Peter Weir Movies

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.

The Last Wave is a movie starring Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, and David Gulpilil. A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

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.

Witness is a movie starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. When a young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder, policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.

The Mosquito Coast is a movie starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River Phoenix. An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Dead Poets Society is a movie starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, and Ethan Hawke. Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.

Fearless is a movie starring Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, and Rosie Perez. A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

The Way Back is a movie starring Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, and Colin Farrell. Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.

Perhaps all of them without exception, movie fans, the word "Comedy" is associated with Jim Carrey. This consummate actor became a u.s. possession. His characters are iconic and eccentric, his films are classics of the genre. The painting "the Truman Show" is a classic Comedy in...

The Action film "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" occur at the beginning of the 19th century. The plot narrates the Adventures of Captain Jack Aubrey, nicknamed "lucky Jack" and Dr. Stephen Mjetjurina. British naval captain Jack Aubrey gets the important task is to...