The ‘father of Australian independent cinema’, Paul Cox was a pioneering force in Australian filmmaking
Erotic and richly amusing story of a reclusive art collector who becomes obsessed with an artist's model. Deals with the confrontation between modern life and traditional life.
About the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. The film pleads for more patience, more understanding and more tolerance; and if the time for parting arrives, to be more careful with the way we say goodbye.
A journey of love on a transplant waiting list. Another screen gem from veteran director Paul Cox, invested with the poignancy of an almost-true story.
The relationship between Anna and David is tested when a wealthy gentleman, Edward, enters Anna's life. His worldliness and seductive charm awakens in Anna a consciousness that manifests itself through 'touch'. She embarks on an intimate journey of self-discovery and physical fulfillment to arrive at a deeper understanding of her own sexuality and the necessity for touch and the human need for love.
Set in the last century, a man is outlawed and condemned to live alone on a small island, his only crime the theft of a few sheep. A girl from the mainland learns of his existence and, compelled by loneliness and romantic dreams, crosses the treacherous sea to join him. Together they create their own truth.
Retired organist and music teacher Andreas Borg discovers that his first love Claire, a woman he hasn't seen for almost 50 years, lives nearby - that she exists! He writes her a letter. Through poignant erotic flashbacks we start to understand the haunting quality of their early relationship. After almost 50 years their innocence still burns. A comic-tragic tale of love and lust, of tenderness and hope. A passionate reminder to live life to the full. A poignant homage to the human spirit.
Peter, an eccentric middle-aged bachelor, meets Patricia, a shy spinster, through an introduction agency. Their timid relationship gradually progresses to one of intimacy and faltering trust.
Michael Shanley and his brothers are modern outlaws. But their plan to kidnap their wealthy 14-year-old second cousin goes awry when her chaperoning nun refuses to abandon her charge. Michael loses his sense of perspective and falls in love with the nun, unleashing a psychological tug of war between the two. Good and evil confront one another in the isolation of the Australian bush...Based on the book by E. L. Grant Watson.
KALAUPAPA HEAVEN is a feature-length documentary which tells the story of 32 amazing people who live in the settlement of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. The 32 were sent there as children who'd contracted Hanson's disease. It's an uplifting tale of survival, forgiveness and their fight to preserve this piece of paradise in the pacific.
In this erotic satire, each individual is seeking love and each journeys to sexual awakening, yet in the process, all are manipulated and exploited by the powermongers of society at every level.
An 80-year-old woman, still full of imagination and spirit, faces a crisis when authorities want to commit her to a home for the aged.
A story of three women and their struggle with fate. The women, an Australian, a Greek and a Sri-Lankan, meet on the barren island of Astypalea in the Dodecanese and become entangled in their own desires, the intensity of the location and the threat from the outside world.