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Year
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Stars
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Synopsis
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Answer
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2000
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Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon
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Biopic of one of Australia's most infamous criminals, who writes his memoirs whilst in prison.
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Chopper
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1998
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David Wenham, Toni Collette
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A violent man is released on parole and returns home, where he negatively influences his two brothers.
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The Boys
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2003
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Sam Worthington, Timothy Spall
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Barry is released from prison. But to go straight, he must use his skills as a criminal to escape his former boss and a corrupt cop.
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Gettin' Square
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1992
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Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock
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A group of skinheads become alarmed at how their neighbourhood is becoming more multicultural.
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Romper Stomper
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1993
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Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito
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A man is kept inside by his mother for 30 years who tells him the air is toxic and he will die if he goes outside. But eventually he has to escape and find his way in the outside world.
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Bad Boy Bubby
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1974
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Terry Camilleri, John Meillon
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In a small Australian town, the locals deliberately cause car accidents so they can salvage the wrecks and steal valuables from the cars as a means of survival.
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The Cars That Ate Paris
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1981
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Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence
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In the post-apocalyptic Australian Outback, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community, escape a horde of violent bandits.
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
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1998
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Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin
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A policeman interviews a suspected murderer, whose true character is hard to determine.
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The Interview
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1979
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Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley
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In a lawless post-apocalyptic world. a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
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Mad Max
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1986
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Colin Friels, John Hargreaves
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A chronically shy mechanical genius, who has been fired from his job, teams up with an ex-con to pull off an ingenious heist.
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Malcolm
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2002
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Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury
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In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback to return home.
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Rabbit Proof Fence
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1990
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Sam Neil, Zoe Carides
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A down on his luck cook, falls in love with a young Greek girl at the club where he works. After accidentally killing a fellow worker, he and his friend must work out how to dispose of the body.
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Death in Brunswick
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1996
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Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims
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Looking for the fast track out of suburban hell, two natural born losers scheme an impossible heist.
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Idiot Box
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1997
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Michael Caton, Stephen Curry
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A working-class family from Melbourne, fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
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The Castle
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2006
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Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish
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A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin.
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Candy
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1975
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Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert
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During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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1975
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Peter Cummins, John Hargreaves
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A good young cop and a corrupt older cop are called to a domestic dispute, where they become embroiled in the couple's problems.
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The Removalists
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1971
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Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil
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Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy.
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Walkabout
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2003
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Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin
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Two suspended undercover detectives. must expose corruption in the Victorian police force and the Victorian state government in order to clear their names.
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Bad Eggs
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1999
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Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown
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A young man who works as a bouncer at a Kings Cross strip club, has his life turned upside down when he becomes indebted to a local gangster.
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Two Hands
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2002
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Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter
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An amoral, selfish young man, ends up doing all he can to help save an inner-city bowls club destined for demolition and redevelopment.
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Crackerjack
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2013
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Aaron Pederson, Hugo Weaving
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An indigenous detective returns to his Outback home town to investigate the murder of a young girl.
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Mystery Road
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1980
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Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy
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Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill out onto the field at a professional Australian Rules football club.
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The Club
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1980
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Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson
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Three Australian lieutenants during The Boer War are put on trial for war crimes, as a means of diverting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
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Breaker Morant
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1986
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Michael Hutchence, Saskia Post
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Two men who are members of a band, share a house in a Melbourne suburb with a variety of young music fans and social misfits.
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Dogs in Space
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2005
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Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce
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During the Australian Frontier Wars, a lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and his younger brother, He offers the elder one a deal. He sets him free to either kill his psychopathic older outlaw brother, or his younger brother will be killed.
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The Proposition
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1996
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Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl
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As a young man, pianist David Helfgott is driven so hard by his father and his teachers, that he eventually has a nervous breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano and rediscovers his love of playing.
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Shine
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2007
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Brendan Cowell, Maia Thomas
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An unmotivated, suburban Melbourne policeman is put on the front line in the search for a psychopathic killer.
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Noise
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1994
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Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths
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A young social outcast, from a dysfunctional family, steals money from her parents, and escapes in the hope of finding happiness.
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Muriel's Wedding
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2005
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Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving
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An ex-heroin addict becomes embroiled in a drug deal to help raise money for her business plans and to help her drug addict step-father.
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Little Fish
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1995
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James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski
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An eccentric farmer teaches his pig how to herd sheep in order to try to win a local sheep herding competition.
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Babe
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2003
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Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom
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Biopic of one of Australia's most infamous bushrangers.
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Ned Kelly
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2016
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Aaron Pederson, Jacki Weaver
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An indigenous detective travels to a small outback town in search of a missing girl, and becomes embroiled in a web of police, political and mining industry corruption.
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Goldstone
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2009
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Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac
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A journalist and a young Timorese political activist, travel to a small Timorese town to investigate the murder of five Australian journalists by the Indonesian military during the Indonesian invasion of Portuguese Timor in 1975.
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Balibo
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1987
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Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan
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A backing singer in a traveling Elvis tribute band is fired leaving her stranded in a the caravan park of a small coastal town. Here, she inadvertently encounters the daughter she abandoned 13 years ago without knowing it's her.
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High Tide
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