Direction: John Duigan
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Duigan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 21
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
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
Direction John Duigan
Cast Steve Coogan · Lena Headey · Om Puri · Steven Waddington
4.9
360 votes
4.9
360 votes
The Leading Man
1996 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Duigan
Cast Jon Bon Jovi · Anna Galiena · Lambert Wilson · Thandie Newton
4.8
165 votes
4.8
165 votes
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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Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (TV)
1988 · Movie · 101 min. · Australia
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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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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