Direction: John Duigan

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Duigan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Year My Voice Broke

1987 · Movie · 105 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Noah Taylor · Loene Carmen · Ben Mendelsohn · Graeme Blundell

Synopsis During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that...

6.8

49 votes

6.8

49 votes

Lawn Dogs

1997 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Duigan

Cast Sam Rockwell · Kathleen Quinlan · Mischa Barton · Bruce McGill

Synopsis Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn't quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate's lawns, rather than of the girls her own age....

6.6

816 votes

6.6

816 votes

Romero

1989 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John Duigan

Cast Raul Julia · Richard Jordan · Ana Alicia · Eddie Velez

Synopsis The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

6.3

537 votes

6.3

537 votes

Flirting

1991 · Movie · 96 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Noah Taylor · Thandie Newton · Nicole Kidman · Josh Picker

Synopsis Australia. It's the 60s. Danny Embling (Taylor) is your typical outcast at a sports-dominated private school for boys. Into his life comes the daughter of a Ugandan diplomat, Thandiwe (Newton). She's studying at a private school for girls that just...

6.2

320 votes

6.2

320 votes

The Journey of August King

1995 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Duigan

Cast Jason Patric · Thandie Newton · Sam Waterston · Larry Drake

Synopsis The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in April 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

Head in the Clouds

2004 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Duigan

Cast Charlize Theron · Penélope Cruz · Stuart Townsend · Thomas Kretschmann

Synopsis A sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic...

5.3

2K votes

5.3

2K votes

Molly

1999 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Duigan

Cast Elisabeth Shue · Aaron Eckhart · Jill Hennessy · Thomas Jane

Synopsis A man's autistic sister is released from an institution into his care. He allows her to undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results. It transforms her into a genius.

5.1

129 votes

5.1

129 votes

The Parole Officer

2002 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

4.9

360 votes

4.9

360 votes

4.8

165 votes

Sirens

1993 · Movie · 94 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Hugh Grant · Sam Neill · Tara Fitzgerald · Elle MacPherson

Synopsis When a young English minister (Hugh Grant) takes an Australian parish, his first assignment is to dissuade a local painter (Sam Neill) from showing a provocative painting. He and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit the artists home only to be...

4.6

2K votes

4.6

2K votes

Wide Sargasso Sea

1993 · Movie · 98 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Karina Lombard · Nathaniel Parker · Rachel Ward · Michael York

Synopsis A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and...

4.5

28 votes

4.5

28 votes

Paranoid

2000 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Duigan

Cast Jessica Alba · Iain Glen · Jeanne Tripplehorn · Ewen Bremner

Synopsis A psychological thriller in the vein of great mind trips like "Rosemary's Baby", "Paranoid" is a terrifying look into the blurry line between the real and the imagined. When a gorgeous model (Jessica Alba) vacations on a secluded country estate...

3.4

290 votes

3.4

290 votes

Careless Love

2012 · Movie · 105 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Nammi Le · Peter O'Brien · Andrew Hazzard · David Field

Synopsis CARELESS LOVE tells the story of Linh, a Vietnamese Australian university student who secretly starts part-time work as an escort. She develops a close rapport with one of her clients, an enigmatic American art dealer, who books her on a...

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Room to Move (TV)

1987 · Movie · 49 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Nicole Kidman · Alyssa-Jane Cook · Terence Donovan

Synopsis Two teens become quite close when their parents refuse to listen.

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Winners (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 50 min. · Australia

Direction Geoff Bennett · Paul Cox · John Duigan · William Fitzwater

Cast David Argue · Mercia Deane-Johns · Esben Storm · Sherie Graham

Synopsis A collection of different stories studying how humans react and emote with each other.

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Direction John Duigan

Cast Nicholas Eadie · Anne Tenney · Huw Williams · Steve Jodrell

Synopsis The life story of Damien Parer, the acclaimed World War II photographer, who spent most of the war on the frontline.

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Mouth to Mouth

1978 · Movie · 96 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Kim Krejus · Sonia Peat · Ian Gilmour · Serge Frazzetto

Synopsis An edgy urban drama, Mouth to Mouth follows the lives of four young people, desperate to carve out a better existence in a harsh and unforgiving world. Embittered by their current living situation and general lack of opportunity, Carrie (Kim...

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Dimboola

1979 · Movie · 94 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Bruce Spence · Natalie Bate · Max Gillies · Bill Garner

Synopsis Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.

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One Night Stand

1984 · Movie · 94 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Tyler Coppin · Cassandra Delaney · Jay Hackett · Saskia Post

Synopsis In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.

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Winter of Our Dreams

1981 · Movie · 89 min. · Australia

Direction John Duigan

Cast Judy Davis · Bryan Brown · Cathy Downes · Baz Luhrmann

Synopsis When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends diary, she discovers she's repeating her...

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