Movies: Australian Film Commission

  • 1975
    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    7.21975HD

    In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite...

    Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • 2009
    The Secret of Moonacre

    The Secret of Moonacre (2009)

    The Secret of Moonacre

    6.52009HD

    When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor....

    The Secret of Moonacre
  • 2003
    Ned Kelly

    Ned Kelly (2003)

    Ned Kelly

    6.02003HD

    After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who...

    Ned Kelly
  • 1981
    Gallipoli

    Gallipoli (1981)

    Gallipoli

    7.11981HD

    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 peni...

    Gallipoli
  • 1982
    Attack Force Z

    Attack Force Z (1982)

    Attack Force Z

    5.91982HD

    Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace....

    Attack Force Z
  • 1992
    Spotswood

    Spotswood (1992)

    Spotswood

    5.31992HD

    Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocate...

    Spotswood
  • 2008
    Black Water

    Black Water (2008)

    Black Water

    5.82008HD

    Based on true events, Grace, her boyfriend Adam, and her younger sister, Lee, are on holiday in Northern Australia when they decide to take a tour down a river. As they drift into a swamp, their boat suddenly capsizes. Stranded in the flooded swamp, ...

    Black Water
  • 2006
    Like Minds

    Like Minds (2006)

    Like Minds

    6.32006HD

    A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder....

    Like Minds
  • 1985
    The Coca-Cola Kid

    The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

    The Coca-Cola Kid

    5.41985HD

    An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's...

    The Coca-Cola Kid
  • 1977
    The Last Wave

    The Last Wave (1977)

    The Last Wave

    6.71977HD

    Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Bu...

    The Last Wave
  • 2007
    Son of a Lion

    Son of a Lion (2007)

    Son of a Lion

    62007HD

    In the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, a widowed father expects his only son to follow in his footsteps. Darra Adam Khel is home to the ethnic Pashtuns. The local industry is the handcrafting of firearms. It has been this way since long bef...

    Son of a Lion
  • 1997
    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road (1997)

    Paradise Road

    6.41997HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II....

    Paradise Road
  • 1992
    Romper Stomper

    Romper Stomper (1992)

    Romper Stomper

    6.51992HD

    Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who...

    Romper Stomper
  • 2000
    On the Beach

    On the Beach (2000)

    On the Beach

    6.12000HD

    The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain b...

    On the Beach
  • 1979
    The Odd Angry Shot

    The Odd Angry Shot (1979)

    The Odd Angry Shot

    6.11979HD

    A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of endurin...

    The Odd Angry Shot
  • 2007
    Romulus, My Father

    Romulus, My Father (2007)

    Romulus, My Father

    5.82007HD

    The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son....

    Romulus, My Father
  • 1999
    The Craic

    The Craic (1999)

    The Craic

    5.51999HD

    When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this ti...

    The Craic
  • 1977
    Dot and the Kangaroo

    Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)

    Dot and the Kangaroo

    7.11977HD

    An Australian girl gets lost in the Outback, but she's befriended by a kangaroo who gives her a ride in her pouch as they search for the girl's home. Aiding the pair are musically gifted koalas, platypuses, and kookaburras in this film based on Ethel...

    Dot and the Kangaroo
  • 2008
    The Children of Huang Shi

    The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

    The Children of Huang Shi

    6.72008HD

    About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937....

    The Children of Huang Shi
  • 1994
    Body Melt

    Body Melt (1994)

    Body Melt

    5.11994HD

    Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death....

    Body Melt