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- This is a chronological list of Australian films by decade and year for years 1940s-1990s. For a complete alphabetical A-Z list, see Category:Australian films.
A list of films produced in Australia by year during the 1990s, in the List of Australian films.
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
...Almost |
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Aya |
Solrun Hoaas |
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Beyond My Reach |
Dan Burstall |
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Drama |
IMDb |
The Big Steal |
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Bloodmoon |
Alec Mills |
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Horror |
IMDb |
Blood Oath |
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Brakewell and the Twins |
Ivor Bowen |
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IMDb |
Breakaway
(a.k.a. Escape from Madness) |
Don McLennan |
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Drama/Comedy/Adventure |
IMDb |
Call Me Mr. Brown |
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The Castanet Club |
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Catch of the Day |
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The Circle Game |
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The Crossing |
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A Date with Destiny |
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Dead Sleep |
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Deep Dive |
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Fatal Sky |
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Father |
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Flowers by Request |
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Friday on My Mind |
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Golden Braid |
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Green Card |
Peter Weir |
Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell |
Romantic comedy |
Won Oscar & Golden Globe, +1 win, +3 nominations |
Harbour Beat |
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Heaven Tonight |
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Holidays on the River Yarra |
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In Too Deep |
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Jigsaw |
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A Kink in the Picasso |
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The Man in the Blue and White Holden |
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Man Without Pigs |
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Nirvana Street Murder |
Aleksi Vellis |
Mark Little, Ben Mendelsohn, Mary Coustas |
Comedy |
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The Phantom Horsemen |
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Phobia |
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Plead Guilty, Get a Bond |
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Quigley Down Under |
Simon Wincer |
Tom Selleck Alan Rickman Laura San Giacomo |
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Raw Nerve |
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Return Home |
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Sher Mountain Killings Mystery |
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Sleep When You're Dead |
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Struck by Lightning |
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Swimming |
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The Tales of Helpmann |
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Talking Broken |
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Till There Was You |
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Weekend with Kate |
Arch Nicholson |
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Comedy |
IMDb |
What the Moon Saw |
Pino Amenta |
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Family |
IMDb |
The Wonderful World of Dogs |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Amelia Rose Towers |
Jackie Farkas |
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Short |
IMDb |
Backsliding |
Simon Target |
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Drama / Thriller |
IMDb |
Big Ideas |
Mike Smith |
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Drama |
IMDb |
Black Harvest |
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Documentary |
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Blinky Bill
(a.k.a. Blinky Bill: The Movie) |
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Animation |
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Bloodlust |
Jon Hewitt, Richard Wolstencroft |
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Action / Horror |
IMDb |
Brain |
Sarah Watt |
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IMDb |
The Candle |
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Clowning Around |
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Come by Chance |
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Come Rain or Shine |
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The Distant Home |
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The Door |
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Double Trouble |
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Fatal Bond |
Vincent Monton |
Linda Blair, Jerome Ehlers |
Drama / Thriller |
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest |
Bill Kroyer |
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Animation |
Australian-USA coproduction |
Garbo |
Ron Cobb |
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Comedy |
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Girl of Refugee from Vietnam |
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Greenkeeping |
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Hidden Injuries |
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Hurricane Smith |
Colin Budds |
Carl Weathers |
Action |
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Illusion Is All |
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Isabelle Eberhardt |
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Jindalee Lady |
Brian Syron |
Lydia Miller, Patrick Ward, Michael Leslie |
Romance |
2 nom. Hawaii Int. Film Festival, Dreamspeakers First Nations Int Film & Art Festival IMDb AFC |
Judy in a Land Called Oz |
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Mad Bomber in Love |
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media |
Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick |
Mark Achbar, Noam Chomsky |
Documentary / War |
Australian-Finnish-Norwegian-Canadian coproduction |
The Medium |
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Modern Times |
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North of Chiang Mai |
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The Nostradamus Kid |
Bob Ellis |
Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto |
Drama |
2 AFI nominations |
Numbering Bad Fruit |
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The Nun and the Bandit |
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On My Own |
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On the Border of Hopetown |
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Over the Hill |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105080/ |
A Passion Play |
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The Power of One |
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Based on book of same title |
Redheads |
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Resistance |
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Road to Alice |
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Romper Stomper |
Geoffrey Wright |
Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock |
Action / Drama |
7 wins & 7 nominations |
Secrets |
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Seeing Red |
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Serendipity |
Karen Borger |
http://imdb.com/title/tt0852997/| |
Skippy |
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A Slow Night at the Kuwaiti Cafe |
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Something Wicked |
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Spotswood |
Mark Joffe |
Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn |
Comedy |
3 wins & 7 nominations |
Strictly Ballroom |
Baz Luhrmann |
Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Barry Otto |
