Toni Collette
3) Glassland
Author
Language
English
Description
A young Dublin taxi driver gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from addiction and provide for his younger brother with Down syndrome.
5) Dream Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of a small town bartender who breeds a racehorse that becomes a beacon of hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious geologist, suddenly finds herself having to baby-sit Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) a taciturn Japanese businessman. Hoping to strike up a business deal, she agrees to take him on a field trip around Western Australia's remote Pilbara desert. Against the background of the outback these two diametrically opposed strangers are to find themselves thrust together in a potentially life or death situation. As they...
8) Mafia Mamma
Author
Language
English
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather's affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm's trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone's expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
9) Madame
Author
Language
English
Description
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
10) Miss You Already
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Milly (Collette) is the woman who has everything. Her best friend Jess (Barrymore) works in a community garden, lives in a boathouse and desperately wants a baby. Friends since childhood Jess and Milly can't remember a time they didn't share everything - secrets, clothes, even boyfriends, their differences are the glue that binds them together. That is until Milly is hit with the life changing news that she has breast cancer and now needs Jess to...
11) Jasper Jones
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of night during the scorching summer of 1969, Charlie is startled when he is woken by local mixed-race outcast Jasper Jones outside his window. Jasper leads him deep into the forest and shows him something that will change his life forever, setting them both on a dangerous journey to solve a mystery that will consume the entire community. In an isolated town where secrecy, gossip and tragedy overwhelm the landscape, Charlie faces family...
12) Please Stand By
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Wendy is an independent and brilliant young woman with autism. To submit her script on-time for a Star Trek screenplay competition she sneaks out of her group home and travels hundreds of miles not letting anything stop her from achieving her goals.
13) Birthmarked
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, two respected scientists quit their jobs to conduct an experiment about human identity. They aim to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
14) Spotswood
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
When a consultant is hired to boost a factory's profits, economic theory collides with shop floor reality to create a deliciously dry social comedy starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Russell Crowe and Toni Collette. Wallace is a time and motion expert. After a lifetime of turning men into machines, Wallace has become bereft of emotion, treating all with a frigid indifference. But when he arrives at Balls Moccasin factory he is unnerved by...
15) Glassland
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living in a social housing suburb in Dublin with his mother, John ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. One day, he returns home to find his mother, Jean, unconscious from an alcohol overdose. With no savings or insurance, John is forced to offer his services to a petty criminal to help pay for his mother's costly rehab program. Although his mother violently rejects John's attempts to support and unite his family, John faces his challenges,...
16) Towelhead
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
“Who are you?” Jasira Maroun’s strict, Lebanese-born father asks. Jasira isn’t sure. She’s a typical 13-year-old. And an Arab-American who’s anything but typical to folks in her Houston suburb. She’s drawn to a boy at school. And to a hunky, married Army reservist neighbor. She’s curious about sex. And clueless about relationships. Then all these “who are you”s collide in a series of fateful, emotional, frequently funny events,...
17) Muriel's wedding
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999?
Language
English
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero!
18) Muriel's Wedding
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The hit Australian movie that launched the careers of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths, and put ABBA back on the charts years before Mamma Mia was a musical. Small-town girl Muriel spends every day alone in her room listening to ABBA and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. When she finds the courage to leave on a tropical vacation, she meets a wacky new friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world...
20) Lucky Them
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Toni Collette is a has-been rock journalist sent to hunt down a long-vanished local rock star (and old flame) in this edgy, moving comedy. Also stars Thomas Haden Church.