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77
7.2
/17639/
74
/528/
66
/212/
3.5
/6574/
96
/99/
81
/452/
74
/27/
cc age 11+

The Dish (2000)
A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
6.2
/2374/
61
/156/
58
/30/
3.3
/3760/
91
/56/
71
/9/
78
/15/

Limbo (2023)
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
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Kanopy
70
6.9
/2847/
69
/58/
69
/54/
3.6
/3241/
80
/5/
61
/44/

Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
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Criterion Channel
79
67
7.8
/5300/
77
/86/
77
/143/
4.1
/11253/
80
/10/
82
/31/

Street of Shame (1956)
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
poster
Hulu
63
5.7
/16149/
58
/1258/
54
/241/
3.0
/56954/
89
/150/
37
/212/
77
/35/
cc age 15+

The Royal Hotel (2023)
After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
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64
62
6.3
/9307/
65
/277/
60
/171/
3.2
/2771/
79
/66/
57
/416/
62
/9/

Red Hill (2010)
Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.
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76
60
7.4
/2405/
65
/52/
69
/36/
3.7
/1657/
93
/15/
84
/52/

The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
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Kanopy
59
6.6
/100271/
69
/3623/
67
/2150/
3.4
/200479/
55
/47/
71
/7518/
42
/12/
cc age 13+

Footloose (1984)
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
poster
Criterion Channel
55
48
5.6
/4727/
61
/116/
55
/97/
3.1
/7256/
65
/17/
35
/119/

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.
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47
38
5.4
/4557/
54
/116/
50
/104/
2.7
/1087/
54
/13/
20
/306/

Gone (2006)
A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.
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The Roku Channel
69
35
6.9
/1036/
63
/22/
64
/19/
3.5
/917/
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.
poster
73
35
7.2
/1108/
67
/19/
69
/23/
3.4
/321/
90
/529/

The Music Teacher (1988)
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
71
33
6.6
/1127/
69
/52/
58
/15/
3.3
/739/
78
/9/
93
/12/

The Merger (2018)
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
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52
17
6.1
/544/
60
/13/
55
/17/
29
/922/
cc age 9+

Bush Christmas (1947)
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
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34
15
2.5
/1105/
44
/131/
32
/27/
38
/10/

The Emeryville Experiments (2016)
When their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape. They find themselves hunted by crazies.
poster
The Roku Channel
?
6.6
/200/

Twin Rivers (2007)
Set in 1939 Australia, two brothers embark on a 500 mile journey on foot across New South Wales following a dream. A chance encounter with a fellow traveler changes the course of their journey and ultimately, the course of their lives.
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?
4.0
/65/
53
/3/
40
/1/

Spook (1988)
Something is out there - in the bush - near the dilapidated old cabin, which a family from Sydney has rented for their vacation.
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?
6.8
/8/
20
/1/

Back to the Back of Beyond (1997)
Film-maker John Heyer recounts to fellow film-maker Pat Jackson his film career, especially his award-winning film from 1954, the Australian classic Back of Beyond. At the same time as the two friends are in conversation the "original" Tom Kruse, outback mailman and the subject of Heyer's film, is retracing his journey of over 40 years before across the inland desert of Australia to bring the mail to the isolated people along the 325 mile stock-route from Queensland to South Australia. Heyer's importance to Austraian cinema is acknowledged and we get to see him as a person away from the camera too as he chats and travels across Europe with his friend.
poster
?
7.0
/93/

Valentine's Day (2008)
In the mould of The Full Monty and Brassed Off, VALENTINE'S DAY is a tale of hope and redemption. Ben Valentine (Rhys Muldoon) has totally lost his way in the world when he finds himself in a strange country town. With a sentence of 200 hours of community service, Valentine must coach the town's 'no-hoper' football team, who are teetering on the brink of demise. If the team don't win three out of the next four games, they'll be merged with their arch rivals and the town will also lose its precious pie factory. Valentine is embraced, heart and soul by the townsfolk. This one-time drifter learns how to live and hope again - and so does the town.
poster
?
9.9
/7/

Return Chute: The Survival of a Small Town Video Store (2023)
Rod O'Hara bought Bellingen Video Connection in 2018 when video stores were already considered to be on the way out – if not already dead. Now, years later, against all the odds, and after facing many personal setbacks, Rod and the local community have kept this iconic local business and bastion for lovers of television, film and screen culture alive - but for how long?
poster
The Roku Channel
?
5.4
/8/

Running Wild: Australia's Camels (2016)
Robyn Davidson, famous for her solo expedition across the west Australian deserts by camel in the 1970s, presents this documentary telling the story of Australia's camels and the people who brought them here.
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?
6.5
/14/
10
/1/

The Blue Streak Rocket (1964)
The building and launch of the British-made Blue Streak rocket.
poster
?
6.9
/11/
50
/1/

Broken Line North (2019)
Two broken people - a Lao-Australian woman and a teenage hitchhiker - must navigate grief, isolation and an unlikely connection forged over one night in a roadside motel.
poster
?
7.5
/22/
70
/1/

Watandar, My Countryman (2022)
After former Afghan refugee and photographer, Muzafar Ali, discovers that Afghans have been an integral part of Australia for over 160 years, he begins to photograph their descendants in a search to define his own Afghan-Australian identity. The Cameleer Descendants are a mix of Aboriginal, Afghan and Colonial Australian and as Muzafar meets and connects with the resilient but traumatised community he learns about his new country’s complicated history. His journey is interrupted when Afghanistan is handed back to the Taliban by the US and International Forces, and he races to help his friends and colleagues left behind.
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?
7.9
/18/
80
/1/

