A-Z Movies

April 2017
A-Z Movies
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone.
A disturbed teenager goes off his
medication, embarks on a crime spree
and becomes convinced that the
world will end in 28 days.
H Doom
ACTION 2005 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ lv)
April 21, 22, 30
Karl Urban, The Rock.
A frantic call for help from a remote
research station on Mars sends a team
of mercenary Marines into action.
Dope
WORLD MOVIES 2015 US
Comedy
April 22
Dir. Rick Famuyiwa, Shameik Moore,
Tony Revolori.
Life changes for Malcolm, a
geek surviving life in a tough
neighbourhood, after a chance
invitation to an underground party
leads him and his friends on a Los
Angeles adventure.
Double Jeopardy
THRILLER 1999 Drama (M lsv)
April 2, 10, 14, 23, 27
Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones.
A woman convicted of killing her
husband finds that not only is he alive,
he framed her for the ‘murder’. She
devises a foolproof plan for deadly
revenge.
Double Teamed
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2002 Family
April 5, 12
Poppi Monroe, Annie McElwain.
Volleyballers Heather and Heidi Burge
become basketball superstars when
their father moves them to a larger
school so they have a better chance at
a scholarship.
Doubt
MASTERPIECE 2008 Drama (M a)
April 18
Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Sister Aloysius believes she’s
uncovered the ultimate sin when she
hears Father Flynn has taken a special
interest in a troubled boy.
Doug’s 1st Movie
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 1999
Animation
April 20, 2
Thomas McHugh, Constance
Shulman.
Doug is an imaginative and quirky
12-year-old, who finds himself caught
between saving the endangered
‘monster’ of Lucky Duck Lake and
his burning desire to take Patti
Mayonnaise to the school dance.
Down To Earth
COMEDY 2001 Comedy (PG)
April 5, 8, 19, 23
Chris Rock, Regina King.
After dying before his time, an aspiring
comic gets a second shot at life when
he is reincarnated as a wealthy, but
unlikeable, businessman.
Downtown
ACTION 1990 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 7, 21
Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker.
A policeman from a rich Philadelphia
suburb is sent to the police version
of purgatory: downtown – the most
brutal and crime-ridden district.
Dragonfly
THRILLER 2002 Mystery/Crime (M a)
April 5, 15, 24, 28
Kevin Costner, Susanna Thompson.
A husband believes that his wife is
trying to contact him from beyond the
grave through her former patients
when they survive near-death
experiences.
Dream House
THRILLER 2011 Thriller/Suspense
(M alv)
April 8, 18, 26
Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz.
Soon after moving into their seemingly
perfect new home, a family learns that
brutal murders took place there. The
horrifying truth is revealed as they
try to piece together the disturbing
puzzle.
Dreamer
FAMILY 2005 Family (PG)
April 9
Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning.
A once great horseman and a talented
horse, whose promising career was
cut short, will be brought together
by a young girl on a quest to win the
Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Dreamgirls
H = PREMIERE
MASTERPIECE 2006 Musical/
Dance (M dl)
April 5, 13, 29
Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson.
Based on the Broadway musical, this
musical drama sees a trio of black
female soul singers cross over to the
pop charts in the early ’60s.
The Dressmaker
MASTERPIECE 2015 Drama (M alsv)
April 2, 8, 14, 26
Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth.
With her glamorous style and sewing
machine in tow, a woman returns to
her remote hometown to set things
right. She soon finds her talent in
transforming the women she left
behind.
The Driftless Area
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (M adlv)
April 3, 10, 15, 20, 30
Anton Yelchin, John Hawkes.
Pierre returns to his hometown after
the death of his parents and falls
under the spell of the enchanting,
mysterious Stella. As their relationship
deepens, Pierre finds himself in a
dangerous situation.
Drive Me Crazy
ROMANCE 1999 Comedy (M l)
April 3, 12, 21, 28
Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier.
Two mismatched teens scheme to
make their exes jealous and wind up
falling in love.
Driving Miss Daisy
MASTERPIECE 1989 Comedy
April 16
Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy.
Chronicles the 25-year friendship
between a stubborn Southern widow
and her loyal black chauffeur.
Duma
FAMILY 2005 Family (PG)
April 5, 19
Alex Michaeletos, Campbell Scott.
Join 12-year-old Xan in this tale of
growing up and letting go as he
decides to return the cheetah he
raised from a cub to the wild instead
of allowing pursuers to place it in
captivity.
Dumb And Dumberer:
When Harry Met Lloyd
COMEDY 2003 Comedy (M as)
April 11, 20, 23, 29
Eric Christian Olsen, Derek
Richardson.
The fellas are in high school and,
although they may be a letter or
two shy of spelling IQ, they’re letterperfect
in foiling the principal.
