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Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett

Directing

Biography

Bill Bennett (born 1953) is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter of feature films and documentaries. He has been married to Australian actress-producer Jennifer Cluff since 1982.

Known For

Two If by Sea
5.0

Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.

Two If by Sea

1996
Bollywood Hero
6.3

Bollywood Hero is an American television miniseries which aired on the IFC in three parts on August 6–8, 2009. The miniseries was shot in Mumbai and Los Angeles. The show is a musical miniseries about Chris Kattan and his journey to Mumbai to become a leading man in Bollywood. After having some successful runs as a comedian in America, Kattan wishes for more and soon discovers that making it in Bollywood is just as hard and he has to start from scratch. Dance numbers are choreographed by Longinus Fernandes who is known for the "Jai Ho" finale in Slumdog Millionaire.

Bollywood Hero

2009
Cut
4.6

A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...

Cut

2000
Tempted
4.7

A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.

Tempted

2001
The Nugget
5.8

'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.

The Nugget

2002
Kiss or Kill
4.5

Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.

Kiss or Kill

1997
Spider and Rose
6.3

A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.

Spider and Rose

1994
Uninhabited
4.5

Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. It was small and totally deserted or so they thought. But when things go missing from their camp site and they discover someone else's footprints in the sand this quickly becomes disturbing as they realize the island has a ghost! Inspired by actual events.

Uninhabited

2010
In a Savage Land
4.8

Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.

In a Savage Land

1999
Deck Dogz
5.8

It is a movie about three teen skaters, played by young Australian actors Richard Wilson, Sean Kennedy and Ho Thi Lu. Their characters Poker, Spasm and Blue Flame, are trying to escape the law, their school, their parents, their demons and a couple of low-life criminals to realise their burning ambition — to meet world class skating champion, Tony Hawk.

Deck Dogz

2005
A Street to Die
6.8

An Australian who has fought in Vietnam blames Agent Orange for his cancer, and sues for compensation.

A Street to Die

1985
PGS: Personal Guidance System
N/A

The film documents Bill Bennett's journey to find the source of a mysterious voice which saved his life. It features some of the world's leading experts on intuition spanning the fields of science, religion, and spirituality.

PGS: Personal Guidance System

2017
Dear Cardholder
10.0

Hec, a sacked taxation clerk, seeks fame and fortune using the world of credit cards. Unfortunately for him, and the banks, he has no concept of credit card limit.

Dear Cardholder

1989
Backlash
6.0

Two policemen track down and arrest an Aboriginal woman who has been accused of murder, and begin the trek back across the desert with her.

Backlash

1987
The Way, My Way
6.7

The charming and captivating true story of an Australian man's transformative experience walking the Camino de Santiago, and the people he meets along the way that changed his life forever.

The Way, My Way

2024
The Banjo and the Bard
8.0

A docudrama exploring the rivalry between bush poets A.B. "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson, set in contemporary Australia.

The Banjo and the Bard

1988
Jilted
3.0

Two people who have had disastrous love affairs meet on a tropical island resort.

Jilted

1987
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10.0

Dave and Tina Dodd want to buy a house. They make a contract with shifty John Napper who suggests builder George Shooks.

Mortgage

1990
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N/A

After receiving devastating news, a man is catapulted into fear. An exploration into 27 of the world's leading experts on fear, examining the biology, psychology and culture of fear, and also the metaphysics of fear.

Facing Fear

2022
Malpractice
9.0

This docudrama highlights the complexities of compensation through the legal system for medical malpractice. For when the mother attempts to investigate the hospital procedure of using forceps to deliver her now retarded child, her husband frowns upon this and would rather ignore the whole thing.

Malpractice

1989