Audrey Napanangka (2023)
The story of a Warlpiri woman, Audrey, and her Sicilian partner Santo as they navigate through colonial systems to keep the children they care for together. Audrey Napanangka was born at a time when the world was changing for the people in the Central Australian Desert. Settler colonisation was permeating the desert and forced changes and the fusion of two worlds shifted Audrey’s life forever. Today, Audrey raises young people to walk in many worlds, by centering culture, language, and Law in their lives alongside mainstream education. The intimate footage filmed over 10 years in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Yuendumu and Audrey’s Warlpiri country Mount Theo, showcases a heartwarming story about the power of kinship and family in what is known as Australia.
poster
?
10
/1/

Adelaide Advances (1954)
Made by The National Film Board 1954, this film captures the delightful city of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. The city set against a background of hills, owes a lot to its original plan by Colonel Light. The film displays the beauty of its wide streets and impressive public buildings and also features landscape painter Hans Heysen.
poster
?
6.1
/22/
10
/1/

High Country (1984)
Following the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is forced to return when he learns his prize stallion is to be run in a race that will break him.
poster
?
10
/1/

Once We Were Together (1981)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

The Last Newsreel (1989)
A short documentary produced by the National Film and Sound Archive to promote 'Operation Newsreel', a project to collect and preserve Australian newsreel films, done in the style of a vintage newsreel.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
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6.3
/174/
55
/17/
60
/3/

Beyond the Wasteland (2022)
Shot in Australia, USA, Italy, France, Germany, and Japan, Beyond the Wasteland follows the fans from around the world who go to extraordinary lengths in the name of Mad Max. Transporting us into the world of Mad Max, we explore the eccentric world of the fans, their costumes, and their machines as these oddball fans find their place amongst the Mad Max community. The documentary also follows original cast member, Bertrand Cadart as he continues his fight against stage IV leukemia and travels from his home on the Sunshine Coast to the “Wasteland,” the desert location of Mad Max 2 in Silverton, for the last time. Beyond the Wasteland not only celebrates life but the ability to change oneself through passion.
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?
7.4
/11/
65
/2/
60
/1/

A Racetrack Somewhere (2016)
Investigating a blossoming network of backyard stables, dedicated strappers, trainers, jockeys and equine enthusiasts, A Racetrack Somewhere explores the vast Australian landscape, delving into the heart of some of the country's most iconic and remote Thoroughbred racing events.
poster
?
6.6
/77/
60
/1/

Weekend of Shadows (1978)
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
poster
?
7.6
/10/

Yer Old Faither (2020)
Set in the industrial town of Whyalla, this is an intimate portrait of John Croall, a Glaswegian immigrant to Australia, and the father of long-time Adelaide Fringe director, Heather Croall. John Croall delivered three generations of babies and planted thousands of trees in the town. He was also a great letter writer, and this very personal documentary uses these letters as its point of departure. Heather Croall films with her father as a way of coping with his approaching death and reflecting on the close, and often very funny, relationship between a father and a daughter.
poster
?
5.5
/51/
70
/2/
58
/2/

For Good (2003)
A 13 year old girl is raped and murdered in a small country town. Ten years later, the murderer is up for parole and the victim's father has vowed personal vengence if the killer is released. Sometime journalist, Lisa, is haunted by the crime and in confronting the killer she starts a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
poster
60
?
6.4
/231/
60
/8/
56
/11/

Eureka Stockade (1949)
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
poster
Kanopy
58
?
5.9
/287/
58
/6/
60
/6/
56
/2/

Blue Fin (1978)
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.8
/34/
10
/2/

Maralinga Tjarutja (2020)
The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
poster
46
?
5.7
/132/
40
/2/
44
/5/

Fever (1988)
A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
poster
?

Britain Fires A-Bomb No. 2 (First Pictures) (1954)
British Pathé version of the Woomera atomic tests.
poster
?

Simpson Desert Expedition (1939)
Footage of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition, led by Dr. Cecil Thomas (C.T.) Madigan, with a team of nine. In 1929 CT Madigan undertook a series of aerial reconnaissances of central Australia and in 1939 followed this up with a scientific expedition into the Simpson Desert. His expedition crossed the desert in 25 days with a party of nine, pioneering the use of mobile radio communication, and making extensive zoological and botanical collections, which included 14 new species of spiders. The geology of the desert was also recorded. This was the first scientific examination of the Simpson Desert and only the second complete crossing by a European. Madigan's expedition was financed by AA Simpson of Adelaide. His book of the journey is titled' Crossing the Dead Heart'.
poster
?

close to the bone
Deals with the echoes of a reprisal raid by pastoral settlers against local aboriginals.
poster
Kanopy
?

Mparntwe Sacred Sites (2004)
This documentary focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development.
poster
?

A Dying Shame
'A Dying Shame' examines the plight of Aboriginal health in Australia. Through the personal stories of families and individuals within the Aboriginal community in Borroloola in the Northern Territory, this film reveals the human tragedy behind the bald statistics of Aboriginal health. Shot over nine months the film documents the struggles of individuals and their families in the face of poor health and an ineffectual health system, said to be one of the most inequitable health services in the Western world.
poster
?

Munda Nyuringu: A Film of the Fringe Dwellers of the Goldfields
Aboriginal people on the Goldfields of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (Australia) recount their history, speaking amidst living conditions of grinding poverty next to the gold and nickel mines and uranium development.
poster
?

The Making of The Lost Son (2015)
Mac is at the threshold of losing everything while directing his feature film.


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