Bruce Beresford

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Adventures of Barry McKenzie, The (1972): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Barry Humphries, Barry Crocker, Spike Milligan…; Ground–breaking Australian comedy from the pens of Barry Humphries and dir. Beresford, that exports Fosters–swigging Barry Crocker into…
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Barry Humphries, Barry Crocker, Clive James…; Lesser follow–up to ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE, where Dame Edna is spirited off to Transylvania by vampiric kidnappers. Nephew Crocker and…
Don's Party (1976): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Ray Barrett, John Hargreaves, Graeme Blundell…; Tawdry sets and outfits compliment the crass attitudes of suburban Sydneyites who gather to celebrate an incoming Labour government on election night…
Money Movers (1978): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Terence Donovan, Bryan Brown; Violent thriller has a group of security–guards arranging an inside–job, while the police and criminal–world circle like vultures…
Getting of Wisdom, The (1978): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund…; An immaculate rendition of Henry Richardson's classic Australian novel set at a Melbourne girls' school in the Victorian era, where a rural newcomer…
Breaker Morant (1979): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown; An unjust court–martial in the Boer War provides much tension in one of the great Oz dramas.
Club, The (1980): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson; Doing for Australian Rules football what DON'S PARTY did for Australian politics, this examines in brawling, bawdy detail the behind–scenes…
Puberty Blues (1981): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja; Affecting teenage odyssey with Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja as surfing–groupies, learning to fit into a sex’n’drugs beach–scene.
Tender Mercies (1982): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Robert Duvall; Robert Duvall gives an Oscar winning performance as a down–out–his–luck country singer who paves the slow road back to sobriety.…
Crimes of the Heart (1986): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek…; Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek play the Magrath sisters, who reunite in their family home in Mississippi to regroup and settle their…
Fringe Dwellers, The (1986): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Donald McAlpine, Ernie Dingo; Quietly dramatic race drama, has an Aboriginal woman move into the mainstream white suburbs with her mother, but finds her extended family have…
Driving Miss Daisy (1989): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd; Oscar–winning adaptation of Albert Uhry's stage play charting the 25–year relationship between a crotchety Southern woman and her black…
Her Alibi (1989): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William (actor) Daniels…; Clunky rom–com about a novelist who falls in love with a beautiful murder suspect that lazily rests on the charms of its moustachioed leading…
Mister Johnson (1990): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward; Handsome drama set in '20s Africa about a native clerk who tries to ingratiate himself into the ruling white colonialist society.
Black Robe (1991): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young; A Jesuit priest attempts to convert Shamanist Indians in the Canadian wilderness of 1643. A heady mix of explicit savagery and incomparable beauty.
Rich in Love (1993): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kyle MacLachlan…; A knock–out cast bring to life the comic and tragic of a splintered yet tightly knit South Carolinan family.
Silent Fall (1994): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss; An autistic child is the only witness to a brutal murder. The job of bringing him out of his shell falls to discredited child psychologist Richard…
Last Dance (1996): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid…; In some kind of bid for dramatic range, Sharon Stone tackles the important issues – as a woman on death row – but no amount of Clairol…
Paradise Road (1997): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Cate Blanchett…; A group of European woman, incl. Glenn Close and Frances McDormand, are captured in Singapore during WWII by the Japanese. They alleviate the…
Double Jeopardy (1999): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones; Entertaining revenge–potboiler that sets a ruthless pace with Ashley Judd, framed for her husband's murder, pursuing the true villains with the…
Evelyn (2002): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Margulies, Stephen Rea…; A labour–of–love for Irishman Pierce Brosnan as actor and producer, this is a heartfelt family drama about a working class father who…
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent…; Zooming–in on an intriguing corner of 20th century history, this tells the unlikely (but true) story of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's…
Contract, The (2006): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. John Cusack, Morgan Freeman; An elusive contract killer is apprehended by a camping father and son, giving way to a remote wilderness thriller of cat and mouse. Though…
Mao's Last Dancer (2009): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan…; Enthralling true–life story traces the life of acclaimed ballet dancer Li Cunxin from his impoverished upbringing in communist China to the…
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen…; Light comedy about an uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.
Bonnie and Clyde (TV Mini-Series) (2013): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Sarah Hyland…; The legend of depression era outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker is given the full treatment in this evocative History Channel drama.
Roots (TV Mini-Series) (2016): Dir. Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles, Thomas Carter
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke…; A powerful new adaptation of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This tragic story of resilience is told in four parts covering four…
Ladies in Black (2018): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor, Julia Ormond; Set in Sydney in 1959, this charming adaptation of the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John follows the lives of a group of young employees at the…

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