Gundaroo Film Society - 2016 Film Suggestions/Considerations
Movie Title
Director
Genre
Year
Country
Story line
Ismail
Merchant
(room with a view/the
remains of the day)
Yarren
Zimmerman
DRAMA/MUSIC
2012
USA
Alan Rickman
COMEDY/DRAMA/RO
MANCE
2014
UK
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT #
Jean-Pierre
Jeunet
DRAMA/MYSTERY/RO
MANCE
2004
FRANCE
A WALK IN THE WOODS
Ken Kwapis
ADVENTURE/COMEDY
/DRAMA
2015
USA
ABOUT TIME
Richard Curtis
DRAMA/FANTASY/RO
MANCE
2013
UK
AGE OF CONSENT #
Michael
Powell
BIOGRAPHY/COMEDY/
DRAMA
1969
AUSTRALIA
AMADEUS
Milos Forman
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
HISTORY/MUSIC
1984
USA/FR
AMELIE #
Jean-Pierre
COMEDY/ROMANCE
2001
FRANCE
Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to
stay together in the face of death, competing egos and nonsuppressible lust.
Two talented landscape artists become romantically
entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace
at Versailles.
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her
fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the
Somme during World War One.
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns
to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with
his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his
oldest friends.
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and
change what happens and has happened in his own life. His
decision to make his world a better place by getting a
girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past
his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an
offshore island to try once more. On the island he rediscovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by
his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an
insane asylum.
Amelie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own
A LITTLE CHAOS *
* = Committee suggestions
# = Suggested in previous season
@@ anything by Merchant Ivory
@@ Fred Astaire double
A LATE QUARTET
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Jeunet
sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and,
along the way, discovers love.
APOCALYPSE NOW *
Francis
DRAMA/WAR
US
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a
Coppolo
dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade
colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
ARGO
Ben Affleck
DRAMA/HISTORY/THR 2012
USA
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a
ILLER
location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a
dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran
during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
BABETTE'S FEAST #
Gabriel Axel
DRAMA/MUSIC
1987
DENMARK
In a remote 19th Danish century village two sisters lead a
rigid life centred on their father, the local minister, and their
church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one
could have married a young army officer and the other, a
French opera singer. Their father objected in each case and
they spent their lives caring for him. Many years later - their
father is now deceased - they take in French refugee,
Babette Hersant, who agrees to work as their servant. After
winning the lottery, Babette wants to repay the sisters for
their kindness and offers to cook a French meal for them
and their friends on the 100th anniversary of their father's
birth. It proves to be an eye-opening experience for
everyone. Written
BAD EGGS #
Tony Martin
COMEDY/THRILLER
2003
AUSTRALIA Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover
detectives with way too much publicity.
BAGDAD CAFÉ
Percy Adlon
COMEDY/DRAMA
1987
WEST
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel
GER/USA
on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
BENEATH HILL 60 *
Jeremy Sims
DRAMA/HISTORY/WA 2010
AUSTRALIA In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunnelling
R
beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate
massive explosive charges.
BIRDMAN *
Alejandro
COMEDY/DRAMA
2014
USA
Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a
Inarritu
former popular actor's struggle to cope with his current life
as a wasted actor is shown.
BLADE RUNNER - FINAL CUT *
Ridley Scott
SCI/FI
2007
US
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four
replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to
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Earth to find their creator.
The best version to see is Blade Runner: The Final Cut – as
the perfectionist director’s definitive cut is called — which is
bleaker than the original but a more wonderfully immersive
and true film.
BOYHOOD *
Richard
DRAMA
2014
USA
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at
Linklater
college.
BRUCE CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID George Roy
BIOGRAPHY/CRIME/W 1969
USA
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the
Hill
ESTERN
law gets too close.
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS #
Paul
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/T 2013
USA
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009
Greengrass
HRILLER
hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk
Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two
hundred years.
