
Noni Hazlehurst
Actor · b. 1953 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Noni Hazlehurst (born Leonie Hazlehurst) is an Australian stage, television, and film actress.
Movies22
Movie6.2HorrorThrillerAfter raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival.
Sting
2024 · 556 votes
Movie6.7ComedyDramaAdapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
Ladies in Black
2018 · 206 votes
Movie6.5DramaAs a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.
Truth
2015 · 536 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceA poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Candy
2006 · 666 votes
Movie6.5DramaComedyA woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame.
June Again
2021 · 37 votes
Movie6.7RomanceComedyTeddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. Trapped in an endless cycle of time jumps, transported another year ahead every few minutes, he is faced with a race against time as his life crumbles around him.
Long Story Short
2021 · 226 votes
Movie6.3CrimeComedyIn 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
The Mule
2014 · 155 votes
Movie8.3DramaFran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
Fran
1985 · 3 votes
Movie6.0FamilyComedyThe 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often have to defend themselves against the villain Bomer and his gang. Fatty wants a detector radio, but can't afford it. He has to raise money for it within a week, otherwise he won't get the radio ...
Fatty Finn
1980 · 9 votes
Movie5.8DramaCrimeSet in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Little Fish
2005 · 125 votes
MovieComedyRomanceThis is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.
Movie5.5DramaNora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.
Monkey Grip
1982 · 11 votes
MovieScience FictionAnimationhe Della Morte Sisters are introduced in this short animated steampunk film 'Della Mortika: Carousel of Shame'. The film follows the sisters after they arrive in Australia and are sent to the Skipping Girl Home for Wayward and Homeless Girls (it is set between books 2 and 3). The Della Morte Sisters have their sisterly bond put to the test when jealousy rears its ugly head. The film has been produced in a stop-motion style using paper puppets and pop-ups to bring the girls from the pages of the books into lively animation.
Movie5.6CrimeTV MovieAn evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
The Broken Shore
2013 · 14 votes
MovieAnimation"On a Full Moon could be described as a poem to my mother who had died not long before. I wanted it to be as beautiful and contemplative as I could possibly make it. But I also know it had to be absolutely honest about what it's like to be a mum." -Lee Whitmore
On a Full Moon
1997
Movie7.4ComedyFamilyFollows a boy who realizes there is more to being a clown, than just clowning around.
Clowning Around
1991 · 5 votes
Movie5.2Friends meet at a farm house to await the birth of a baby.
Waiting
1991 · 5 votes
MovieDocumentaryUsing almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period.
Movie8.0ThrillerFour unsuspecting victims are hurled into a twisted and altered reality: ... a young woman tries to flee a hit-and-run with destiny... an ex-ballroom champion hides a mysterious secret from the past in his bedroom... a routine job for a hitman takes an unusual turn... and a woman finds herself trapped in a train station with a bizarre railway clerk. All four soon discover that their preconceived notions of reality couldn't be further from the truth.
Still Twisted
1997 · 1 votes
Movie4.7DramaTV Movie1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
Curtin
2007 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryAn inspiring look at how wonderful birth can be when your right to choose how, where and with whom you give birth is respected & protected. Every woman has the right to be informed about their options in childbirth. Through an exploration of home birth, this 87 min film looks at what natural, physiological childbirth really is. Is birth a medical emergency waiting to happen or a profound, natural and physiological event that women are designed for? The most comprehensive film ever made on home birth and a voice of reason in the debate, The Face of Birth outlines the importance of education in birthing and the right of a woman to choose the best and safest birth method for her and her baby.
The Face of Birth
2012 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryFollows three young people who, diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, are about to embark on a life-changing journey at a specialised camp.
Series17
TV5.4DramaSoapThe Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.
The Sullivans
1976 · 8 votes
TV3.3ComedyRealityTalkin' 'Bout Your Generation is an Australian game show produced by Granada Productions which premiered on Network Ten on 5 May 2009. It is hosted by Shaun Micallef. The first series ran for 18 episodes, with the original production order extended due to the success of the show. A second series of 26 episodes began airing from 7 February 2010. Series 2 had a planned hiatus after episode 10 on 18 April 2010 and returned to finish its run on 1 August 2010. Series 3 began on 8 February 2011. On 27 October 2011, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation was renewed for a fourth series. On 22 January 2012, it was announced that the show would begin airing Series 4 on 1 February 2012 in an 8 pm timeslot.
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
2009 · 3 votes
TV7.4DramaSoapA mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.
A Place to Call Home
2013 · 47 votes
TV5.9CrimeDramaCity Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.
City Homicide
2007 · 14 votes
TV8.1ComedyDramaWhen family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway teenager Meg, who’s dealing with some family demons of her own.
Upright
2019 · 101 votes
TV7.1DramaInspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer.
Fires
2021 · 13 votes
TV8.0Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryStories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a twist at the end of the story.
Twisted Tales
1996 · 2 votes
TV8.0DramaSix extraordinary stories one unmissable series. Redfern Now is the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.
Redfern Now
2012 · 4 votes
TV6.2DramaComedyThree generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count.
The End
2020 · 17 votes
TV6.9ComedyAudrey is determined not to be defined by motherhood. In theory, this seems fairly easy. In practice, her career-focused husband, self-obsessed mother & fancy-free best friend, make it damn near impossible.
The Letdown
2016 · 21 votes
TV4.8ComedyFrances O'Brian, Head Librarian, is having a hellish time of it. And for once it's not all of her making. Frances' mother, suffering from both dementia and a really horrible personality, lands on the O'Brien doorstep. Adding to her woes, morale at the Middleton Interactive Learning Centre is at a new all time low. In order to stay open, the library is forced to run as a business and return an annual profit. As the staff has a hard enough time enforcing the return of a book, this latest initiative could spell the end of the library.
The Librarians
2007 · 12 votes
TV6.9DramaMysteryThree women who shared a devastating trauma as teenagers find their emotional scars ripped open when one of them writes a book about the experience.
One Night
2023 · 14 votes
TVFamilyAction & AdventureA boy realizes there is more to being a clown than just clowning around.
Clowning Around
1991
TV6.8DramaMacauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
The Shiralee
1988 · 7 votes
TV10.0DramaWar & PoliticsNancy Wake tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse'. This miniseries event begins in 1939 when Nancy meets Henri Fiocca, while she is working on assignment as a journalist in Marseilles. With Europe on the brink of war, they fall desperately in love and are married as Hitler begins his relentless march oh Holland and Belgium.
Nancy Wake
1987 · 1 votes
TVDocumentaryIn this documentary series, much loved and celebrated actor Noni Hazlehurst meets Australians who are grappling with a family secret. Over three weeks, participants travel around the world uncovering powerful truths about themselves, their families and Australia.
TVAnimationKidsThe show tells the story of Lizzie, a young librarian who owns and drives a mobile library van, and her relationship with the townspeople of a fictional Australian town of Long Flat. One of the residents is an aboriginal man, Munro, who teaches her about his cultural background.
Lizzie's Library
1995