Movies: William McInnes

The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put his life at risk to expose police corruption in an effort to change the law on abortion and put an ...

A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family....

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II....

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death....

Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast...

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas chal...

1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the ...

Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home....

During one unusually hot weekend, four friends struggle after hearing some life-changing news....

Over 130,000 Australian horses served in the 1914 - 1918 war. None came home. This is their story....

A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover....

Ann (Kerry Walker) cleans for a living. She confronts problems like a vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt from the carpet. She shares everything she has with her two moody children (Noah Taylor, Sarah Hooper) and her equally erratic neighbours. She also sh...

Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school....

A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his beloved uncle....

An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel....

An Australian salesman's bored wife escapes in a fantasy world with her dream lover....

In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the fi...

Adam tells us the story of an older cousin, who had cerebral palsy. Adam would go over to play, and they'd dress as superheroes, jump off the shed, and run about the the street with an old shopping trolley. Adam explains his cousin's wayward left arm...

Adam looks back, with affection, to his childhood in a small suburban house, with his mum, his crippled and alcoholic dad, their bird Jeanette, and his older brother, who wears an eye patch, has asthma, and gets blamed for things even when he's not a...

Phillip and Geoffrey are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the unofficial "Sons and Surf" website......