Green Card (1990)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Prosky, Gregg Edelman, Ethan Phillips
Director: Peter Weir
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Drama | Mystery
On a drowsy St. Valentine's Day in 1900, a party of girls from a strict boarding school in Australia goes on a day's outing to Hanging Rock, a geological outcropping not far from their school. Three of the girls and one of their teachers disappear into thin air. One of them is found a week or so later, but can remember almost nothing. The others are never found.
Starring: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Anne-Louise Lambert, Jacki Weaver, John Jarratt, Dominic Guard
Director: Peter Weir
Gallipoli (1981)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Robert Grubb, David Argue
Director: Peter Weir
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Drama
Quiet and shy Todd Anderson has just come to the elite preparatory school where his older brother was valedictorian. His roommate, Neil, although bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor John Keating, their unorthodox new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society and encourages them to go against the status quo and seize each day. Each does this in his own way and is changed for life.
Starring: Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd
Director: Peter Weir
The Truman Show (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Really. His quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. All Truman wants to do is find the true love of his life, but for some reason, the whole world seems against him…
Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor
Director: Peter Weir
Witness (1985)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A young Amish boy, visiting Philadelphia with his widowed mother, witnesses a murder. When the detective on the case discovers a police cover up, he realizes his, the boy's and the mother's lives are in jeopardy. He hides out in Amish country, living amongst the community and having to abide by their peaceful customs. Things get more complicated when he falls in love with the young widow. But, soon the idyllic life is shattered when the villains discover his whereabouts.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, josef Sommer, Danny Glover, Alexander Godunov
Director: Peter Weir
Fearless (1993)
Drama
San Francisco architect Max Klein miraculously survives a plane crash and emerges a changed man. When Max's bizarre behavior alienates his wife and son, an airline psychiatrist puts Max in touch with guilt-ridden fellow crash survivor Carla Rodrigo, who lost her 2-year-old in the disaster. Working together, can Max and Carla find their way back to emotional equilibrium?
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, John Turturro, Tom Hulce, Benicio del Toro
Director: Peter Weir
The Last Wave (1977)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of war, slowly realized his own involvement with the aborigines…and their prophecies.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
Director: Peter Weir
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Drama | Romance | War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr
Director: Peter Weir
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Phoenix), "Look around you. It's a toilet." He moves his wife (Helen Mirren) and kids — Charlie, Jerry (Jadrien Steele), April (Hilary Gordon), and Clover (Rebecca Gordon) — to the rain forests of Central America, where he plans to create a new civilization starting with his own nuclear family.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Martha Plimpton, Dick O'Neill
Director: Peter Weir
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy, and ship's doctor Stephen Maturin are on board their ship, the H.M.S. Surprise, when they're suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured, Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he pursues a high-stakes chase across two oceans, to intercept and capture his foe. It's a mission that can make his reputation — or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. In the course of the characters' epic journey, the movie travels the world — from the coast of Brazil to the storm-tossed waters of Cape Horn, south through ice and snow, to the far side of the world, to the remote shores of The Galapagos Islands. Based on author Patrick O'Brian's series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the story is set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Lee Ingleby
Director: Peter Weir
The Way Back (2010)
Adventure | Drama | History
A small group of multi-national prisoners escapes from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and travel in a journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.
Starring: Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Peter Weir
