Oxford Australia on the small screen 1970-1995 - features and telemovies
List activity
120 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
449 titles
- DirectorAlex StittStarsJohn FarnhamJacki WeaverHayes GordonAnimated fantasy film about an optimistic space boy and his friends.
- DirectorJohn OrcsikStarsPaula DuncanTony BonnerBryon WilliamsAn actress moves to the Gold Coast with her daughter.
- StarsElliott GouldLisa HarrowPatrick BerginAn IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.
- DirectorIan MunroStarsAngie MillikenMark Owen-TaylorWendy StrehlowAn Australian couple strive to prove that chemical companies have polluted the water supply, giving their daughter leukemia.
- DirectorDenny LawrenceStarsNique NeedlesRosey JonesGrigor TaylorOut-of-luck youth gets a lift from a girl shoplifter whose car he had planned to steal. They become involved in crime and romance together.
- DirectorTed RobinsonStarsDiane CraigPenne Hackforth-JonesGrigor TaylorA married woman begins an affair with a younger man.
- DirectorDavid BakerStarsEric OldfieldLouise HowittDavid RobsonA bush pilot in the Australian outback gets mixed up with diamond smugglers.
- DirectorMegan Simpson HubermanStarsLauren A JacksonChris HaywoodJosh PickerHeadstrong New Zealand teen Alex Archer trains to qualify for the 1960 Rome Olympics in the women's 100 freestyle. Unlike the other top swimmers who train only for swimming, Alex takes piano and ballet lessons to go with a full school workload. To make the Olympics, her ultimate dream, she must not only overcome a formidable foe, but also the death of her boyfriend.
- DirectorIgor AuzinsStarsJohnny PaceMichael PrestonJoe MartinAll at Sea is a 1977 Australian television film about a group of misfits on holiday on an island resort. It used the cast from The Celebrity Game.
- DirectorJulian PringleStarsRichard MoirAngela Punch McGregorLinden WilkinsonDrama series dealing with adultery between middle-class Australians in Canberra.
- DirectorPaul EddeyStarsWendy HughesPeter AdamsCarla HoogeveenA beautiful and talented editor of a successful women's magazine discovers that she is pregnant. She decides to have the baby and raise it as a single parent.
- DirectorPeter FiskStarsRobert GrubbJuliet JordanRobin BoweringThe story of a 1865 murder trial that scandalized the people of Sydney. Louis Bertrand, a society dentist and womanizer, is determined to have Mrs. Kinder, a woman of dubious morals, to himself, and so plots to murder her husband.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsRichard BasehartSusan StrasbergPeter SumnerGerman war criminal Franz Kessler is an expert in germ warfare living in Hong Kong. In order to maintain his rich lifestyle he does a deal to provide terrorists with a lethal gas. To protect himself he plants a time bomb in a Hong Kong sewer along with a large sample of his wares. When things don't go to plan the police find themselves in a desperate search to prevent it from detonating.
- DirectorDenny LawrenceStarsBrett ClimoRobert ColebyNed LanderDuring the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourne Cup race.
- DirectorDenny LawrenceStarsJulie NihillLian LunsonShane ConnorTwo childhood friends who marry brothers in the Army soon discover that their lives will take a different path from what they first expected.
- DirectorSimon HeathStarsAngry AndersonGordon ElliottJohn FarnhamA small town mayor rigs an election with hilarious and unpredictable results. A comedy extravaganza starring some of the biggest names in Australian showbiz in the most unlikely and wackiest roles.
- DirectorRalph Lawrence MarsdenStarsChris WatersAmanda McNamaraBronwyn GibbsAn Australian writer is forced to return from his new life in London, affecting his work, relationships and lifestyle.
- DirectorMario Di FioreStarsAdam RamosSandra SwanRoy Fimmano
- DirectorStuart McDonaldStarsMaya StangeSullivan StapletonCampbell CorserA girl and a boy take on a challenge.
- DirectorRivka HartmanStarsLyn PierseKim GyngellJan FriedlDorothy, single and one of the writers of the soap "The true world" hates living alone, but the guys she knows don't appeal to her. Her aunt Esther's attempts to match-make with random men just annoy her. Then she meets an old friend from college who he seems perfect...
