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Class Action

Class Action (1991) more movies like this

directed by Michael Apted
featuring Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne

A pair of lawyers must balance their professional principles (such as they are) against family loyalties in this courtroom drama. Jedediah Ward (Gene Hackman) is a leftist lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful; he's pursued principle at the expense of profit, though he has a bad ...

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Angel Baby

Angel Baby (1995) more movies like this

directed by Michael Rymer
featuring John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Colin Friels, Deborrah-Lee Furness, Robyn Nevin

In this unusual romantic drama from Australia, Harry (John Lynch) and Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie) are both patients at a psychiatric care facility. While in therapy, the two meet and fall in love, in spite of their troubled pasts. Despite the potential complications they might foresee with the relationship, Harry's main sources of support, his ...

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Darkman

Darkman (1990) more movies like this

directed by Sam Raimi
featuring Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, Nelson Mashita

Neglecting Julie (Frances McDormand), his lawyer lady friend, Dr. Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) works feverishly to perfect his latest invention -- artificial skin that could be used to treat burn victims. Peyton himself falls victim to an explosion when one of Julie's crooked clients sends his henchmen to sniff out an incriminating document that ...

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A Good Man in Africa

A Good Man in Africa (1994) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Beresford
featuring Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Lithgow

Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned to the British High Commission of Ninjana, an ...

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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001) more movies like this

directed by Nadia Tass
featuring Ashley Rose Orr, Connie Britton, Colin Friels, Hinton Battle, Emily Anne Hart

Between 1934 and 1940, Shirley Temple was the biggest little star in Hollywood; the curly-headed tyke began doing song-and-dance numbers in one-reel comedies at the age of four, at six years she stole the show in the musical Stand Up and Cheer, and at ten she was the number one box-office attraction in America, and had even taken home a special ...

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The Man Who Sued God

The Man Who Sued God (2001) more movies like this

directed by Mark Joffe
featuring Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Bille Brown, Wendy Hughes

Directed by Mark Joffe, Australia's The Man Who Sued God centers around Steve (Billy Connelly), an ex-lawyer who is unable to collect insurance money for his destroyed boat. Deeming the accident an "act of God," Steve decides to sue the man at the root of his problem -- namely, God. Anna (Judy Davis), a jaded journalist who took a particular ...

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Black and White

Black and White (2002) more movies like this

directed by Craig Lahiff
featuring Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn

Directed by Craig Lahiff, Black and White is a story about bigotry, social injustice, and a real-life murder trial that made Australian headlines in the late '50s. On a December afternoon in 1958, the body of a nine-year-old white girl is discovered in a cave off the coast of Southern Australia. Detective Paul Turner (Roy Billing) quickly arrests ...

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Ground Zero

Ground Zero (1988) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson
featuring Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate, Simon Chilvers

Ground Zero details a governmental cover-up as seen through the eyes of commercial photographer Colin Friels. Tipped off to the possibility that the death of his father was tied in with radioactive contamination, Friels runs into several official brick walls as he presses his investigation. At the root of everything is a hush-hush nuclear ...

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Grievous Bodily Harm

Grievous Bodily Harm (1989) more movies like this

directed by Mark Joffe
featuring Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Joy Bell

In this stylish and smart 1988 thriller, reporter Tom Stewart accidentally falls on the wrong side (not that he's ever on the right side) of the law during a psychotic killer's spree of murders. Stewart's no angel having already stolen money from a car wreck. At the center of the killings is Morris Martin, a schoolteacher on a rampage supposedly ...

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Warm Nights on a Slow-Moving Train

Warm Nights on a Slow-Moving Train (1989) more movies like this

directed by Bob Ellis
featuring Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye, John Clayton, Rod Zuanic

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train, written and directed by Bob Ellis, belongs to a genre of highbrow 1980s films which pushed the conventions of art house cinema. An unnamed fine arts teacher struggles to support her brother's drug addiction. To raise money, she moonlights as a prostitute on a midnight train. For each encounter, she dons a ...

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High Tide

High Tide (1987) more movies like this

directed by Gillian Armstrong
featuring Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels, Frankie J. Holden, John Clayton

Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie is drunk and cannot walk from the toilet block back ...

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Malcolm

Malcolm (1986) more movies like this

directed by Nadia Tass
featuring Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Chris Haywood

In this hilarious, award-winning comedy, Malcolm (Colin Friels) is an innocent, naive mechanical genius with a distinct gap where sexual and social awareness normally reside. He first gets into trouble when he builds his version of a streetcar and then takes it on a joyride through Melbourne -- a definite no-no. That exploit costs him his job as a ...

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Dingo

Dingo (1992) more movies like this

directed by Rolf de Heer
featuring Miles Davis, Colin Friels, Bernadette Lafont, Helen Buday, Joe Petruzzi

Jazz great Miles Davis makes his acting debut and farewell playing an inspirational jazz trumpeter in this lively drama that centers on a young Australian country boy who dreams of becoming just like him. Unfortunately, some dreams are never realized, and the boy grows up to become a dingo trapper with a wife and nearly grown children. As his ...

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Mr. Reliable: A True Story

Mr. Reliable: A True Story (1996) more movies like this

directed by Nadia Tass
featuring Colin Friels, Jacqueline McKenzie, Paul Sonkkila, Barry Otto, Lisa Hensley

Based on one of the most bizarre hostage-situations ever, this Australian comedy-drama is set in the late '60s when the youth were beginning to rebel against war and government. Set in 1968 Sydney during a scorching summer the whole mess begins when convicted car thief Wally Mellish gets out of prison, rents a hovel on the town's outskirts and ...

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The Book of Revelation (2006) more movies like this

directed by Ana Kokkinos
featuring Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels, Anna Torv, Deborah Mailman

A talented dancer who was abducted and tortured by three mysterious women struggles to come to grips with his harrowing experience in director Ana Kokkinos' adaptation of Rupert Thompson's unsettling novel. A beautiful and charismatic dancer who has immersed himself in a dream world of graceful movement, Daniel (Tom Long) maintains an amiable but ...

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Monkey Grip (1982) more movies like this

directed by Ken Cameron
featuring Colin Friels, Alice Garner, Harold Hopkins, Candy Raymond

Monkey Grip is a frank portrayal of a year in the life of a divorced mother (Noni Hazlehurst) living in Melbourne, trying to cope with her daughter and her own relationship with a drug addict while trying to get into the music business. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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