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    Content from Australian Film Commission

    Poster for The Odd Angry Shot
    Movie
    1979•
    6.0

    The Odd Angry Shot

    A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.

    Poster for Dot and the Kangaroo
    Movie
    1977•
    7.1

    Dot and the Kangaroo

    An Australian girl gets lost in the Outback, but she's befriended by a kangaroo who gives her a ride in her pouch as they search for the girl's home. Aiding the pair are musically gifted koalas, platypuses, and kookaburras in this film based on Ethel Pedley's 1899 children's book, with animated humans and animals superimposed upon a live-action background.

    Poster for Oz
    Movie
    1976•
    4.9

    Oz

    Teenage groupie Dorothy is riding with a rock band when, suddenly, the van runs off the road, and she hits her head. She awakes in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as her own and learns that her arrival killed a young thug. A gay clothier, Glyn the Good Fairy, gives her a pair of red heels as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard, an androgynous glam rock star. As she's pursued and sexually threatened by the late thug's brother, she encounters and befriends a brainless surfer, a heartless mechanic, and a cowardly biker.

    Poster for The Plumber
    Movie
    1979•
    6.2

    The Plumber

    A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.

    Poster for River Queen
    Movie
    2005•
    5.6

    River Queen

    An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.

    Poster for Double Sculls
    Movie
    1986

    Double Sculls

    A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

    Poster for Angel Baby
    Movie
    1995•
    6.4

    Angel Baby

    Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...

    Poster for The Nugget
    Movie
    2002•
    5.6

    The Nugget

    'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.

    Poster for Proof
    Movie
    1991•
    6.6

    Proof

    Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.

    Poster for Archer's Adventure
    Movie
    1985•
    5.0

    Archer's Adventure

    During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourne Cup race.

    Poster for Brother
    Movie
    2000•
    7.0

    Brother

    After a short introduction of the whole family, the story of the elder brother is told.

    Poster for Greenkeeping
    Movie
    1992•
    6.0

    Greenkeeping

    An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club

    Poster for Romper Stomper
    Movie
    1992•
    6.5

    Romper Stomper

    Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

    Poster for Snapshot
    Movie
    1979•
    5.4

    Snapshot

    A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.

    Poster for Black Water
    Movie
    2008•
    5.9

    Black Water

    Based on true events, Grace, her boyfriend Adam, and her younger sister, Lee, are on holiday in Northern Australia when they decide to take a tour down a river. As they drift into a swamp, their boat suddenly capsizes. Stranded in the flooded swamp, the three tourists must figure out what to do to survive as they realize they are being watched through the black water.

    Poster for Three Dollars
    Movie
    2005•
    6.9

    Three Dollars

    Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.

    Poster for Blurred
    Movie
    2002•
    6.0

    Blurred

    Every year more than 70,000 Australian school leavers head to the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast to celebrate their release from the secondary school system. With a wild mixture of sun, surf and sex, this quintessential Australian tradition is known affectionately as 'Schoolies Week'. So strap on the beer goggles and follow several groups of friends as they travel to the Gold Coast by train, clapped out Holden, Limo and on foot in search of the best time of their lives.

    Poster for Body Melt
    Movie
    1994•
    5.1

    Body Melt

    Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

    Poster for Starstruck
    Movie
    1982•
    5.3

    Starstruck

    A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

    Poster for Remember Me
    Movie
    1985

    Remember Me

    A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. She is torn between her still strong desire for him, and her fear, which comes from events in their past. She cannot control his intrusion into both her current life and her second marriage, and tragedy ensues.

    Poster for A Town Like Alice
    TV
    1981•
    7.6

    A Town Like Alice

    Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.

    Poster for On the Beach
    TV
    2000

    On the Beach

    The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.

    Poster for Brides of Christ
    TV
    1991•
    7.0

    Brides of Christ

    Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.

    Poster for Marking Time
    TV
    2003•
    5.5

    Marking Time

    Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia. The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.

    Poster for Eureka Stockade
    TV
    1984•
    3.0

    Eureka Stockade

    Eureka Stockade is a 1984 Australian miniseries based on the battle of Eureka Stockade. It reunited the producer, writer, director and star of A Town Like Alice.

    Poster for A Thousand Skies
    TV
    1985•
    5.0

    A Thousand Skies

    Charles Kingsford Smith, an adventurer, a crusader, a fighter, a lover. Against impossible odds, he went out to explore the sky, and soared higher than most.