John Hillcoat

The Proposition (2005)

Cast: John Hurt Emily Watson Danny Huston Guy Pearce Ray Winstone   

Tags: Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film Psychological Western 

Length: 104min

An outlaw is goaded into taking on justice at its most brutal in this hard-edged Western set in rural Australia in the 1880s. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is a criminal living in the outback. He and his two brothers, Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mikey...

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Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1998)

Cast: John Hillcoat Nick Cave Chris de Rose Vince Gil David Field   

Tags: Crime Drama Crime Prison Film 

Length: 93min

Ghosts...of the Civil Dead is an Australian prison picture, ironically coproduced by a company calling itself "Correctional Services". The prison in question is a cruelly repressive institution, with a set of rules bordering on the Draconian. The...

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To Have & to Hold (1996)

Cast: Tchéky Karyo Rachel Griffiths John Hillcoat Nick Cave Steve Jacobs   

Tags: Drama Thriller Romantic Drama Psychological Thriller 

Length: 98min

This Australian melodrama of obsessive love and violence is as humid and brooding as the Papuan jungle in which most of was filmed. Set in a remote town in Papua, New Guinea (some scenes were shot in Northern Australia) the story begins as the...

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