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Crimes of the Heart (1986)
6.4/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper
Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Diane Keaton star as flaky Southern sisters who are uneasily reunited when Spacek is arrested for shooting her politic... Read more
The Getting of Wisdom (1977)
6.6/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Susannah Fowle, Barry Humphries, John Waters (II), Sheila Helpmann, Patricia Ken...
Based on the novel by Henry Handel Richardson (in fact a pseudonym for a 19th century female author), Bruce Beresford's coming of age drama perfectly... Read more
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
6.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza
Ancient traditions clash with white civilisation as we are shown the trials and tribulations of a young, ambitious Aborigine woman named Trilby and he... Read more
Double Jeopardy (1999)
6.4/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Annabeth Gish, Roma Maffia
Ashley Judd plays a Seattle wife and mother who is caught in a nightmare when she's convicted of killing her husband. Her dilemma worsens in prison wh... Read more
Breaker Morant (1980)
7.9/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Bryan Brown, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
The film that brought world acclaim for Edward Woodward, tells the true story of Lieutenant Harry 'Breaker' Morant in the Boer War in South Africa, 19... Read more
Breaker Morant (Blu-ray) (1980)
7.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Bryan Brown, Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
The film that brought world acclaim for Edward Woodward, tells the true story of Lieutenant Harry 'Breaker' Morant in the Boer War in South Africa, 19... Read more
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
5.9/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook
The clan from Australia gets into all kinds of trouble when they travel to England. From the cartoon strip by Barry Humphries and Nicholas Garland. Wi... Read more
Black Robe (1991)
7.1/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg
In the turbulent 17th century, Jesuit priest Father Laforgue travels to Quebec to convert the Indian tribes. Cultures clash, romances flourish and the... Read more
Tender Mercies (1983)
7.4/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Allan Hubbard
Robert Duvall gives yet another Academy Award winning performance as Mac Sledge, a self-destructive alcoholic and country singer who finds redemption... Read more
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
7.3/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Amanda Schull, Wang Shuangbao, Chi...
Based on the extraordinary true story and best-selling autobiography of Li Cunxin, who, amidst the chaos of Mao's Cultural Revolution, was chosen at a... Read more
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
5.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, John Le Mesurier, Frank Windsor, Roy Kinnear, Do...
Aunt Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) is returning from London with her hapless loud-mouthed, sex crazed nephew, Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker), when sh... Read more
Paradise Road (1997)
6.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett
Based on actual incidents which occurred in a Japanese POW camp during W.W.II, this is the affecting, hard-hitting story of a group of female Allied p... Read more
Driving Miss Daisy (1990)
4.5/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd
The Oscar-winning adaptation of Alfred Uhry's play about a wealthy Jewish widow and her black chauffeur. It covers the period from the late forties th... Read more
Ladies in Black (2018)
7.4/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Julia Ormond, Noni Hazlehurst, Susie Porter, Vincent Perez, Nicholas Hammond, Sh...
In the summer of 1959, Lisa, a shy schoolgirl, takes a job in Sydney's prestigious department store Goode's. There, her life is changed forever when s... Read more
The Contract (2006)
5.7/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Alice Krige, Jamie Anderson
This forest-bound thriller stars John Cusack as a man trying to forget a recent family trauma by getting away from it all with his son. Unfortunately... Read more
Evelyn (2002)
7/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea, John Lynch, Sophie...
Compassionate drama set in 1950s Dublin, and based on a true story, stars Pierce Brosnan as Desmond Doyle, an unemployed house painter whose wife walk... Read more
Puberty Blues (1981)
5.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja
Based on the novel of the same name, "Puberty Blues" traces the adventures of Debbie (Nell Schofield) and her life-long companion Sue (Jad Capelja), t... Read more
Don's Party (1976)
6.9/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Ray Barrett, John Hargreaves, Jeanie Drynan
A hilarious adult comedy about the revellers at Don's party losing all control as the evening climaxes in bitter hostilities and humiliating confessio... Read more
Mao's Last Dancer ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.3/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Amanda Schull, Wang Shuangbao, Chi...
Based on the extraordinary true story and best-selling autobiography of Li Cunxin, who, amidst the chaos of Mao's Cultural Revolution, was chosen at a... Read more
Ladies in Black (Blu-Ray) (2018)
7.4/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Julia Ormond, Noni Hazlehurst, Susie Porter, Vincent Perez, Nicholas Hammond, Sh...
In the summer of 1959, Lisa, a shy schoolgirl, takes a job in Sydney's prestigious department store Goode's. There, her life is changed forever when s... Read more
King David (1985)
5.1/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Alice Krige, Edward Woodward, Richard Gere, Tomas Milian
Richard Gere is the King of Israel in this lavish, visually stunning historical adventure from director Bruce Beresford. See David's boyhood as a shep... Read more
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent, Matt Day, Michael McKe...
Antonio Banderas stars in this incredible true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, alterin... Read more
Great Aussie Icons - Graham Kennedy in... The Club (1980) / Travelling North (1987)
Director: Bruce Beresford, Carl Schultz
Starring: Graham Kennedy, Jack Thompson, Henri Szeps, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins, John H...
Long hailed as the 'King of Australian Television' Graham Kennedy also had a stellar career in film including these David Williamson-scripted classics... Read more
Great Aussie Icons - Barry Humphries in... The Great Macarthy / Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
Director: Bruce Beresford, David Baker
Starring: Barry Humphries, Barry Crocker, Donald Pleasence, Max Gillies
Sit back possums and marvel at Barry's finest moments on film! One of Australia's best-known, and loved, comedians stars in two classic comedies. 'T... Read more
Great Aussie Icons - Bryan Brown in... Stir / Money Movers (1979)
Director: Bruce Beresford, Stephen Wallace
Starring: Bryan Brown, Dennis Miller, Phil Motherwell, Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Alan...
Among the best-loved Australian actors of his generation, the legendary Bryan Brown has lent his acerbic, tough-guy persona to a host of classic local... Read more
David Williamson Collection: Don's Party (1975) / The Removalists (1975) / Travelling North (1987) / The Four Minute Mile (1988) (1975)
8.5/10
Director: Bruce Beresford, Carl Schultz, Jim Goddard, Tom Jeffrey
Starring: Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves, Ray Barrett, Peter Cummins, Leo McKern, Julia B...
David Williamson is considered one of Australia's greatest living playwrights. Writing contemporary stories about sex, sports and social politics. Mo... Read more
Roots (2016)
7.9/10
Director: Bruce Beresford, Mario Van Peebles, Phillip Noyce, Thomas Carter
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Laurence Fishburne, Anika Noni Rose, Mala...
ROOTS is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family's will to survive, endure and ultimately, carry on their legac... Read more
Aria (1987)
5.8/10
Director: Bruce Beresford, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Robert Altman, Bill Bryden
Starring: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Buck Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita Morris, Bridget...
Ten different directors select a different aria and have free rein to do anything that they want. The world of opera meets the medium of film with a w... Read more