Peter Weir — Director (18)
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Incredible Floridas (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Incredible Floridas
director: Peter Weir actor: Richard Meale
This short film documents Australian composer Richard Meale’s homage to the young French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Meale composed a music piece for woodwind, percussion and strings which he titled “Incredible Floridas."
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Homesdale (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Homesdale
director: Peter Weir actor: Geoff Malone / Grahame Bond …
other title: 霍姆斯塔尔 / 霍姆斯塔爾
At a remote guest house known as Homesdale, a group of visitors find themselves subjected to strange rituals, psychological games, and increasingly cruel entertainments devised by the lodge’s staff. As the weekend unfolds, the tensions and obsessions each guest has brought with them begin to surface.
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The Plumber (1979) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Plumber
director: 彼得·威尔 actor: Judy Morris / 伊瓦·坎特斯 …
other title: 管子工 / 水管匠 …
A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.
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The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Year of Living Dangerously
director: 彼得·威尔 actor: 梅尔·吉布森 / 西格妮·韦弗 …
other title: 危险年代 / 灾难岁月 …
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
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The Last Wave (1977) [Movie]
The Last Wave
7.0 (5 ratings) director: Peter Weir actor: 理查德·查伯兰 / Olivia Hamnett …
other title: 最后大浪 / 终浪 …
Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the Aboriginal people and their prophecies.
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The Mosquito Coast (1986) [Movie]
The Mosquito Coast
6.8 (17 ratings) director: Peter Weir actor: Harrison Ford / Helen Mirren …
other title: 蚊子海岸 / 文明之旅 …
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
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Gallipoli (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Gallipoli
7.9 (8 ratings) director: 彼得·威尔 actor: Charles Lathalu Yunipingli / Bill Kerr …
other title: 加里波利 / 战火危城 …
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
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Green Card (1990) [Movie]
Green Card
6.8 (27 ratings) director: Peter Weir actor: Gérard Depardieu / 安迪·麦克道威尔 …
other title: 绿卡 / 绿卡情缘 …
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.
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Witness (1985) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Witness
6.9 (29 ratings) director: 彼得·威尔 actor: 哈里森·福特 / 凯莉·麦吉利斯 …
other title: 证人 / 目击者 …
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit, and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) [Movie]
Picnic at Hanging Rock
7.6 (115 ratings) director: 彼得·威尔 actor: 瑞秋·罗伯茨 / 威文·格雷 …
other title: 행잉록에서의 소풍 / ピクニックatハンギング・ロック …
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
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The Truman Show (1998) [Movie]
The Truman Show
9.2 (2814 ratings) director: 彼得·威尔 actor: 金·凯瑞 / 劳拉·琳妮 …
other title: 楚门的世界 / 真人Show(港) …
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.