Oedipus Mayor

Death Takes a Holiday

October 1971 •English

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

The Wild Duck

March 1984 •English

Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

October 1972 •German

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

Strictly Ballroom

August 1992 •English

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

And a Nightingale Sang

April 1989 •English

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

Lo azul del cielo

January 2013 •Spanish

Elinan surma

September 1938 •Finnish

Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.

Hamlet

December 1990 •English

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Macbeth

December 1971 •English

Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.

The Madness of King George

December 1994 •English

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.

Memories of Murder

May 2003 •Korean

During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.

Nora Helmer's Final Scene in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

March 1980 •Italian

Adaptation of the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.

Shadowlands

December 1993 •English

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

Death and the Maiden

May 1994 •English

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Hamlet

December 1996 •English

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Praying Mantis

January 1982 •English

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.

Cyrano de Bergerac

March 1990 •French

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

A Man of Principle

September 1984 •Spanish

Dramatisation of the massacre which took place in Colombia in 1948, as a result of conflict between conservative and liberal forces, and concentrating on the character of a former cheesemonger-turned professional killer.

Henry V

October 1989 •English

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Steel Magnolias

November 1989 •English

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.