CARNAGE #
Roman
COMEDY/DRAMA
2011
FR/GE/PO/ Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons
Polanski
SP
are involved in a fight, though as their time together
progresses, increasingly childish behaviour throws the
discussion into chaos.
CHARADE
Stanley Donen COMEDY/MYSTERY/R
1963
USA
Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by
OMANCE
several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had
stolen. Who can she trust?
CHARLIES COUNTRY *
Rolf de Heer
DRAMA
2013
AUS/FR
Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts. The intervention is making
life more difficult on his remote community, what with the
proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off,
to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events
in his life that has him return to his community chastened,
and somewhat the wiser.
CHEF
Jon Favreau
ADVENTURE/COMEDY 2014
USA
A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in
/DRAMA
an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back
together his estranged family.
CHEF #
Jon Favreau
ADVENTURE/COMEDY 2014
USA
A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in
/DRAMA
an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back
together his estranged family.
CHUNGKING EXPRESS #
Wong Kar-wai COMEDY/DRAMA/RO
1994
HK/USA
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with
MANCE
a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a
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CINEMA PARIDISO
CITIZEN KANE
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA *
CRY FREEDOM
DELICATESSEN #
DE-LOVELY
DIVA #
DR STRANGELOVE
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
DON'S PARTY #
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beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he
frequents.
Guiseppe
COMEDY/DRAMA
1988
ITALY/FRA
A famous film director remembers his childhood at the
Tornatore
NCE
Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first
brought about his love of films. He returns home to his
Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years and is
reminded of his first love, Elena, who disappeared from his
life before he left for Rome.
Orson Wells
DRAMA/MYSTERY
1941
USA
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters
scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Olivier Assayas DRAMA
2014
FR/GER
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable
reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival
of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Richard
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
1987
UK
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the
Attenborough HISTORY
country after attempting to investigate the death in custody
of his friend the black activist Steve Biko.
Marc Carot
COMEDY/CRIME
1991
FRANCE
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord
&Jean Pierra
of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a
Jeunet
delicacy for his odd tenants.
Irwin Winkler
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
2004
USA
Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer
MUSIC
Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda.
Jean-Jacques
THRILLER
1981
FRANCE
Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman,
Beanix
an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher
ever filmed. All these characters twist their way through an
intricate and stylish French language thriller.
Stanley
BLACK COMEDY
1964
UK/US
A political satire black comedy film that satirizes the Cold
Kubrick
War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the
US.
David Lean
DRAMA/ROMANCE/W 1965
USA
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although
AR
married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife
and experiences hardship during the First World War and
then the October Revolution
Bruce
COMEDY/DRAMA
1976
AUSTRALIA The movie Dons Party is about a wild house party in a
Beresford
suburban Australian neighbourhood. Don Henderson
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convinces his wife to have another party so that their friends
can gather to watch the election, drink and carry on. Dons
wife, Kath sees the party as just more work, while Don sees
it as a chance to break his boring routine
FINDING NEVERLAND #
Marc Forster
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
2004
USA/UK
The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who
inspired him to create Peter Pan.
FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN *
Charles
DRAMA
1941
AUSTRALIA The Australian Light Horse regiment is dispatched to
fight in the Palestinian Campaign of World War I.
Chauvel
GETTING SQUARE #
Jonathan
COMEDY/CRIME/THRI 2003
AUSTRALIA Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and
Teplitzky
LL
going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and
determined to stay on the straight and narrow.
GONE GIRL
David Fincher
DRAMA/MYSTERY/TH 2014
USA
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an
RILLER
intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him
when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
HEALING *
Craig
DRAMA
2014
AUSTRALIA Inspired by true events, HEALING is a story of redemption,
Monahan
the discovery of hope and the healing of the spirit - in the
most unlikely place for the most unlikely men.
HENRY V
Kenneth
ACTION/BIOGRAPHY/
1989
UK
The gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the
Branagh
DRAMA
English King's bloody conquest of France.
IDA
Pawel
DRAMA
2013
POLAND/D Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge
Pawlikowski
EN/FR
of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret
dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
IMMORTAL BELOVED
Bernard Rose
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
1994
UK/USA
The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven.