Romantic comedy |
Nomin. for Golden Globe, +16 wins, +11 nom. |
The Surrogate |
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Turtle Beach |
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Wet and Wild Summer! |
Maurice Murphy |
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IMDb |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
The Adventures of Jimmy Cliche |
Harlan Alston |
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Short / Action |
IMDb |
All Men Are Liars |
Gerard Lee |
Toni Pearen, David Price |
Comedy |
IMDb |
Angel Baby |
Michael Rymer |
John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie |
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Audacious |
Samantha Lang |
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Short |
IMDb |
Babe |
Chris Noonan |
James Cromwell |
Comedy |
Won Oscar IMDb |
Back of Beyond |
Michael Robertson |
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Thriller |
IMDb |
Bathing Boxes |
Kathy Drayton |
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Short |
IMDb |
Billy's Holiday |
John Steven Lasher |
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Short documentary |
IMDb |
The Bounty |
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Capital V for Virtue |
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Code Blue |
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Dad and Dave: On Our Selection |
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Despondent Divorcee |
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The Existentialist Cowboy's Last Stand |
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Fido Jones and the Lost Treasure |
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The Final Stage |
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Flashlight |
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Fly Peewee, Fly! |
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Frailejón |
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God I Missed You Baby |
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Hayride to Hell |
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Hotel Sorrento |
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The Journey |
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Ladies Please! |
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The Last Game |
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The Last True Action Hero |
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Lessons in the Language of Love |
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The Life of Harry Dare |
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Lilian's Story |
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Lucinda, 31 |
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The Mangler |
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Mushrooms |
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Napoleon |
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On the Dead Side |
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Out |
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Rainbow's End |
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Raskols |
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Roses Are Red |
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Sanctuary |
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Sex Is a Four Letter Word |
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Shipwreck Coast |
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Small Treasures |
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Stitched |
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Swerve |
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Swinger |
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Teenage Portraits |
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The Third Stroke |
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Tunnel Vision |
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Under the Gun |
Matthew George |
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Action |
IMDb |
Vacant Possession |
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Victoria in the Ashes |
Emma Freeman |
Susie Lindeman as Victoria |
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IMDb |
Video Fool for Love |
Robert Gibson |
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Autobiography |
IMDb |
Violet's Visit |
Richard Turner |
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Drama comedy |
IMDb |
What I Have Written[1] |
John Hughes |
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Drama/Mystery |
IMDb |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
40,000 Years of Dreaming |
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The Alive Tribe |
Stephen Amis |
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Action/ Comedy/ Romance |
IMDb |
At Sea |
? |
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Documentary |
IMDb |
Barn of the Blood Llama |
Kevin L. West |
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Comedy / Horror |
IMDb |
The Beneficiary |
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Short |
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Blackrock |
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Blow |
Craig Boreham |
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Short animation |
IMDb |
Boy |
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Short |
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Brief Fiction |
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Bum Magnet |
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The Castle |
Rob Sitch |
Michael Caton, Anne Tenney Stephen Curry, Eric Bana |
comedy |
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Chastity Truth and Kinopanorama |
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China Dolls |
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Cracks in the Mask |
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Critical Care |
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A Cut in the Rates |
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Deadline |
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Devil in the Detail |
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Diana & Me |
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline |
Chris Kennedy |
Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto |
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Domesticated Animals |
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Doppelganger |
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Dust Off the Wings |
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Epsilon |
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Exile in Sarajevo |
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Exposed |
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Five Hundred Acres |
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Franz & Kafka |
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Go to Hell! |
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Guided by the Light of the Lord |
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Heaven |
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Heaven's Burning |
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His Mother's Voice |
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House Taken Over |
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Justice |
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Kiss or Kill |
Bill Bennett |
Frances O'Connor , Matt Day |
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Little Desert |
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Look, Listen, Speak |
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Low Job |
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Maslin Beach |
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Mrs Craddock's Complaint |
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Nightride |
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One That Got Away |
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Oscar and Lucinda |
Gillian Armstrong |
Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett |
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(See also: Oscar and Lucinda) |
Paradise Road |
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Paws |
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Road to Nhill |
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The Sapphire Room |
