Fred Schepisi
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Libido (1973)
- Dir. Tim Burstall, Fred Schepisi, David Baker
Feat. Jack Thompson, Robyn Nevin, Judy Morris
- A straight–faced portmanteau film, with each of four tales centring around themes of eroticism and emotional betrayal.
Scripted by four…
- Devil's Playground, The (1976)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Simon Burke, Nick Tate, Arthur Dignam…
- The film that put Australian director Fred Schepisi on the silver screen radar, tells the semi–autobiographical story of a young teenager…
- Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The (1978)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Jack Charles
- Powerful adaptation of Thomas Keneally's fact–based novel about an exploited half–caste Aborigine who eventually erupts in tragic…
- Barbarosa (1982)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Willie Nelson, Gary Busey
- A dignified, under–rated Western from Australian director Fred Schepisi that pairs Gary Busey with Willie Nelson in a tale of a young cowboy…
- Iceman (1984)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, Josef Sommer…
- Arctic explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive in this enjoyable piece of sci–fi hokum, with John Lone giving a…
- Plenty (1985)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill…
- Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
- Roxanne (1987)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah
- Steve Martin's splendid update of Cyrano de Bergerac casts him as a fire chief burdened with an enormous nose. Daryl Hannah is the object of his…
- Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, Sam Neill
- Jack–of–all–accents, Meryl Streep, does wonders as Lindy Chamberlain, the woman accused of murdering her child in the Australian…
- Russia House, The (1990)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this cat–and–mouse drama involving Western intelligence's use of a publisher to liaise with an…
- Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Will Smith
- An invigorating adaptation of John Guare's acclaimed play about an art–dealing couple whose discreet deceptions are ironically rebounded when a…
- I.Q. (1995)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Walter Matthau, Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins
- Walter Matthau, playing Einstein, (yes Albert!), matchmakes niece Meg Ryan and mechanic Tim Robbins together in 1950s Princeton University. Teases…
- Fierce Creatures (1997)
- Dir. Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
Feat. John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis…
- John Cleese reunites the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA for his self–penned farce set in a British zoo.
His pointed satire of corporate ethics…
- Last Orders (2001)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings…
- A gentle, affecting road trip into mutual nostalgia among a group of Cockney mates, gathered to scatter the ashes of recently deceased friend Michael…
- Empire Falls (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Ed Harris, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Conventional and well–handled drama series set in the once–booming factory town of Empire Falls, Maine, and mostly getting down in among…
- Eye of the Storm, The (2011)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis…
- A prodigal son and daughter attend to their dying mother in order to ensure their inheritances in this powerfully performed adaptation of Patrick…
- Words and Pictures (2013)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Bruce Davison…
- Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche play passionate arts teachers with opposing worldviews in this romantic comedy of the mind.