Australia Movies

Mary Elliott and Courtland Nixon are dancing partners in a stage show called Florodora.

Looks at three single mothers living on social security benefits or pensions and how they maintain their family lives. These women raise fundamental q...

Charlene Stardust dreams of her fantasy date in anticipation of her approaching weekend date. As the time, approaches Charlene has become disenchanted...

This work, originally shot on Super-8 was made as part of a Women and Art course at Sydney College of the Arts. Students who worked on the little expe...

A fictional comedy about Australian and Japanese culture clash.

Recollections of the Australian women's Peace Movement told by those who helped shape it, from 84-year-old Irene Greenwood whose activities go back to...

A moving documentation of the life of a small boy about to face his sixth major operation in six years. Raises questions of care for the hospitalised,...

Young Sally Shambles is a naive young lady whose readiness for love leads her into a number of predicaments with men, all unsuccessful. She daydreams...

Five hundred Australians were killed in combat in Vietnam. Four hundred and seventy Australian veterans have committed suicide since returning. Based...

Two transported convicts, George Worrall and Frederick Fisher, are released and take up farms at Campbelltown. They are both successful and become fri...

An artist, Stephen Patrick, falls in love with his model, Juliette (Adrienne Stewart). Juliette is in love with Dr Lonsdale, who is engaged to a wealt...

Five housewives, living in a housing estate in outer Adelaide, tell how they organized a mutual self-help group to overcome the boredom, frustration a...

A documentary about a feminist run abortion clinic. Counselling is shown to be an important part of the procedure, which is carried out using local an...

Genni Batterham was a young healthy 24-year-old student when she contracted multiple sclerosis (M.S.). Within 18 months she became a paraplegic. This...

When Bill, a worker at Woolloomooloo Wharf, breaks his leg, his wife, Nell has to go to work. She's successful, saving her daughter money, but she get...

A look at society's response to ageing, particularly with regard to older women.

In 1955, filmmaker Chauvel debuted Jedda. His star was a young Arrernte woman from Alice Springs named Ngarla Kunoth, or Rosalie. Her story, the story...

A wheelchair meets the car of its dreams.

Part 3 of the History of Australian Cinema series. The story of the Australian film industry in the 1930s, from the pioneering days of talkies through...

In this ten-minute Art House film, we meet Nik, a young person living in Canberra, who is struggling with their gender identity. We follow the persona...