MUSIC
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.
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS #
Coen Bros
DRAMA/MUSIC
2013
USA
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the
Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
INTO THE WOODS
Rob Mashall
ADVENTURE/DRAMA/ 2014
USA/UK/CA A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring
MUSICAL
N
magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put
on their family tree.
INTOUCHABLES #
Nakache &
BIOGRAPHY/COMEDY/ 2011
FR/USA
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident,
Toledano
DRAMA
an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his
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JEAN DE FLORETTE #
Claude Berri
DRAMA
1986
FRANCE
JEDDA (JEDDA THE UNCIVILIZED) nfsa *
Charles
Chauvel
Ken Loach
DRAMA
1955
AUSTRALIA
DRAMA
2014
UK/IRE/FR
JIMMY’S HALL
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI *
LA GRAND ILLUSION *
LAST CAB TO DARWIN *
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
LE WEEK-END #
LES CHORISTES
LEON THE PROFESSIONAL
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caregiver.
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to
block the only water source for an adjoining property in
order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
It was DEATH for him to look on this Girl !
During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to
Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels
of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and
he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his
deportation.
David Gelb
DOCUMENTARY
2011
JAPAN
A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his
renowned Tokyo restaurant, and his relationship with his
son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.
Jean Renoir
DRAMA/WAR
1937
FRANCE
During the first World War, two French soldiers are captured
and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape
attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly
impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape
from.
Jeremy Sims
COMEDY/DRAMA/RO
2015
AUSTRALIA Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to
MANCE
live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian
outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms;
David Lean
ADVENTURE/BIOGRAP 1962
UK
Follows a brilliant, flamboyant and controversial British
HY/DRAMA
military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime
service.
Christopher
COMEDY
2013
GER/FR
A British couple return to Paris many years after their
Granierhoneymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their
Deferre
marriage.
Christophe
DRAMA/MUSIC
2004
FR/SWIT/G The new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding
Barratier
ER
school works to positively affect the students' lives through
music.
Luc Besson
CRIME/DRAMA/THRIL 1994
UK/IT/FR
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a
LER
professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and
Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his
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protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next
door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
LOOK BOTH WAYS
Sarah Watt
DRAMA/MYSTERY/RO 2005
AUSTRALIA During one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people
MANCE
struggle after hearing some life-changing news, this in turn
brings them together.
LOST IN TRANSLATION #
Sophia
DRAMA
2003
JAPAN/USA A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an
Coppola
unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
LOVE & MERCY *
Bill Pohlad
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
2014
USA
In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with
MUSIC
emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde
pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man
under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene
Landy.
MAD DOG MORGAN #
Phillip Mora
ACTION/CRIME/DRAM 1976
AUSTRALIA The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted,
A
dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
MALCOLM #
Nadia Tass
COMEDY/CRIME
1986
AUSTRALIA Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just
been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has
just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills.
MAMMA MIA
Phylida Lloyd
COMEDY/MUSICAL/R
2008
USA/UK/GE The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told
OMANCE
R
using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.
MANON DES SOURCE #
Claude Berri
DRAMA
1986
FRANCE
A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men
whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused
his death years earlier.
MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO #
Isabell Coixet
DRAMA/THRILLER
2009
JAPAN/SPA A dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee
IN
who doubles as a contract killer.
MARY POPPINS
Robert
COMEDY/FAMILY/FAN 1964
USA
A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy
Stevenson
TASY
family.
ME MYSELF I #
Pip Karmel
COMEDY/ROMANCE
1999
AUSTRALIA Pamela Drury is unhappy, and alone. On her birthday she
stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson, and wonders
what would've happened had she said yes to his proposal. A
freak accident causes Pamela to live out the life she could've
had, but is the grass on the other side always greener?
