Bodyline

Mortal Engines – Krieg der Städte

Vor Tausenden von Jahren verwüstete eine gewaltige Katastrophe die Erde, doch die Menschheit hat sich ihrer neuen Umgebung längst angepasst. Gigantische Metropolen auf Rädern erhoben sich aus den Trümmern der untergegangenen Zivilisation. Auf der Suche nach den letzten Ressourcen fahren sie über die verdörrte Steppe und verschlingen gnadenlos die kleineren Städte. Zu den großen Metropolen gehört auch London als einer der gewaltigsten rollenden Kolosse. In diesem unerbittlichen Kampf trifft ...

V wie Vendetta

Der Revolutionär V will, wie der legendäre Guy Fawkes, dessen Maske er stets trägt, das britische Parlament in die Luft sprengen. Sein Motiv: Die Befreiung Großbritanniens, das im Jahr 2020 zum faschistischen Staat mutiert ist. Meinungsvielfalt gibt es nicht mehr, die gleichgeschaltete Masse fürchtet die Obrigkeit. Eine stille Mitläuferin ist auch die TV-Assistentin Evey, die eines Nachts vom mysteriösen Maskenmann vor der Vergewaltigung durch vier Polizisten gerettet wird und in der Folge ...

Loveland

In an uncharted future, two hardened souls meet and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become.

Lone Wolf

Through various modes of surveillance we observe an overprotective young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught in a web of intrigue involving a bomb plot, inept anarchists, ambitious police and a corrupt politician. The duplicity of Winnie’s boyfriend, Conrad Verloc -political activist and police informant –propels these siblings down a deadly path. But justice may prevail in the aftermath, via the surveillance collected, compiled and presented by Special Crimes Sergeant ...

Patrick Melrose

Ein kritischer und oft humorvoller Blick auf die Oberschicht, der die erschütternde Odyssee des Protagonisten von einer zutiefst traumatischen Kindheit über Drogenmissbrauch bei Erwachsenen bis hin zur Genesung nachzeichnet.

Measure for Measure

An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.

Hearts and Bones

Black ’47

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

Mortal Engines

Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

Strangerland

Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.

The Turning

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

Mystery Road

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.

Captain America: The First Avenger

1942 – die USA ziehen in den Kampf gegen Hitler-Deutschland. Steve Rogers wird auf Grund seines Gesundheitszustands als ungeeignet eingestuft. Mit Hilfe des Project: Rebirth soll er trotzdem in den Kampf gegen Nazis ziehen. Der kränkliche Steve wird in eine Art Super-Soldaten namens Captain America transformiert. Hilfe bekommt der neue Superheld dabei von seinem Freund Bucky Barnes. Gemeinsam kämpfen sie gegen Red Skul, Hitlers Geheimwaffe im Krieg gegen den Rest der Welt.

Oranges and Sunshine

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

Last Ride

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.

The Tender Hook

The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.

V for Vendetta

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

Peaches

This is the story of teenage girl Steph, who is brought up by her fiery aunt Jude after her pregnant mother Jass and Vietnamese father are killed in a car crash. The arrival of her late mother's diary reveals the colorful, sexy secrets of Jude and the foreman Alan that allow Steph to reinvent her vision of the world.

Little Fish

Es ist schon bewundernswert, wie Tracey Heart ihr Leben meistert. Die 32-jährige war bis vor vier Jahren noch heroinabhängig. Mit der Hilfe ihrer Mutter hat sie den Entzug geschafft und arbeitet nun in einer Videothek. Doch die Welt um sie herum ist immer noch voller Drogen. In Sydneys Stadtteil „Little Saigon“ gehören sie einfach zum Alltag. Ray, der Bruder von Tracey, verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt als Dealer und oft genug muss sie ihm bei seinen krummen Deals auch noch helfen. Auch ...

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.

The Matrix Revisited

The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.

The Magic Pudding

Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.

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