The Mistress of Spices (2005)

Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket….

Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences a religious vision at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes.

Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate…

After a lengthy absence, a small-town outlaw returns to his hometown, violently obsessed with the notion that his Mother’s death was not a suicide.

Two cabbies search San Francisco’s Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many…

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an…

Elena is a single mother dependant on Social Services. Her son Tom has behaviour issues and is stigmatised at school as a “problem child”. An absent father further complicates their…

After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise’s daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers…

A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by…

A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.

Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling…