20 of the Weirdest & Craziest Australian Films
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- DirectorTimothy SpanosStarsTim BurnsMichael BurkettPolly StantonA mysterious stranger arrives at an isolated seaside town and keeps a backward brother and sister hostage in their own home.
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsNicholas HopeClaire BenitoRalph CotterillBubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsJohn HolmesUschi DigardCandy SamplesProfessor Jungenot A. Freud explores ten common female sexual fantasies as described by some of his patients.
- DirectorJim SharmanStarsJane HardersJune CollisTim ElliottA group of aliens plans to invade Australia as a means of taking over the Earth. In order to communicate with the people of Earth, they bring a statue of the long-dead Duke of Edinburgh to life.
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsAlan ArkinChristopher LeeKate FitzpatrickDuring WWII, Captain Invincible fought against Nazis using superpowers. Later falsely accused of communism, he retires in Australia. When a secret US weapon gets stolen, he's called back but struggles with alcoholism.
- 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.
- DirectorJudy MorrisStarsWendy HughesSandy GoreAnne TenneyA Black Comedy about women, friendship, sex, duplicity and money, centering on three women who meet regularly at an exclusive restaurant run by their friend and confidant Luigi.
- DirectorTony PatersonStarsKylie FosterPaul TrahairMark WatsonThe Story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modeling.
- DirectorMark EgertonKeith SalvatStarsGary DayPenny DownieBrian McDermottA computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control.
- DirectorColin EgglestonStarsJohn HargreavesMeredith PhillipsMax PhippsHarris starts for a flight to Boa Boa. But he gets lost in a supernatural storm. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape.
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsBarry OttoMax FairchildImogen AnnesleyA female werewolf runs away from her family, and falls in love with a man who works in the movie business, while a sociologist who studies these creatures is looking for proof of their existence.
- DirectorMaurice MurphyStarsPamela StephensonBert NewtonRichard MeikleA bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
- DirectorJonathan HardyStarsLaura BraniganMichael AitkensNoel FerrierThe American pop singer Kate Lawrence wants a career as an actress. The only job she can find is playing the lead role in an Australian theatre production of The Green Year Passes.
- DirectorAnthony MirStarsGary EckAkmal SalehAnthony MirSmall-town police fear for their lives after a set of serial murders with a Village People connection.
- DirectorHenri SafranStarsCarol KaneTony OwenMyra De GrootA teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a notion he does nothing to discourage.
- DirectorGerard LeeStarsToni PearenDavid PriceJohn JarrattMick's father, Barry, sells the family piano, causing Mick's mother, Irene to leave. In order to raise enough money to buy the piano back, Mick dresses in his mother's clothes and becomes Michelle to join an all-girl band that has come into town for the annual harvest festival. Angela, the leader of the band, starts to question her sexuality when she begins to fall in love with Mick/Michelle.
- DirectorAlex ProyasStarsMichael LakeMelissa DavisNorman BoydBrother and sister endure alone together in a post-apocalyptic Outback until the sudden arrival of a stranger.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsGeneviève LemonKaren ColstonTom LycosAn introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.
- DirectorBrian McKenzieStarsPaul ChubbJulie ForsythJohn BluthalA gentle tale of two loners finding mid-life love at the weather bureau, Stan and George's New Life is an unconventional Aussie comedy with a sunny outlook.
- DirectorPamela GibbonsStarsDeanna JeffsMary ReganKaarin Fairfax16 year old Belinda wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.