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Sunday Too Far Away (1975)

Sunday Too Far Away (1975)

Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
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93

The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and ‘Black Arthur’ do battle for the position of ‘top shearer’ amid the boozy world…

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Genre: Drama
The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975)

The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975)

The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975)
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103

The bawdy saga of the most infamous whomper of all time.

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Alvin Rides Again (1974)

Alvin Rides Again (1974)

Alvin Rides Again (1974)
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89

Alvin Purple, a man who can’t hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.

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Genre: Comedy
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
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93

Barry McKenzie’s Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that…

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Genre: Comedy
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
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87

After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of…

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Stone (1974)

Stone (1974)

Stone (1974)
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103

After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine…

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Jock Petersen (1974)

Jock Petersen (1974)

Jock Petersen (1974)
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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…

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Genre: Drama
Alvin Purple (1973)

Alvin Purple (1973)

Alvin Purple (1973)
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95

Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by…

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Genre: Comedy
One Hundred a Day (1973)

One Hundred a Day (1973)

One Hundred a Day (1973)
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8

A young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Based on the short story…

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Genre: Drama
Night of Fear (1973)

Night of Fear (1973)

Night of Fear (1973)
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54

A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a…

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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon (1972)

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon (1972)

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon (1972)
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80

Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia’s first animated feature film,[2] released in 1972 and directed by Eric Porter. The two sequence directors were Porter’s animation director Cam…

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Genre: Animation
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
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114

Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he…

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Genre: Comedy
The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle (1972)

The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle (1972)

The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle (1972)
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81

A musical adventure about a young runaway who uncovers an island full of ‘fantastic’ characters.

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Stork (1971)

Stork (1971)

Stork (1971)
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85

Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops…

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Genre: Comedy
Wake in Fright (1971)

Wake in Fright (1971)

Wake in Fright (1971)
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109

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Age of Consent (1969)

Age of Consent (1969)

Age of Consent (1969)
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108

An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more….

Genre: Comedy, Drama
They’re a Weird Mob (1966)

They’re a Weird Mob (1966)

They’re a Weird Mob (1966)
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108

Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and ’60s…. and…

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Genre: Comedy
Clay (1965)

Clay (1965)

Clay (1965)
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85

A killer on the run is found lying flat on his face in a wet clay bank. He is rescued by potters who shelter him within their community. There he…

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Genre: Drama
On the Beach (1959)

On the Beach (1959)

On the Beach (1959)
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134

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss…

Walk Into Paradise (1957)

Walk Into Paradise (1957)

Walk Into Paradise (1957)
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93

Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned ‘Shark-Eye’ Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major…

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Genre: Adventure
Robbery Under Arms (1957)

Robbery Under Arms (1957)

Robbery Under Arms (1957)
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96

During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their…

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Genre: Drama, Western
Jedda (1955)

Jedda (1955)

Jedda (1955)
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101

An aboriginal girl is brought up by a white family that adopts her. As a young woman, she is mysteriously drawn to go “Walkabout” as people of her tribe have…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Sons of Matthew (1949)

Sons of Matthew (1949)

Sons of Matthew (1949)
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107

The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.

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Bush Christmas (1947)

Bush Christmas (1947)

Bush Christmas (1947)
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77

In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.

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The Overlanders (1946)

The Overlanders (1946)

The Overlanders (1946)
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91

It’s the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a “scorched earth” policy. Rather than kill all their cattle,…

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Pacific Adventure (1946)

Pacific Adventure (1946)

Pacific Adventure (1946)
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119

An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles “Smithy” Kingsford-Smith. The film is unusually frank about the controversies that occasionally dogged him. PG Taylor and Billy Hughes both…

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Genre: History
The Rats of Tobruk (1944)

The Rats of Tobruk (1944)

The Rats of Tobruk (1944)
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96

Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk against Rommel’s forces.

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Genre: Action, War
Rangle River (1936)

Rangle River (1936)

Rangle River (1936)
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86

Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan’s cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father’s foreman, Dick…

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In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)

In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
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66

The film explores the story of the Bounty and is based on the 1932 novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

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The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)

The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)

The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
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70

Just as Galeen and Wegener’s Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolizes both the birth…

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