Australian LGBT and gay interest movies
A list of LGBT and gay interest films from Australia.
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- DirectorStephan ElliottStarsHugo WeavingGuy PearceTerence StampTwo drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.A wonderfully nutty movie exploring life, love, fatherhood, and most of all friendship and loyalty as three very different drag queens travel in the remote Australian Outback. A movie that didn't follow trends or conventions, but start new ones. 8/10
- DirectorGeoff BurtonKevin DowlingStarsJack ThompsonRussell CroweJohn PolsonA 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."A simple, authentic Australian story about unconditional family love and loyalty. Jack Thompson and Russell Crowe are perfect in roles that blow away any hint of stereotypes. Originally a stage play (which I saw years ago), the narration to camera can take some getting used to, but well worth the effort. 7/10
- DirectorAna KokkinosStarsAlex DimitriadesElle MandalisDamien FotiouA 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.A hard-edged, fast-paced drama where Alex Dimitriades is Ari, a nihilistic young Greek-Australian on a wild binge. The story depicts the tortured struggle between his burgeoning sexuality and the rigid expectations of his Greek culture. 7/10
- DirectorDan CastleStarsLachlan BuchananXavier SamuelReshad StrikTragedy befalls one of three brothers while on an outback surfing outing with friends.
- DirectorEd AldridgeStarsJack BaxterLorena ArancibiaJed ClarkeTeenage surfer Midget Hollow starts a secret relationship with his best friend's gay brother Cass, exploring sexuality. Midget navigates friends' reactions and new romance amid summer adventures.
- DirectorLee GaleaStarsTristan BarrLucas LinehanRohana HayesMike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.There was a lot squeezed into this small budget movie resulting in a fairly disjointed and random result. There's some wonderful moments between the two lead characters that are worth finding in the confusion. 4/10
- DirectorRichard TurnerStarsRebecca SmartGraham HarveyDavid FranklinViolet, a fiesty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in fact he is in a gay relationship with his long-time lover. This inevitably leads to changes and readjustments all round as dad gets to know, reluctantly, the daughter he never wanted.
- DirectorDean MurphyStarsMichael CatonPaul HoganAndy PappasTwo 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
- DirectorMurali K. ThalluriStarsTeresa PalmerFrank SweetSam HarrisAt 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
- DirectorJocelyn MoorhouseStarsHugo WeavingGeneviève PicotRussell CroweThe life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsCharles McCallumJohn FrawleyArthur DignamFred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.
- DirectorJohn HillcoatStarsDavid FieldMike BishopChris DeRosePrisoners and guards clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.
- DirectorFrank HowsonStarsGuy PearceSteven BerkoffClaudia KarvanA biographical movie on the film star's early life before Hollywood fame.
- DirectorTony AyresStarsVince ColosimoMaria TheodorakisNathaniel DeanAfter the death of a friend, a household of long time friends and family are tossed into the myopic world of grief, where jealousy, betrayal and desire override more polite reactions to death.
- DirectorStephen WallaceStarsBryan BrownMax PhippsDennis MillerWhen a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.
- DirectorElise McCredieStarsMichela NoonanMitchell ButelSamuel Johnson"Strange Fits of Passion" is the hilarious tale of a sexually-curious, romantically-frustrated bookstore clerk on a mission to lose her virginity. In between encounters with other people, she returns to the one person she can trust and truly relate to, her gay friend Jimmy, whose faith in love is being shaken by the revelation that his boyfriend has been unfaithful.
- DirectorMichael ThornhillStarsArthur DignamMark LeeHeather MitchellA beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
- DirectorGeorge BarbakadzeStarsGlen UptonAnde CunninghamA Georgian gay man reflects on the immigration problems he and his boyfriend experienced while migrating to Australia.In September 2011 this 8 minute short was available on youTube http://youtu.be/l41bytfkkYs
- DirectorDigby DuncanStarsJude KuringDavid StiffIn 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities response.
- DirectorFiona Cunningham-ReidDocumentary about the history of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a great event happening once a year in Sydney, Australia, a celebration of gay sexuality.
- DirectorKristian PithieStarsMartin SharpeThomas BlackburneRobyn NethercoteTwo boys are talking after a bicycle accident. The older is bragging about his experience with girls, but is that just a boast?