focus on films from Australia

A.K.A. Girl Skater

$17.95 | minutes

Some of the most talented female skateboarders in the world gather together on this look at the culture surrounding girls that skate. Vanessa Torres, Monica Shaw, and Amy Caron are among the big names featured, all providing some jaw-dropping footage as well as providing some fascinating insights into their lives&hellip…

Alexandra's Project

$26.95 | 103 minutes

In this Australian thriller, a happy family man finds himself the victim of a cruel prank that becomes more threatening by the minute. On his birthday, he comes home from work to a video of his wife and kids, but then realizes they're being held at gunpoint. Frantic, he must figure out where they've gone, and who made the tape. … &hellip

An Angel at My Table

$27.95 | 158 minutes

This sprawling, detailed film by Jane Campion (THE PIANO) tells the true story of Janet Frame, a painfully sensitive girl who managed to escape a dreary rural upbringing and eight years in a mental hospital to become New Zealand's premier poet. The film unfolds as a trilogy, with each section based on a different Frame autobiography&hellip…

Bad Boy Bubby

$17.95 | 114 minutes

Australian director Rolf de Heer's bizarre parable of innocence and corruption, belief and redemption, paints a decidedly grim picture while allowing hints of optimistic humanism to filter through. Bad Boy Bubby (Nicholas Hope) is a 35-year-old manchild, confined his whole life by his domineering mother--who uses him for sex--to a two-room&hellip…

Cactus

$21.95 | 92 minutes

In the stark beauty of the Australian landscape, Colo (Isabelle Huppert), a woman suffering from an eye injury she received in a car accident, faces possible blindness which propels her into seclusion. Soon she meets Robert (Robert Menzies), an attractive blind man. A romance develops, bringing new meaning to their lives as they teach&hellip…

Candy

$19.95 | 108 minutes

In Neil Armfield's CANDY, Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play Dan and Candy, two young bohemians who fall madly in love while shooting heroin together. In the beginning, the couple's days are occupied with making love, shoplifting, and having a strung-out wedding day that ends with a lot of giggling over a couple of Big Macs. Despite&hellip…

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History

$19.95 | 65 minutes

THIS TITLE IS ON MORATORIUM AND CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. A brilliantly witty and ironic documentary about a very serious subject: the effects of human interference in the environmental chain. Cane toads were brought to Australia in order to eat the indigenous pests that ruined local crops; unfortunately, they didn't manage to do that&hellip…

Flyabout

$19.95 | 74 minutes

Monika Petrillo has never been a person to postpone her dreams. So at 24 she decided to get a pilot's license. A year later, her father surprised her by learning to fly as well. As the movie begins, they take off together to circumnavigate the continent of Australia. The only woman pilot in a group of eleven people, Monika experiences…

Goddess of 1967

$21.95 | 119 minutes

A Japanese man searches the Internet to find his dream car, a 1967 Citroen DS (Deesse/Goddess) - the same make of car driven by Alain Delon in Le Samourai. Travelling all the way to Australia to purchase it, he finds the seller dead. A gorgeous 17-year-old blind girl with a dark, haunting past (the amazing Rose Byrne, Marie-Antoinette&hellip…

Irresistible

$10.95 | 109 minutes

Sophie Hartley is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her children, her husband and her life. But no one believes Sophie. Forced to prove her sanity, Sophie grows increasingly paranoid-is she imagining things? Sophie becomes completely caught&hellip…