AustLit

'There is nothing on earth like an Australian Bachelors and Spinsters Ball, hundreds of Ute's invade the outback for a weekend of fishtails and spin-outs. Spin Out finds two best mates, Lucy and Billy, going in circles - very fast - It can't last. They've got one night to wake up to their love or they'll be lost for life.' (Production summary)

Two men stumble into an army base in the middle of the desert. While most of the Australian and American troops are out on manoeuvres, the base is guarded by a single, disenchanted soldier. Learning that the men are seeking a forgotten fortune in gold bars, hidden under the base after World War II, she throws her lot in with them, rather than face her coming court martial. But one of the men has his own agenda.

A short-lived sit-com set in a fictional high school, Carpen Heights Secondary College, Sit Down, Shut Up focused on the lives of the teachers.

It was later adapted as an equally short-lived animated series in the United States.

For a full list of episodes, see Film Details.

'Policemen Robin Decker and John Little begin to realize that they are probably the only two honest cops left in the force. The corruption goes all the way to the top. Decker comes up with a plan while Little becomes increasingly concerned for their safety as they begin to turn up the heat and shake the tree.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 28/1/2014)

A Vietnam veteran takes a cafe owner hostage on the eve of the Gulf War.

An avant-garde painter steals a Picasso from a local gallery to protest extravagant spending, but finds herself caught up in a complicated double cross.

Virginia York's husband is killed on the first day of their honeymoon, and she is the prime suspect.

'When Kostas Stephanidis came to this country 23 years ago with 20 pounds in his pocket, one suitcase and his father's pants, he opened a small Greek café, Acropolis, where old men played cards and drank coffee. Now he has decided to retreat to an idyllic lifestyle in the Greek islands, leaving his one and only son, Jim, to uphold the café and family tradition. After careful thought, however, rather than entrust his beloved Acropolis café to his only son, Jim, Kostas insists on putting someone more sensible in charge. Jim's pal, Ricky, he has brains - he's been a college student! Amid cultures clashing - and crockery smashing - Jim and Ricky generate riches all right. But strictly in the form of laughs. The key writers of "Acropolis Now" are also in the cast. Nick Giannopolis, George Kapiniaris and Simon Palomares. The unique trio who were responsible for having staged Australia's longest running stage comedy, "Wogs Out Of Work".'

Source: http://www.australiantelevision.net/acropolis_now/index.html Sighted 04/07/12

'Set in the outback, the film explores a series of interpersonal relationships as an Italian immigrant and an Australian put aside their cultural differences to search for a runaway girl.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 23/1/2014)