Screen Australia.
1) Daybreakers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the year 2019, an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, so does the blood supply. Now the vampires must find a blood substitute before time runs out. Researcher Edward Dalton and a clandestine group of vampires have made a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
3) Lion
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
4) Talk to me
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A 3-part dramatized documentary series that tells the extraordinary and often harrowing story of Charles Darwin's 30-year struggle to piece together the mystifying puzzle he saw in nature and finally publish his theory about the evolution of life on Earth.
6) Red Dog
Publisher
Arc Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
"Incredible true story of a wandering, dust-covered Kelpie who hitched his way to the mining town of Dampier and into the hearts of each and every one of its residents ... A great emotional tale of adventure, love and lasting friendship"--Container.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
8) Mary and Max
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mary is a lonely eight-year-old in the suburbs of Melbourne. Struggling with questions that no one can answer, she writes to Max, an obese 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in New York City, which starts a friendship that spans 20 years and two continents.
9) Bright star
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
10) Winchester
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen, 16x9 (2.39:1).
Language
English
Description
On an isolated stretch of land outside of San Francisco there sits the world's most haunted house. Seven stories tall with hundreds of rooms, the house has been under construction for decades. But heiress Sarah Winchester is not building for herself, for her niece, or for the troubled doctor she has summoned. She is building it as an asylum for the hundreds of vengeful ghosts of those killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.