Direction: Kriv Stenders

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


The Principal (TV Miniseries)

2015 · Series · 50 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Alex Dimitriades · Mirrah Foulkes · Rahel Romahn · Michael Denkha

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2015). 4 Episodes. When history teacher Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of a notoriously violent Boys' school in Sydney's south-west suburbs, his radical approach brings him into conflict and leaves his personal life dangerously exposed. Just when...

6.4

96 votes

6.4

96 votes

Red Dog

2011 · Movie · 92 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Josh Lucas · Rachael Taylor · Rohan Nichol · Luke Ford

Synopsis Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community in 1971 while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

6.2

527 votes

6.2

527 votes

Red Dog: True Blue

2016 · Movie · 88 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Jason Isaacs · Levi Miller · Bryan Brown · Hannah Mangan Lawrence

Synopsis An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

2019 · Movie · 118 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Travis Fimmel · Luke Bracey · Daniel Webber · Richard Roxburgh

Synopsis One late afternoon in 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation, 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers held off a force of 2500. This is their untold story. Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam - for...

5.6

619 votes

5.6

619 votes

Kill Me Three Times

2014 · Movie · 90 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Simon Pegg · Alice Braga · Sullivan Stapleton · Teresa Palmer

Synopsis In the Australian surfing town of Eagle's Nest, a young woman is the thread that binds three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge.

5.2

454 votes

5.2

454 votes

Hunters (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Natalie Chaidez · Glendyn Ivin · Mat King · Daina Reid

Cast Nathan Phillips · Britne Oldford · Mark Coles Smith · Lewis Fitzgerald

Synopsis Follows Flynn, a headstrong Baltimore FBI agent with a dark past, along with Regan, one of the government's most valuable operatives who may be keeping secrets of her own, and McCarthy, an unhinged junkie and Hunter cell leader. Flynn's search...

3.2

33 votes

3.2

33 votes

Between Two Worlds (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction Bevan Lee · Caroline Bell Booth · Beck Cole · Lynn Hegarty

Cast Philip Quast · Hermione Norris · Sara Wiseman · Aaron Jeffery

Synopsis From the TV Tonight web page: "Cate Walford, whose relationship with vicious, business tycoon husband, Phillip, is on the ropes and sees a tempestuous home life trapped in a tangled web of lies and manipulation. Through a shocking twist of...

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Last Days of the Space Age

2023 · Series · 60 min. · Australia

Direction David Chidlow · Bharat Nalluri · Kriv Stenders · Rachel Ward

Cast Jesse Spencer · Radha Mitchell · Deborah Mailman · Linh Dan Pham

Synopsis 1 season, 8 episodes. Set in 1979 Western Australia, when Perth was at the centre of the world's headlines. A power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness, while the city hosts the iconic Miss Universe pageant and the...

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Lucky Country

2009 · Movie · 96 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Aden Young · Toby Wallace · Hannah Mangan Lawrence · Pip Miller

Synopsis A father who is running from the evils of the larger world finds they've arrived on his doorstep in this drama from Australian filmmaker Kriv Stenders. Nat (Aden Young) is a former schoolteacher and widower who idealistically has left the...

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The Go-Betweens: Right Here

2017 · Documentary · 95 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Robert Forster · Mark Callaghan · Clinton Walker · Damian Nelson

Synopsis All about the Australian band The Go-Betweens.

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Australia Day

2017 · Movie · 98 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Burgess Abernethy · Will Allen · Elias Anton · Shaun Barry

Synopsis On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.

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Slim & I

2020 · Documentary · 107 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Synopsis Documentary portrait of Joy McKean, Australia’s Queen of country music. Follows her performance and songwriting career, decades of touring around Australia, and her marriage of more than 50 years to fellow musician Slim Dusty. From filmmaker Kriv Stenders (Red Dog,...

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The Correspondent

2024 · Movie · 119 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Richard Roxburgh · Julian Maroun · Rahel Romahn · Yael Stone

Synopsis Award-winning journalist Peter Greste reports on the Arab Spring uprising, becoming entangled in a deadly game of rivalries. Imprisoned for seven years despite his innocence, he survives on wits alone before release in 2015.

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Brock: Over the Top

2020 · Documentary · 104 min. · Australia

Direction Kriv Stenders

Synopsis Brock: Over the Top is a feature length documentary that not only chronicles the extraordinary life of Australia's greatest racing car driver, Peter Brock, but peels away the surface to reveal the profoundly human story behind the legend. This film...

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Direction Kriv Stenders

Cast Sean Keenan · Alex Dimitriades · Caren Pistorius · Gary Sweet

Synopsis A young schoolteacher finds himself marooned in a small mining town in the outback, where a string of dangerous events render him a broken, desperate man.

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Mother and Son

2023 · Series · 30 min. · Australia

Direction Neil Sharma · Kriv Stenders

Cast Denise Scott · Matthew Okine · Angela Nica Sullen · Virginia Guy

Synopsis When Maggie sets fire to the kitchen, her recently-single son, Arthur moves back into the family home where eccentric Maggie calls all the shots.

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