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Heaven's Burning
(1997) [MA]
Colin (Russell Crowe) is the getaway driver in a bank robbery which is witnessed by an unhappy Japanese bride named Minori. Her life is now in danger and the two outcasts find themselves thrown together in a quest for freedom culminating in a new found love. More
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Flirting
(1991) [M]
Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequal to The Year My Voice Broke, set in rural Australia. Against a backdrop of bullying and sadistic teachers Danny strikes up an affair with an African girl, Thandiwe, studying at a nearby girls school. Their affair blossoms while everone tries... More
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The Boys
(1998) [MA]
Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well. More
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Night of Fear / Inn of the Damned (Double-Feature)
(1972) [M]
NIGHT OF FEAR:
A deranged and reclusive stranger delights in dismembering unwary travellers and keeping company with a colony of rats fed on blood.
When a young women crashes into one of this misfit's ghoulish traps, so begins "an unremitting avalanche of terror" (THE AUSTRALIAN) as... More
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Man with the Screaming Brain
(2005) [MA]
Wealthy Industrialist William Cole has nothing in common with a poor cab driver....until now.
Sharing one brain and one body they must work together to find the women who murdered them both.
Man with the Screaming Brain is a story of greed, betrayal and revenge in the big, bad city. William... More
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He Died With A Falafel In His Hand
(2001) [MA]
Danny (Noah Taylor) is a young man seemingly used to chaos, but he soon discovers that the fates are more than capable of dishing out more than he can handle in this offbeat Australian comedy. By his own count, thirty-ish Danny has found himself sharing living quarters with one or more friends... More
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Newsfront
(1978) [PG]
An insight into Australia in the 1950's, whilst portraying the turmoil through the tangled love affairs and business ambitions of two brothers in the news media.
The lives, loves and loyalties of the newsreel cameraman. When the news ran out... they made their own.
Newsfront is the story of... More
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My Brilliant Career
(1979) [G]
Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) is the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Bold and determined, Sybylla dreams of succeeding as an acclaimed writer. But in a time of sexist ignorance and bigotry, Sybylla has frequent clashes with procrustean conformists. Though it is... More
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Betty Blokk-Buster Follies
(1976) [M]
The gay-themed, enormously popular stage act of the Australian female impersonator/impressionist/comedian Reg Livermore, is recorded here on film. His song impressions include Lou Reed, Billy Joel, and Charles Azanavour. The characters he enacts include Betty Blokk-Buster, a German maid who wears... More
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Kokoda
(2006) [M]
The moment in history depicted in this film is the invasion by the Japanese into New Guinea in World War 2. A situation that directly threatened Australia as most of the Allied forces were consumed with fighting their own battles many thousands of miles away. For Australia it was a matter of... More
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Starstruck
(1982) [PG]
Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) is a reluctant barmaid in her family's struggling Sydney pub. She wants to be a singing star and her 14-year old oddball cousin Angus (Ross O'Donovan) has a crazy showbiz idea that might just make it happen for her. Manipulating the media, Angus pulls off a brazen... More
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Romulus My Father (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [M]
The story of Romulus (Eric Bana), his beautiful wife, Christina (Franka Potente), and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is the tale of a boy trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking... More
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Mrs. Carey's Concert
(2010) [PG]
At a Sydney girls School, Music Director Karen Carey prepares her young students for a concert at he Opera House. Believing in the trans-formative power of great music, Carey insists upon a Classical repertoire, sets a dauntingly high performance standard and requires the participation of every... More
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Look Both Ways (2 Disc Set)
(2005) [M]
Meryl imagines disaster coming from every direction—train crashes, man-eating sharks, baby-eating killer whales...and then there's Nick. An innovative mix of animation and live action, set over a scorchingly hot weekend, when people dealing with unexpected events find their lives intersecting.... More
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Gallipoli (2 disc set)
(1981) [PG]
Mel Gibson delivers an electrifying performance in Peter Weir's (The Truman Show, Witness) compelling story of friendship and adventure between two Australian soldiers in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans, climb the pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their... More