Dumb Criminals: The
Movie
COMEDY 2015 Comedy (MA 15+ dlns)
April 10
Paul Fenech, Angry Anderson.
Through a series of dumb plans and
hopeless schemes, two dim but kindhearted
criminals attempt to raise
money to help a young girl get the
medical treatment she needs.
Dumbo
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 1941 Family
April 11, 14, 20
Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy.
Supported by Timothy the mouse,
floppy-eared Dumbo soars to fame as
the world’s only flying elephant.
Duplex
COMEDY 2003 Comedy (M sv)
April 26
Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore.
When an elderly tennant pushes
them to the edge of insanity, Alex and
Nancy begin to entertain some truly
sinister solutions to take back their
dream home.
Duplicity
THRILLER 2009 Mystery/Crime (M l)
April 12, 16, 24, 28
Julia Roberts, Clive Owen.
Two sexy spies-turned-corporate
operatives find themselves on either
side of an all-out corporate war even
though they are having an affair.
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Eagle Eye
ACTION 2008 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 2, 15
Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan.
Strangers are ripped from their
ordinary lives and ‘activated’
as sleeper agent in a high-tech
assassination plot.
Eddie The Eagle
PREMIERE 2016 Drama (PG)
April 6, 10, 15, 26
Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman.
Inspired by the true events of Michael
‘Eddie’ Edwards, an unlikely but
courageous British ski-jumper who
won the hearts of fans around the
world at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Edge Of Darkness
FOX CLASSICS 1943 War/‌Western (M v)
April 3, 4
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan.
Resistance fighters battle the Nazis in
occupied Norway.
Edge Of Darkness
THRILLER 2010 Drama (MA 15+ lv)
April 5, 10, 15, 26
Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone.
A vengeful father is embroiled in a farreaching
government cover-up while
on the hunt for his daughter’s killers.
Einstein And Eddington
MASTERPIECE 2010 Drama
April 18, 19, 27
David Tennant, Richard McCabe.
Depicts the unlikely partnership
that developed during World War I
between a young British scientist
named Arthur Eddington and a brilliant
physicist who would soon be a worldrenowned
celebrity, Albert Einstein.
El Dorado
FOX CLASSICS 1966 War/‌Western (PG)
April 3, 4
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.
An ageing gunslinger rides into El
Dorado with the intention of helping
a ruthless cattle baron in his war with
the local farmers.
Ella Enchanted
FAMILY 2004 Family (PG)
April 6, 11, 17, 22, 28
Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy.
Ella’s gift of obedience from her
fairy godmother proves itself to be
quite the curse once Ella falls into in
the hands of several unscrupulous
characters that she quite literally
cannot disobey.
Emma’s Chance
FAMILY 2016 Family
April 5, 9, 29
Greer Grammer, Joey Lawrence.
While volunteering at a horse rescue,
Emma forms an unlikely bond with an
abused horse that won’t let anyone
else ride him.
Emma
ROMANCE 1996 Romance
April 10, 16, 24, 28
Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette.
Emma is a congenial young lady who
delights in meddling in other people’s
affairs but is clueless about her own.
Emmanuelle III
WORLD MOVIES 1977 France
Drama (R 18+ s)
April 21, 22
Dir. François Leterrier, Sylvia Kristel,
Umberto Orsini.
Emmanuelle and her husband engage
in a myriad of extra-marital affairs.
Their arrangement seems to work out
fine, until Emmanuelle’s pursuit of a
seemingly uninterested film director
sparks her husband’s jealousy.
Emmanuelle IV
WORLD MOVIES 1984 France
Drama (R 18+ s)
April 11, 12
Dir. Francis Leroi & Iris Letans, Sylvia
Kristel, Patrick Bauchau.
Emmanuelle decides to go to Brazil
for plastic surgery in order to escape
an ex-lover. She emerges as a blonde
with a new body, and proceeds to
go after the very lover she wanted to
avoid in the first place.
The Emperor’s New
Clothes
MASTERPIECE 2015 Documentary (M l)
April 2, 17
Russell Brand.
An examination of the post-financial
crisis world and the bewildering truth
about how the people at the bottom
are paying for the luxuries of those
at the top.
The Emperor’s New
Groove
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2000 Movies
Animation
April 5, 10, 16, 21, 27
David Spade, John Goodman.
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama
by his ex-administrator Yzma, and
must now regain his throne with the
help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder.
The Emperor’s New
Groove 2
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2005
Animation
April 5, 10, 16, 21, 28
Patrick Warburton, Eartha Kitt.
Kronk’s father Papi believes a man’s
success is measured by three things;
a wife, kids and a big house on the
hill. Kronk doesn’t have any of those
things and dreads the iminent arrival
of his father.
