Most Popular Bruce Beresford Trailers
Total trailers found: 52
02 May 1996
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death.
04 March 1983
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
11 February 1997
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
04 September 1992
Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly.
14 July 1994
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.
13 September 2011
A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
29 March 1985
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
13 December 1989
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke.
18 September 1980
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.
10 December 1981
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.
24 September 1999
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son.
24 October 1978
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
18 October 2018
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
11 June 1980
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 war.
30 September 2002
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation.
25 August 1977
The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson).
07 September 2003
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition.
12 November 2006
A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
28 October 2017
A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.
10 November 1976
On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath.
27 May 1987
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg.
12 October 1972
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
08 June 2001
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
07 January 2011
The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
13 September 1994
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies.
26 October 1986
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society.
01 January 1988
A follow-up special to ABC's 1987 "The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson." The program includes clips of great stunts, interviews with celebrities and profiles of legendary stuntpeople.
05 April 2006
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.
04 February 2003
Behind the scenes of the making of Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
01 October 2009
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet.
16 September 2016
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
01 January 1970
Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions and anecdotes from his friends Mesens and Scutenaire.
08 November 2007
The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved over two hundred years of colonial and cultural history, and how it is today.
30 April 1975
Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs
03 February 1989
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
22 March 1991
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British.
04 February 2003
This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this marvelous actress.
28 October 1994
Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr.
04 October 1991
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism.
03 November 2019
A feature length documentary about Australian popular entertainment across 150 years; of Skating and Dancing, Vaudeville and Moving Pictures.
28 April 2015
A mother and son confess their secrets.
01 January 2006
A guy falls for a girl who draws him into a modern-day cult.
28 August 2008
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare.
12 December 1986
Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
01 January 1965
A colorful account of Nigeria's brilliantly painted buses with their biblical names, edited to the beat of Nigerian rock and roll.
01 January 1969
Dame Barbara Hepworth discusses her work in a voiceover as we see a record of her retrospective exhibition, held at the Tate Gallery in 1968.
06 March 2006
First there was ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, then ‘My Brilliant Career’, and now best of all ‘The Getting of Wisdom’.
19 August 1999
Virginia, a young and adventurous woman, travels from England to Sydney, Australia, in search of her Australian ancestors.
10 June 2017
Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father.
12 December 1974
Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country.
01 January 1963
Short film is based on the ballet 'Les Fausses Sceptiques' by the French film scenarist and surrealit
01 January 1966
A montage of a Nigerian athletics meeting cut to music by Okoli Obazo