MESSAGE FROM MUNGO #
Andrew Pike,
DOCUMENTARY/HIST
2014
AUSTRALIA This immaculately researched film charts the conflict that
Anne McGrath ORY
erupts between scientists and indigenous people after the
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LIFE OF BRIAN #
Terry Jones
COMEDY
1979
UK
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discovery of 40,000 year-old human remains at Lake Mungo.
A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original
plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers
MIDNIGHT COWBOY #
1969
US
A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune
but in the process finds himself a new friend.
MR TURNER *
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
2014
UK/FR/GER An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if
HISTORY
eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
MY BRILLIANT CAREER
Jillian
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/R 1979
AUSTRALIA Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon
Armstrong
OMANCE
after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt
Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on
having a career instead. She does attracts the interest of
several suitors.
MYSTERY ROAD #
Ivan Sen
CRIME/MYSTERY/THRI 2013
AUSTRALIA An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to
LLER
investigate the murder of a young girl.
NEBRASKA
Alexander
ADVENTURE/DRAMA
2013
USA
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana
Payne
to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a
million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
NEBRASKA *
Alexander
ADVENTURE/DRAMA
2013
USA
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana
Payne
to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a
million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
NED KELLY #
Gregor Jordan BIOGRAPHY/CRIME/D 2003
AUSTRALIA An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals
RAMA
the world has ever known.
NORTH WEST FRONTIER #
Lee Thompson ADVENTURE/DRAMA
1959
UK
In British India, a young prince must be taken to safey across
Bacall
rebel-held territory, and an old train is the only way to do it.
ON THE WATERFRONT
Elia Kaza
CRIME/DRAMA
1954
USA
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand
up to his corrupt union bosses.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST
Milos Forman Drama
1975
USA
Upon admittance to a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies
the patients to take on the oppressive head nurse.
PARADISE ROAD
Bruce
DRAMA/HISTORY/WA 1997
AUS/USA
Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are
Beresford
R
imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during
World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
PELLE THE CONQUEROR
Bille August
DRAMA
1988
DEN/SW
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish
emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among
them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to
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MICMACS #
Jean-Pierre
Jeunet
John
Schlesinger
Mike Leigh
ACTION/COMEDY/CRI
ME
COMEDY
2009
FRANCE
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PINK FLOYD THE WALL
QUARTET
RABBIT PROOF FENCE *
RED OBSESSION #
RENOIR *
ROSALIE GOES SHOPPING
ROSEMARY'S BABY #
ROUND MIDNIGHT
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find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are
treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak
Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them
wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the
life they left in Sweden.
Alan Parker
ANIMATION/DRAMA/ 1982
USA
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in
MUSICAL
the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Dustin
COMEDY/DRAMA
2012
UK
At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to
Hoffman
celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean,
an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
Philip Noyce
ADVENTURE/DRAMA/ 2002
AUSTRALIA In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked
BIOGRAPHY
from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off
on a trek across the Outback.
David Roach & DOCUMENTARY/HIST
2013
HONG
The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate
Warwick Ross ORY/NEWS
KONG
the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which
have become a powerful status symbol in booming China.
Gilles Bourdos BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
2012
FRANCE
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean
HISTORY/ROMANCE
Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World
War I.
Percy Adlon
COMEDY
1989
USA/WEST Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no
GER
money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take
her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing
from one family member to buy presents for others.
Roman
DRAMA/HORROR
1968
USA
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be
Polanski
surrounded by peculiar neighbours and occurrences. When
the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the
safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.
Bertrand
DRAMA/MUSIC
1986
USA/FR
In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon
Tavernier
brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner,
a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism,
estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the
1950's New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in
Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at
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the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not
based upon the colour of his skin.
RUST AND BONE #
Jacques
DRAMA/ROMANCE
2012
FRANCE
Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for
Audiard
Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family.
Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows
deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN #
malik
DOCUMENTARY/BIOG 2012
SWED/UK/ Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to
bendjelloul
RAPHY/MUSIC
FIN
their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n'
roller, Rodriguez.
