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Sky Pirates
Overview: Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-16
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Ground Zero
Overview: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Windrider
Overview: A rock star falls for a rich man's son who competitively board-sails the coast of Western Australia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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The Big Hurt
Overview: A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Buddies
Overview: Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-23
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Mushrooms
Overview: In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-20
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The Naked Country
Overview: Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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Lord Howe Island: Pacific Eden
Overview: A place of biological superlatives with a flora and fauna that have only just begun to be researched: Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand. This is the first documentary on what may be the most isolated nature reserve on the planet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-31
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The Farm
Overview: After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Dunera Boys
Overview: At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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High Rolling
Overview: Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dope-peddler and two exotic nightclub dancers.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-04
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Waterfront
Overview: Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Time Game
Overview: 13 year old Tony Johnson and computer wizard, is of falsely accused of setting fire to his school. He is sent to stay with his grandparents over Christmas. Tony's grandfather invents things. He has designed a game called "The Time Game"...
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Civilisations: The Gardens of Babel
Overview: Mesopotamia was the site of the Sumerian civilisation, which flourished at the confluence of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. From 5000 to 2000 BC, the Sumerians flourished in a hostile environment by developing agriculture and irrigation and they opened up the trade routes of the ancient world. It was the Sumerians who invented writing and the wheel, and they first divided time into minutes and seconds. In the end however the Babylonian civilisation took the place of the Sumerians. However their heritage and myths live on in the Mediterranean and Western worlds to this day.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Garbo
Overview: Comedy about two Australian garbage collectors starring Los Trios Ringbarkus.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-20
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Hell Has Harbour Views
Overview: Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-30
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