Two sisters have inherited the Logan fortune, one a spinster (who runs the property), the other married to a Perth tycoon with a teenage daughter, Clare. The script was written in two weeks, filming took 11 days and the budget was a mere $750,000. Slowly adding features, documentaries, short films and miniseries that are not on Letterboxd to the database. Actress | The Sixth Sense. Director: Ken Cameron, The story of Operation Seville has no rival in the history of Australian policing. The story of Operation Seville has no rival in the history of Australian policing. Director: Michael Carson, Jack Simmonds is a Jackaroo. At the Academy Awards ceremony, the real-life Helfgott received a standing ovation for a fevered rendition of ‘Flight Of The Bumblebee’. Writer/director Geoffrey Wright's controversial, confrontational, and violent movie about a group of Neo-Nazi skinheads led by the dangerous Hando (Russell Crowe) is an unflinching Melbourne based urban story with a hard edge, that separated itself from the fantasy inspired cinema which dominated the Australian Film Industry in the early to mid 1990's. Notable Australian films of the 1990s: Death in Brunswick (1990) Flirting (1990) – AFI winner for Best Film For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 1989 will most likely earn money in 1989 and 1990. Director: Rob Marchand Written by Ysabelle Dean & Rick Maier, Young Anna and her mother arrive in New Zealand after her father is killed in a tragic accident in Australia. (4 x 55 min), Cast: Lisa Harrow as Claire, Kerry Armstrong as Deb, Rebecca Gibney as Guinea, Aired: August 01 & 08, 1990 (Seven) James Healey as Chris Drake, For each film, we use the first date on which it was made available to the public, which might include international theatrical or domestic video releases that were a few days, or sometimes more, earlier than the domestic (US/Canada) theatrical release. It sounds more like a Monty Python acid trip than an emotional character study, but the Australian Film Institute Awards liked it enough to name it the year’s best flick, and bestow prizes on both leading men as well as writer/director Jocelyn Waterhouse, who produced Muriel’s Wedding three years later. Given the populist nationalism currently infesting so many countries, its message has never been more relevant. The heart of the hotel is the bustling beauty salon run by the cool professional Claire who hides a guilty secret; Deb who has a pre-war marriage and a wartime alternative and Guinea whose 'good war' is not what it seems. Examples: Lousy Little Sixpence (Morgan 1982), We Fight (Moffat 1982), Crocodile Dundee (Cornell 1985), Always Was, Always Will Be (McGrady 1987), Australia Daze (Fiske 1988). Director: Henri Safran Screenplay: John Cundill and funny, and shows exactly why he was on the verge of greatness. Set against the colourful background of loggers and bargees, the mini-series revolves around the Kelsall family and a generation not only coming to grips with their environment but of the ties that bind a family. Rowena Wallace as Pamela Winter-Smith, Produced by Flair Television Productions Pty Ltd Producer: Bill Hughes 1990: Jan 01: Sir Henry Bolte, former Victorian Premier, dies: Jan 24: Melbourne: The Victorian Football League becomes the Australian Football League It’s a brutal and ultra-violent indictment of the far-right extremism that was rife in the city at the time and has since become a cult classic, with a sequel TV series released on Stan in 2018. Buy, sell, trade and exchange collectibles easily with Colnect collectors community. The Big Steal (1990) Australian comedy directed by Nadia Tass. Only Colnect automatically matches collectibles you want with collectables collectors offer for sale or swap. Actual bacon producers weren’t impressed, though, as the movie reportedly led to a huge fall in demand when fans realised that their tasty rashers were made from actual animals who appeared to be able to talk. She devises highly creative schemes to turn the burden of her dead father's barren farm, which she inherits, into her fortune. The scintillating piano playing and Rush’s tour-de-force performance charmed audiences worldwide. Colnect collectors club revolutionizes your collecting experience! Jack learns that Hamish Logan, co-founder of the empire, took an Aboriginal wife, and was later murdered by her tribe. Produced by Revcom Television Director: Sue Clayton Presented in collaboration with the Australian Film Commission, Le Cinéma Australien showcased a comprehensive collection of works produced between 1900 and 1990. Writers: Michael O'Hanlan, Richard Burridge. Till There Was You (1990) Directed by John Seale starring Mark Harmon. Miller insisted on directing the sequel (which flopped) while Noonan has only helmed one picture since. Producer: Paul F Davies 2. Producers: Howard Grigsby, Ross Dimsey Based on the life and times of