The War of the Worlds (1953)

Under Capricorn (1949)

Summary: A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.

Release Date: October 08, 1949

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: John Colton

, Margaret Linden

, Helen Simpson

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Transatlantic Pictures

Distributor: Balboa Film Distributors, King World Productions, Kino Lorber

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

Summary: Ex-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.

Release Date: July 14, 1985

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Dusan Makavejev

Writers: Frank Moorhouse

, Denny Lawrence

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinema Enterprises, The Australian Film Commission, Grand Bay Films International Pty., Smart Egg Pictures

Distributor: Cinecom International Films, Film Gallery., Vestron Video, Avid Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Fun City Editions, Front Row Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Ladies in Black (2018)

Summary: Follows the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.

Release Date: September 20, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Bruce Beresford

Writers: Madeleine St. John

, Sue Milliken

, Bruce Beresford

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lumila Films, Ladies in Black SPV, Screen Australia

Country: Australia

Language: English

The Endless Summer (1966)

Summary: The crown jewel to ten years of Bruce Brown surfing documentaries. Brown follows two young surfers around the world in search of the perfect wave, and ends up finding quite a few in addition to some colorful local characters.

Release Date: February 18, 1966

Genres: Documentary, Sport

Director: Bruce Brown

Writer: Bruce Brown

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bruce Brown Films

Distributor: Pacific Arts Video Records, Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Monterey Media, BayView Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000

Domestic: $ 10,233

International: $ 1,041

Candy (2006)

Summary: A 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-des...

Release Date: May 25, 2006

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Neil Armfield

Writers: Luke Davies

, Neil Armfield

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Film Finance, Paradigm Hyde Films, Renaissance Films

Distributor: THINKFilm, Shout Select, Shout! Factory

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 45,128

International: $ 2,059,968

Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Summary: A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.

Release Date: February 12, 1993

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Writers: Baz Luhrmann

, Andrew Bovell

, Craig Pearce

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Beyond Films, M & A, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)

Distributor: Miramax, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Video

Countries: Australia, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,738,022

International: $ 19,422

Lantana (2001)

Summary: The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.

Release Date: March 08, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Ray Lawrence

Writer: Andrew Bovell

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: MBP (Germany), Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), The New South Wales Film and Television Office

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Countries: Australia, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,623,189

International: $ 11,124,261

Walkabout (1971)

Summary: Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.

Release Date: July 01, 1971

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Writers: Edward Bond

, Donald G. Payne

, Nicolas Roeg

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Max L. Raab Productions, Si Litvinoff Film Production

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, The Criterion Collection, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), Janus Films, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Danny Deckchair (2003)

Summary: An Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons.

Release Date: July 31, 2003

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Jeff Balsmeyer

Writers: Jeff Balsmeyer

, Lizzie Bryant

, Tim Gooding

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Crusader Entertainment, Macquarie Film Corporation, Cobalt Media Group, Baldwin Entertainment Group

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 160,276

International: $ 645,618

Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

Summary: In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and hi...

Release Date: December 31, 1997

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Gillian Armstrong

Writers: Laura Jones

, Peter Carey

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Dalton Films, Meridian Films

Countries: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,897,404

Garage Days (2002)

Summary: The story of a young garage band in Sydney, Australia trying to make it big.

Release Date: October 03, 2002

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Alex Proyas

Writers: Alex Proyas

, Dave Warner

, Michael Udesky

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Mystery Clock Cinema

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,500

International: $ 684,388

The Hard Word (2002)

Summary: 3 brothers are in and out of prison in connection with heists planned by their lawyer et al. He gets them out for the heists and "looks after" the money and one's wife.

Release Date: June 27, 2003

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Scott Roberts

Writer: Scott Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Alibi Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Wildheart Films

Countries: Australia, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 426,880

International: $ 1,658,682

The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)

Summary: Vicki returns to her elder sister Beth's house in Australia after an affair in Italy. Beth, with a teenage daughter, has become involved in something of a marriage of convenience with Frenchman J.P., and her rather prickly housepr...

Release Date: February 26, 1993

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Gillian Armstrong

Writer: Helen Garner

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Jan Chapman Productions, The Australian Film Commission, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Distributor: Umbrella Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 831,578

The Sum of Us (1994)

Summary: A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."

Release Date: March 08, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Directors: Geoff Burton

, Kevin Dowling

Writer: David Stevens

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Great Sum Film Limited Partnership, Southern Star Entertainment

Distributor: Evergreen Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,465,000

Domestic: $ 766,464

Bootmen (2000)

Summary: Charismatic tap dancing Sean tries to find a way out of working at the steel mill. When failure brings him home he starts his own dance group wearing hardhats. He must then find inspiration in the steel mill he once tried to escape.

Release Date: October 05, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Dein Perry

Writers: Steve Worland

, Hilary Linstead

, Dein Perry

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Bootmen Productions (Hilary Linstead-Dein Perry), Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures

Countries: Australia, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 31,288

Little Fish (2005)

Summary: A woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Release Date: September 08, 2005

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Rowan Woods

Writer: Jacquelin Perske

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: Porchlight Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Mullis Capital Independent, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Dirty Films

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 8,148

International: $ 3,240,358

Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)

Summary: Raj is a heartbreaker. His love stories with Mahi, Radhika, and Gayatri finally teach him about love and life in their own sweet, sexy, and sassy ways.

Release Date: August 15, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Siddharth Anand

Writers: Aditya Chopra

, Devika Bhagat

, Anvita Dutt

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Yash Raj Films

Country: India

Language: Hindi

Movie budget: $ 180,000,000

Domestic: $ 702,166

International: $ 10,684,264

Adore (2013)

Summary: A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other's sons.

Release Date: April 03, 2013

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Anne Fontaine

Writers: Anne Fontaine

, Doris Lessing

, Christopher Hampton

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Gaumont, Screen Australia, Ciné@, Hopscotch Features, Mon Voisin Productions, France 2 Cinéma, Screen NSW, France Télévisions, Canal+, Ciné+

Distributor: Exclusive Releasing, Gaumont International

Countries: Australia, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 318,982

International: $ 1,256,767