Toni Collette
1) Enough said
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Divorced mom Eva may be falling for Albert, a sweet, funny, like-minded divorce. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne, who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Milly (Collette) is the woman who has everything. Her best friend Jess (Barrymore) works in a community garden, lives in a boathouse and desperately wants a baby. Friends since childhood Jess and Milly can't remember a time they didn't share everything - secrets, clothes, even boyfriends, their differences are the glue that binds them together. That is until Milly is hit with the life changing news that she has breast cancer and now needs Jess to...
3) Jasper Jones
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In the dead of night during the scorching summer of 1969, Charlie is startled when he is woken by local mixed-race outcast Jasper Jones outside his window. Jasper leads him deep into the forest and shows him something that will change his life forever, setting them both on a dangerous journey to solve a mystery that will consume the entire community. In an isolated town where secrecy, gossip and tragedy overwhelm the landscape, Charlie faces family...
5) Birthmarked
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In 1977, two respected scientists quit their jobs to conduct an experiment about human identity. They aim to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
6) Spotswood
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
When a consultant is hired to boost a factory's profits, economic theory collides with shop floor reality to create a deliciously dry social comedy starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Russell Crowe and Toni Collette. Wallace is a time and motion expert. After a lifetime of turning men into machines, Wallace has become bereft of emotion, treating all with a frigid indifference. But when he arrives at Balls Moccasin factory he is unnerved by...
7) Glassland
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Living in a social housing suburb in Dublin with his mother, John ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. One day, he returns home to find his mother, Jean, unconscious from an alcohol overdose. With no savings or insurance, John is forced to offer his services to a petty criminal to help pay for his mother's costly rehab program. Although his mother violently rejects John's attempts to support and unite his family, John faces his challenges,...
8) Mafia Mamma
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
9) Mary and Max
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Mary is a lonely eight-year-old girl who lives with her alcoholic mother, her factory working father, and a pet rooster in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max is a forty-four-year old, severely obese man with Asperger's syndrome living in New York City. Two unlikely pen-pals, they share a lengthy long-distance relationship that becomes complicated by Max's mental health issues, which cause problems both physical and emotional.
10) Like Minds
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In this psychological thriller, forensic psychologist Sally Rowe (Toni Collette) is called in to assess 17-year-old Alex (Eddie Redmayne), who is accused of murdering his schoolmate, Nigel (Tom Sturridge). As she delves into the boys’ strange and intense friendship, she uncovers a dark and twisted connection rooted in shared obsessions and a disturbing fascination with the macabre. With mounting evidence and eerie flashbacks, the lines between truth...
11) Towelhead
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
“Who are you?” Jasira Maroun’s strict, Lebanese-born father asks. Jasira isn’t sure. She’s a typical 13-year-old. And an Arab-American who’s anything but typical to folks in her Houston suburb. She’s drawn to a boy at school. And to a hunky, married Army reservist neighbor. She’s curious about sex. And clueless about relationships. Then all these “who are you”s collide in a series of fateful, emotional, frequently funny events,...
12) Muriel's Wedding
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
The hit Australian movie that launched the careers of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths, and put ABBA back on the charts years before Mamma Mia was a musical. Small-town girl Muriel spends every day alone in her room listening to ABBA and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. When she finds the courage to leave on a tropical vacation, she meets a wacky new friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world...
13) Hearts Beat Loud
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
14) Lucky Them
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Toni Collette is a has-been rock journalist sent to hunt down a long-vanished local rock star (and old flame) in this edgy, moving comedy. Also stars Thomas Haden Church.
15) Shaft
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Who delivers ten times out of ten? Samuel L. Jackson is SHAFT, the man and the movie. John Singleton ("Boys 'n' the Hood") directs this gritty action-packed thriller. With his uncle John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, reprising his original role) as his mentor, it's no surprise that today's Shaft is the coolest dude and the hottest action around. To stop a racist killer (Christian Bale), Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness (Toni Collette) that...
16) Emma
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
From Jane Austen's classic novel, Gwyneth Paltrow (IRON MAN) shines as Emma- a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends. Funny thing is…she's not very good at it! So when Emma tries to find a man for Harriet, she makes a hilariously tangled mess of everyone's lives. You'll enjoy all the coming confusion...until Emma herself falls in love, finally freeing everyone from her outrageously misguided attempts at matchmaking.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.
18) Madame
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When an American couple in Paris hosts a luxurious dinner party their plans go off the rails when their maid runs off with a wealthy guest.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Two years ago a Tsunami ravaged the coast of Thailand and hundreds of thousands lost their lives. This story follows a group of people whose lives are irrevocably transformed in the aftermath including: a young couple searching for their child; a Thai survivor who loses his family and tries to prevent developers from seizing the land his village is built on; an Englishwoman whose husband and son are missing; an ambitious reporter; a relief worker;...
20) Japanese story
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Description
In a remote Austrailian desert a geologist and a businessman strike a deal to go on a cross country journey together. As they encounter life or death situations, it is clear that neither of them will ever be the same person they were at the beginning.