disillusioned and mistreated Aboriginal worker Jimmy Governor, who turned mass murderer, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was a difficult pill to swallow in 1978. Producers: Geoffrey Daniels, Ray Alchin These 10 films – from romances to comedies to a colourful LGBTQ+ flick – the 1990s was the greatest ever decade for Australian cinema Flirting (1990) Directed by John Duigan starring Nicole Kidman. Dances with Wolves (1990) Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. Produced by Dimsey Grigsby Pty Ltd Teleplay: Deborah Cox, Dr. Kate Munro arrives on the remote Gannet Island to take up a medical practice, keen to introduce the marvels of modern medicine to an island untouched by the twentieth century. It became his debut film and one of the most successful antipodean productions of all time, winning a slew of awards and establishing Luhrmann’s theatrical, flamboyant style. Director: Viktors Ritelis But the lad can’t hear a thing, so decides she is lying and vows never to trust a sighted person again. Click on the individual movie to see its total gross over all the years in which it played. © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. All the ... Film School Rejects - The 50 Best Movies of the 1990s. aussie answer to ‘this is spinal tap’.. made in melbourne.. the rise and fall of a muso who is a legend in his own mind and gets taken for a ride. Her success leads to bitter jealousy amongst her rivals and problems when a one-time employee manages to win a court case claiming back her designs. Though highly regarded by critics, this adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s novel didn’t fare well at the box office. This is a collection of materials held at the AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) that relate directly to Australian films screened from 1990 to 1999. 1991: Australian Cinema retrospective in Paris The largest ever retrospective of Australian cinema opened at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris on 29 May 1991. A young, mulleted punk (played by a 19-year-old Heath Ledger) is lured into Sydney’s glamorous organised crime scene by a gentleman mafia boss (Bryan Brown), but when he loses $10,000 of his boss’ cash, he plots a shambolic bank robbery to pay it back. It garnered an impressive seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and took home the statuette for special effects. Director: Howard Rubie Despite the success of both this and its predecessor, The Year My Voice Broke, the planned third instalment never actually materialised. Or browse instead. There were also a clutch of Hollywood studio productions written or directed by Aussies including Green Card, Romeo + Juliet, Patriot Games, The Truman Show and, er, Free Willy. Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 1990. A then-largely unknown Nicole Kidman plays a minor role, but, in a cynical move, she’s all over the film’s poster and trailer because, by the time it was released, she’d hit the big time with Dead Calm and Days Of Thunder. The no. A mysterious masked horseman is the only defence the colonists have against corrupt officials and marauding soldiery at the time of the rum rebellion. FATAL SKY (1990) A barely seen Australian/Yugoslavian co-production starring Michael Nouri, Charles Durning, and Maxwell Caulfield. By Peter Blamey. His character’s obsession with delivering a full-sized glass chapel to an outback vicar to win a bet with Blanchett’s Lucinda is equally funny and heartbreaking as tensions flare and violence erupts. The ultimate feel-good, ABBA-infused outback LGBTQI+ celebration became that rare beast: a global phenomenon that’s also a cult classic. An ABC co-production with Southern Star Sullivan July 31, 2006 / An evolving list of Australian cinema since the ... i dont see one of the best mock doc comedys of late 1990s ‘BIGGER THAN TINA’. (4 x 50min), Cast: Gary Day, Gosia Dobrowolska, Jonathan Hyde, Caroline Goodall, Helen Slater, Barry Bostwick, Tim Hughes, Burt Cooper, Tony Hawkins, Josephine Byrnes, Year: 1991 Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Simon Templar, 'The Saint', arrives in Sydney in search of a missing Asian girl. Though Stan is more known for its epic TV show collection (and Australian-made content), ... (1990) 1991: 98: The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. It’s a bog-standard heist premise, but Ledger’s electrifying performance makes it sexy The 1990s saw the release of the cult classics Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994 and The Castle in 1997. Creators: Paul Davies and Gayle Hopgood The gamblers and "good time charlies" converge on the South Pacific Hotel, one of Sydney's finest. The conflicts of race and heritage begin... Jack falls in love with Clare and she becomes pregnant. It made over $10million here and even got a little run in the States, probably with subtitles. Executive