Titles tagged with ‘mothers’
17 titles - sorted by title / by year
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Clubland (2007)
Jean Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) is an English comedienne stranded in the western suburbs of Sydney. Her marriage to a country singer (Frankie J Holden) has dissolved, leaving her ...
Compass – The Cardinal’s Cousin (2005)
Monica is a lesbian and a former nun. She rose to prominence in 2004 when she published a letter she’d sent to her cousin, Cardinal George Pell, the ...
The Home Song Stories (2007)
In Hong Kong in 1964, a beautiful nightclub singer meets an Australian naval officer. Rose (Joan Chen) comes to Australia with her two young children, Tom and May, ...
If Only – Series 1 Episode 5 (2003)
Three moving vignettes make up this program of lost opportunities. There’s one about a man who thought his problems of cloudy vision were an irreversible factor of old ...
Kolynos Dental Cream Advertisement: Next Please (c1944)
Mrs Howard and her 12-year–old daughter Nancy sit in a dentist’s waiting room. Nancy has a sore tooth. If Nancy brushes her teeth correctly and uses Kolynos Dental ...
Looking For Alibrandi (1999)
Josephine Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) is cursed, like all the women in her Italo-Australian family. She’s in her final year at a posh Sydney school for Catholic girls, but ...
Mother and Son – The Clock (1991)
Maggie (Ruth Cracknell) has stolen a clock from a neighbour’s house where she’s been snooping. The house is for sale and is open for inspection. The real estate ...
Mother and Son – The Funeral (1984)
Maggie (Ruth Cracknell) and Arthur (Garry McDonald) set out with Uncle Tom (Peter Gwynne) to the funeral of another of Maggie’s brothers, Andrew. Maggie holds up the whole ...
Mother and Son – The Money (1984)
Maggie Beare (Ruth Cracknell) has been hiding her pension cheques so that the government won’t know how much money she has. Her harassed son Arthur (Garry McDonald), would ...
Mother and Son – The Ride (1993)
Maggie’s favourite son Robert (Henri Szeps) arrives with a proposal to take her for a drive. This is so out of character that Arthur (Garry McDonald) is astonished ...
Mum’s the Word – Episode 16 (2003)
A group of high achieving mothers, led by presenter Rebecca le Tourneau, discuss how they feel pressured by their children to buy, buy, buy. Included in this otherwise ...
Mum’s the Word – Episode 9 (2003)
A group of women, including actress Zoe Carides and broadcaster Amanda Keller, discuss body image before and after pregnancy with presenter Rebecca le Tourneau.
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
In Western Australia in 1931, three mixed-race Aboriginal children are forcibly abducted from their mothers at Jigalong, in the eastern Pilbara. Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi), 14, her sister ...
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance (2006)
Mr Jonathon (Ben Miller) has never been conventional. The young girls in his dance school perform routines about evil scientists, greedy corporations and the oppression of women – ...
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Raimond Gaita (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lives with his father Romulus (Eric Bana) in a rundown farmhouse in central Victoria. It is 1960 and Raimond’s mother Christina (Franka Potente) returns ...
Seven Deadly Sins - Envy (1992)
This one-hour drama is the sad and sordid story of two people eaten up with envy for what they can’t possess. The program is book-ended with iconic shots ...
Vegemite Cinema Advertisement: Sister Knows Best (c1948)
A black-and-white cinema advertisement for Kraft Vegemite outlines the benefits it has if added to one’s diet, especially for children and infants.
