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Faraway Downs

Faraway Downs

Faraway Downs
TMDb: 6.826
N/A

The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land,…

Status: Ended
Poker Face

Poker Face

Poker Face
IMDb: 5.2
94

A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they’ve betrayed him over…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Bombora – The Story of Australian Surfing

Bombora – The Story of Australian Surfing

Bombora – The Story of Australian Surfing
IMDb: N/A
N/A

A definitive history of surfing in Australia, Bombora tells the story of Australian beach culture through our surfing champions, writers, pioneers, entrepreneurs, mavericks, legends, drop-outs and drop-ins.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
A Woman Called Golda

A Woman Called Golda

A Woman Called Golda
IMDb: 7.5
240

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel’s prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Petersen

Petersen

Petersen
IMDb: 6.6
107

Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor’s beautiful…

Genre: Drama
Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach
IMDb: 4.7
90

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan,…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
My Name Is Gulpilil

My Name Is Gulpilil

My Name Is Gulpilil
IMDb: 7.1
101

Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

Genre: Documentary
Ruby Cairo

Ruby Cairo

Ruby Cairo
IMDb: 5
91

Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband’s money trail around the world.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise
IMDb: 5.1
N/A

Following her husband Arthur’s mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a freighter along with her husband’s casket bound…

December Boys

December Boys

December Boys
IMDb: 6.5
105

For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Never Too Late

Never Too Late

Never Too Late
IMDb: 5.9
95

It’s been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers’—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Swinging Safari

Swinging Safari

Swinging Safari
IMDb: 5.6
97

1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Ruben Guthrie

Ruben Guthrie

Ruben Guthrie
IMDb: 5.9
94

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Mystery Road

Mystery Road

Mystery Road
IMDb: 6.6
121

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
IMDb: 5.6
99

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer
IMDb: 7.3
117

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Leatherheads

Leatherheads

Leatherheads
IMDb: 6
114

A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Sin

Original Sin

Original Sin
IMDb: 6.1
118

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

Genre: Thriller
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
IMDb: 6.6
155

A visiting city reporter’s assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage

Excess Baggage
IMDb: 5.4
101

A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.

The Sum of Us

The Sum of Us

The Sum of Us
IMDb: 7.3
100

A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for “Miss Right,” his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for “Mr….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wind

Wind

Wind
IMDb: 6.4
126

In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America’s Cup race against an Australian crew. Determined to get the…

Genre: Action, Drama
Flesh + Blood

Flesh + Blood

Flesh + Blood
IMDb: 6.7
126

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble’s son. As the plague and warfare…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
IMDb: 7.3
124

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
IMDb: 7.3
113

The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Mad Dog Morgan

Mad Dog Morgan

Mad Dog Morgan
IMDb: 6.1
102

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright
IMDb: 7.7
114

Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Blue World Order

Blue World Order

Blue World Order
IMDb: 4.9
115

After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to…

The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River
IMDb: 7.3
104

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father’s farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands…

Blinder

Blinder

Blinder
IMDb: 4.5
102

An ex footballer embroiled in a scandal returns hometown clear his name and reignite an old flame

Genre: Drama, Romance
Feed

Feed

Feed
IMDb: 5.3
97

A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place
IMDb: 6.6
100

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Assassination of Richard Nixon

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

The Assassination of Richard Nixon
IMDb: 6.9
95

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t…

Bad Blood

Bad Blood

Bad Blood
IMDb: 6.4
105

During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Burke & Wills

Burke & Wills

Burke & Wills
IMDb: 6.1
140

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

Ground Zero

Ground Zero

Ground Zero
IMDb: 6.6
109

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…

Genre: Thriller
Don’t Tell

Don’t Tell

Don’t Tell
IMDb: 7.3
110

Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious…

Genre: Drama
Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow
IMDb: 6
108

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads — and Deakins’s co-pilot, Riley Hale,…

Genre: Action
Around the Block

Around the Block

Around the Block
IMDb: 5.9
104

A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.

Genre: Drama
The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans
IMDb: 7.2
133

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Genre: Drama, Romance