Australia Is Far Away

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Richard Eyre

Cast

Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko

Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Robert Zemeckis

Cast

Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Chris Noth

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as b...

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

George Miller

Cast

Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Lasse Hallström

Cast

Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén