Titles tagged with ‘marriage’
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Anthem: An Act of Sedition (2004)
A documentary by filmmakers Tahir Cambis and Helen Newman addressing the contemporary events that have changed the political and cultural landscape. It travels from Australia to Iraq, Afghanistan ...
Aunty Connie (2006)
Aunty Connie is described as a love story. It uses voice-over narration (Deborah Mailman), historical photographs and interviews with Aunty Connie McDonald, an Indigenous woman who was born ...
Australian Story – With This Ring (2005)
When Australian Story first recorded the life of this gutsy young couple, Gayle and Mac Shann were newly married and struggling to come to terms with the horrific ...
Barred Wives (1993)
Through the examples of four couples, the documentary examines why women marry prisoners, and the complexities and difficulties they experience.
Caddie (1976)
In Sydney in 1925, Caddie (Helen Morse) gets a job as a barmaid, after walking out on an unfaithful husband. She has no money and two children to ...
Chequerboard – It’s A Big Day In Any Girl’s Life (1973)
Two very different weddings are contrasted. One of them cements the ties between a landed family and a family of high standing in the district. The other is ...
Harold (1994)
Harold Blair was the first Aborigine to sing on national radio. He studied singing in the USA and his tenor voice was heard throughout the world. This biographical ...
The Hayseeds (1933)
In the middle of a bad drought, Dad Hayseed (Cecil Kellaway) and his large family host a wealthy city family, the Townleighs, when Mary Townleigh (Shirley Dale) gets ...
Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988)
Joe Leahy’s Neighbours is the sequel to First Contact (1983) and is the second documentary in The Highlands Trilogy. This well-constructed film traces the fortunes of Joe Leahy, ...
Kolynos Dental Cream Advertisement: Kisses (c1945)
A cinema advertisement for Kolynos Dental Cream that claims brushing with Kolynos improves your teeth and gives you a kissable smile.
Land Mines – A Love Story (2004)
Shah, a former Mujahideen soldier in Afghanistan, courts a Tajik girl, Habiba, and marries her. The couple have both been the victims of landmines. The wars of the ...
Lantana (2001)
In the midst of a midlife crisis, detective Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia) investigates the disappearance of a prominent psychiatrist, Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey). Zat suspects her husband ...
Love Letters from Teralba Road (1977)
Len (Bryan Brown) and his wife Barbara (Kris McQuade) have separated after he beat her in a drunken rage. Len tries to woo her back, with a series ...
Love’s Tragedies (1998)
The film follows Charles, a private investigator, on the job. He describes how he collects evidence of people in the act of being unfaithful and shares his feelings ...
Loved Up – Endangered (2005)
A documentary with interviews and animated sequences that explores the issue of being single and Indigenous in contemporary society.
Loved Up – Our Bush Wedding (2005)
An observational documentary about the wedding between artist Gordon Syron and photographer Elaine Pelot-Kitchener. Syron went to jail in 1972 for killing a man who, in his view, ...
Loved Up – The Dream of Love (2005)
An intimate portrait of the family of filmmaker Lawrence Johnston, who discuss what love means to them individually and as a family.
Message Stick – Arafura Pearl (2003)
Cathleen Mills (nee McGuiness) is a respected Indigenous elder of Darwin, mother of eight, and mother to the singing group The Mills Sisters.
Modern Love (2006)
City businessman John (Mark Constable) inherits a remote farm from his uncle Tom (Don Barker), a recluse said to have committed suicide. With wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and ...
My Brilliant Career (1979)
During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. On an ...
My First Wife (1984)
John’s happy life as a composer and family man collapses when his wife Helen says she’s leaving him. She’s having an affair with one of his friends, but ...
Not In Front of the Kids (2003)
A short documentary made by bRitt Arthur which explores sexuality, relationships, ageing and the social and physical needs of people in their later years of life. It contains ...
Oyster Farmer (2004)
Jack Flange (Alex O’Lachlan) takes a job as an oyster farmer on the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney. To help his sister (Claudia Harrison), who’s recuperating after a ...
Patrick (1978)
Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma since he murdered his mother and her lover three years ago. He is the patient in room 15 of a ...
Persil Washing Powder: Their Day (1946)
This black-and-white cinema advertisement for Persil Washing Powder uses the style of a romantic musical to literally sing the praises of the powder’s effectiveness.
Poor Man’s Orange (1987)
The story begins just a few years after the end of Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcys, an Irish-Australian family, and their local ...
Rinso Laundry Powder : Hilda and Hugh Jones (c1940)
This is a cinema advertisement promoting Rinso laundry powder. It takes the form of a short domestic drama in which Mrs Hilda Jones overcomes the drudgery of housework ...
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Raimond Gaita (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lives with his father Romulus (Eric Bana) in a rundown farmhouse in central Victoria. It is 1960 and Raimond’s mother Christina (Franka Potente) returns ...
Singles Club (2007)
Phoenix Lifestyle, founded in 1982, has 1,000 members in Melbourne. Singles Club follows the lives of five members as they seek partners. The camera follows the people as ...
So Simple, So Hard … (1997)
The documentary traces the steps taken by four women to find a life partner. The women – an opera singer, a hairdresser, an artist and a Chinese Australian ...
Temple on the Hill (1997)
The film looks at a number of people from an Indian community in Northern New South Wales who have chosen to marry outside their own ethnic community, and ...
Three Dollars (2005)
Eddie Harnovey (David Wenham) gets the sack. His job as a chemical engineer for a government department is abolished after he refuses to rubber-stamp a large residential development ...
‘We’re All Independent Now’ (1995)
The Family Law Act was enacted in 1975. Twenty years later, filmmaker Don Parham questions its effectiveness and relevance with particular reference to its effect on children. Parham ...
