The Shipping News

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 18 Dec 2001 · English

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Heavenly Creatures

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 12 Sept 1994 · English

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

Dirt Music

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 8 Oct 2020 · English

Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.

The Convert

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 14 Mar 2024 · English

Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.

The Burning Plain

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 7 Nov 2008 · English

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?

The Manxman

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 18 Jan 1929 · English

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

Japanese Story

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 30 Aug 2003 · English

Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.

Dream Lover

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 11 Nov 1993 · English

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.

Inventing the Abbotts

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 4 Apr 1997 · English

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.

The Nightingale

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 23 Sept 2018 · English

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Certain Women

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 25 Sept 2016 · English

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

Untamed Heart

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 12 Feb 1993 · English

Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with him -- but not all their fellow Minnesotans are happy for them. Meanwhile, the couple face their own difficulties when Caroline finds about Adam's past, including his unique health condition.