Essie Davis
1) The Babadook
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In this terrifying thriller, a mother must protect her son from an evil, supernatural entity that has escaped the pages of a children's book and is lurking in their home.
4) Nitram
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Justin Kurzel’s latest is a devastating look at a troubled young man. In mid-90s suburban Australia, Nitram (Caleb Landry Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia). A loner who’s never fit in, he passes his days in isolation, until he unexpectedly strikes up a close friendship with a reclusive heiress (Essie Davis). But when that relationship meets a tragic end, and Nitram’s loneliness and anger grow, he begins...
5) Babyteeth
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
When ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbor - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Based...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In a desperate attempt to prime him for rebellion, Ned Kelly's mother, sells him to the notorious bushranger Harry Power, where the young bandit discovers he comes from a line of warriors called the Sons of Sieve. Fueled by his roots and a voracious appetite for revenge, Ned Kelly leads an anarchist army to wreak havoc on Australia's oppressors in one of the most audacious attacks the country has ever seen.
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Follow the Honorable Phryne (fry-nee) Fisher through the back alleys, shady markets, and jazz clubs of late 1920s Melbourne. A glamorous lady detective in a mostly male world, she goes about her work with a pear-handled pistol and dagger-sharp wit, leaving a trail of male admirers in her wake. Includes 8 episodes.
Eight all-new episodes of the glamorous, gun-toting lady detective Phryne Fisher. Along with her ever-faithful companion, Dot Williams,...
Pub. Date
[2007], ©2006
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Description
In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.