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Seamen |
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Sweet & Sour |
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Thank God He Met Lizzie |
Cherie Nowlan |
Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor |
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Titsiana Booberini |
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True Love and Chaos |
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The Two-Wheeled Time Machine |
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Under the Lighthouse Dancing |
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Wang: Street Cop |
Shannon Marinko |
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Short comedy |
IMDb |
Welcome to Woop Woop |
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The Well |
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The Wiggles Movie |
Dean Covell |
The Wiggles |
Family |
IMDb |
Year of the Dogs |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
15 Amore |
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After Mabo |
John Hughes |
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Documentary |
IMDb |
Alienation |
Wilma Schinella |
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Short |
IMDb |
All the Way |
Marque Owen |
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Comedy |
IMDb |
Amy |
Nadia Tass |
Alana De Roma, Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn |
Comedy drama |
IMDb |
Babe: Pig in the City |
George Miller |
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Comedy drama |
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The Big Night Out |
Tim Boyle |
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Comedy |
IMDb |
Blabbermouth & Stickybeak |
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Bloodlock |
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Short |
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Bougainville: Our Island, Our Fight |
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Documentary |
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Box |
? |
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Won AFI for Best Editing (Catherine Chase) IMDb |
The Boys |
Rowan Woods |
David Wenham, Toni Collette |
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Bubble Numb |
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Cherish |
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Chlorine Dreams |
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Cold Comfort |
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The Collector |
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Cousin |
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Crackers |
David Swann (Writer, and Director) |
Peter Rowsthorn, Susan Lyons, Warren Mitchell |
Dark Comedy |
IMDb |
Crimes of Fashion |
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Dags |
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Dance Me to My Song |
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Dark City |
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Dead Letter Office |
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Deathbed of an Undertaker |
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Derwent Envy |
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Disturbing Behavior |
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Entertaining Angels |
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Fetch |
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Forbidden Love |
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Freedom Deep |
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The Game Room |
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Gorilla Girls |
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Gristle |
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Half Mongrel |
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Has Beans |
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Head On |
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Heaven on the 4th Floor |
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Hephzibah |
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Hurrah |
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I Want You |
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In the Winter Dark |
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The Interview |
Craig Monahan |
Hugo Weaving |
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The Jim Conway Blues |
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Justice |
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Kick |
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The Kiss |
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Let's Wait |
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A Little Bit of Soul |
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Little Brother, Little Sister |
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Liu Awaiting Spring |
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The Loop |
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Lost Marbles |
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Love Stinks |
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Magnum Opus |
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Mama Tina |
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Menswear |
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Mind's Eye |
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Ms Kieran Katt |
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My Bed Your Bed |
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Occasional Coarse Language |
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Otherzone |
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http://www.archive.org/details/Other_Zone |
Our Park |
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Pentuphouse |
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The Picture Woman |
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Pigeon |
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The Pitch |
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Possum's Rest |
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Praise |
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Radiance |
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The Real Macaw |
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Reflections |
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Relative Strangers |
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Revenge, Inc. |
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Revisionism |
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Rita Storm viharos élete |
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River Street |
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Shinsyu Symphony |
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Sick Puppy |
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The Silent Scream |
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Sojourn |
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Somewhere in the Darkness |
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping |
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Static |
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Sticky Date |
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The Sugar Factory |
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Tears |
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Terra Nova |
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They |
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Three Chords and a Wardrobe |
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Thump |
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Tulip |
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Two Girls and a Baby |
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Two/Out |
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Vanish |
Ivan Sen |
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Short |
IMDb |
Vengeance |
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Short animation |
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The Venus Factory |
Glenn Fraser |
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Comedy |
IMDb |
Weird Ones |
John Meagher |
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Comedy |
IMDb |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Above the Dust Level |
Carla Drago |
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Short |
