Aussie Gems

Chopper by Mark (Chopper) Reid

Loosely based on the life of notorious underworld hitman, Mark Chopper Read - standover man, unrepentant underworld executioner, inventive raconteur, and Australia's most infamous living criminal, whose deadpan wit and colourful imagination has accorded him a cult status. The movie is sometimes dramatic, at other times darkly funny journey into the exploits and complex pathology of Mark Brandon Read. This is all in keeping with the philosophy of Read himself who never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.

Picnic at Hanging Rock

In 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls and their teachers prepare for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear mysteriously and are never found.

Last train to Freo

The story of two sisters on the lookout for love. When a smooth-talkin' radio DJ from the city moves in next door, it sets off a competition to win his affections.

The Castle

The Kerrigan family should still be living at 3 Highview Crescent Cooloroo, in total obscurity. They were terrible houses on worthless land. The compulsory acquisition should go through without a hitch...right?...wrong. How Darryl and his small time suburban lawyer mate, assisted by a new friend, retired QC Lawrence Hammil ended up in the High Court of Australia, is the story told in The Castle.

Love serenade

The story of two sisters on the lookout for love. When a smooth-talkin' radio DJ from the city moves in next door, it sets off a competition to win his affections.

Romulus, my father

Romulus, my father tells 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 the tale of a boy trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking absence and meglect from his mother. It is a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Romper Stomper

Hondo leads a gang of skinheads that terrorize Vietnamese immigrants in their Melbourne neighborhood. He soon meets Gabe, a teenage girl from a broken home. Looking for adventure, she falls in love with Hondo and leaps into the careless and dangerous lifestyle of this band of racist punks. But when Gabe swaps partners for Hondo's right-hand man, Davey, she pits the two against each other leading to a shocking conclusion.

Strictly Ballroom

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!"

Muriel's Wedding by Roadshow Entertainment

Muriel looks for Mr. Right in the wrong places and embarks on a madcap journey of self-discovery where success isn't the best revenge, but being yourself is.

Wolf Creek by Roadshow Entertainment

Kristy, Ben and Liz are three friends in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian outback. Trouble begins when they get back from their hike to find that their car won't start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a friendly local bushman named Mick Taylor, but what Mick has in mind for them has nothing to do with friendliness. The trio discover that their real troubles have just begun.