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Walk The Talk
(2000) [M]
A well-meaning but misguided talent agent uses his paraplegic girlfriend's government compensation to fund his quest to resurrect a faded club singer's career. More
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
(2010) [M]
Ellie and her friends never thought their quiet country life would ever change much. Heading into their last year of high school,they decide to camp for the weekend in a remote bush clearing. When they return, their parents have disappeared, their phones are dead, and all power is out. Soon, the... More
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Happy Feet
(2006) [G]
Animated comedy featuring the voices of Robin Williams, Nicole Kidman and Elijah Wood. Emperor penguins have lived for centuries with one simple goal in life: to find their soul mates through their own unique heart song. Mumble (Elijah Wood), son of Memphis (Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (Kidman)... More
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Road Games
(1981) [M]
Stacy Keach is Pat Quid, a lone trucker who plays games to keep his sanity on long hauls through the desolate Australian Outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is a free-spirited hitchhiker looking for excitement with a game of her own. And somewhere up ahead, on the loneliest highway in the world, is a... More
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Monkey Puzzle
(2008) [M]
Monkey Puzzle follows five intrepid twenty-somethings who set off on an adventure into New South Wales' Blue Mountains in search of the world's rarest tree, the wollemi pine or 'monkey puzzle' tree.
After abseiling down into the rainforest gorges, a series of mishaps delay their... More
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The Finished People
(2003) [MA]
The lives of three young men in their late teens and early twenties, all living desperate lives on the streets of Cabramatta, Sydney: Tommy (Jason McCormack) is a longtime heroin addict who's once again trying to reform himself and get a job, with the help of his friend Sara (Sarah Vongmany). Van... More
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Long Weekend
(1978) [M]
Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch up their differences. More
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Letters to Ali
(2004) [PG]
Clara Law's LETTERS TO ALI is at once a personal, a humanistic and a political film that echoes Australia’s growing public concern over the treatment of refugees, especially children, in Australian detention centres. The documentary chronicles one exceptional ‘average’ Australian family the... More
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The Great Bookie Robbery (2 Disc Set)
(1986) [M]
On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne's venerableVictorian club, escaping with several million dollars in untraceable cash. The robbery had been so brilliantly planned and executed that police were left without a single clue, and so strict was the robbers' code of... More
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Vigil
(1984) [M]
Toss, a solitary girl, living in an isolated mist and rain soaked rural valley (Mt. Messenger – northeastern Taranaki), whose reality is hardly less haunting than her fantasies. When Toss’ father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job... More
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Breaker Morant
(1980) [PG]
Hero or villian? His exploits shook an empire... and made him a legend. South Africa, 1901: The British war against the Boers has deteriorated into bitter guerilla warfare. A unit of the Bushveldt Carbineers made up mainly of Australians is ordered by the British High Command to fight the Boer on... More
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Sunday Too Far Away
(1975) [M]
Set on one of the vast sheep stations in inland Australia, 1955, Sunday too Far Away is a classic of Australian cinema and is presented for the first time on DVD in its original widescreen aspect ratio along with some rare bonus archival material.
Jack Thompson is Foley, the best shearer on... More
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Wiggly TV
(1999) [G]
Wa-hoo! The fab-four of fun, THE WIGGLES have produced their first DVD! WIGGLY TV contains over 90 minutes of Wiggling adventure, fun and music! Enjoy three episodes of the WIGGLES TELEVISION series that has delighted children across the world from Sydney to Seattle and Dublin to Dunedin!
As a... More
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The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
(1994) [M]
On Monday, 13 September 1993 the cast of "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert" faced the cameras for the very first time. Eight months later the completed movie was feted with the audience award as the Most Popular Film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and at the San Francisco and... More
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Death In Brunswick (2 disc set)
(1991) [M]
Carl Fitzgerald (Sam Neill) is a loser in life. Thirty-something, unemployed, dumped by his wife and has a controlling mother who likes to criticise him at every opportunity! One day Carl decides it's time to change things. He manages to get a job as a chef in a sleazy club and he has fallen in... More
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