Silent Fall (1994)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Hamilton, John Lithgow, Liv Tyler, J.T. Walsh, Ben Faulkner, Zahn McClarnon
Director: Bruce Beresford
Ladies in Black (2018)
Comedy | Drama
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.
Starring: Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor, Ryan Corr, Alison McGirr, Shane Jacobson, Noni Hazlehurst, Susie Porter, Vincent Perez
Director: Bruce Beresford
Mr. Church (2016)
Drama
"Mr. Church" tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook – Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans fifteen years, and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Lucy Fry, Natascha McElhone, Xavier Samuel, Mckenna Grace
Director: Bruce Beresford
Mister Johnson (1990)
Drama
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. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.
Starring: Maynard Eziashi, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Beatie Edney, Denis Quilley, Nick Reding
Director: Bruce Beresford
King David (1985)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
Starring: Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige, Denis Quilley, Niall Buggy, Cherie Lunghi
Director: Bruce Beresford
Evelyn (2002)
Drama
Based on real-life events, this drama follows the story of Desmond Doyle, whose wife has left him and whose three children — Evelyn, Maurice and Dermot — are taken from him and placed in orphanages. Authorities deem Doyle's dire financial straights unacceptable for raising children, and the unemployed father vows to reunite his family. But he faces the judgment of the Irish Supreme Court.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea, John Lynch, Sophie Vavasseur
Director: Bruce Beresford
Black Robe (1991)
Adventure | Drama | History | Western
A 17th century Jesuit priest and his young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Algonquin chief's beautiful daughter. Dread and death follows them upriver.
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg, Tantoo Cardinal
Director: Bruce Beresford
Her Alibi (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance
Mystery novelist Phillip Blackwood has writer's block. He hits the courtrooms for inspiration–and is zapped with a doozy. A mysterious Romanian beauty arraigned for murder arouses both his creative and amorous impulses.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Victor Argo, Tess Harper, Bill Smitrovich, Joan Copeland, Ossie Davis
Director: Bruce Beresford
Bonnie and Clyde: Dead and Alive / Bonnie and Clyde (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, Lane Garrison, Dale Dickey, Austin Hébert, Jack Thompson, Holly Hunter, William Hurt
Director: Bruce Beresford
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
Starring: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish, Jay Brazeau, John Maclaren
Director: Bruce Beresford
Last Dance (1996)
Drama | Thriller
Convicted killer Cindy Liggett has been sitting on death row for twelve years. Now, after numerous appeals and stays, Cindy is ready to face the inevitable. But a new hire from the Clemency Board becomes convinced that errors in Cindy's original trial led to an unjust sentence.
Starring: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher, Jack Thompson
Director: Bruce Beresford
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
Comedy | Drama
An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chace Crawford
Director: Bruce Beresford
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Comedy | Drama
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Bruce Beresford
Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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…
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Greenwood, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull
Director: Bruce Beresford
