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Return to Nim’s Island

Return to Nim’s Island

Return to Nim’s Island
IMDb: 4.9
90

Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she…

Genre: Adventure, Family
The Boys Are Back

The Boys Are Back

The Boys Are Back
IMDb: 6.8
104

When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe…

Genre: Drama
Dirt Music

Dirt Music

Dirt Music
IMDb: 5.3
105

Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Jindabyne

Jindabyne

Jindabyne
IMDb: 6.3
123

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl. What follows will change…

Paradise Found

Paradise Found

Paradise Found
IMDb: 5.7
89

Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an…

Genre: Drama
Innocence

Innocence

Innocence
IMDb: 7.1
94

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back…

Kiss or Kill

Kiss or Kill

Kiss or Kill
IMDb: 6.3
96

Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al’s help, robs them. After accidentally…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Shine

Shine

Shine
IMDb: 7.6
105

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Genre: Drama
Sweet Talker

Sweet Talker

Sweet Talker
IMDb: 5.9
86

When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Quigley Down Under

Quigley Down Under

Quigley Down Under
IMDb: 6.9
119

American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston’s ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston’s real target is…

Genre: Western
Emerald City

Emerald City

Emerald City
IMDb: 5.3
92

A comedy of life’s temptations – lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
IMDb: 6.6
92

Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key…

Dogs in Space

Dogs in Space

Dogs in Space
IMDb: 6.4
103

The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy…

Genre: Drama, Music
Malcolm

Malcolm

Malcolm
IMDb: 7.1
90

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
The Coca-Cola Kid

The Coca-Cola Kid

The Coca-Cola Kid
IMDb: 5.9
98

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Burke & Wills

Burke & Wills

Burke & Wills
IMDb: 6.3
140

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

Razorback

Razorback

Razorback
IMDb: 6
95

In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

Genre: Horror
Man of Flowers

Man of Flowers

Man of Flowers
IMDb: 7.1
91

An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River
IMDb: 7.2
104

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father’s farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to…

Freedom

Freedom

Freedom
IMDb: 6.1
102

Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life — blaming everyone for…

Attack Force Z

Attack Force Z

Attack Force Z
IMDb: 5.4
93

Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of World War II, a gritty drama based on actual…

Genre: Action, War
Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant
IMDb: 7.8
107

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Newsfront

Newsfront

Newsfront
IMDb: 6.9
110

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in ’50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.

Genre: Drama
The Cars That Ate Paris

The Cars That Ate Paris

The Cars That Ate Paris
IMDb: 5.6
87

After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of…