Movies: Alan Cassell

  • 1980
    Breaker Morant

    Breaker Morant (1980)

    Breaker Morant

    7.11980HD

    During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the w...

    Breaker Morant
  • 1981
    Puberty Blues

    Puberty Blues (1981)

    Puberty Blues

    5.41981HD

    Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys....

    Puberty Blues
  • 2004
    Strange Bedfellows

    Strange Bedfellows (2004)

    Strange Bedfellows

    5.82004HD

    Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws....

    Strange Bedfellows
  • 1987
    Vietnam

    Vietnam (1987)

    Vietnam

    8.61987HD

    The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War....

    Vietnam
  • 1982
    The Highest Honour

    The Highest Honour (1982)

    The Highest Honour

    5.71982HD

    After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results....

    The Highest Honour
  • 1980
    Harlequin

    Harlequin (1980)

    Harlequin

    6.51980HD

    Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, rep...

    Harlequin
  • 1978
    Money Movers

    Money Movers (1978)

    Money Movers

    6.21978HD

    A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house....

    Money Movers
  • 1980
    The Club

    The Club (1980)

    The Club

    61980HD

    The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his ow...

    The Club
  • 2003
    The Honourable Wally Norman

    The Honourable Wally Norman (2003)

    The Honourable Wally Norman

    4.82003HD

    A meat worker is accidentally nominated to run for Parliament and realises that to save the meat works he has to get elected. All that stands in his way is every other politician in the country and his own fear of public speaking....

    The Honourable Wally Norman
  • 1984
    The Fire in the Stone

    The Fire in the Stone (1984)

    The Fire in the Stone

    6.21984HD

    Teenager Ernie lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of Coober Pedy in outback South Australia. When his cache of precious opals is stolen, Ernie and his best friend are determined to find the thief....

    The Fire in the Stone
  • 1982
    The Dark Room

    The Dark Room (1982)

    The Dark Room

    01982HD

    A slightly disturbed young amateur photographer finds that his father has been secretly having an affair with his co-worker. Thus begins a spiral into blackmail, stalking, and voyeurism....

    The Dark Room
  • 1982
    Squizzy Taylor

    Squizzy Taylor (1982)

    Squizzy Taylor

    4.51982HD

    This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in ...

    Squizzy Taylor
  • 1975
    Plugg

    Plugg (1975)

    Plugg

    2.71975HD

    A sleazy private detective named Horatio Plugg is hired to keep watch over a brothel. Inspector Closer is onto him though....

    Plugg
  • 1984
    The Settlement

    The Settlement (1984)

    The Settlement

    01984HD

    Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-too-friendly reception, the pair decide to move into an abandoned shack on the outskirts of town. Th...

    The Settlement
  • 1979
    Cathy's Child

    Cathy's Child (1979)

    Cathy's Child

    51979HD

    Cathy Baikas is a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter. When her daughter's father kidnaps the child and takes her back to Greece, Cathy discovers the authorities can do little to help her. She turns...

    Cathy's Child
  • 1986
    The Big Hurt

    The Big Hurt (1986)

    The Big Hurt

    3.51986HD

    A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control dru...

    The Big Hurt
  • 1988
    Midnight Dancer

    Midnight Dancer (1988)

    Midnight Dancer

    41988HD

    16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and w...

    Midnight Dancer
  • 1978
    The Newman Shame

    The Newman Shame (1978)

    The Newman Shame

    01978HD

    John Brandy is an ex-cop on holiday in Singapore with his girlfriend Ginger when he hears an old Perth banker friend of his, Frank Newman, has committed suicide. He travels to Perth and discovers that Newman killed himself after being drugged at a pa...

    The Newman Shame