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Amazon Prime Video
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78
7.8
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70
/156/
4.0
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100
/23/
91
/272/
73
/11/

Breaker Morant (1980)
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 hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
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Amazon Prime Video
78
7.3
/2788/
71
/84/
67
/66/
3.7
/3624/
100
/13/
74
/24/

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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Fandor
76
7.5
/15911/
73
/503/
72
/328/
4.0
/40201/
96
/57/
83
/202/
85
/21/

Wake in Fright (1971)
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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Kanopy
77
72
7.6
/4877/
71
/176/
68
/92/
3.8
/5792/
95
/63/
80
/374/
76
/15/

Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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Criterion Channel
72
7.2
/22145/
73
/566/
73
/507/
3.9
/47266/
86
/29/
79
/364/
53
/13/

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
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72
7.2
/10709/
74
/416/
69
/154/
3.5
/6047/
77
/13/
89
/801/
63
/9/
cc age 9+

The Man from Snowy River (1982)
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 earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
6.6
/2945/
68
/197/
62
/79/
3.3
/2990/
90
/41/
77
/22/

High Ground (2021)
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
7.3
/6180/
73
/129/
67
/72/
3.6
/2356/
63
/16/
80
/169/

The Sum of Us (1994)
A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."
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69
6.9
/26517/
65
/341/
64
/298/
3.4
/4945/
67
/128/
69
/767/
63
/38/

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
6.6
/9162/
66
/422/
61
/178/
3.4
/4679/
91
/34/
64
/102/
72
/4/

Mystery Road (2013)
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.
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67
6.7
/21980/
65
/561/
66
/421/
3.5
/20067/
82
/22/
63
/235/
56
/7/

Flesh + Blood (1985)
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who stiffs them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
poster
66
7.2
/62698/
74
/3503/
70
/1400/
3.4
/36894/
62
/236/
61
/423/
60
/44/
cc age 14+

The Light Between Oceans (2016)
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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fuboTV
65
6.5
/3282/
71
/115/
61
/41/
3.4
/1189/
46
/13/
81
/81/
57
/17/

Wind (1992)
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Australian crew. Determined to get the prize back, Will convinces Morgan to finance an experimental boat designed by his ex-girlfriend Kate's new beau, Joe Heisler. When the boat is completed, the Americans head to Australia to reclaim the cup.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
7.2
/637193/
72
/17630/
74
/12763/
3.5
/1342467/
49
/305/
67
/8330/
55
/45/
cc age 14+

The Great Gatsby (2013)
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
62
7.3
/8522/
71
/187/
66
/118/
3.5
/3638/
55
/75/
76
/515/
55
/23/

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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62
6.6
/43421/
68
/935/
63
/612/
3.3
/19132/
50
/38/
65
/1169/
56
/23/

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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62
6.6
/133313/
67
/2880/
65
/2400/
2.9
/55431/
53
/216/
65
/12180/
53
/38/
cc age 15+

Australia (2008)
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Disney Plus
60
6.6
/812296/
70
/31266/
65
/14056/
3.1
/1556187/
62
/322/
56
/29573/
54
/39/
cc age 9+

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.
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Hoopla
60
6.6
/70040/
73
/4368/
66
/1575/
3.2
/38952/
62
/39/
67
/3934/
50
/12/
cc age 10+

Short Circuit (1986)
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
poster
59
6.5
/3997/
67
/98/
61
/60/
3.2
/1274/
42
/12/
69
/164/
cc age 11+

A Far Off Place (1993)
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.
poster
58
5.5
/52093/
61
/1504/
57
/1104/
2.7
/26419/
61
/178/
34
/2886/
56
/35/
cc age 17+

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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57
6.0
/34315/
61
/664/
58
/482/
2.8
/12038/
53
/167/
38
/4875/
56
/34/
cc age 13+

Leatherheads (2008)
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.
poster
57
56
6.0
/26886/
58
/408/
58
/337/
3.0
/10728/
49
/34/
cc age 17+

The Good German (2006)
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
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56
6.1
/109805/
64
/3375/
61
/1619/
2.9
/39812/
53
/34/
44
/2887/
61
/21/

