In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir...
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Max O'Donnell
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1993
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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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1989
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A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early '80s was the...
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1988
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1988
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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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Eric, the chauffeur
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1987
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In this Australian children's adventure story, the young inventor Cody Walpole (Henry Thomas) is forced to move to the...
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1986
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In this drama, an evil blackmailer threatens to release killer sharks just off the shore from a heavily used Australian...
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1986
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1985
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Writer-director Sophia Turkiewicz based Silver City on her experiences as a young child, when her parents moved from...
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1984
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The Australian-made Buddies is essentially a Down Under gold rush western. Two friends in Queensland team up with a miner and...
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Andy
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1983
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Star Struck is a light, frothy pop-culture musical comedy from Australia, where Jackie (Jo Kennedy) dreams of becoming a...
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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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1982
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Two-fisted Gerard Kennedy plays "Tarzan," the foreman of a central Australian mine who maintains his authority by virtue of...
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Horse
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1981
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Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the...
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Ralph
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1981
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Yes, Stir is a prison picture, but don't be put off by the seeming flippancy of its slangy title. Ben Jewson based his...
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Redford
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1980
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Dennis Hopper plays the title character in this true story of a 19th-century Australian gold-digger who is pressed into a...
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1976
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A hilarious sex romp about Alvin, an ordinary guy who works in a waterbed store in Australia. Remarkably, he is always...
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1973
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