Enchanted
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2007 Family
April 2, 10, 15, 21, 26
Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey.
When a perky fairy-tale princess is
banished to modern-day Manhattan
by an evil queen, she falls in love with
a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer
even though she’s promised to a
prince back home.
The End Of The Tour
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (M ls)
April 24
Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg.
The story of the five-day interview
between Rolling Stone reporter David
Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David
Foster Wallace.
The English Patient
MASTERPIECE 1996 Drama (M alv)
April 19, 25
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche.
This award-winning adaptation of
Michael Ondaatje’s novel is a doomed
and tragic romance set against the
backdrop of World War II.
Entrapment
THRILLER 1999 Action/Adventure
(M lv)
April 11, 16, 21, 27
Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
A master thief and an insurance
investigator form an unlikely
partnership to plot a multi-billion
dollar heist.
Equilibrium
ACTION 2002 Sci‐Fi/Fantasy (M lv)
April 8
Christian Bale, Sean Bean.
In an attempt to end wars and
maintain peace, humankind has
outlawed the things that trigger
emotion: literature, music, and art.
But a top enforcer begins to have
dangerous mixed emotions.
Erin Brockovich
MASTERPIECE 2000 Drama (M al)
April 2, 12, 18, 30
Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart.
A mother who suspects a cover-up
over the poisoning of a town’s water
supply single-handedly takes on a
powerful California power company.
EuroTrip
COMEDY 2004 Comedy (MA 15+ lns)
April 7, 8, 16, 21, 26
Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts.
It’s a crash course in foreign relations
as college-bound Scotty Thomas and
his buddies head to Europe for the
ultimate summer vacation party.
Everest
PREMIERE 2015 Drama (M a)
April 2, 5, 11, 15, 20, 27
Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal.
The true story of four climbers who
attempted the ascent of Mount
Everest, only to be thwarted by terrible
conditions that led to the deaths of
many along the way.
H Everybody Wants
Some!!
PREMIERE 2016 Comedy (MA 15+ dls)
April 22, 23, 26, 28
Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch.
Get ready for the best weekend
ever as a group of friends navigate
their way through the freedoms and
responsibilities of unsupervised
adulthood.
Exit Wounds
ACTION 2001 Action/Adventure
(MA 15+ lv)
April 3, 16
Steven Seagal, Isaiah Washington.
After screwing up during a high-speed
pursuit, a cop is transferred to L.A.’s
most dangerous precinct, where he
comes up against a heroin ring run by
crooked cops.
The Exorcism Of Molly
Hartley
THRILLER 2015 Horror (MA 15+ hsv)
April 26
Sarah Lind, Devon Sawa.
Molly Hartley is all grown up but the
demon inside her lives on. Confined to
a mental hospital, she wreaks havoc
before a defrocked priest tries an
exorcism to save her soul.
The Exorcist
THRILLER 1973 Horror (MA 15+ als)
April 3, 6, 12, 20, 29
Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow.
Two priests administer the rites of
satanic exorcism on a girl possessed
by an evil spirit.
The Exterminating
Angels
WORLD MOVIES 2006 France
Drama (R 18+ s)
April 5, 5, 6
Dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau, Frédéric
van den Driessche, Maroussia
Dubreuil.
A filmmaker seeks actresses who
aren’t afraid to explore their sexuality
for a boundary-pushing film about
female pleasure and transgressing
taboos.
Eye In The Sky
PREMIERE 2015 Thriller/Suspense
(M alv)
April 3, 9, 18, 25, 30
Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul.
When an intelligence officer discovers
the terrorists she is tracking are
planning a deadly suicide attack,
her mission quickly escalates from
capture to kill.
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H Face Down
WORLD MOVIES 2015 Bulgaria
Drama
April 12, 13
Dir. Kamen Kalev, Seher Nebieva,
Melvil Poupaud.
Follows Samy and his struggle through
the Balkan criminal underground.
Samy is caught by the police in France
for smuggling counterfeit money
from Bulgaria. Pressed by ambitious
police investigator he becomes police
informer and is planted undercover
among the Bulgarian mob. While
involved in human trafficking, he falls
in love with Elka (Seher Nebieva), a
prostitute.
The Face Of An Angel
PREMIERE 2014 Drama (MA 15+ dsv)
April 6, 11, 21, 26
Daniel Bruhl, Kate Beckinsale.
A look beyond the salacious headlines
to explore both the media and the
public’s obsession with violent stories,
whether fictional or real, inspired by
the killing of a British student in Italy.
Fado
WORLD MOVIES 2016 Germany
Drama (R 18+ s)
April 30
Dir. Jonas Rothlaender, Golo Euler,
Luise Heyer.