SHERPA
Jeniffer
DOCUMENTARY
2015
AUS/NEPAL A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news
Peedom
channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at
21,000ft as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas.
SIRENS
John Duigan
COMEDY/DRAMA/RO
1993
AUS/UK
When a painting is termed blasphemous, a young minister
MANCE
and his wife visit the artist... and the three sexually playful
models living with him.
SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE #
Danny Boyle
DRAMA/ROMANCE
2008
USA/INDIA A Mumbai teen, who grew up in the slums, becomes a
contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and
while being interrogated, events from his life history are
shown which explain why he knows the answers.
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Dean Murphy
COMEDY
2004
AUSTRALIA Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a
loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to
take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
STRANGERLAND *
Kim Farrant
DRAMA/THRILLER
2015
AUS/IRE
A family finds their dull life in a rural outback town rocked
after their two teenage children disappear into the desert,
sparking disturbing rumours of their past.
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Joseph L
DRAMA/MYSTERY/TH 1959
USA
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on
Mankiewicz
RILLER
vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so
horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants
Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY #
Ken Hannam
DRAMA
1975
AUSTRALIA A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group
of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy
landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
SUNSHINE ON LEITH
Dexter
COMEDY/DRAMA/MU 2013
UK
Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their
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SWEETIE #
Fletcher
Jane Campion
SICAL
COMEDY/DRAMA
TEMPE TIP
TESTIMONY
Michael Ralph
Tony Palmer
THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN
Felix Herngren
1989
AUSTRALIA
COMEDY
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/
HISTORY
2002
1988
ADVENTURE/COMEDY
2013
AUSTRALIA
DEN/NL/S
W/WGER/
UK
SW/RU/SP/
UK/FR
romantic and family lives.
Based solely on a tea leaf reading, superstitious and
introspective Kay believes she and Louis are destined to fall
in love with each other, he who she is able to convince of
the same despite he just having gotten engaged to her coworker, Cheryl. That destiny may change with the fortunes
of what she sees as the next symbol of their relationship, a
somewhat sickly elder tree Louis plants in their garden for
their one year anniversary.
Multicultural initiative
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
After living a long and colourful life, Allan Karlsson finds
himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he
leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
THE ANGELS' SHARE #
Ken Loach
COMEDY/CRIME/DRA 2012
SCOTTISH
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a
MA
new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his
mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI #
Coen Bros
COMEDY/CRIME
1998
USA/UK
"The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski,
seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling
buddies to help get it.
THE BIG STEAL #
Nadia Tass
COMEDY
1990
AUSTRALIA To impress a girl a shy teenaged boy buys a used Jaguar.
THE BLUES BROTHERS #
John Landis
ACTION/COMEDY/CRI 1980
US
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band
ME
to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood
were raised.
THE BOAT THAT ROCKED (PIRATE RADIO) Richard Curtis COMEDY/DRAMA/MU 2009
UK
A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North
#
SIC
Sea in the 1960s.
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTRY
Clint Eastwood DRAMA/ROMANCE
1995
USA
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of
housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.
THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN #
Felix van
DRAMA/MUSIC/ROMA 2012
BELGIUM
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their
Groeningan
NCE
differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist,
she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes
seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
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THE CASTLE (in light of subdivision)
Rob Sitch
COMEDY
1997
AUSTRALIA
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
Marc Carot,
Jean Pierre
Jeunet
Francis
Coppola
FANTASY/SCI-FI
1995
FR/GER/SP
DRAMA/MYSTERY/TH
RILLER
1974
FRANCE
THE DAUGHTER
Simon Stone
DRAMA
2015
AUSTRALIA
THE DISH
Rob Sitch
COMEDY/DRAMA
2000
AUSTRALIA
THE GIFT
Joel Edgerton
MYSTERY/THRILLER
2015
AUS/USA
THE CONVERSATION *
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city
hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family
home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal
their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of
conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on
will be murdered.
