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Fighting Back (1982)
Character: Mary
Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
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Libido (1973)
Character: N/A
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
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Temperament Unsuited (1978)
Character: N/A
A student teacher, Mark (Steve J. Spears) doesn't accept the teaching methods to be found in a traditional school situation, or the way the principal Ted 'Seedy' Yates (Ken Goodlet) runs the show.
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Greenkeeping (1992)
Character: Mum
An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club
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Groundhog Night (2020)
Character: N/A
Gary’s so used to caring for his disabled daughter Jess, he can do it in his sleep. But when the in-laws come to stay, everyone will get a wake-up call.
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For Love or Money (1983)
Character: Herself
Using 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.
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The Fourth Wish (1976)
Character: Connie
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
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The Irishman (1978)
Character: Jenny Doolan
Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
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Resistance (1992)
Character: Wiley
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
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Emerald City (1988)
Character: Kate Rogers
A couple move to Sydney from Melbourne, and soon become lured by the bright lights of the big city. Colin, the scriptwriter husband, is corrupted by his editor and then falls for the girlfriend of his writing partner, while Colin's wife Kate begins to lose sight of her ideals in a new world of hustlers and cynics.
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Death in Bloom (2015)
Character: Mrs. Patterson
Death In Bloom is a dark comedy about a Door-to-Door 'Death' Salesman, who struggles to close a deal with a fabulously difficult customer.
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Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
Character: Lila
Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy sister, Vanessa, returns from England and takes an interest in PS.
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Caddie (1976)
Character: Black Eye
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
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In the Company of Actors (2007)
Character: Self
Within the world of theatre the rehearsal room is a sacred space -- the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks taken, mistakes made, vulnerabilities exposed and, at its very best, magic created. It's not a place into which the public is often, if ever, invited. Until now; In The Company of Actors features an ensemble of Australia's finest actors, including Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler, at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Opening night is just five weeks away and the pressure is on.
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Relic (2020)
Character: Edna
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
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The Castle (1997)
Character: Federal Court judge
The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport. When a building inspector condemns the building and reveals that the government plans to use their land for an airport expansion, Darryl Kerrigan and his brood recruit hack attorney Dennis Denuto and prepare themselves for the fight of their lives.
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Character: Councillor Dillard
The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.
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Bad Eggs (2003)
Character: Eleanor Poulgrain
Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force.
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Goodbye Paradise (1983)
Character: Kate
The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Character: Councillor Dillard
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
Character: Mrs. McCready
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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The Eye of the Storm (2011)
Character: Lal Wyburd
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
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Sting (2024)
Character: Gunter
After 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.
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Gods of Egypt (2016)
Character: Sharifa
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
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Ruben Guthrie (2015)
Character: Susan Guthrie
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
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The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race (2023)
Character: Joan
Penny returns to her childhood home for the Appleton Show and its 'world famous' potato race, she is outraged that the men's first prize pays out $2,000 and the winning woman's prize is only $200. She is determined to right this wrong.
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The Coolangatta Gold (1984)
Character: Robyn Lucas
Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is burdened by his father's desire for glory, and must win The Coolangatta Gold Tri-Aquathon, It is the greatest endurance test of them all: a marathon involving a 20 kilometer beach run, 6 kilometer swim and a 17 kilometer surf ski from Surfers Paradise along the golden arc of beach to Coolangatta and back to the start. The Coolangatta Gold is a story of human endeavor and endurance against overwhelming odds.
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Lucky Break (1994)
Character: Anne-Marie LePine
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
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Angel Baby (1995)
Character: Dr. Norberg
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
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Fing! (2026)
Character: N/A
Librarians Mr. and Mrs. Meek indulge their demanding daughter Myrtle's every wish. When she wants a Fing, they search deep in the jungle. After finding one, Myrtle faces off against a Viscount who wants the rare creature.
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The Turning (2013)
Character: Carol Lang
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
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