A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.

Plenty

1985

English

6.0

♡ 9

59%

based on play or musical

Drama

french resistance

post-war england

Fred Schepisi Director

Sam Neill as Lazar

Hugh Laurie as Michael

Charles Dance as Raymond Brock

Ian McKellen as Sir Andrew Charleson

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

The Eye of the Storm

2011

English

6.0

♡ 8

60%

Fred Schepisi Director

Colin Friels as Athol Shreve

Geoffrey Rush as Basil Hunter

Charlotte Rampling as Elizabeth Hunter

Heather Mitchell as June

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.

Barbarosa

1982

English

6.3

♡ 10

100%

Fred Schepisi Director

Jake Busey as Cook Boy

Gilbert Roland as Don Braulio

Isela Vega as Josephina

Gary Busey as Karl Westover

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father's will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

1978

English

7.3

♡ 10

100%

74%

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Fred Schepisi Director

Lauren Hutton as

Ray Barrett as Farrell

Jack Charles as Harry Edwards

Steve Dodd as Tabidgi

The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

Last Orders

2001

English

6.9

♡ 9

79%

73%

Action

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

war veteran

Fred Schepisi Director

Helen Mirren as Amy

Michael Caine as Jack

Meg Wynn Owen as Joan

Kelly Reilly as Young Amy

Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy

A Cry in the Dark

1988

English

6.9

♡ 15

94%

Fred Schepisi Director

David Hoflin as Aidan, 8 years

Tony Martin as Lincoln

Meryl Streep as Lindy

Sam Neill as Michael

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

Mr. Baseball

1992

English

6.0

♡ 15

12%

Fred Schepisi Director

Larry Pennell as Howie Gold

Tom Selleck as Jack Elliot

Art LaFleur as Skip

Ken Takakura as Uchiyama

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

Six Degrees of Separation

1993

English

6.8

♡ 26

88%

Fred Schepisi Director

Kelly Bishop as Adele

Heather Graham as Elizabeth

Ian McKellen as Geoffrey

Will Smith as Paul

The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.

Roxanne

1987

English

6.6

♡ 32

88%

63%

Action

based on play or musical

Fred Schepisi Director

Rick Rossovich as Chris

Brian George as Cosmetic Surgeon

Kevin Nealon as Drunk #2

Daryl Hannah as Roxanne

In this modern take on Edmond Rostand's classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," C. D. Bales is the witty, intelligent, and brave fire chief of a small Pacific Northwest town who, due to the size of his enormous nose, declines to pursue the girl of his dreams, lovely Roxanne Kowalski. Instead, when his shy underling Chris McConnell becomes smitten with Roxanne, C.D. feeds the handsome young man the words of love to win her heart.

Fierce Creatures

1997

English

6.4

♡ 12

55%

Fred Schepisi Director

John Alexander as Gorilla Performer 'Jambo'

Ronnie Corbett as Reggie Sealions

Kevin Kline as Vince McCain / Rod McCain

Jamie Lee Curtis as Willa Weston

Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.

The Russia House

1990

English

6.1

♡ 37

70%

50%

Action

based on novel or book

central intelligence agency (cia)

Fred Schepisi Director

Colin Stinton as Henziger

Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya

Blu Mankuma as Merv

Ken Russell as Walter

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

I.Q.

1994

English

6.2

♡ 30

43%

Fred Schepisi Director

John McDonough as Academic

Tim Robbins as Ed Walters

Frank Whaley as Frank

Joseph Maher as Nathan Liebknecht

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

Iceman

1984

English

♡ 11

49%

Action

anthropology

arctic polar circle region

Fred Schepisi Director

David Strathairn as Dr. Singe

Philip Akin as Dr. Vermeil

Danny Glover as Loomis

Stephen E. Miller as Temp Doc

A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.

Words and Pictures

2013

English

6.6

♡ 24

44%

Fred Schepisi Director

Patrick Gilmore as Cop

Amy Brenneman as Elspeth

Clive Owen as Jack Marcus

Adam DiMarco as Swint

An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

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Plenty

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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Last Orders

A Cry in the Dark

Mr. Baseball

Six Degrees of Separation

Roxanne

Fierce Creatures

The Russia House

I.Q.

Iceman

Words and Pictures