Set in the last days of a dying logging town, Christian
(Schneider) returns to his family home for his father Henry's
(Rush) wedding. Reconnecting with his childhood friend
Oliver (Leslie) and Oliver's family, wife Charlotte (Otto) and
daughter Hedvig (Young), he unearths a long-buried secret.
As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions
threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years
before.
A remote Australian antenna, populated by quirky
characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing.
A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing
tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past
brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after
more than 20 years
THE GRADUATE #
Mike Nichols
COMEDY/DRAMA/RO
1967
US
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between
MANCE
his older lover and her daughter.
THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO #
Whit Stillman
COMEDY/DRAMA/MU 1998
AUSTRALIA Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of
SIC
college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting
the local disco.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS
Stephen
BIOGRAPHY
2004
UK/US
The life of English comedy actor Peter Sellers, based on
Hopkins
Roger Lewis's book of the same name.
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING #
John Hustin
ADVENTURE
1975
US/UK
Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army
and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where
no white man has set foot since Alexander.
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THE OTHER SON
Lorraine Levy
DRAMA
2012
PALESTINE/
ISRAEL
NZ
Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover
they were accidentally switched at birth.
THE PIANO #
Jane Campion DRAMA/MUSIC/ROMA 1993
A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her
NCE
prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged
marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted
after by a local worker on the plantation.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE #
Rob Reiner
ADVENTURE/COMEDY 1987
US
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him
a story called The Princess Bride.
THE RAILWAY MAN
Jonathon
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/R 2013
AUS/UK/S
A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a
Treplitzky
OMANCE
WIT
prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War
II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his
treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD
John Madden
COMEDY/DRAMA
2015
UK/USA
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining
HOTEL
vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh
arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a
second hotel.
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER #
Ernst Lubich
COMEDY/DRAMA/RO
1940
USA/PO
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another,
MANCE
without realizing that they're falling in love through the post
as each other's anonymous pen pal.
THE THIN RED LINE *
Terrence Malik DRAMA/ACTION/WAR 1998
US
Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones'
autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at
Guadalcanal during the second World War.
THE TRACKER #
Rolf de Heer
DRAMA/HISTORY/WES 2002
AUSTRALIA It's 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian
TERN
man is accused of murdering a white woman, three white
men (The Fanatic, The Follower and The Veteran) are given
the mission of capturing him with the help of an experienced
Native Australian (The Tracker). So they start their quest in
the outback, not knowing that their inner wrestles against
and for racism will be more dangerous that the actual
hunting for the accused.
THE TRAP #
Sidney Hayers ADVENTURE/DRAMA/ 1966
CAN/USA
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live
ROMANCE
with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
THE TURNING
Jonathon auf
DRAMA
2013
AUSTRALIA A collection of short films based on stories by Australian
der Heidi
writer Tim Winton.
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THE TURNING #
Jonathon Auf
der Heide,
Tony Ayres
Nat Faxon/Jim
Rash
DRAMA
2013
AUSTRALIA
A collection of short films based on stories by Australian
writer Tim Winton.
COMEDY/DRAMA
2013
UK
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Robert
Mulligan
DRAMA
1962
USA
VENUS IN FUR *
Roman
Polanski
Adrienne
Shelly
DRAMA
2013
FR/POL
COMEDY/DRAMA/RO
MANCE
2007
USA
WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY *
Andy
Hamilton, Guy
Jenkin
COMEDY
2014
UK
WOMAN IN GOLD
Simon Curtis
DRAMA
2015
X + Y (A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND) *
Morgan
Mathews
COMEDY/DRAMA
2014
USA
/UK/AUSTR
IA
UK
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his
mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's
daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an
unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz
water park.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends
a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids
against prejudice.
An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect
for a role in his upcoming production.
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep
south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an
unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation.
Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins
and outs of their family life and many intimate details about
their parents. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a
big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their
children are their biggest liability.
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on
the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes
rightfully belongs to her family.
A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new
confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the
British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
THE WAY WAY BACK
WAITRESS #
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