Garry McDonald

Gerçeğin, güzelliğin, özgürlüğün ve aşkın kutlamasının yapıldığı 1900'lü yılların göz alıcı, parlak fakat kötü şöhretli gece kulübünün adıdır Moulin Rouge... Satine, bu gece kulübünün parıldayan elması, en güzel yıldızı ve şehrin en tanınmış fahişesidir. Ama gece kulübünü finanse edecek zengin bir adamın takıntısı olmakla, gerçekten aşık olduğu beş parasız bir şair arasında seçim yapmak zorunda kalacaktır.

Avustralya’nın izbe bir kıyısında deniz feneri bekçiliği yapan ve savaş sonrası bunalımı yaşayan gazi Tom Sherbourne ile Parageuse Kasabası’nda tanıştığı, savaşta kaybettiği iki ağabeyinin yasını tutan karısı Isabel sakin bir hayat sürmektedirler. Çiftin en büyük isteği çocuk sahibi olup aile kurmaktır. Bir gece içinde bir adam cesedi ve bir kız bebeğin bulunduğu gizemli bir sandal kıyıya vurur. İkili çok zor bir kararın eşiğindedir, çocuğun ailesini aramak yerine çocuğu yanlarına alarak yaralarını sarmaya çalışırlar...

14 yaşında sessiz ve kendi dünyasında bir genç kız olan Sally, babası ve onun kız arkadaşı Kim ile birlikte 19. yüzyıldan kalma eski bir eve taşınır. Bir süre sonra evde yolunda gitmeyen birşeyler sezinler. Merdiven altında kötülük saçan bir takım yaratıklar vardır, daha da kötüsü bu uğursuz varlıklar genç kızın ruhunun kendilerine ait olduğunu düşünmektedir.

1900 yılında, elit bir kız okulu, Hanging Rock adlı dağlık bir bölgeye sevgililer gününde gezi düzenler. Fakat üç öğrenci ve bir öğretmen, bu gizemli yerde kaybolur.Herkes onları bulmak için seferber olsa da, ne onlar ne de kaybolmalarının sebebi bulunamaz, bu sorunun cevabı izleyiciye bırakılmıştır. Fakat bu kayboluş toplumdaki herkesi etkiler. Kaybolan öğrencilerden biri bulunsa da başına ne geldiğini, ya da arkadaşlarına ne olduğunu hatırlamaz.Uluslararası alanda adı duyulan ilk Avustralya filmlerden biri olan Picnic at Hanging Rock, bu anlamda sinematik ve tarihsel açıdan büyük öneme sahiptir.

1930'lu yıllarda yoksul Avustralya yerlilerinin çocukları esrarengiz bir şekilde ortadan kaybolmaktadır. Kaçırılan bu masum çocuklar vatanlarından uzakta bir yerlerde bir köle kampına götürülür ve oradan zengin ailelere hizmetçi olarak satılır. Sorgusuz sualsiz kaderlerine boğun eğmek durumunda kalan çaresiz çocuklardan üçü bu zulme boyun eğmeme konusunda kararlıdırlar. Elele veren üç küçük kız kendilerinden beklenmeyecek bir cesaret göstererek bu izbe kamptan kurtulmaya çalışacaklardır. Tavşanları uzaklaştırmak için set edilen bir çiti izleyerek ilerleyen üç kız özgürlüğe giden yolun meşakatlerini tecrübe ederler. Phillip Noyce tarafından yönetilen dokunaklı yapıt konusunu gerçek bir hikayeden alıyor.

Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.

Tom is a British chef in a Bondi restaurant who seems to have decided there are no longer any rules he needs to obey. Whatever Tom is up to, his actions seem to be tolerated by those around him. As Tom descends into darkness, fragments of a different story begin to emerge. All the women in his world are trying in their own, very different ways to help put him back together.

The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.

Müzikal komedi, Gilbert ve Sullivan'ın Penzance Korsanları'ndan uyarlanan şarkılar ve Star Wars, Indiana Jones gibi filmlerin parodileriyle şekillenir. Mabel'in başrolde olduğu hikâye; korsanlar, kaçırılan bir gemi, kılıç dövüşleri ve şarkılı diyaloglarla ilerler. Romantik karmaşa, Darth Vader taklitli korsanlar ve absürt mizah eşliğinde gelişen olaylar, klasik "aşk-macera" temalı eğlenceli bir yapımdır.

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

This 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.

Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. To his parents' horror, he gets a normal job.

Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.

The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.

A very clumsy man and his UFO-obsessed girlfriend discover a plan made by his boss to market eggs laced with nicotine.

This Australian children's film is about scientist Bill Stewart goes to Fiji with his son Tim to investigate the appearance of the Crown of Thorns starfish in the reefs off the island.

A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.

Banduk discovers that Mr Kool is smuggling birds out of Australia.

Şöhretli şarkıcı Max, Freud'un hayatını anlatan bir müzikal yapmaktadır. Karısı Marilyn ise onu öldürmeye karar verir. Ama Marilyn çok sakardır - Max yerine yanlışlıkla başkalarını öldürür! Bu "kurbanlar" öteki dünyadan dönüp Marilyn'den intikam almak isteyince komik olaylar patlak verir.

Venice is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts an affair with her best friend. The aggravation of her ex-hippy dad, camped on her sofa, is the last straw.

This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and Pat just happens to be a soccer teacher. He forms a team and tries to take them all the way, with some funny results.

After Dan collapses at a train station, he enlists Maxie to watch his beloved dog, Molly. Maxie develops a soft spot for her new furry companion - a dog which has a unique ability to sing in tune.

Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.

Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne. The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries. The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.

The ABC Of... an interview series, revisits the pasts of famous Australians delving deep to uncover hidden archival gems, exploring how they changed Australia and how Australia changed them.

Mary Bryant, a Cornish girl who was convicted of petty theft, is being transported to the Australian Penal Colony on the First Fleet with other prisoners bound for Botany Bay.

Two Twisted is an Australian TV mystery anthology drama which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 August 2006. Narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the series' predecessor, Twisted Tales, each episode of the series contains two short half-hour stories, that have a twist ending. Also present in each episode is a link or connection between the two tales.

Mother and Son was a multiple Logie Award-winning Australian television sitcom produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 16 January 1984 until 21 March 1994. The show stars Ruth Cracknell, Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris. It was created and written by Geoffrey Atherden AM. Its classic theme song features the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, playing to I Want a Girl, a jazz standard which was recorded by Al Jolson in the 1920s.

Love Is A Four Letter Word is a 26 episode drama written by Matt Ford produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001. It was set and filmed in Newtown, in Sydney, New South Wales, following the lives of a group of friends working in a pub, and the concerns facing urban 20somethings in Australia. One of the regular features of the drama was a performance in the pub by a contemporary Australian band.

Police officers Lilywhite and Knutt (the "bad cop, bad cop" of the title) are hopelessly incompetent. Lafever is their friend, a lawyer with a relaxed attitude to the goings-on. Police graft, corruption and brutality are satirised in a very dry comic fashion, and with a stream of matter-of-fact obscenities.

The lead character, Aunty Jack, a unique comic creation — an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced transvestite, part trucker and part pantomime dame — who habitually solves any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to 'rip their bloody arms off'. Visually, she is unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her right hand. She rides everywhere on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referres to everyone as "me little lovelies" — when she is not uttering her familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular.

Fallen Angels is an Australian television series, aired by the ABC in 1997. Twenty episodes were produced, portraying a community legal centre in Endeavour Park, a fictional western suburb of Sydney, and the interesting clients represented by its overworked lawyers.