John Hargreaves

On the night of the 1969 Australian election, Don holds a party in his suburban Sydney house, where his raucous, rude, embarrassing, extrovert friends discuss sex, politics, and their lives, and seduce each others wives (imdb)

Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. (imdb)

This amusing story follows the successful lives and careers of screenwriter Colin, and his charming publisher wife, Kate, who have moved to Sydney and who encounter a world of hustlers, opportunists and cynics. (Lovefilm.com)

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, moves in to help pay the bills. Malcolm, with Franks help, turns to a life of crime. (imdb)

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s. (imdb)

LONG WEEKEND centres on a couple who are at a bad point in their relationship - constant bickering, arguing, fighting. A chance to get away camping over a long weekend is surely the cure to their problems? No. It just adds to them. The movie cleverley uses the surrounding elements to create a very eery atmosphere. The tension slowly builds to a climax that you will never see coming. (Amazon.com, customer review by William)

Family jealousies. His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lily and Uncle George. (imdb)

It's Australia's greatest con...but can he bluff them all? (imdb)

Two adrenaline junkies Rod and Steve (Grant Page, John Hargreaves) accept a suicide mission from the Australian secret service's Mr Culpepper (Noel Ferrier) to infiltrate and destroy the fortress of a notorious Filipino racketeer, Agostino Fernandez. But first, they have to complete some training ... (Urban Cinefile)

When thriving lawyer Linda (Carrie Fisher) divorces her husband, John (John Sessions), he sues her for alimony. The judge rules that the agreement written on a balloon years ago stating she would always support him if he put her through law school is valid -- unless he remarries. Determined to get out of the payments, Linda hires an actress (Rosanna Arquette) to seduce John, instructing her on tactics to draw him into marriage.

In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam. (imdb)

This compelling adaptation of David Williamson's influential play stars John Hargreaves (Don's Party) and Peter Cummins (Storm Boy) as good and bad cops who assist a battered wife (Jacki Weaver) as she tries to escape her belligerent husband. (umbrellaent.com.au)

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous murder cases in New Zealand history. Did Arthur Thomas kill Jeannette and Harvey Crewe at their Pukekawa farm house? Arthur was sure that trusting the police and co-operating fully would prove his innocence. The police held a very different view of this simple farmer. (imdb)

Uncle Jack has been working the farm under the hot Australian sun for half a lifetime, in order to send a check every month to London. The money helps support Alexander, the husband of Jack's late sister, who works as a drama critic. The sacred family belief is that Alex is a literary genius, and this belief is shared even by Sally, Alex's daughter, who has been left behind all these years on the farm. Now, at 62, Alexander is returning to live in Australia. (Roger Ebert)

Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real-life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen. (imdb)

Young Marie Sklodowska's ambitions extend beyond the borders of her native Poland. In Warsaw, women were banned from entering university. (justwatch)