Direction: Shirley Barrett

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


Love Serenade

1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Australia

Direction Shirley Barrett

Cast Miranda Otto · Rebecca Frith · George Shevtsov · John Alansu

Synopsis In Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the station; he's mid-40s, detached, thrice divorced,...

6.1

96 votes

6.1

96 votes

Offspring (TV Series)

2010 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction John Edwards · Debra Oswald · Imogen Banks · Kate Dennis

Cast Asher Keddie · Kat Stewart · Deborah Mailman · Eddie Perfect

Synopsis The story of the impossible loves of 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman and her fabulously messy family.

5.2

44 votes

5.2

44 votes

Heartbreak High (TV Series)

1994 · Series · 50 min. · Australia

Direction Andrew Prowse · Karl Zwicky · Ian Gilmour · Catherine Millar

Cast Lara Cox · Callan Mulvey · Emma Roche · Ada Nicodemou

Synopsis The series based on the lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley High School in Sydney. Praised for its willingness to tackle gritty issues, from drugs to romance to religion to shop lifting and homelessness, it...

4.8

4K votes

4.8

4K votes

Wild Boys (TV Series)

2011 · Series · Australia

Direction Julie McGauran · Sarah Smith · Ken Cameron · Arnie Custo

Cast Daniel MacPherson · Zoe Ventoura · Michael Dorman · David Field

Synopsis TV Series (2011). This is the world of the Wild Boys, a high-energy adventure series about a gang of bushrangers whose charisma is as captivating and entertaining as their extreme exploits in the Australian bush. Set in 1860s NSW at...

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A Place to Call Home (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction Bevan Lee · Lynn-Maree Danzey · Mark Joffe · Ian Barry

Cast Marta Dusseldorp · Noni Hazlehurst · Brett Climo · Craig Hall

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2018). 6 Seasons. 67 Episodes. A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia.

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Love Child (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction Sarah Lambert · Shirley Barrett · Shawn Seet

Cast Jessica Marais · Jonathan LaPaglia · Mandy McElhinney · Ryan Corr

Synopsis TV Series (2014-2017). 4 Seasons. 36 Episodes. The lives of staff and residents at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and Stanton House in Sydney in 1969.

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Love My Way (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 50 min. · Australia

Direction Jessica Hobbs · Ian Watson · Shirley Barrett · Geoff Bennett

Cast Claudia Karvan · Asher Keddie · Brendan Cowell · Dan Wyllie

Synopsis A story about a group of thirty-somethings dealing with the ups and downs of life.

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Winter (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Series · 42 min. · Australia

Direction Shirley Barrett · Lynn Hegarty · Ian Watson

Cast Rebecca Gibney · Peter O'Brien · Matt Nable · Antonia Prebble

Synopsis Sydney homicide detective Eve Winter (Rebecca Gibney) solves tough, high profile cases with cool intelligence, fighting bureaucracts, criminals and plenty of advances - unwanted and wanted - to catch her prey.

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House Husbands (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 45 min. · Australia

Direction Grant Brown · Ian Watson · Geoff Bennett · Catherine Millar

Cast Firass Dirani · Rhys Muldoon · Gary Sweet · Julia Morris

Synopsis The lives of four Australian men who are raising their children.

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Five Bedrooms (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 44 min. · Australia

Direction Peter Templeman · Fiona Banks · Corrie Chen · Shirley Barrett

Cast Kat Stewart · Stephen Peacocke · Doris Younane · Katie Robertson

Synopsis Five different people at different times of their lives bond at a wedding after being seated together at the singles table. After a few too many drinks, the solution to all of their problems seems to be buying a five-bedroom...

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South Solitary

2010 · Movie · Australia

Direction Shirley Barrett

Cast Miranda Otto · Barry Otto · Marton Csokas · Essie Davis

Synopsis Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.

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Mr & Mrs Murder (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 44 min. · Australia

Direction Sian Davies · Shirley Barrett · Abe Forsythe · Daniel Nettheim

Cast Shaun Micallef · Kat Stewart · Jonny Pasvolsky · Lucy Honigman

Synopsis The series follows the adventures of married couple Nicola and Charlie Buchanan, who run an industrial cleaning business while solving the most baffling murder mysteries.

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A Country Practice (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction Peter Andrikidis · Helen Gaynor · Julian McSwiney · Julie Money

Cast Brian Wenzel · Lorrae Desmond · Joyce Jacobs · Gordon Piper

Synopsis El espectáculo siguió un consultorio médico en el pequeño ficticio de Nueva Gales del Sur ciudad rural de Wandin Valley. Las historias del espectáculo se centró en el personal de la práctica y el hospital y sus familias, ya través...

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