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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the late 1960s, four orphan boys go for a holiday by the sea on the South Australian coast. Since they share the same birth month, the orphanage calls them December boys. But these teens--Maps, Spit, Spark and Misty--have much more in common. With no hopes of ever joining a family, they form their own familial bonds. Then the unexpected news comes that a young couple may adopt one of them, and the long-time pals suddenly share something else: a...
2) Black water
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, three friends must fight for their lives against a man-eating crocodile when they become trapped in a remote Australian mangrove swamp.
3) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat inherits a large ranch. English cattle barons plot to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover to protect her ranch. Together they experience four life-altering years, a love affair and the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
5) Walkabout
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010], c1971
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Publisher
[BBC America]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After reuniting with his long-lost daughter in Singapore, Dr. Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat, Australia, where a new Senior Constable and an old foe do their best to thwart his work as police surgeon. And yet they need Blake's help to solve the murder of the mayor of Ballarat, the stabbing of a rock 'n' roll star and the poisoning of a well-dressed picnicker.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary Australian detective drama about retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst eager to be mentored, whether Alexa wants to or not, Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime.
10) Muriel's wedding
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999?
Language
English
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero!
12) The thorn birds
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything away from him: a seedy place of lowlifes, corruption,...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. Regina has ensnared Bligh patriarch and political aspirant George in marriage, but she continues to plot against Sarah, exploiting the rising fear of Communism to target her rival.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jack Irish, is the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple's award-winning novels. The mystery finds Jack grappling with more personal and professional drama as he continues to investigate crimes in Melbourne's seedy underbelly.
17) Breath
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.
20) Shine
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
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