4 Movies Starring Bruce Spence

20th Century Oz

20th Century Oz

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-09-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (87 Reviews)

Director:

Chris Lèfvèn

Fullplot:

Dorothy is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a rock band when, suddenly, the van is in a road accident, and she hits her head. She wakes up in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as the one she came from and learns she killed a young thug in the process. A gay clothier called the Good Fairy gives her a pair of red shoes as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard, an androgynous rock singer. She is pursed by the thug's brother who attempts to rape her on several occasions. She also meets a dumb surfer, a heartless mechanic, and a cowardly biker.

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-05-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (119955 Reviews)

Director:

George Miller

Cast:

Writer:

Terry Hayes (screenplay)

George Miller (screenplay)

Brian Hannant (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A former Australian policeman now living in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback as a warrior agrees to help a community of survivors living in a gasoline refinery to defend them and their gasoline supplies from evil barbarian warriors.

Where the Green Ants Dream

Where the Green Ants Dream

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-02-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

West Germany, Australia

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1369 Reviews)

Director:

Werner Herzog

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Werner Herzog

Bob Ellis

Fullplot:

The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various "solutions" such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying. Two of the aborigines take off in the plane despite that there is very little fuel left. The mining company wins legally and the aborigines morally. Some aborigines arrives from the mountains and tells about a big winged ant that had fallen from the sky.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-07-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (91633 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Terry Hayes

George Miller

Fullplot:

Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology if no civilization. Max has his supplies stolen and must seek shelter there in a post apocalyptic world where all machines have begun to break down and barbarians hold what is left. He becomes involved in a power struggle in this third Mad Max film where he must first survive the town, survive the desert and then rescue the innocent children he has discovered.

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