Producer: Chris Oliver Police Crop tells this story without fear or favour, exposing the extent of police collusion with the Mafia. Another quirksome, intimate production that somehow became an awards juggernaut and unexpected international hit, winning an Oscar for Geoffrey Rush (beating odds-on favourite Tom Cruise for his turn as Jerry Maguire). Cast: Linda Cropper, Nigel Havers, Andrew Clark, Vincent Ball, Year: 1990 Which is a pity as the story, set in 1965, of awkward boarding school teen Danny (Noah Taylor, reprising his role) fumbling his way through a stolen romance with Thandiwe (Thandie Newton’s debut feature) from the nearby girls’ school, is both funny and touching. Producers: Don Reynolds, Philip East Shine is based on the life of Adelaide piano genius David Helfgott, a child prodigy whose schizoaffective disorder manifested itself in young adulthood, causing a mental breakdown and leading to electro-shock treatment in a psychiatric hospital before an unlikely recovery. (2 x 120min), Cast: Heather Thomas as Tessa Clarke, If Crocodile Dundee had unlocked the door to international markets in 1986, then quintessentially ocker blockbusters like Babe, Priscilla…, Strictly Ballroom and Shine kicked down the walls with their R. M. Williams steel-caps. Executive Producer: Roger Mirams Director: Donald Crombie (100 min), Year: 1990 Refused Classification (Movies Banned in Australia) show list info. Pictures and stories of the glory days of Rallying in Australia up to and including 1990 . So if you haven’t experienced every one of these true blue trailblazers at least a dozen times, then, nah mate, you’re not a full-blooded, hard-baked, sun-damaged, drongo Aussie bludger. There, on the floor of the Sydney Stock Exchange, is a man she thought was dead. (2 x 120min), Cast: Josephine Byrnes, Marcus Graham, Jerome Ehlers, Jason Donovan, Robyn Nevin, Barry Otto, Harold Hopkins. Inherent racism, Catholic school cruelty and entrenched conservatism all conspire against the lovesick rebels as it gradually dawns on them that some rules really need to be broken. Ah the 90s - back when remakes weren't the norm, and focus on original scripts and story telling was paramount (pardon the pun). Briony Behets as Samantha Harmon, Year: 1990 The mother is a cleaning lady in luxury apartments. Director: Rod Hardy Jack Simmonds, the Jackaroo is a descendant of that union. 1 Australian film at the Australian box office is Crocodile Dundee (1986), with earnings of $47,707,598. Elaine Smith as Megan, Here’s why it was the greatest ever decade for homegrown cinema. Drinking, fighting, sex, racism, drugs, burglary, guns… no wonder Romper Stomper was advertised with the tagline “Mad Max eat your heart out” on its release in 1992. Click here An action masterpiece and possible new franchise kick-starter, Mad Max: Fury Road was further proof (not that any was needed) of both George Miller’s genius, and the right-to-the-edge abilities of Australian creatives. Writer: Patricia Johnson. Clare goes into hiding and the baby will be adopted. 2011-current; 2001-2010; 1991-2000; 1943-1990. New directions Initiatives and reviews. Richard Deveraux, the man who once told her he loved her, the man who betrayed her, the man who nearly destroyed her and her friends. Joseph Bottoms as Matt Lee, Producers: Philip East, Roger Mirams Yet beneath the philosophical and ideological antagonism there is something stirring: they are irrevocably attracted to each other as man and woman. This largely forgotten crime drama is an Australian Goodfellas. (4 x 60min), Cast: David McCubbin, Annie Jones, Warren Mitchell, Tina Bursill, Dot Collard, Year: 1990 This is the second and final film in writer/director John Duigan’s autobiographical coming-of-age trilogy. A list of 371 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Father (1990), The Big Steal (1990), Weekend with Kate (1990), Death in Brunswick (1990) and Green Card (1990). Producer: Jan Chapman (100 min), Cast: Beth Buchanan, Brian Rooney, Michele Fawdon, Andrew Shephard, Bruno Lawrence, Peter McAllum, Jodie Rimmer, John Walton, Dean O'Gorman, Jose Maria Caffarel, Year: 1990 ZONE 39 (1996) Peter Phelps stars in this meditative post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama about a grief-stricken soldier stationed at an isolated desert outpost. THE PHANTOM HORSEMEN is an adventure set in early Sydney. Login Not registered? This list shows all films released in 1990, including films that went direct-to-video, or only got an international theatrical release. Writer: Peter Yeldham. Now, it seems Richard is not only alive and well, he is even more dangerous than ever. If not legally, then certainly by blood and Aboriginal law, he is part of the Logan family. And in truth, it doesn’t get any less odd as he grows up into a beekeeping photographer, portrayed by Hugo Weaving, who has a deranged housekeeper plotting to drive him insane