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Michael Thornhill

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The Everlasting Secret Family
5.0

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

The Everlasting Secret Family

1988
The Journalist
4.8

Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.

The Journalist

1979
The FJ Holden
5.2

Suburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack (featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks and Renee Geyer) and the screen debut of future star Sigrid Thornton. THE FJ HOLDEN forged a strong connection with 70s mainstream youth audiences and today

The FJ Holden

1977
The Great Gold Swindle
9.0

The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.

The Great Gold Swindle

1984
Between Wars
8.0

This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up residence at Callan Park Asylum. The film touches on issues of psychoanalysis and physical treatments, such as fever treatment.

Between Wars

1974
Robbery
10.0

A story based on the great Melbourne bookie robbery.

Robbery

1985
Harvest of Hate
10.0

A rich winemaker dispatches a woman lawyer and male surveyor-geologist to assess a farm property whereby it is discovered that terrorists are preparing to invade a middle east country.

Harvest of Hate

1979
Who Killed Baby Azaria?
9.0

During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims that she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter Azaria from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. Police note some apparent inconsistencies in her story, and she is charged with murder. The case attracts a lot of attention, turning a simple investigation into a media circus with the public divided in their opinion.

Who Killed Baby Azaria?

1983
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Based on a story by Frank Moorhouse, this is a satire on left intellectual manners in Sydney at the time. Moorhouse's story was in turn based on an actual event, a party thrown by members of the Sydney Push for visiting American poet Kenneth Rexroth.

The American Poet's Visit

1969
Summer of Secrets
7.5

A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.

Summer of Secrets

1976