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Australian miniseries set in 1988, taking place 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s Playground.

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a long journey to seek help from a tribal leader in this Australian film.

A bounty hunter (Simon Baker) and an indigenous Australian (Jacob Junior Nayinggul) hunt down the leader of an Aboriginal mob terrorising Northern Territory in this Australian Outback-set period thriller.

Four war buddies hatch a plan to escape from their retirement home in this Australian comedy starring Oscar nominee James Cromwell (The Green Mile), Dennis Waterman (The Sweeney), two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) and Jack Thompson (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones).

The first Australian film to play in competition at Cannes, this true story drama follows 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.

Australian drama based on the true story of 11-year-old sexual abuse survivor Lyndal, whose court case precipitated changes to Australian law.

Australian writer-actor Brendan Cowell turns his lauded play into a feature-length film, a fictional biopic of a creative ad man and party boy who attempts to give up booze after a drunken incident that snaps his relationship in half...

Christina Ricci stars as an American teacher who takes a troubled inner-city Sydney youth (Hunter Page-Lochard) – the son of a criminal boss – under her wing in this debut from Australian director Sarah Spillane.

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.

Slow-burning, modern-day western, centring on a police detective who returns to his hometown to undertake an investigation into the brutal murder of a teenage Aboriginal girl. The crime and the detective's presence bring the town's long-simmering racial tensions to the surface. Stars Aaron Pedersen, Jack Thompson and Hugo Weaving.

Sports drama centring on the fallout from a scandal that hits the tight-knit Aussie Rules club, the Torquay Tigers. After ten years away, one-time Torquay legend Tom (Oliver Ackland) returns to face his demons and pull the club back together. Also stars Josh Helman (Animal Kingdom), Rose McIver (The Lovely Bones) and Anna Hutchinson (Cabin in the Woods).

Adventure film based on Australian writer Banjo Paterson's peom from 1890. Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of his father's farm...

Demon-creatures fantasy thriller starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce, written by Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) and Matthew Robbins (Mimic).

The true, rags-to-riches story of Chinese ballet dancer Li Cunxin - from rural China to ballet stardom as one of the world's greatest dancers.

Classic, brutal Australian drama, nominated for the Palme d'Or in 1971, about a bonded teacher who arrives in a rough outback mining town, planning to stay overnight. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction.

Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrman's romantic, period epic, starring fellow natives Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.

Noir style thriller set in post war Berlin...

The one where Anakin Skywalker falls in love...

During World War II, British Major Celliers (David Bowie, The Hunger) and Japanese prison camp commander Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto, CODA) enter into a tragic battle of wills.

Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, this Australian war film follows three lieutenants who execute prisoners as a means of deflecting attentions from war crimes committed by their superiors.

Classic Australian drama, a defining piece of work in the 1970/80s Australian new wave. Set on an outback station in 1956, where hard-living shearers battle the clock, the sheep and each other for the position of 'gun shearer’...

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, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.

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 cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.