because he won’t have sex with her. A wild, tragi-comic love affair between a young outcast priest (Ralph Fiennes) and gambling-addicted glass factory owner (Cate Blanchett in her first major role) forms the basis of this riotously strange 19th-century romp directed by Gillian Anderson, from Peter Carey’s impenetrable novel of the same name. These films are made up of full length features, short films, and documentaries. On the bright side, you have some deadset treats in store. Best Australian films since 1991. The plot sees our plucky CGI hero escape a Christmas butchering by Farmer Hoggett (an Oscar-nominated James Cromwell) to become a skilled herder of sheep. Seen through the eyes of a teenage girl, The Last Crop follows the adventures of a fatherless family whose linchpin is an ingenious mother. Executive Producers: Ross Dimsey, Penny Chapman, Jill Robb From Europe, Australia and the United States fliers battle to find a plane and to raise the cash to compete. Death in Brunswick (1990) Comedy directed by John Ruane starring Sam Neill. The rivalry between two friends over Lucinda is further complicated when they find themselves on different sides during World War I. Where Martin Scorsese imbued his suited wise guys with polish and glitz, writer and director Gregor Jordan’s landscape is pokey flats infested with moustachioed standover men in singlets and baggy shorts. And so begins Jack's struggle to claim his inheritance, the woman he loves and the child he has never seen. Executive Producer: Jock Blair Australia's Lost Generation: Aboriginal Youth Suicide; Big Boss: The Last Leader of the Crocodile Islands; Coniston; Croker Island Exodus; Dance Free; Gamarada; Karrabing! Grant. Some of the top films set in Australia are full of action and adventure, while other great Australian movies are love stories. Russell Crowe’s breakthrough performance is based on the life of Melbourne neo-Nazi Dane Sweetman whose gang waged war on Jews, Asians and gay people in the late 1980s before he was jailed for life for murdering a fellow skinhead and cutting both his legs off at a party to celebrate Hitler’s birthday. He bumps into an ex-girlfriend at the airport and becomes involved in an attempt to kill the ex-girlfriend's father in order to own a prime piece of real estate. Cast: Kerry Walker, Noah Taylor, Sarah Hooper, John Pangelis, Year: 1990 (4 x 1hr). Charles 'Bud' Tingwell as Bert Clarke, Writer: David Phillips. Writer: Rick Maier, A group of children are swept away in a hot air balloon and land on an island out of time—an island where a group of Spanish pirates have been marooned for a hundred years or more. This is a chronological list of Australian films by decade and year for the 1990s. Cast: Beth Buchanan, Brian Rooney, Bryan Marshall, James Coate, Year: 1990 CHOPPER (2000) “I’m just … Crowe is genuinely terrifying as the fictional Hando, a psychopath terrorising Vietnamese-Australians who turns on a member of his gang, Davey (played by Daniel Pollock, who took his own life before the movie’s release), after the latter reveals he wants out. Writers: Michael Brindley, Ross Dimsey, An air race from London to Melbourne is announced. Director: Marcus Cole (120min), Cast: Frankie J. Holden, Luciano Catenacci, Terry Gill, Gerard Kennedy, Tim Robertson, Year: 1990 Then Russell Crowe enters, befriends Martin and sleeps with the housekeeper before storming off in a huff (something he’s repeated a few times since). Over several years the Australian Federal and New South Wales Forces worked with the Mafia in … Some music critics have questioned just how masterful his playing really was, and his sister trashed the movie for making their dad out to be a monster, but its iconic status has remained unscathed. Toni Collette. Producer: Margaret Matheson Perhaps the most cherished Aussie movie of all time, The Castle follows a larrikin battler from the suburbs who takes on faceless bureaucracy to live the Aussie dream and prove his home really is his castle. It started life as a stage play dreamt up by director Baz Luhrmann eight years before the film’s release, while he was at drama school. Australian success Celebrating stories and talent. Produced by Crawford Productions Film Australia’s monopoly on the output of government documentaries ended, after which it focused entirely on National Interest Program (NIP) films made for an Australian broadcast audience. New Zealand lensed and set films gained significant audiences and acclaim from the Australian market as An Angel at My Table (1990) and The Piano was followed up by Lee Tamahori's Once were Warriors (1994) and Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1995). a fevered rendition of ‘Flight Of The Bumblebee’. Rissole-loving tow truck driver Darryl Kerrigan (Michael Caton) is certainly the nation’s greatest cinematic champion (Mad Max? Executive Producer: Zelda Rosenbaum 6,786 46 Cinephile 101: 