- DirectorDi DrewStarsGarry McDonaldJoan WinchesterYalumul MarikaBanduk discovers that Mr Kool is smuggling birds out of Australia.
- DirectorNorman PanamaStarsSid CaesarJuliet MillsSally BoydenBarnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.
- DirectorPino AmentaStarsAndrew McFarlaneShane BriantDennis Miller
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsKaren BlackKeir DulleaJack ThompsonAn American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their developmentally disabled son.
- DirectorPaul TurnerStarsLynette CurranDafydd EmyrRobin Griffith
- DirectorMartin GuinnessStarsStephen BlandClive LochnerRajni RamsayThirty thousand years BC, two young people from different tribes fall in love but are opposed by their families.
- DirectorChris ThomsonStarsRobert TaylorAngie MillikenJohn Bach
- DirectorTroy MillerStarsDyan CannonMartin MullSarah Michelle GellarMarsha Robinson, host of a TV cooking show, takes her family on a working vacation to a South Seas Island, but their yacht is hijacked by pirates and shipwrecked. Then they must survive Marsha's complaints while they build a tree house, meet a handsome shipwrecked surfer, bond together as a family, and fight off the pirates.
- DirectorDan BurstallStarsDavid RobertsTerri GarberAlan Fletcher
- DirectorCraig GodfreyStarsBill ConnLes WinspearKerry Laws
- DirectorMike SmithStarsGosia DobrowolskaJustin RosniakHarold HopkinsWhile inventing a chicken-feeding system to help with his mother's low income, Jimmy Vella uncovers a secret that threatens to expose a lawbreaking community official.
- DirectorChris ThomsonStarsDiane CilentoMax CullenColin FrielsA satire on Sydney high society
- DirectorJohn PowerStarsDon CrosbyRosalie FletcherHarold HopkinsPercy Dean, secretary to Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes reveals the secrets of his diaries about the politicians years in office.
- DirectorEric TaylerStarsJohn MeillonVincent BallJennifer ClaireA failed actor sees an opportunity for stardom, when he gets the chance to work with a distinguished great actor.
- DirectorBrendan MaherStarsChris HaywoodNicole KidmanKatrina FosterThe story about a careers counselor who dreams of becoming a small-time actor.
- DirectorJames RichardsStarsEdward John StazakJames RichardsKristof KaczmarekTom Maranta has been a 'bouncer' for years, but he has decided to give the toughs, pushers, pimps and prostitutes the flick. As he makes that decision, Pharoah, his bitter enemy, is released from prison for stabbing him in a bloody and vicious street fight three years earlier. After three years of sleepless nights and haunting nightmares, Tom realises a showdown is inevitable and he enlists the help of a friend and together they are confronted by Pharoah and his army.
- DirectorPaul WilliamsStarsBrian HannanCarole-Ann AylettTerry Gill
- DirectorIan BarryStarsJudd NelsonDee SmartMark LeeA US criminal profiler (of sorts) is sent over to Queensland to help catch a serial slayer, who leaves biblical scriptures behind at the scene of his crimes.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsSam ElliottRebecca GillingJohn MeillonA private investigator (Sam Elliott) battles a criminal (Robert Culp) in the Australian outback for the possession of a priceless opal in this all-out action flick.
- DirectorBrian PhillisStarsVincent BallTony WagerColin McEwan
- DirectorEric TaylerStarsMichael CarmanClaire CrowtherMervyn Drake
- DirectorHenri SafranStarsCameron DaddoBurnham BurnhamMandy Bowden
- DirectorJohn PrescottStarsRay MeagherCarmen DuncanJohn GreggA detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents.
- DirectorLex MarinosStarsWendy HughesJohn HargreavesNorman KayeSet in a township in Olwyn's Boundary, Stella lives and works in a hotel. Every year her ex-lover Andy asks her to marry him. This year, two strangers arrive.
- DirectorStephen WallaceStarsJason ConneryDiane CilentoLaura WilliamsIn '60's-era Australia, a college freshman must navigate freshman hazing, a distant mother, and a shaky relationship with his girlfriend.
- DirectorGeoff BennettStarsYves SteningJane StephensJames FoxIn the 1950s, teenage Frank dreams of leaving Tasmania for Melbourne.
