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Iceman (1984)
6.1/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Timothy Hutton, John Lone, Lindsay Crouse
A fascinating film that blends science fiction, adventure and drama. A research team in the Arctic finds a prehistoric man preserved in a glacier and... Read more
The Devil's Playground (1976)
6.8/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, John Frawley
Termed 'a comedy of sympathy about the old Christian fear of sex' (David Elliott), 'The Devil's Playground' is directed by Fred Schepisi ('The Chant o... Read more
Plenty (1985)
6.1/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting , Ian McKellen,...
Meryl Streep stars in this David Hare screenplay filmed by Australian director Fred Schepisi ('The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith'). Streep is intelligent... Read more
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Tommy Lewis, Angela Punch McGregor, Jack Thompson, Freddy Reynolds
Jimmie (Tommy Lewis), an Aborigine man of mixed racial heritage, faces prejudice and abuse in 19th-century Australia while performing the lowliest men... Read more
I.Q. (1995)
6.2/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau
Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins and Walter Matthau are joined in this unlikely romatic comedy in which Albert Einstein plays cupid. Matthau is great as the geni... Read more
The Eye of the Storm (2011)
6.3/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) as her expatriate s... Read more
Words and Pictures (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Amy Brenneman, Bruce Davison, Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Navid Nagahban
Jack Marcus is a seemingly washed up writer turned English professor teaching honors students. Not having published anything in years, not only is hi... Read more
Empire Falls (2005)
7.4/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Helen Hunt, Aidan Quinn, Joanne Woodward, Robin Wright,...
Based on Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this gripping HBO miniseries stars Ed Harris as the hard-working manager of a struggling diner... Read more
Last Orders (2001)
7/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Win...
When Jack Dodd passes away, his three best friends and son unite to carry out his last wish. It's a request that will send them on a journey of discov... Read more
Barbarosa (1981)
6.5/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega
Willie Nelson plays the sensitive outlaw eluding the assassination attempts of his wife's overprotective family in this brilliant, beautifully mounted... Read more
Roxanne (1987)
6.6/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Michael J Pollard, Fred Ward, Shelle...
Steve Martin successfully updates the story of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' as he plays a soulful small-town fire chief with a big heart and an even larger no... Read more
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
6.9/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Mary Beth Hurt, Bruce Davison,...
John Guare adapted his hit Broadway play, based on a true incident, about a man pretending to be Sidney Poitier's son who works his way into the lives... Read more
It Runs in the Family (2003)
5.6/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Rory Culkin, Bern...
Three generations of the Douglas acting clan are united for this bittersweet comedy-drama in which Kirk is a cantankerous patriarch and recovering str... Read more
Fierce Creatures (1997)
6.4/10
Director: Fred Schepisi, Robert Young
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Ronnie Corbett, Carey...
The stars of "A Fish Called Wanda" return to deal with an international conglomerates directive for a zoo in the rural heart of England to turn a 20%... Read more
Libido (1973)
6.2/10
Director: Fred Schepisi, Tim Burstall, John B Murray, David Baker
Starring: Jack Thompson, Judy Morris, Robyn Nevin, Arthur Dignam, Max Gillies
From acclaimed directors Fred Schepisi ("The Devil's Playground"), Tim Burstall ("Alvin Purple"), John B. Murray ("The Naked Bunyip") and David Baker... Read more