Shine
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
1996
Chris Haywood
actor
Geoffrey Rush
actor
Jan Sardi
writer
Scott Hicks
director
Jindabyne
Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in ...
2006
Chris Haywood
actor
Elizabeth
A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
1998
Geoffrey Rush
actor
Mao's Last Dancer
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In ...
2009
Jan Sardi
writer
Snow Falling on Cedars
A U.S. Japanese fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
1999
Scott Hicks
director