- DirectorAndy NehlStarsJulie MitchellCathy JukesLisa-Jane StockwellA new drug is sweeping the streets of Sydney with devastating outcomes
- DirectorDon McLennanStarsBruce BoxleitnerBruce MylesDeborah Kara UngerAn escaped prisoner abducts an accountant as he tracks a rodeo fair which is sheltering his wife.
- DirectorKathy MuellerStarsNick EnrightMat StevensonBradley KilpatrickDrama focusing on the problems of two boys as their parents' marriage falls apart.
- DirectorTerry BourkeStarsChard HaywardIvar KantsMargaret LaurenceNews photographer Adam and journalist Kevin, two fictional estranged brothers who witnessed the real life 1975 killing of the Balibo Five in Timor, reunite after five years only for their PTSD to resurface and tear them apart.
- DirectorJohn SmytheStarsDennis MillerLynette CurranVic Marsh
- DirectorOscar WhitbreadStarsRay BarrettFrederick ParslowGerard MaguireHigh profile political manoeuvering after a nuclear meltdown causes a voters' backlash.
- DirectorFrank ArnoldDi DrewStarsBruno BaldoniVincent BallSteven GrivesA resort island, run by the Wilson family, becomes the home to an unhappy Vietnamese refugee teenager and is also threatened by a greedy businessman.
- DirectorDouglas SharpStarsNeil FitzpatrickTerry JowettHugh Keays-ByrneThe Cake Man is a compassionate plea for both blacks and whites to look again at the origins of mutual distrust and work together to restore a precious lost heritage rather than live at the expense of the rights of the Aboriginals.
- DirectorColin BuckseyStarsSteve BisleyDulice LiecierDavid BamberAristocrat Jack Bartholomew has built a new life has a Sydney policeman. His father visits him but he is shot by mistake. The real target bank robber Brian Pollard is later killed. Jack decides to return to Britain and find the killer.
- DirectorScott HicksStarsChris HaywoodVincent BallJohn FrawleyBased on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.
- DirectorMario AndreacchioStarsJohn WatersDamien WaltersRebecca SykesA deaf boy befriends an Italian fisherman in his village.
- DirectorChris NoonanStarsMichele FawdonJohn WatersJudy MorrisTorn by the conflict between that society and her own, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tries to pull together the pieces of her shattered life.
- DirectorColin EgglestonStarsTegan CharlesTessa HumphriesDylan O'NeillA young woman has eerie flashes of recovered memories of her brother committing a murder, despite her parents assurance that all is well.
- DirectorCarl T. WoodsStarsHaley JilliffeRobin DoyleJudith SaundersAfter being assaulted by her mother's boyfriend, a teenage girl flees to the city streets.
- DirectorBarry PeakStarsJay HackettTim ScallyLyn SemmlerWhen the writer of a TV police show is murdered, the cast of the show try to find the killer.
- DirectorHoward RubieStarsBrett ClimoAlan DarginNicole KidmanA group of hardened criminals on the lam take refuge in the badlands of the Australian outback. When they come across a small settlement, they take hostages in case the law shows up, but are outwitted by a supernatural force, a powerful shaman.
- DirectorDavid ZweckStarsGoogie WithersFrank ThringWendy Hughes1974 Australian TV adaptation of Chekhov's play.
- DirectorJean TychStarsRon HaddrickPhillip HintonSean HintonOn Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.
- DirectorKen QuinnellStarsHugo WeavingTommy LewisShirley CameronSmall film about a young man (Weaving) who moves into a boardinghouse in a marginal part of Sydney in an effort to come to terms with his father's death and become a writer. He gets enmeshed in the lives of the boarders, including a junkie, his sister, and an aboriginal activist.
- DirectorKen CameronStarsSteve BisleyMarshall NapierPeter KowitzA new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won't get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won't let it go - all the way to the top.
- DirectorCraig LahiffStarsPenny CookArna-Maria WinchesterLiddy ClarkA maniac is stalking and killing female students at a university.
- DirectorAndrew ProwseStarsGary SweetRobert MammoneAlexandra FowlerSydney police detective Cody needs to investigate the cause of a fire in a building.
