Critically lauded Australian author Julia Leigh makes the leap to feature films as the writer/director of this haunting and...
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Man 2
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2011
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A weary platoon battles a powerful enemy in hopes of protecting a massive cache of explosives in this vivid World War I...
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2010
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2008
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A family is touched by the shadows of hatred and violence in this Australian drama adapted from a short story by...
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2007
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2007
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A criminal looking to go straight finds an unusual obstacle in his path in this crime thriller from Australia. Jack Barrett...
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2006
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2005
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2004
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Edward
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2004
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24 star Kiefer Sutherland stars as celebrated French painter Paul Gauguin in director Mario Andreacchio's slice of life...
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2003
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Australian director Bill Bennett (Kiss or Kill) adds broad slapstick comedy to his repertoire with this rags-to-riches tale...
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2002
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Mort S. Seben's Subterano stars Alex Dimitriades as Conrad, an escaped convict who becomes the central figure in a brutal...
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2002
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Directed by Craig Lahiff, Black and White is a story about bigotry, social injustice, and a real-life murder trial that made...
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2002
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Australian singer and songwriter Paul Kelly stars in (and wrote part of the musical score for) this unusual musical, which...
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2002
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2001
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A female detective discovers the dark side of the world of contemporary literature in this unusual thriller from Australia....
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2001
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While shopping on a commerce ship owned by an alien named Kyvan (Chris Haywood), Chiana (Gigi Edgley) comes across a portrait...
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2000
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Coma meets Heathers in this Australian black comedy about crime, revenge, and kidney thieves. Brad (Matt Day) and Gregor...
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2000
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While visiting a commerce planet, Crichton (Ben Browder) falls under the power of vampiric sorceror Maldis (Chris Haywood)....
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1999
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Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would...
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Clayton Strawn
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1999
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Using methods that could be described as unethical, Captain Sheridan manipultes the League to accept the presence of White...
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1997
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Set amidst the eerie desolation of the Australian outback, Kiss or Kill is a superior reworking of vintage film noir...
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Detective Hummer
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1997
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The Australian coastal community of Blackrock goes into an uproar after the badly beaten, gang-raped corpse of a 15-year-old...
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1997
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The wonderful performances of three developmentally challenged teenage actors placed House Gang several cuts above the usual...
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Mike Wilson
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1996
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This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a...
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1996
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The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor...
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1996
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1994
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A socially inept young woman slowly learns to overcome her insecurities in this sleeper hit from Australia. The...
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1994
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This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to...
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1994
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This Australian drama, based on the novel Priest Island by E.L. Grant, tells the tale of a man exiled to a lonely island...
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1994
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Alex (Lauren Jackson) is a well-rounded girl in addition to being an Olympic-quality competitor. She takes ballet, plays on...
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Mr. Jack
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1993
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Michael is the extremely impoverished nephew of George, a wealthy mining magnate. Not only is he poor now, but he grew up...
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Michael Stanley
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1992
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Australian director Paul Cox, skilled at intense psychological stories about lone souls looking for comfort in a cold world,...
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Johnathan
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1991
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In Sweet Talker, an amiable, charming ex-convict (Bryan Brown) arrives in a small Australian costal city with the intent of...
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Bostock
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1991
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Tom Selleck stars as American cowboy archetype Matthew Quigley in Simon Wincer's outback western Quigley Down Under....
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Maj. Ashley Pitt
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1990
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Bernard (Chris Haywood) is clearly someone with an obsessive personality, as witnessed by his lifelong love affair with...
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Bernard Simon
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1990
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This grim drama examines the situation of Aya (Eri Ishida), a Japanese war bride living in Australia in the late forties. Her...
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Mac
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1990
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train, written and directed by Bob Ellis, belongs to a genre of highbrow 1980s films which...
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1989
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This film deftly combines black comedy with sharp political satire. Set in a fictional Eastern European town called...
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1989
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Janis
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1989
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Australian author David Williamson adapted Emerald City from his own stage play. The title may conjure up images of the...
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Mike McCord
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1989
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This modest Australian fantasy stars Hamish McFarlane as a young 14th Century boy with acute psychic powers. During the...
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Arno
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1988
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A dramatic story about a houseful of youth with no apparent purpose in life, this film features pounding rock music and...
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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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The year is 1933. Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) is an Australian woman living with her Welsh immigrant husband Henry...
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Henry Rose
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1987
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Career counsellor Michael Thornton (Chris Haywood) decides to change his career and become an actor in this low-budget...
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Michael Thornton
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1987
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In this hilarious, award-winning comedy, Malcolm (Colin Friels) is an innocent, naive mechanical genius with a distinct gap...
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Willy
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1986
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The title of the 1986 Australian miniseries Cyclone Tracy refers to an infamous hurricane that hit and nearly destroyed the...
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1986
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1986
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Broaching an issue that would lead to considerable litigation and controversy over the years, first-time director...
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Col. Turner
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1985
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Filmed in Australia, the TV miniseries Return to Eden stars Rebecca Gilling as a wealthy young woman whose husband tries to...
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1985
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Cashing in on the release of Burke and Wills, this undistinguished comedy by Bob Weiss tries to turn the tragic crossing of...
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1985
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The ugly American bullying his way through a foreign country was a subject for comedy in several films of the 1980s, most...
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Kim
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1985
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Benny Baker
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1984
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The miners strike in the Australian coal fields during the 1930s provides a factual basis for this drama. The organized...
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Wattie Doig
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1984
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When a pay cut sends Australian dock workers on strike, a group of Italian immigrants are hired to take their place, causing...
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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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The Australian Man of Flowers stars Norman Kaye in the title role. A painter, Kaye has earned his nickname from his...
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David
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1983
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Ron (Jon Blake), a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets,...
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1982
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Mike (Terry Serio) is an attractive, sexually appealing factory worker and Fox (Richard Moir) is his racing nemesis. Both are...
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1982
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The trial of three men in the bombing of a Hilton Hotel in Sidney in 1978 serves as the general focus for this docudrama on...
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Detective Rogerson
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1982
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Heatwave is the mildly interesting story of a woman's attempt to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up...
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Peter Houseman
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1982
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Force Z is a crack Australian military corps during World War II. When a plane carrying a high-profile Japanese defector...
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Able Seaman A.D. Bird
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1982
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Effusive piano tuner Norman Kaye is on the less sunny side of forty and still unattached. Shy and self-effacing office worker...
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1982
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Fresh out of medical school, Paul Armstrong (Simon Burke) has landed a job at an Australian urban venereal and sexual disease...
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Eric Linden
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1982
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Although the scripting, acting, and plot lines are less than ideal, this dramatized documentary merits attention since it is...
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1981
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Breaker Morant is one of the most acclaimed Australian films, telling a powerful tale of wartime betrayal and injustice....
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1980
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Fran (Judy Morris) is a 29-year-old university researcher whose biological clock begins to tick so loudly that no alarm is...
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1980
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Australia has a huge Greek immigrant population, so it is only natural that a refugee from Greece's occasional revolutions...
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1979
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In this Australian drama, a man serves his six-year prison sentence for participating in a robbery and then tries to return...
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1978
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Set between the years 1949 and 1956, Newsfront tracks the destinies of two brothers, their adventures and misadventures...
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Chris Hewett
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1978
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1976
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A love triangle provides the basis of this subtle drama that centers upon a man living with one woman and loving another on...
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1976
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1975
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This first effort from acclaimed writer/director Peter Weir is set in the secluded rural town of Paris, Australia, where the...
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1974
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