Search results for "Peter Weir"
The Last Wave

The Last Wave

The Last Wave
IMDb: 7
106

Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a…

Fearless

Fearless

Fearless
IMDb: 7.1
122

After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist…

Genre: Drama
Green Card

Green Card

Green Card
IMDb: 6.3
108

Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building’s board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast
IMDb: 6.6
119

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously
IMDb: 7.1
115

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Truman Show

The Truman Show

The Truman Show
IMDb: 8.2
103

An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society
IMDb: 8.1
128

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain…

Genre: Drama
Gallipoli

Gallipoli

Gallipoli
IMDb: 7.4
112

As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves…

The Way Back

The Way Back

The Way Back
IMDb: 7.3
133

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
IMDb: 7.4
138

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Witness

Witness

Witness
IMDb: 7.4
113

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a…

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock
IMDb: 7.4
117

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine’s Day, the school’s typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Cars That Ate Paris

The Cars That Ate Paris

The Cars That Ate Paris
IMDb: 5.6
87

After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of…

The Plumber

The Plumber

The Plumber
IMDb: 6.5
77

At first simply grating, the presence of a hard-edged, macho plumber who damages more than he repairs and returns day after day soon turns menacing for the intellectual wife of…