Rachel Ward Archives

The Thorn Birds

The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.

NR ABC

7.1

1983 Drama 121 min Play

7

And Never Let Her Go

The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.

NR

7

2001 Crime 200 min Play

4.9

Wide Sargasso Sea

In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.

NC-17

4.9

1993 Drama 98 min Play

6.1

After Dark, My Sweet

The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

NR

6.1

1990 Crime 114 min Play

6.4

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

R

6.4

1989 Comedy 95 min Play

7.2

Fortress

After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.

NR

7.2

1985 Horror 88 min Play

5.6

Against All Odds

She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.

R

5.6

1984 Action 128 min Play

6.6

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

PG

6.6

1982 Comedy 89 min Play

5.8

Night School

A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.

R

5.8

1981 Horror 88 min Play

6.1

Sharky’s Machine

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

R

6.1

1981 Action 122 min Play