- DirectorAndrew ProwseStarsGary SweetHeather MitchellRobert MammoneCody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend, Jimmy Catter.
- DirectorIan BarryStarsGary SweetHeather MitchellRobert MammoneRogue detective Cody stumbles onto a huge South African drug smuggling operation.
- DirectorJohn LaingStarsGary SweetHeather MitchellRobert MammoneThe squad's investigation of art thefts leads to a gallery run by an attractive French artist, Claudia
- DirectorPeter FiskStarsGary SweetRobert MammoneBill HunterRogue cop Cody investigates a high-profile jockey's apparent suicide.
- DirectorFrank HowsonStarsJoan BrockenshireKole DysartTommy DysartA man must reassess his life when he becomes involved with an enigmatic woman.
- DirectorBrian JonesStarsAngela Menzies-WillsDavid EvansMark NealVery rare Australian ozploitation erotic-musical-comedy.
- DirectorNigel BuesstStarsJeremy StanfordBruce KerrChristopher BarryAn Australian civil servant's (Jeremy Stanford) diligence offends his boss (Bruce Kerr) in a workmen's-compensation office.
- DirectorMarcus ColeRob StewartStarsNicholas RyanEmily SymonsPeter WhitfordA security company conjures up fake computer-generated "ghosts" so they can buy abandoned property at below-market value at auctions. However, a mysterious couple appear out of seemingly nowhere to thwart the company's plans.
- DirectorJulian PringleStarsJohn GadenRobyn NevinKevin Miles
- DirectorKarl ZwickyStarsJohn DoyleNicola BartlettRay BarrettA real estate agent is lured to a run-down mansion only to be trapped and tortured by ghosts.
- DirectorMurray ReeceStarsRima Te WiataMark WrightGrant DodwellAfter bungling his suicide attempt, a bankrupt man accidentally embarks on a career of crime. In search of condoms, he becomes involved in a bank robbery.
- DirectorMichael CarsonStarsWendy HughesDavid WatersBrian BlainTV adaptation of a play where a young woman is pursued by three ardent suitors as she approaches her thirtieth birthday.
- DirectorIan BarryStarsJacqueline BissetMasaya KatôGary DayHolly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her operation falls apart when she becomes an accessory to murder.
- DirectorKen CameronStarsMark DavisToni AllaylisJohn GreggA young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
- DirectorMarc GracieStarsMarcus GrahamBruce VenablesLucy BellPolicemen Robin Decker and John Little begin to realise they are probably the only two honest cops on the force.
- DirectorGeoffrey BrownStarsDerek StrachanChris Lloyds
- DirectorIan MunroStarsJudith StratfordPeter BrowneMichael CudlinDrama telling the story of two years in the life of the Byrne family as they prepare for a custody hearing.
- DirectorAnn TurnerStarsSandra BernhardVictoria LongleyFrank GallacherA feisty independent golf player wreaks havoc in a suburban Sydney home by attempting to seduce every member of the family.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsLee MajorsRebecca GillingMartin VaughanThe story of an American horse-breeder living in Australia who is the single father of three sons.
- DirectorArch NicholsonStarsJohn JarrattNikki CoghillMax PhippsA park ranger is tasked with dealing with a killer crocodile that appears to have a spiritual connection with the local Aboriginals.
- DirectorPaul HarmonStarsAlan CassellAnna Maria MonticelliSvet KovichA 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.
- DirectorPaul DraneStarsJohn StantonPeter AdamsAlan AndrewsDrama documentary when Australia suppressed news to the public of the Japanese bombing of Darwin in 1942.
- DirectorIan MacKenzieAlex NicholasStarsRoss HigginsPhillip HintonRobyn MooreA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- DirectorChris ThomsonStarsJacki WeaverJohn WatersAdam WillitsBarbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as housewife and start to study. Against the will of her husband she employs babysitter Eric while she attends university. Steward reacts increasingly nervous about the presence of another man in his family and brings their marriage into a crisis.
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsEdward John StazakJohn StantonJames RichardsA martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.
- DirectorBert DelingStarsScott BurgessRosemary PaulTim McKenzieThree young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results in their being hunted by every thug and killer in town.