The cinematic debut of Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen, Beneath Clouds finds light-skinned Abiriginal girl Lena Danielle Hall)...
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2002
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Produced in the run-up to Sydney's 2000 Olympic Games, this film is an unapologetic publicity piece for one of the world's...
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Mr. Stoves
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1999
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A pair of disparate battling lovers get a chance to live in each other's shoes in this lively Australian sex comedy. Though...
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1996
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Aimed at the ten- to 18-year-old demographic group, the Australian-Japanese science fiction series Escape From Jupiter...
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1994
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This genial Australian coming-of-age film is based on the experiences of its narrator, writer and director Bob Ellis. The...
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1993
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Isabelle Eberhardt dramatizes the tragic true story of the iconoclastic Swiss-born writer, who gained notoriety for both her...
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Cauvet
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1990
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In keeping with its title, the Australian sci-fier The Dreaming has all the earmarks of an extended hallucination. A young...
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Prof. Bernard Thornton
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1989
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1989
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Harry Ironmaster (Rupert Everett) is an aristocratic and wealthy young man, which in his time and place should put him pretty...
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Dr. Redbridge
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1987
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Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of Robert O'Hara Burke (Jack Thompson) and William John Wills (Nigel Havers),...
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1987
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"Everlasting Secret Family" is the name of a sub-rosa homosexual brotherhood in this riveting Australian film. Two of the ESF...
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Senator
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1987
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Max Falcon (Garry McDonald) is a pompous and immensely popular actor who stars in "Freud The Musical" in this offbeat comedy....
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1987
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H. Rider Haggard's popular adventure novel King Solomon's Mines has been translated to the big screen on several occasions....
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1986
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Set in the 1830s, this historical drama stars Robin Soans as George Loveless, a Methodist minister whose flock is a group of...
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1986
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1984
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Director Henri Safran adapts Henrik Ibsen's stage play to an Australian setting and a turn-of-the-century ambience in this...
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Gregory Wardle
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1983
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This patchy, uneven combination of fantasy and musical comedy is hilarious in parts and embarrassing in others, though the...
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1983
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1983
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When a Melbourne toy manufacturer discovers his wife is having an affair, he can't really get too distressed. After all,...
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1982
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Even today, the Australian outback (the never-never of the title) is a daunting place to be left alone. In 1901, it was even...
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Aeneas Gunn
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1982
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Dead Kids, aka Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an...
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LeSange
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1981
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In the late 1970s, Grendel by John Gardner was a highbrow best-seller that everyone with pretensions to intellectual...
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1980
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Based on a true story, this drama stars Michelle Fawdon as Cathy Baikas, a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney,...
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1979
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Based on a novel by Thomas Keneally, which was in turn inspired by actual events, this drama is a shocking indictment of the...
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1978
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Government scientists develop a knockout gas, designed to peacefully quell terrorist uprisings. The gas, and its antidote,...
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Dr. Graham
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1976
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Fred Schepsi wrote and directed this tense melodrama which takes place at a Roman Catholic boarding school. The film deals...
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Brother Francine
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1976
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Doctor
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1976
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Corin Redgrave plays a highly principled Australian doctor in Between Wars. As indicated by the title, the film concentrates...
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1974
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This comedy follows the exploits of Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson), a mature married man with two children who decides to go...
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1974
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Four Australian directors explore different angles of the title topic in this generally downbeat anthology. In "The Husband"...
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1973
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