Movies tagged with the "australia" keyword

Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance | Actors: Emma Roberts, Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque, Sara Paxton, Jake McDorman, Arielle Kebbel, Claudia Karvan, Bruce Spence, Tammin Sursok, Roy Billing, Julia Blake, Shaun Micallef, Lulu McClatchy, Natasha Cunningham, Dichen Lachman, Lincoln Lewis, Directors: Elizabeth Allen,  Plot Summary: After a vicious storm , half the ocean washes into the beach club swimming pool. Two teenagers, Haley and Claire, discover a mermaid in the pool. She tells them that she needs to find love in three days, and they agree to help her because helping a mermaid means you get a wish, and they decide that they can use their wish to try and stop Haley from moving to Australia.

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Genres: Comedy | Family | Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Alexander Pollock, Miriam Margolyes, Myron Natwick, Doris Chillcott, Kirsten Robek, Frank C. Turner, Mar Andersons, Gillian Barber, Carol Ann Susi, Randi Kaplan, Mary Bogue, Alvin Sanders, Mark Schooley, Directors: Lawrence Guterman,  Plot Summary: There's a secret war being waged in the homes and neighborhoods of Earth that the humans don't even know about; an eternal struggle between two great armies: the Cats and the Dogs. The film follows a Cat's plan to destroy a new vaccine, that if developed, would destroy all human allergies to Dogs, and the Dogs' efforts to stop the Cats. Specifically, it's the story of a young pup (Tobey Maguire) whose job it is to guard the vaccine. Other dogs include a wise older dog who watches out for him (Susan Sarandon), a large friendly dog (Michael Clarke Duncan), and a small dog who serves as an electronics expert (Joe Pantoliano). Jeff Goldblum is the human scientist that invented the vaccine.

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Genres: Comedy | Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Peter Callan, Khan Chittenden, Brendan Clearkin, Russell Dykstra, Frankie J. Holden, Philip Quast, Richard Wilson, Emma Booth, Rebecca Gibney, Katie Wall, Directors: Cherie Nowlan,  Plot Summary: The shy son (Chittenden) of an aging comedienne (Blethyn) tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend (Booth), and his mother's second chance at fame.

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Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil, Ritchie Singer, Maggie Blinco, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, Terry Gill, Peter Turnbull, Christine Totos, Graham 'Grace' Walker, David Bracks, Brett Hogan, Directors: Peter Faiman,  Plot Summary: Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is an Australian crocodile hunter who lives in the Australian outback and runs a safari business with his trusted friend and mentor Walter Reilly. After surviving a crocodile attack, a New York journalist named Sue arrives to interview Mick about how he survived and learns more about the crocodile hunter. After saving Sue from a crocodile, Sue invites Mick to visit New York City, since Mick has never been to a city. Mick finds the culture and life in New York City a lot different than his home and he finds himself falling in love with Sue.

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Genres: Drama | Family | Romance | Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Teresa Palmer, Christian Byers, Lee Cormie, James Fraser, Jack Thompson, Kris McQuade, Suzie Wilks, Victoria Hill, Sullivan Stapleton, Ralph Cotterill, Frank Gallacher, Directors: Rod Hardy,  Plot Summary: It's the 1960s, Australia. 4 orphaned boys, who are best friends, escape their orphanage and go to a beach resort. At the resort is a couple that's keen on adopting a boy, which causes tension & competition between the boys. One of the boys also has his first romance with a girl that's there.

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Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Actors: Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson, Rhondda Findleton, Kate Atkinson, Vince Colosimo, Paul Sonkkila, Kym Gyngell, Dorian Nkono, Stephen Whittaker, Torquil Neilson, Don Bridges, Doug Bowles, Directors: Scott Roberts,  Plot Summary: Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Chris Haywood, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard, Leah Purcell, Stelios Yiakmis, Eva Lazzaro, Sean Rees-Wemyss, Alice Garner, Simon Stone, Betty Lucas, Stephen Barker, Max Cullen, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Directors: Ray Lawrence,  Plot Summary: Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband's action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim's family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.

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Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Actors: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, Marton Csokas, Dyan Cannon, Michael Shannon, Bill Hunter, David Ngoombujarra, Mark Sellito, Damien Fotiou, Christopher Baker, Ryan Gibson, Denise Roberts, Antonio Vitiello, Directors: David McNally,  Plot Summary: A comedy that follows the misadventures of two friends from Brooklyn who are forced to deliver mob money to Australia. While taking pictures of a kangaroo, one of them places his red jacket on it. When the wild kangaroo bounces off, they realize the mob money is in the jacket and are forced to give chase through the Outback.

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Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller | Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Chia Hui Liu, Daryl Hannah, Michael Parks, Bo Svenson, Jeannie Epper, Stephanie Moore, Shana Stein, Caitlin Keats, Christopher Allen Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Directors: Quentin Tarantino,  Plot Summary: The Bride woke up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before the coma was gone. The only thing on her mind was to get revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. With two of the people on her Death List taken care of, she must pursue Budd, Elle Driver and of course Bill himself. But she is in for a surprise...

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Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto, Paul Larsson, Angry Anderson, Robert Grubb, George Spartels, Edwin Hodgeman, Bob Hornery, Andrew Oh, Ollie Hall, Lee Rice, Directors: George Miller,  Plot Summary: Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown.

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Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller | Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Serbedzija, William Mapother, Dominic Purcell, Matthew Wilkinson, Nicholas Bell, Cristina Brogers, Kee Chan, Kim Fleming, Directors: John Woo,  Plot Summary: IMF agent Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy the supply of a genetically created disease called 'Chimera'. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure called 'Bellerophon' and now need 'Chimera' to complete their grand plan of infecting the whole world. In order to infiltrate and locate the terrorist group he relies on the help of an international thief Nyah of whom he quickly develops a love interest. Time is not only running out for Agent Hunt to find and destroy 'Chimera' before the terrorists get their hands on it, but he must also find 'Bellerophon' so as to save his love interest who has already become infected by the disease from a terrible and rapid death.

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Genres: Drama | Actors: Tom Budge, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone, David Wenham, John Hurt, Richard Wilson, Robert Morgan, Directors: John Hillcoat,  Plot Summary: Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the four Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the gang's mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley's proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and - more importantly - save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days.

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Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance | Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine,