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1. Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Will Smith, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen
Votes: 22,583 | Gross: $6.41M
2. Fierce Creatures (1997)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy
Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors.
Directors: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 25,646 | Gross: $9.38M
3. Iceman (1984)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A prehistoric Neanderthal man found frozen in ice is revived by an arctic exploration team, who then attempt to use him for their own scientific means.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer
Votes: 6,069 | Gross: $7.34M
4. Roxanne (1987)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall
Votes: 47,717 | Gross: $40.05M
5. The Russia House (1990)
R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox
Votes: 17,557 | Gross: $23.00M
6. A Cry in the Dark (1988)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves, David Hoflin
Votes: 11,207 | Gross: $6.91M
7. Empire Falls (2005)
TV-14 | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A decaying New England town is the backdrop for its unique citizens, led by unassuming restaurant manager Miles Roby.
Stars: Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman
Votes: 6,339
8. Mr. Baseball (1992)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Jack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Aya Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert
Votes: 12,191 | Gross: $20.88M
9. I.Q. (1994)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from him and his friends.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi
Votes: 26,644 | Gross: $26.37M
10. It Runs in the Family (2003)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Rory Culkin
Votes: 5,243 | Gross: $7.38M
11. Irresistible (2006)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Votes: 6,633
12. Words and Pictures (2013)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman
Votes: 11,417 | Gross: $2.17M
13. The Devil's Playground (1976)
107 min | Drama
Fred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate
Votes: 1,316
14. Plenty (1985)
R | 121 min | Drama
A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, André Maranne, Charles Dance
Votes: 3,393 | Gross: $6.15M
15. Last Orders (2001)
R | 109 min | Drama
A group of old friends reminisce about their lives over the years after the death of one of their crew.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings
Votes: 6,738 | Gross: $2.33M
16. Barbarosa (1982)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An inexperienced farm boy hooks up with a legendary outlaw in Mexico and both are soon on the run from the law, Mexican bandits, and two families bent on revenge.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 2,076 | Gross: $1.74M
17. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
R | 103 min | Documentary, History
The story of the Australian exploitation genre cinema of 1970s and 80s.
Director: Mark Hartley | Stars: Phillip Adams, Glory Annen, Christine Amor, Victoria Anoux
Votes: 4,689 | Gross: $0.02M
18. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor, Ray Barrett
Votes: 2,535
19. Levity (2003)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama
After two decades in prison for murder, a man is released on parole and returns to his hometown seeking redemption.
Director: Ed Solomon | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter
Votes: 6,722 | Gross: $0.21M
20. The South Bank Show (1978– )
53 min | Documentary
ITV's long-running arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg.
Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Ian McKellen, David Hockney, Victoria Wood
Votes: 216
21. Dogs in Space (1986)
R | 103 min | Drama
Two man are the key members of a band called 'Dogs in Space' and share a house in a Melbourne suburb with a variety of young music fans and social misfits, including a college student and a transient and apparently nameless teenage girl.
Director: Richard Lowenstein | Stars: Michael Hutchence, Saskia Post, Nique Needles, Deanna Bond
Votes: 1,375
22. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 293
23. The Eye of the Storm (2011)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Maria Theodorakis, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Timony
Votes: 1,703 | Gross: $0.08M
24. That Eye, the Sky (1994)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy
Ort Flack is 12 years old and lives with his mother and his sister Tegwyn in the Australian outback. The three of them also have to take care of their old grandma and their paralyzed father... See full summary »
Director: John Ruane | Stars: Peter Coyote, Lisa Harrow, Amanda Douge, Mark Fairall
Votes: 110
25. Libido (1973)
117 min | Drama
Explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
Directors: David Baker, Tim Burstall, John B. Murray, Fred Schepisi | Stars: Elke Neidhart, Bryon Williams, Mark Albiston, John Williams
Votes: 104
26. Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story (2020– )
90 min | Documentary
Lindy Chamberlain's story has figured in Australia's collective conscious since 1980, when a dingo took her defenceless baby in a random horrific attack. But it quickly became much more ... See full summary »
Stars: Sam Neill, Fred Schepisi, Lindy Chamberlain Creighton, John Bryson
Votes: 133
27. The Dimona Affair
Drama, Mystery | Pre-production
In the mid-1980s, The Sunday Times of London published an extraordinary article that revealed to the world startling information about Israel's most closely guarded secret.
Director: Fred Schepisi
28. Boys from the Bush (1991–1992)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Adventures of a British detective, Reg Toomer and his Australian partner Dennis Tontine
Stars: Tim Healy, Chris Haywood, Mark Haddigan, Nadine Garner
Votes: 49
29. The Mike Walsh Show (1969–1984)
120 min | Music, Talk-Show
Daytime variety show, featuring music and interviews with special guests and celebrities from Australia and around the world.
Stars: Mike Walsh, Geoff Harvey, Jim Berinson, Mike Williams
Votes: 18
30. The Drowsy Chaperone
Comedy, Musical | Announced
A show-within-a-show send-up of American musical comedies from the 1920s.
