Movies Down Under

With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla," this wickedly funny and high-drama trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.

Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor …More.

During the turmoil of the Depression, a young boy becomes a pawn in a bitter family rivalry. Estranged from his father and orphaned by his bohemian novelist mother after bequeathing her newborn with the name PS, "a postscript to her ridiculous life," six-year-old PS is caught in an elaborate web of deceit and torn between his two feuding aunts, an average suburban housewife and a wealthy socialite. Based on Sumner Locke Elliott's dramatic novel, this award-winning Australian film is a poignant tale of a young boy's coming of age. Heart-rending and compelling, "Careful, He Might Hear You" is a powerful story of how one child's love and courage triumphs over his family's painful past. …More

Two Outback runners join Australian and New Zealand troops fighting in World War I. …More

Faced with separation, teen-age best friends conspire to commit a sensational murder. …More

An Australian lawyer takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. The lawyer, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes his own involvement with the aborigines...and their prophecies. …More

An Australian cowboy works for one of two feuding brothers and falls for the boss's daughter. …More

An Australian social outcast moves to Sydney, cares for an ailing friend and weds an Olympian needing citizen status. …More

An outback farmer's daughter fights sexism to be a writer in circa-1900 Australia. Directed by Gillian Armstrong. …More

The mute wife of a settler teaches her lover to play the piano in colonial New Zealand. Directed by Jane Campion. Oscars for best actress Hunter, supporting actress Anna Paquin. …More

An explosive mix of Victorian repression, supernatural unease and primitive longing, this digitally-remastered cult classic dramatizes the disappearance of three Australian girls on a school picnic. Also features the original theatrical trailer. …More

In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by following the fence that has been build across the nation to stem an over-population of rabbits …More

Shine is the compelling and poignant story of a young man who defies his father's wishes in order to pursue his dreams. Both thought-provoking and powerful, it tells the story of rebellion and of individuality through the eyes of a pianist whose only form of self-expression is found in the keys of his instruments. …More

An Australian ballroom dancer makes an ugly duckling his partner and dares in competition to go flamenco. …More

Irish sheepherders roam with their son and helper, making a living in 1920s Australia. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. …More

Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood …More

Starting a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen. She soon faces a greater challenge in changing their racist beliefs toward the aboriginal people.

A fearless young girl must challenge her own family and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. …More