeFaria, Joel Edgerton, Deborra-Lee Furness, Sacha Horler, Bill Hunter, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Barry Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Angus Sampson, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Leigh Whannell, Gareth Young, Amanda Bishop, Anthony Cogin, Trent Dalzell, James Evans, Lelda Kapsis, Andrew McDonnell, John Xintavelonis, Kivanç Tatlitug
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
• Director(s): Zack Snyder
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's.

  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.

  6.7

Australia

2007, Australia, USA, UK

• Actors: Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry, Jamal Bednarz-Metallah, Damian Bradford, Bryan Brown, Nathin Butler, Tara Carpenter, Rebecca Chatfield, Lillian Crombie, Max Cullen, Essie Davis, Arthur Dignam, Michelle Dyzla, Haidee Gaudry, Sandy Gore, Terence Gregory, David Gulpilil, Jamie Gulpilil, Peter Gwynne, Sean Hall, Nigel Harbach, Joy Hilditch, Matthew Hills, Jimmy Hong, Bill Hunter, Jarwyn Irvin-Collins, Hugh Jackman, Robert Jago
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
• Director(s): Baz Luhrmann
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

  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.

  4.1

Kangaroo Jack

2002, USA, Australia

• Actors: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, Marton Csokas, Dyan Cannon, Michael Shannon, Bill Hunter, David Ngoombujarra, Marco Sellitto, Damien Fotiou, Christopher Baker, Ryan Gibson, Denise Roberts, Antonio Vitiello, Mario Di Ienno, Tony Nikolakopoulos, Robert Reid, Shawn Smith, Brian Casey, Emma Jane Fowler, Helen Thomson, John McNeill, Paul Wilson, David Walsman, Lara Cox, Terrell Dixon, John Gibson, Nick Jasprizza, Luke Bolland
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): David McNally
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A comedy that follows the misadventures of two friends from Brooklyn who are forced to deliver mob money to Australia. While taking pictures of a kangaroo, one of them places his red jacket on it. When the wild kangaroo bounces off, they realize the mob money is in the jacket and are forced to give chase through the Outback.

  5.0

Race the Sun

1996, USA

• Actors: Halle Berry, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Kevin Tighe, Anthony Ruivivar, Steve Zahn, Dion Basco, J. Moki Cho, Nadja Pionilla, Adriane Napualani Uganiza, Sara Tanaka, Bill Hunter, James Belushi, Robert Hughes, Jeff Truman, Joel Edgerton, Tyler Coppin, Marshall Napier, Gabrielle Hammond, Robyn Moore, Michael Burgess, John Alansu, John Negroponte, Marc Aden, Joanne Cahill, Rick Adams, Rostislav Orel, Archer Lyttle, Piero von Arnim, Amanda Wenban
• Genre: Drama, Adventure, Comedy
• Director(s): Charles T. Kanganis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.

  5.5

The Custodian

1993, Australia

• Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Hugo Weaving, Barry Otto, Kelly Dingwall, Bill Hunter, Gosia Dobrowolska, Essie Davis, Skye Wansey, Khristina Totos, Naomi Watts, Joy Smithers, Tim McKenzie, Norman Kaye, Steven Grives, Bogdan Koca, Russell Newman, Andrew Sharp, Andrew S. Gilbert, Wayne Pygram, Bob Baines, Kee Chan, Shane McNamara, David Brown, Nan Vernon, Ken Snodgrass, Shayne Foote, Steve Cox, Taryn Parslow, John Batchelor, Rick Hill
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): John Dingwall
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, Det. Church, in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He sides privately with a reporter, Reynolds, and an Internal Affairs lawyer, Ferguson, to expose them to the press. Once they have gathered enough information, all the corrupt police, including the newly recruited Quinlan are arrested. Ferguson then works to get Quinlan a reduced sentence for helping them.

  7.3

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1993, Australia, UK

• Actors: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell, John Casey, June Marie Bennett, Murray Davies, Frank Cornelius, Bob Boyce, Leighton Picken, Maria Kmet, Joseph Kmet, Alan Dargin, Bill Hunter, Julia Cortez, Daniel Kellie, Hannah Corbett, Trevor Barrie, Ken Radley, Sarah Chadwick, Mark Holmes, Tim Chappel, Al Clark, Stephan Elliott, Lizzy Gardiner, Margaret Pomeranz, Christian Stead, Nikki Webster
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Stephan Elliott
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual (Bernadette) contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is Anthony's wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them.

  7.1

Strictly Ballroom

1992, Australia

• Actors: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson, Gia Carides, Peter Whitford, Barry Otto, John Hannan, Sonia Kruger, Kris McQuade, Pip Mushin, Leonie Page, Antonio Vargas, Armonia Benedito, Jack Webster, Lauren Hewett, Steve Grace, Paul Bertram, Di Emery, Lara Mulcahy, Brian M. Logan, Michael Burgess, Todd McKenney, Kerry Shrimpton, Simone Gage, Bradley Sabott, Ray Mather, Jo Shinta, Peter Lynch, Lee Becchiet
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Baz Luhrmann
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!"

  6.6

Stone

1974, Australia

• Actors: Ken Shorter, Sandy Harbutt, Deryck Barnes, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Vincent Gil, Dewey Hungerford, James Bowles, Bindi Williams, John Ifkovitch, Lex Mitchell, Rhod Walker, Owen Weingott, Slim DeGrey, Ray Bennett, Bill Hunter, Helen Morse, Rebecca Gilling, Susan Lloyd, Rosalind Talamini, Victoria Anoux, Jane Gilling, Eva Ifkovitch, Tony Allyn, Terry Bader, George Beddows, David Bracks, Barry Butler, Roy Corbett, Leonora Cornall
• Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
• Director(s): Sandy Harbutt
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Members of the Grave Diggers Motorcycle Club are being knocked off one by one, and someone needs to find out why! Sandy Harbutts timeless Australian cult film about a bunch of regegades riding Kawasaki 900s.