Director: Fred Schepisi
31. Burnt Piano
Drama | Pre-production
A woman travels to Paris in search of Samuel Beckett.
Director: Fred Schepisi
32. The Naked Bunyip (1970)
Not Rated | 136 min | Comedy, Documentary
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs ... See full summary »
Director: John B. Murray | Stars: Graeme Blundell, Barry Humphries, Gordon Rumph, James R. Ball
Votes: 76
33. Antibody Heat
Comedy | Filming
ANTIBODY HEAT is a Manhattan romantic pandemicomedy series. It's a time capsule of the waves of madness that kept belting New Yorkers during the spring of 2020
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Deborra-Lee Furness, Garrett Morris, Fred Schepisi
34. David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (2017)
97 min | Documentary
For most people, movies are entertainment. For one man, they're a way of life.
Stars: David Stratton, Jill Bilcock, Jacki Weaver, P.J. Hogan
Votes: 159
35. Mallboy (2000)
84 min | Drama
The world of 14 year old Shaun revolves around his broken family home, and a group of truant friends who inhabit Melbourne's northern suburb shopping centres. As he tries to make the ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Giarrusso | Stars: Kane McNay, Nell Feeney, Brett Swain, Maxie Rickard
Votes: 137
36. Retro Report (2013– )
News
Stars: Zachary Green, Debbie Nathan, Desmond Upton Patton, Rock Brynner
Votes: 20
37. The Fat (2000–2003)
60 min | Comedy
Stars: Tony Squires, Rebecca Wilson, Sam Kekovich, Mikey Robins
Votes: 18
38. Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (2017)
78 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary about internationally renowned film editor Jill Bilcock, that charts how an outspoken arts student in 1960s Melbourne became one of the world's most acclaimed film artists.
Director: Axel Grigor | Stars: Jill Bilcock, Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Schepisi
Votes: 112
39. Say I Do (2003)
Ben and Sydney set out to have the perfect wedding. They just never planned on it being by the side of the road. A film about the journey to happily-ever-after and the detours along the way... See full summary »
Director: Ron Vignone | Stars: David Bel Ayche, Samuel Bliss Cooper, Don O. Knowlton, Benjamin Koldyke
Votes: 39
40. A Hundred-Odd Years from Now (1968)
20 min | Short
About a strange computerized future where women "run things" by controlling huge colourful computers that go bleep booble bob bob ping etc, comes Yockoo, the boy from the bush, with his ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Ian Bremmer, Suzy Kendall, Walter Slezak, Will Timmerman
Votes: 7
41. Bogart (1985–2002)
News, Talk-Show
Ole Michelsen reviews upcoming movies and discuss current movements in the film industry with international and national actors, directors and producers.
Stars: Ole Michelsen, Carole Bouquet, Alan Parker, Nicolas Roeg
Votes: 39
42. ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
Kirk and Michael Douglas review their personal and professional lives, while showing their complex feelings toward each other.
Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Kofi Annan, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Carter, Glenn Close
Votes: 169
43. The World According to Sesame Street (2006)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary
A documentary which examines the creation and co-production of the popular children's television program in three developing countries: Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa.
Directors: Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Linda Hawkins | Star: Edward G. Christie
Votes: 151
44. Bravo Profiles (1998–2004)
Documentary, Biography
Bravo network TV series that profiles creative artists in many fields.
Stars: Tony Roberts, Norman Jewison, Michael Musto, Brad Pitt
Votes: 37
45. The Celluloid Heroes (1995)
55 min | Documentary
Film Australia presents a four part miniseries celebrating the centenary of Australia's film industry 1895-1995.
Stars: Phillip Adams, Ilma Adey, Jenny Agutter, Elizabeth Alexander
Votes: 20
46. 1st AACTA Awards (2012 TV Special)
News
The story of the inaugural Samsung AACTA Awards began in August 2011 when the Australian Film Institute (AFI) launched the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) and a new... See full synopsis »
Director: Simon Francis | Stars: Andros Achilleos, Alice Addison, Woody Allen, Anne Archer
Votes: 37
47. Last Man (I)
Drama, War | Announced
A five-man team of Australian special forces troops are stuck behind enemy lines in the waning days of the Vietnam war.
Director: Fred Schepisi
48. Right Said Fred: Fred Schepisi Film Director (1993 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary, Biography
A profile of the highly regarded Australian Film Director, Fred Schepisi whose films include 'Devil's Playground', 'The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith', 'Evil Angels', 'Roxanne', The Russia House' and 'Plenty'.
Director: Don Featherstone | Stars: Stockard Channing, Fred Schepisi, Meryl Streep, Andrea Stretton
49. Australian Movies to the World (1983 TV Movie)
110 min
Directors: Gordon Glenn, Scott Murray | Stars: Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, Mel Gibson, Rex Reed
50. Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing (2017 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
This documentary focuses of the life and artistry of one of the world's most celebrated film editors. Academy Award nominated, Jill Bilcock is best known for her work on Strictly Ballroom, ... See full summary »
Director: Axel Grigor | Stars: Jill Bilcock, Cate Blanchett, Richard Lowenstein, Shekhar Kapur