Ride Like a Girl (2019)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Starring: Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill, Brooke Satchwell, Sullivan Stapleton, Magda Szubanski
Director: Rachel Griffiths
Palm Beach (2019)
Comedy | Drama
Lifelong friends reunite for a party at Sydney's Palm Beach.
Starring: Bryan Brown, Richard E. Grant, Aaron Jeffery, Jacqueline McKenzie, Heather Mitchell, Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, Claire van der Boom
Director: Rachel Ward
Sweet Country (2017)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller | Western
Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Starring: Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, Thomas M. Wright, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie
Director: Warwick Thornton
Gelibolu / Gallipoli (2005)
Documentary | War
Gallipoli (Turkish title Gelibolu) is a 2005 film by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek. It is a documentary about the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, narrated by both sides, the Turks on one side and the British soldiers and Anzacs (soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the other side.
Starring: Sam Neill, Zafer Ergin, Demetri Goritsas, Jeremy Irons
Director: Tolga Örnek
The Commuter (2018)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Banks, Andy Nyman
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Ivanhoe (1982)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England. Will justice prevail and will all fair ladies in distress be rescued?
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern, Olivia Hussey, James Mason
Director: Douglas Camfield
Tommy's Honour (2016)
Biography | Drama | Romance | Sport
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honour – an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Starring: Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Neill, Peter Mullan, Jack Lowden, Max Deacon, Peter Ferdinando
Director: Jason Connery
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The Daughter (2015)
Drama
The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Nicholas Hope, Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Anna Torv, Odessa Young, Miranda Otto
Director: Simon Stone
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Starring: Sam Neill, Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House
Director: Taika Waititi
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Backtrack (2015)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Psychologist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Robin McLeavy, Bruce Spence, Jenni Baird, Anna Lise Phillips, Chloe Bayliss
Director: Michael Petroni
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
Fantasy | Horror
Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold miners. It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis, Brian Glover, David Conrad
Director: Michael Cohn
Peaky Blinders (TV Series 2013- )
Drama
A British ganagster saga set in 1919 post-war Birmingham. Cillian Murphy is Thomas Shelby, leader of the most feared and powerful local gang, the Peaky Blinders. Named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, they make money from illegal betting, protection and the black market. But when a crate of guns goes missing from an arms factory, their battle-hardened leader recognizes an opportunity to move up in the world.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Sam Neill, Joe Cole, Eric Campbell, Tony Pitts, Ned Dennehy, Ian Peck, Annabelle Wallis, Jeffrey Postlethwaite, Matthew Postlethwaite, Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Creator: Steven Knight
Sirens (1993)
Comedy | Drama
It is 1930s Australia and debonair, forward-thinking young clergyman, Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant) has arrived from England with his wife Estella (Tara Fitzgerald) to find a scandal brewing. Notorious bohemian Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) is exhibiting a picture that has outraged the church establishment and the Bishop of Sydney prevails on Anthony to visit the painter and negotiate its withdrawal. The couple travel to the beautiful Blue Mountains and spend several days with the Lindsay family and three free-spirited models (Elle MacPherson, Kate Fischer and Portia De Rossi) who are posing for a nude painting of the legendary Sirens. As Anthony debates with Norman, he is shocked to realise his wife is being drawn into the seductive games of the three sirens and soon fears his very marriage is under threat.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi
Director: John Duigan
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Biography | Drama | Romance
As she comes of age in 19th-century Australia, the beautiful and headstrong Sybylla Melvyn stuns her family and friends by deciding to become a writer despite the restrictive Victorian environment in which they live. To pursue her ambitious dream, she rejects an enticing proposal from a handsome, wealthy, and persistent suitor, fearing the match might stifle her creativity.
Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Robert Grubb, Julia Blake, David Franklin
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Dean Spanley / My Talks with Dean Spanley (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Each Thursday, a man approaching middle age calls upon his father, aged, caustic, nihilistic, and emotionally distant, perhaps from the loss of a son in the Boar War and his wife soon after. On this day, the son suggests they attend a visiting guru's lecture on the transmigration of souls. There they chat with a vicar and a soldier of fortune; dinner follows. Over glasses of Hungarian Tokay, the vicar, Dean Spanley, tells a story of friendship, freedom, and reincarnation. In what earthly way could this tale connect father and son?
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole, Art Malik, Ramon Tikaram
Director: Toa Fraser
Daybreakers (2009)
Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
With the world overrun by vampires, humanity is dying out and the blood supply is nearly depleted.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
United Passions / F2014 / United Passions: La Légende du Football (2014)
Drama
Once football was all about small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front. Passion, fun, enjoyment. This is the story of the men who took football from that and changed it. A group of wholly honest and deeply ethical men who had a dream and, to achieve that dream, established the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Driven by their determination to lead football into a brighter, bigger future, the trustworthy and wholly honest Sepp Blatter, Jules Rimet, and Joao Havelange overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make FIFA and the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga will tell the story of how an organization currently mired in entirely unsubstantiated accusations of scandal and corruption started their journey to that destination.
Starring: Tim Roth, Sam Neill, Thomas Kretschmann, Fisher Stevens, Gérard Depardieu, Jemima West, Serge Hazanavicius
Director: Frédéric Auburtin
Escape Plan (2013)
Action | Mystery | Thriller
Ray Breslin, the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb." But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jim Caviezel, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill
Director: Mikael Håfström
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Ancient mysteries. Powerful evil. And a fearless hero's quest through a fantastical realm of steam-powered wonders and sinister magic… In THE ADVENTURER: THE CURSE OF THE MIDAS BOX, seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth – but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box!
Starring: Michael Sheen, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, Ioan Gruffudd, Aneurin Barnard, Keeley Hawes, Tristan Gemmill
Director: Jonathan Newman
Escape Plan (2013)
Action | Mystery | Thriller
Ray Breslin, the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb." But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jim Caviezel, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill
Director: Mikael Håfström
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