The best John Howard’s drama movies

John Howard

John Howard

22/10/1952 (71 años)
Today we present the best John Howard’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best John Howard’s movies.
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Evil Angels

Evil Angels
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/11/1988
  • Character: Lyle Morris
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

Capone

Capone
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1975
  • Character: Warden J. Johnston
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.

Jindabyne

Jindabyne
6.3/10
Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. The story of a murder and a marriage - a film about the things that haunt us.

Japanese Story

Japanese Story
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/08/2003
  • Character: Richards
Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.

Last Cab to Darwin

Last Cab to Darwin
7.2/10
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.

Bush Christmas

Bush Christmas
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 12/12/1983
  • Character: Sly
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.

In a Savage Land

In a Savage Land
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/10/1999
  • Character: Rev Macgregor
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.

The Highest Honour

The Highest Honour
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/05/1982
  • Character: Captain R. C. Page
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

Blackrock

Blackrock
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1997
  • Character: Len Kirby
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

The Merger

The Merger
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/08/2018
  • Character: Bull Barlow
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.

The Club

The Club
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/09/1980
  • Character: Geoff Hayward
Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.

Strikebound

Strikebound
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 20/09/1984
  • Character: Bashed Scab
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization."

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