Australia Day

Jun 12, 2017

1h 34m

★ 5.5

Overview

On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Foxtel

Screen Australia

Screen Queensland

Hoodlum Entertainment

Australia Day Trailers

Cast

Terry Friedman

Bryan Brown

Sonya Mackenzie

Shari Sebbens

Chloe Patterson

Isabelle Cornish

Jason Patterson

Daniel Webber

Detective Mitchell Collyer

Matthew Le Nevez

Lan Chang

Jenny Wu

Traffic Investigator Sergeant

Burgess Abernethy

Oilya

Neveen Hanna

Madam

Diana Lin

Superintendent Hall

John McNeill

Senior Constable Liz Jamieson

Jacy Lewis

Detective Hannah Truong

Ngoc Phan

In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a family friend, Dr. Lang, to help end her life. When this doctor declines to help with the assisted suicide, however, she is forced to turn to her husband. After much soul-searching, Dr. Heyt, her husband, assists in her suicide. The act, however, is witnessed by a chambermaid, who reports him to the police. Dr. Heyt is put on trial for murder and, at first, Dr. Lang testifies against him in court. Soon, however, Dr. Lang is faced with a similar case in his professional practice and this, along with Dr. Heyt’s impassioned performance in court, convinces Dr. Lang that, in some instances, mercy killing may be the right thing to do.

4.0

El caso del cadáver descuartizado

May 24, 1985

May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before.

3.7

El crimen de Perpignan

Feb 20, 1991

Perpignan, 1971. A toy factory supervisor becomes obsessed with a newly hired employee. To be with her, he plans the perfect crime: Training his lover to murder his wife.

5.5

El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia

Apr 12, 1985

Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.

4.8

El crimen del capitán Sánchez

Apr 19, 1985

Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is about to commit is far greater than he suspects.

4.0

El caso del procurador enamorado

Apr 26, 1985

Salamanca, 1973. A congressman in love with his daughter's teacher hires an assassin to kill his wife.

6.3

Jarabo

May 10, 1985

July 21, 1958. Madrid wakes up to the news that a pawnbroker has been murdered in his shop. Soon, police finds that the victim's associate, his pregnant wife and their maid have been murdered as well in their own home across the street.

3.8

El crimen del expreso de Andalucía

Feb 27, 1991

Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.

7.3

Wake in Fright

Jul 21, 1971

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

6.8

The Postman's White Nights

Oct 14, 2014

The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.

7.3

El televisor

Jul 5, 1974

Enrique buys a color television set just to satisfy a personal pleasure long time deferred but, from that moment on, he becomes obsessed with it in such way that eventually he is incapable to differ reality from fiction.

6.1

Soledad's Shawl

Nov 13, 1952

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.

4.6

Cedar Boys

Jul 30, 2009

Things go terribly wrong for three Lebanese-Australian friends who try to get ahead by selling stolen drugs.

0.0

Cloudbusting

Feb 7, 2023

An immigrant from Hong Kong now lives in Los Angeles. He deals with his homesickness and sense of loss after encountering a strange old man.

7.1

Toto Forever

Apr 22, 2010

A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn.

6.8

Mei Mei

Nov 25, 2010

Lulu, a high class prostitute, receives constant visits from her neighbor Julian. He believes that she is his missing ex-girlfriend Mei Mei and begs her for a chance to start over again. Lulu rejects him, thinking that he is just making up stories to win her over. She tells him she never wants to see him again, but soon she misses him. It may be too late as she discovers that Julian is with somebody that looks exactly like her.

6.5

Pool of London

Feb 20, 1951

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

6.5

Last Ride

Jul 2, 2009

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.