Young doctor Fabian travels to Lisbon
to win back his ex-girlfriend Doro.
Fabian’s jealousy once again puts
their relationship to the test.
Fan Girl
FAMILY 2015 Family (PG)
April 3, 22, 27
Kiernan Shipka, Kara Hayward.
A rocking movie about a music
obsessed teenager who makes a
film about her favourite band, All
Time Low.
Fantasia 2000
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 2000 Family
April 2, 6, 25
James Levine, Steve Martin.
Disney’s mesmerising collection of
animated interpretations of great
works of Western classical music is
revisited.
Fantasia
FOXTEL MOVIES DISNEY 1940 Family
April 6, 21, 25
Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor.
A collection of animated
interpretations of great works of
Western classical music.
Fantastic Four
ACTION 2015 Action/Adventure (M av)
April 11, 14, 20, 24
Miles Teller, Kate Mara.
Four outsiders teleport to an alternate
universe which alters their physical
forms. They must learn to harness
their new abilities to save Earth from a
former friend-turned-enemy.
Fargo
MASTERPIECE 1996 Thriller/Suspense
(MA 15+ vl)
April 9, 15, 28
William H Macy, Frances McDormand.
A very pregnant policewoman leads
an investigation that uncovers a
conspiracy of greed and ineptitude.
The Fast And The
Furious
ACTION 2001 Action/Adventure (M alv)
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April 14, 17
Paul Walker, Vin Diesel.
An undercover cop infiltrates a
street-racing gang led by Dom Toretto,
whose fans treat him like a rock star.
The Fast And The
Furious: Tokyo Drift
ACTION 2006 Action/Adventure (M v)
April 15, 17
Lucas Black, Zachery Bryan.
When a teenage rebel is sent to Japan
to live with his father he is hooked on
the treacherous world of street racing.
Fast Five
ACTION 2011 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 16, 17
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.
The speedsters are off to Brazil
to attempt to defeat a corrupt
businessman who wants them all
wiped out.
Fast & Furious
ACTION 2009 Action/Adventure (M lsv)
April 15, 17
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.
Dom and Brian are back on the streets
where it all began as they blast their
way across Los Angeles and through
the Mexican desert.
Fast & Furious 6
ACTION 2013 Action/Adventure (M lv)
April 16, 17
Paul Walker, Vin Diesel.
Hobbs asks Dom and his elite team for
help in taking down an organization
of lethally skilled drivers. The only
way to stop the criminal mercenaries
from stealing a top secret weapon is to
outmatch them at street level.
Father Goose
FOX CLASSICS 1964 Comedy
April 19, 20
Cary Grant, Leslie Caron.
During WWII, a man who was
persuaded to live on an isolated
island and spot aircraft finds himself
responsible for a teacher and several
students, all female.
Father Of The Bride
COMEDY 1991 Comedy
April 6, 7, 17, 23, 29
Steve Martin, Diane Keaton.
Tickling funnybones and touching
hearts alike, this film is about a
befuddled father who has a hard time
letting go of his young daughter when
she unexpectedly announces her
plans to wed.
Fat Pizza
COMEDY 2003 Comedy (MA 15+ ds)
April 3, 12, 17, 30
Paul Fenech, Paul Nakad.
Based on the cult TV series, this is an
irreverent look at suburban Sydney
take away. Follows the misadventures
of Pauly the pizza delivery guy, his fully
sick mates, and their crazy boss Bobo.
A Few Best Men
COMEDY 2011 Comedy (MA 15+ ad)
April 5, 10, 20, 24
Xavier Samuel, Laura Brent.
When English lad David announces
he is getting married to an Australian,
his hapless mates give a whole new
meaning to the phrase ‘for better
or worse’.
Fight Club
ACTION 1999 Drama (MA 15+ alnsv)
April 5
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt.
A ticking time-bomb insomniac and
a slippery soap salesman channel
primal male aggression into a
shocking form of therapy. Their
concept catches on, with underground
fight clubs forming around town.
The Final Destination
THRILLER 2009 Horror (MA 15+ hsv)
April 2, 15, 22
Nick Zano, Richard T Jones.
A strange premonition causes friends
to abandon their day at the speedway,
cheating death in a fiery pile-up.
Final Destination
THRILLER 2000 Horror (MA 15+ hl)
April 14, 29
Devon Sawa, Ali Larter.
A group thinks they have cheated
death by getting off a doomed plane
after one of them had a premonition.
But they soon begin dying one-by-one
in mysterious freak accidents.
Final Destination 2
THRILLER 2003 Horror (MA 15+ v)
April 14
AJ Cook, Michael Landes.
When Kimberly has a violent
premonition of a highway pile-up,
she blocks the freeway. However,