Broken Arrow (1996)
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
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55
6.5
/12672/
63
/228/
60
/210/
2.9
/3767/
41
/70/
52
/1302/
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/21/
cc age 13+

December Boys (2007)
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
54
5.6
/2925/
66
/211/
52
/67/
2.9
/1555/
73
/26/
53
/52/
69
/6/
cc age 17+

Swinging Safari (2018)
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
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54
5.7
/4956/
60
/79/
56
/102/
2.8
/1326/
30
/23/
58
/52/

Last Dance (1996)
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.
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85
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8.3
/1805/
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71
/26/
4.0
/1122/
100
/7/
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/19/

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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The Roku Channel
52
5.4
/14996/
60
/300/
60
/254/
2.9
/9197/
33
/30/
40
/435/
34
/16/

Excess Baggage (1997)
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
6.0
/63096/
61
/1292/
61
/879/
2.7
/17500/
12
/91/
61
/1593/
33
/24/

Original Sin (2001)
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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Plex
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45
5.3
/6375/
53
/152/
55
/135/
2.4
/3767/
50
/6/
45
/514/

Feed (2005)
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
poster
Hulu
43
5.2
/15895/
60
/1583/
55
/403/
2.2
/13051/
9
/33/
35
/56/
43
/10/
cc age 15+

Poker Face (2022)
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatch plans of their own breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
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Amazon Prime Video
62
40
6.0
/940/
57
/68/
58
/17/
3.1
/268/
48
/23/
58
/11/
43
/4/
cc age 13+

Never Too Late (2020)
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve, so they band together to devise a plan to escape their new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed. In fact, they can’t even remember what they were—and that’s half the problem.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
40
6.1
/2064/
58
/41/
58
/45/
3.2
/2781/
39
/40/

Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
poster
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39
6.5
/1333/
63
/13/
56
/22/
56
/16/
66
/87/
51
/8/

Oyster Farmer (2004)
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
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The Roku Channel
69
35
6.9
/1046/
63
/23/
64
/19/
3.5
/991/
79
/121/

Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion.
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MGM Plus
68
35
6.8
/2021/
57
/32/
62
/31/
3.3
/441/
88
/26/

The Earthling (1980)
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.
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Kanopy
66
33
7.0
/1200/
55
/21/
57
/19/
3.5
/717/
82
/40/

The Club (1980)
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
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Kanopy
55
30
5.4
/1489/
61
/93/
51
/38/
3.0
/349/
67
/9/
38
/13/

Around the Block (2013)
A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
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32
30
4.1
/7502/
45
/271/
43
/218/
1.8
/4952/
14
/7/
14
/270/

Man-Thing (2005)
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
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Kanopy
62
25
6.4
/786/
70
/94/
58
/11/
3.3
/938/
56
/21/

Runt (2024)
In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog Show in London in order to save their family's farm from drought and misery.
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46
23
5.0
/2732/
51
/51/
49
/38/
2.9
/451/
26
/10/

Ruby Cairo (1992)
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
poster
The Roku Channel
43
23
4.5
/4529/
43
/75/
42
/23/
43
/8/

Blue World Order (2017)
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an attempt to rebuild civilization, a self appointed government called 'The ORDER' distributed an immunization to the bacteria, via a massive Electro-Macnetic Pulse (EMP). Secretly, the Order also delivered a bio-tech virus through the EMP, giving them the power to control the population. One man remains immune to the Order's virus - Jake Slater. Now Jake scavenges the wasteland searching for a way to keep his unconscious daughter alive, unaware she is the last child on Earth, and the key to the survival of mankind.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
22
5.8
/782/
58
/49/
46
/17/
3.0
/376/
60
/10/
42
/10/

Ruben Guthrie (2015)
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
21
5.7
/576/
53
/21/
51
/14/
3.1
/855/
58
/27/

The Magic Pudding (2000)
Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.
poster
71
15
7.5
/1129/
67
/15/
77
/10/
3.4
/203/

A Woman Called Golda (1982)
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
poster
The Roku Channel
43
10
4.5
/535/
43
/29/
47
/13/
38
/11/

Blinder (2013)
An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.
poster
35
4
5.3
/231/
20
/3/
25
/2/
44
/10/

Ten Empty (2008)
A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.


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