50 Popular Movies of the 2010s. It was, more than anything, a landmark in Aussie queer cinema, and further cemented our reputation for quirky, eccentric stories of big, bold characters taking on the establishment, usually with feather boas and heels. (4 x 60 min), Cast: Cameron Nugent, Marcus Graham, Peter Fisher, Elaine Smith, Marion Edward, Matthew Ketteringham, Reg Evans, George Mallaby, Kate Whitbread, Robert Morgan, Year: 1990 Produced by Southern Star Imogen Annesley as Sally Clarke, Those who win through this first test gather on a cold October dawn in England to race to Australia - half a world away. These are the best movies set in Australia, ranked from best to worst by user votes. A few Americans even learned that not every Aussie wears a croc skin waistcoat and grabs trans women by the groin. Screenplay by: Nick Enright, Lissa Benyon. The horse, declared untameable and possessed, meets young Anna and together they make Garrett realise he cannot be the ruler of everything. Cast: Simon Dutton, Ed Devereaux, Rebecca Gilling, Nikki Coghill, Year: 1990 Tell him he’s dreaming), a fair dinkum patriarch fighting the compulsory acquisition of his beloved house to save his family, his neighbours and his pool room. Australian Experimental music in the 1990s. A wild brumby terrorises the mean-minded landholder, Garrett, and despite all his attempts to kill the horse, it continually outsmarts him. During the early 1980s Aboriginal directors started to emerge who made films about their own culture and issues. Writer: Ian David Hugo Weaving brings poignancy to the scenes with his secret son, while Terence Stamp’s career-best turn as a bereaved trans woman is heartbreaking and ultimately touching. Anna dreams of owning a horse but her mother is afraid to let her as it was a horse that killed her father. Executive Producer: Sandra Levy Low Tide Turning; Mabo; Maralinga Pieces; Outback United; Queen of the Desert; Redfern Now (Series 1) Satellite Boy; The Sapphires; The Straits; The Tombstone Opening; Yagan Set against the backdrop of the Australian Outback, and the white man's grab for mineral wealth, Jackaroo is a story of love, jealousy, greed and revenge. Over several years the Australian Federal and New South Wales Forces worked with the Mafia in growing and distributing marijuana. We experience a young man's coming to terms with his father's expectations and his own destiny. Year: 1990 An ABC co-production with Southern Star Sullivan Writer: Ian David Director: Ken Cameron. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1990. Guy Pearce’s transitioning, meanwhile, was from dull Neighbours hunk into bona fide movie star, with a string of Hollywood roles following on. We think the 90s was fertile ground for children's movies. Their passionate liaison surfaces repressed emotions, enabling Michael to become compassionate and caring as a priest, and a man. As Oscar, Fiennes casts aside the buttoned-up formality he brought to Schindler’s List and The English Patient to wallow in dishevelled overindulgence and wild misbehaviour. 9. Andrew Clarke as Philip Harmon, Executive Producer: Ian Bradley Its US$30 million budget was astronomical by Aussie standards, but it brought home the bacon to the tune of 10 times that amount. Australia : Stamps [Year: 1990] [1/9]. Out of it a murder was solved, several arrests were made and $14 miilion worth of drugs hit the streets of Sydney and Melbourne... and a senior police officer was gunned down for his part in it. Producers: Philip East, Roger Mirams About this list: A list of every Australian film made between 1990 and 1999. David Reyne as Mark Tupper, Australian festival and award winners. Crocodile Dundee is also no. Producers: Zelda Rosenbaum, Oscar Whitbread A young blind boy Martin takes a snap of the garden from his bedroom window and his mum tells him a man is out there raking leaves. The islanders lead conservative lives, ruled by the ingrained tradition and doctrines of the Catholic Church. Sydney in 1944, the tide is turning in the Pacific War and American forces have made Sydney a gaudy, hectic garrison town. 3,383 50 Movies You Probably Haven't Seen, but You Should. Golden Braid (1990) Drama directed by Paul Cox. Screenplay by: Sonia Borg, Ratbag Hero takes place around the picturesque towns of the Murray River during the 1930s. This gloriously camp ‘Footloose Down Under’ celebrated snapping the parental ties through that classic medium of rebellion and counter-culture: ballroom dancing. The prizes are rich but the risks are high. The Australian film industry exploded in the 1990s, splattering audiences worldwide in lashings of green and gold celluloid goodness and showcasing that we had important stories to tell and talented people to tell them. Screenplay by: Alan Hopgood, Fashion designer Tessa Clarke returns home from America intent on becoming a major player in the Australian fashion industry.