IMDb |
Agnes, Maude & Pearly Too |
Erica Glynn |
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Short comedy drama |
IMDb |
The Astonishing Ashtons |
? |
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IMDb |
Bangers |
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Short |
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Banjo Frogs |
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Animation |
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Being There |
Glenn Fraser |
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Documentary/ Sport |
IMDb |
Bigger Than Tina |
Neil Foley |
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IMDb |
The Book Keeper |
Michael Cusack |
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Short animation |
IMDb |
Break & Enter |
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Short |
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Brother |
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Burnout |
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Caffeine |
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Change of Heart |
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Chrissy |
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The Craic |
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The Dark Redemption |
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Darwin's Evolutionary Stakes |
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The Date |
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The Day Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon |
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Dear Claudia |
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Dogwatch |
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Driving Home |
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Drunken Rumble Story |
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Ed Venture |
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Emily's Eyes |
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Envy |
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Erskineville Kings |
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Hugh Jackman |
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(see Erskineville Kings) |
The Etiquette of Letter-Writing |
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The Extra |
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Eye of the Beholder |
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Feeling Sexy |
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Flowergirl |
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Flux |
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Fresh Air |
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Fusion |
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Game Room |
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Glass Box |
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Go Before You Come |
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Hang Up |
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HeadSpace |
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The Heist |
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Help Me |
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Hindsight |
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Holding On |
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Holy Smoke! |
Jane Campion |
Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel |
Drama |
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Huntsman 5.1 |
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I Promise |
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I'm a Luxury... But I'm Free Tonight |
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In a Savage Land |
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In the Red |
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Intermezzo |
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Island of the Vampire Birds |
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Island Style |
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Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors |
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Kick |
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Komodo |
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Kung Fuji |
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Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story |
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Little Echo Lost |
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Love Lies Bleeding |
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Max vs the Freeway |
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Me Myself I |
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Midas |
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Milk |
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The Missing |
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien |
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The Monster |
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My Mother Frank |
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Navin Wants to Be a Superhero |
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Nightmare Man |
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Oops! |
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The Order |
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Original Schtick |
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Paperback Hero |
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Paradise |
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Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa |
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Passion |
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Pearls Before Swine |
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Phörpa (a.k.a. The Cup) |
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Pilbara Pearl |
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Powderburn |
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Project Vlad |
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The Rabbits |
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Redball |
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Renzo Piano |
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The Reunion |
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Rise |
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Rotation |
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Rural Crisis |
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Sadness |
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Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien |
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Serenity |
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Se-tong |
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Siam Sunset |
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Slim Pickings |
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Smile & Wave |
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Soft Fruit |
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Spank |
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Sport |
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Stone Forever |
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Strange Fits of Passion |
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Strange Planet |
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Structures on Rail |
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Sydney: A Story of a City |
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Taken |
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Taking Care of Elvis |
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Theory of the Trojans |
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Three to Tango |
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The Tin Man |
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Tom's Funeral |
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Trinidad |
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Two Hands |
Gregor Jordan |
Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown |
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Urban Clan |
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Whiteys Like Us |
Rachel Landers |
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Documentary |
IMDb |
Wind |
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