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September (2007)
(2007) [M]

Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy(Clarence John Ryan) have been best friends for as long as they can remember. While Ed goes to school, Paddy works with his father, Michael(Kelton Pell) labouring without pay on the farm owned by Ed's father,Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith). Ed and Paddy spend their...  More

A Town Like Alice
(1956) [G]

Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna star in this award-winning adaptation of Nevil Shute’s moving novel. Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town and how he hopes to...  More

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
(1988) [PG]

Griffin is nine years old. He's haunted by fragments of a dream. He sees a journey - a celestial city, a great cathedral, and a figure roped to the steeple, about to fall... It is Cumbria 1348, the year of the Black Death. A medieval mining town lives in fear of the advancing plague. Griffin's...  More

The Big Steal
(1990) [PG]

Danny Clark loves Joanna Johnson and Jaguars. The only problem is he doesn't have either of them. Danny trades his ancient Nissan Cedric in for a Jag with crooked dealer Farkas, and a loan. The Jag has a dodgy motor and Danny is forced to try to steal the original motor from Farkas. Joanna hates...  More

Picnic At Hanging Rock: Director's Cut (2 Disc Set)
(1975) [PG]

Based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day, Picnic At Hanging Rock is suffused with menace, mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900, a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly...  More

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

Romper Stomper
(1989) [R]

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the...  More

Playing Beatie Bow
(1986) [G]

In modern-day (1985) Sydney, Australia, teen-aged Abigail discovers that she can communicate with at least one apparently dead person, who lived in that town back in 1873. As their communications continue, Abigail suddenly finds herself transported back in time. In this light drama, based on a...  More

Strictly Ballroom
(1992) [PG]

Scott Hastings is a champion ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckling who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes...  More

Come In Spinner (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]

COME IN SPINNER is a mini-series adaptation of the Australian wartime novel of the same name. It's an insightful look into the lives of three women in 1944 who work in the beauty salon of a top hotel in Sydney. The show was directed by Robert Marchand and stars Lisa Harrow and Kerry Armstrong....  More