Phillip Noyce
1) Fast Charlie
Author
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Charlie Swift is a fixer with a problem: the target he's whacked is missing his head and the only way Charlie will be paid is if the body can be identified. Enter Marcie Kramer, the victim's ex-wife and a woman with all the skills Charlie needs.
2) The Giver
Author
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
4) The Saint
Author
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel set at the beginning of the United States' disastrous entanglement in Southeast Asia, idealism, love and betrayal lead to murder for THE QUIET AMERICAN.American Alden Pyle (Brandon Fraser--Crash) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, the decisive moment in the struggle by the Vietnamese to free themselves from the French yoke. Eager to succeed in his mission to help the Vietnamese people through...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society, young Molly Craig decides to lead her little sister and cousin in a daring escape from their internment camp. Molly and the girls embark on a dangerous 1,500-mile adventure along the rabbit-proof fence that bisects the continent to lead them home. Rabbit-Proof Fence captures their universally touching plight and...
11) Above suspicion
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A newly married FBI agent is drawn into an illicit affair with his star informant, resulting in a scandal that endangers all his investigations.
12) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks / Lionsgater
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
13) Dead calm
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
15) Salt
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
Author
Language
English
Description
A stylish political thriller where love and war collide. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As a war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion and betrayal where nothing is as it seems! Based on the classic novel by Graham Greene.
Author
Language
English
Description
Molly, Daisy, and Gracie are aboriginal children from Western Australia. In 1931, they are taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution where they are taught to re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australia. Molly plans a daring escape, and the three girls begin an epic journey back to their families, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water.
