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Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.

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Movies Made By Bruce Beresford (43)

The Travellers (2025)

Stephen Seary, a stage designer, returns to Australia to visit his dying mother, but a quick trip descends into family tensions, past conflicts, and romantic complications, jeopardizing his return to Europe and the opera that awaits. ...

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Ladies in Black (2018)

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney. ...

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Flint (2017)

A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family. ...

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Barracuda (2017)

Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other, Sinaloa's chaotic influence starts to unravel Merle's quiet, comfortable life. While the family music legacy broug ...

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Mr. Church (2016)

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years. ...

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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce. ...

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The Telegram Man (2011)

The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community. ...

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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defe ...

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Canvas (2006)

A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son. ...

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The Contract (2006)

Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer. ...

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Orpheus (2006)

A guy falls for a girl who draws him into a modern-day cult. ...

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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)

In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposi ...

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Evelyn (2002)

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is ...

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Bride of the Wind (2001)

A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka. ...

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Double Jeopardy (1999)

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted of her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive. She survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing b ...

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Sydney: A Story of a City (1999)

Virginia, a young and adventurous woman, travels from England to Sydney, Australia, in search of her Australian ancestors. ...

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Paradise Road (1997)

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II. ...

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Last Dance (1996)

Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, w ...

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Silent Fall (1994)

Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to probe the silent child about what he saw, but he gets more details about the Wardens' household dynamics ...

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Curse of the Starving Class (1994)

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life. ...

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A Good Man in Africa (1994)

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to ca ...

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Rich in Love (1992)

Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's kindhearted teenage daughter, Lucille, cares for him and tries to cheer him up. Warren slowly starts to recover, an ...

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Black Robe (1991)

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religio ...

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Mister Johnson (1991)

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. ...

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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of r ...

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Her Alibi (1989)

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins ...

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Aria (1987)

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria. ...

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Crimes of the Heart (1986)

Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide. ...

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The Fringe Dwellers (1986)

The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town. ...

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King David (1985)

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David. ...

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Tender Mercies (1983)

Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career. ...

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Puberty Blues (1981)

Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys. ...

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The Club (1980)

The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own care ...

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Breaker Morant (1980)

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. Th ...

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Money Movers (1978)

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house. ...

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The Getting of Wisdom (1977)

Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off b ...

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Don's Party (1976)

On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming ...

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Side by Side (1975)

Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs ...

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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)

Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set o ...

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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Cu ...

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Magritte: The False Mirror (1970)

Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions and anecdotes from his friends Mesens and Scutenaire. ...

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Barbara Hepworth at the Tate (1969)

Dame Barbara Hepworth discusses her work in a voiceover as we see a record of her retrospective exhibition, held at the Tate Gallery in 1968. ...

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King-Size Woman (1965)

A colorful account of Nigeria's brilliantly painted buses with their biblical names, edited to the beat of Nigerian rock and roll. ...

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Movies Starring Bruce Beresford (9)

At the Coliseum Deluxe (2019)

A feature length documentary about Australian popular entertainment across 150 years; of Skating and Dancing, Vaudeville and Moving Pictures. ...

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Not Quite Hollywood (2008)

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow far ...

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The Sounds of Aus (2007)

The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved over two hundred years of colonial and cultural history, and how it is today. ...

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Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’ (2006)

First there was 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', then 'My Brilliant Career', and now best of all 'The Getting of Wisdom'. It is incomparably moving and powerful. ...

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Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen (2003)

Behind the scenes of the making of Driving Miss Daisy (1989) ...

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Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star (2003)

This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this marvelous actress. ...

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The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen (1988)

A follow-up special to ABC's 1987 "The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson." The program includes clips of great stunts, interviews with celebrities and profiles of legendary stuntpeople. ...

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Don's Party (1976)

On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming ...

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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)

Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set o ...

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