Acting
Esme Melville
Born 1918-07-23 · Norwood, South Australia, Australia
Esme Melville (23 July 1918 - 14 September 2006) was an Australian actress.
Acting credits
5.8The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Romulus, My Father
2007
5.4Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Spotswood
1992
NRThe story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
Between Us
1989
NRDee wakes up with a stranger in her bed, while her neighbour Paul is discovering new spice in an old relationship. But when inner city living finds them at closer quarters than they might expect, sensual surprises and unexpected desires are the order of the day.
BARE
2000
3.7A teenage girl has to terms with her family and herself when her mother falls critically ill. She decides to leave school to look after her family, which turns outto be an enormous challenge, as she has to deal with her father’s fanatical religion, her brother’s experimentation with drugs and homosexuality, her desire for the wrong boy, and her younger brother and sister’s inability to cope with the family’s instability.
Mull
1989
6.7In the final film in the Chameleon trilogy, the genetically-engineered agent Kam must thwart the plans of her evil twin brother.
Chameleon 3: Dark Angel
2000
7.5For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the race to break the four-minute mile....
The Four Minute Mile
1988
4.5Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
Alvin Rides Again
1974
3.0Three vampires wander the streets of Melbourne killing, screwing and taking drugs. They decide to carry out a heist, stealing three million and attracting the attention of various psychotics, who chase them through a blood spattered odyssey into the Melbourne underground.
Bloodlust
1992
7.0Following the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is forced to return when he learns his prize stallion is to be run in a race that will break him.
High Country
1984
6.1A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife...
Siam Sunset
1999
5.5This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's. Squizzy romances brash moll Dolly and works for bookie Henry Stokes before branching out on his own while being hounded by the police and courted by the press the whole time.
Squizzy Taylor
1982
5.8Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon entered into the greyhound races. Soon residents are betting on the outcome of the races, and they are given a new reason to live. But the board of trustees learn what is going on, through the disgruntled daughter of one of the residents, and heavily handedly put an end to the fun and games. After the board's intervention the residents sink into a new form of despair as life becomes even duller and more boring than before. That is until the aloof pensioner, played by Ray Barrett, reveals he was once a high profile barrister and challenges the decision in court.
Dalkeith
2001
10.0Genevieve Snow is a piano teacher at a school for girls. Genevieve is lonely. Nigel is lonely too - he telephones people he doesn't know. One day, Nigel calls Genevieve. Nigel wants to talk about wolves and Genevieve seems prepared to listen.
A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow
2000