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1980 – 1984
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Go to: 1985 – 1990
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…Maybe This Time
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Chris McGill
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Judy Morris, Bill Hunter, Michael Preston, Jill Perryman, Ken Shorter, Michele Fawdon, Leonard Teale, Chris Haywood, Rod Mullinar
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Drama
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Blood Money
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Christopher Fitchett
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John Flaus, Chrissie James, Bryan Brown, Sophie Murphy, John Proper, Peter Curtin, Sue Jones
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Crime drama
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Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Vincent Ball, Chris Haywood
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Drama
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Won ten awards at the Australian Film Institute and won an award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival
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The Chain Reaction
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[Ian Barry]
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Steve Bisley, Anna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Ralph Cotterill, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Lorna Lesley, Richard Moir, Patrick Ward, Kym Gyngell, Roger Ward, Frankie J. Holden, Mel Gibson
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Thriller
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Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, John Howard, Harold Hopkins, Alan Cassell
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Comedy drama
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The Comeback
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Dead Man’s Float
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The Earthling
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Peter Collinson
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William Holden, Rick Schroder, Jack Thompson, Olivia Hamnett, Alwyn Kurts, Pat Evison, Redmond Phillips, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry, Allan Penney, Willie Fennell, Walter Pym, Cul Cullen, Dawn Schroder, Maggie Blinco, Tui Bow, Danny Adcock
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Ben Oxenbould, Bert Newton, Noni Hazlehurst, Gerard Kennedy, Henri Szeps, Paul Hogan, Ross Higgins
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Final Cut (film)
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Director: Ross Dimsey Story/Screenplay: Jonathan Dawson
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Jennifer Cluff
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Thriller
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Fourteen’s Good, Eighteen’s Better
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The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris
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Groping
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Hard Knocks
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Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio, Alan Cassell, Mark Spain, Alyson Best, Sean Myers, Mary Simpson, Bevan Lee, Neville Teedy, Mary Mackay, John Frawley, Nita Pannell, David Hough, Klaus Schultz, Peter West, Maurie Ogden, Jack Ferrari, Jeremy Sims, Toby Amor, Sebastian Hunsley, Julia Moody, Leslie Wright, Adele Cohen, Ramsay McLean
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The Kingdom of Nek Chand
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Lucinda Brayford
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Manganinnie
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Mystery Island
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Nightmares
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Palm Beach
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Albie Thoms
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Kenneth Brown, Nat Young, Bryan Brown
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Drama
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shot in 1978
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Pianoforte
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Psychic Visions of the Future
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Raccolta d’inverno
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Rush
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Stepping Out
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Stir
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Peter Maxwell
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Wendy Hughes, Chantal Contouri, Carmen Duncan, Jon English,Jeanie Drynan, Liddy Clark, Christine Amor, John Bluthal.
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Wrongsky
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Yap: How Did You Know We’d Like TV?
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Dennis O’Rourke
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1981
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Against the Grain: More Meat Than Wheat
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Tim Burns
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Michael Callaghan, Sandy Edwards, Joy Burns, Mary Burns, Letham Burns, George Sutton, Mental as Anything, Robert Burns, Ry Callaghan, Jack Cullity, Helen Grace, Louis Irving, Jim McDonnell, Marie McMahon, Victoria Middleton, Martin Plaza, Michael Shelling, Greedy Smith, Lindsay Smith, Earth Works-Poster Collective
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Drama
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Angels of War
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Gavan Daws, Hank Nelson
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Documentary
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Around the World with Dot
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Yoram Gross
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Ashley Arye, Drew Forsythe, Barbara Frawley, Ron Haddrick, Keith Scott
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Animation
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Ayers Rock
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Paul Winkler
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Short
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The Best of Friends
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Michael Robertson
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Angela Punch McGregor, Graeme Blundell, Ruth Cracknell, Henri Szeps, Graham Rouse, Moya O’Sullivan, Les Foxcroft, Mark Lee, Sonja Tallis, Deborah Gray, Serge Lazareff, Alan Becher, Ron Falk, Maggie Dence, Gordon McDougall, Meg Graham, Christine Jeston, Lynette Haddrick
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Comedy / Romance
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A Dangerous Summer
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Doctors & Nurses
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Double Deal
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Gallipoli
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Peter Weir
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Mel Gibson
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Drama
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Grendel Grendel Grendel
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Hoodwink
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Claude Whatham
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Donald Crombie
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Elizabeth Alexander, John Hargreaves
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Thriller
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Lady Stay Dead
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
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Mel Gibson
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Action
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The Myth Makers
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Writer/Director: Jonathan Dawson
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Pacific Banana
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Puberty Blues
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Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja, Geoff Rhoe, Tony Hughes, Sandy Paul, Leander Brett, Jay Hackett, Ned Lander, Joanne Olsen, Julie Medana, Michael Shearman, Dean Dunstone, Tina Robinson Hansen, Nerida Clark, Kirrily Nolan, Alan Casell, Rowena Wallace, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Kate Sheil, Pamela Gibbons, Lynne Murphy, Andrew Martin, Rob Thomas, Brian Harrison, Brian Anderson
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
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Roadgames
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Richard Franklin
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Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis
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Drama
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Run Rebecca, Run!
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Save the Lady
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Strange Behavior
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Strange Residues
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Viva! San Fermin
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Ivor Bowen
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Documentary
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Winter of Our Dreams
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Wrong Side of the Road
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Ned Lander
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Ronnie Ansell, Peter Butler, Franco Carli, Sam Cohen, John Francis, Donald Freshwater, Leslie Graham, Ken Hampton Jr., Chris Haywood, Christian Jocumsen, Chris Jones, Edward Love, Frank Malony, Wally McArthur, Rob McGregor, John Miller, Emu Nugent, Noel Pommery, Phillip Rehn, Richard Shoesmith, Mark Thompson, Craig Tidswell, Bart Wiloughby
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1982
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Attack Force Z
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Tim Burstall
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John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood, John Waters, Chun Ku, Sylvia Chang, O Ti, Koo Chuan Hsiung, Lung Shuan, Vi Yuan, Wei Su, Hsa Li-Wen, Val Champion, Yu Wang
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Breakfast in Paris
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Café of Love
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Centrespread
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The Clinic
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David Stevens
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Chris Haywood, Simon Burke, Gerda Nicolson
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Drama
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Corpse
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Crosstalk
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The Dark Room
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Dead Easy
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Desolation Angels
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Duet for Four
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Early Frost
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An Exercise in Discipline – Peel
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Far East
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John Duigan
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Bryan Brown, Helen Morse, John Bell
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Drama
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Fighting Back
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Fluteman
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Freedom
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Ginger Meggs
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Director Jonathan Dawson
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Gary MacDonald, Ross Higgins,Harold Hopkins, Coral Kelly, Paul Daniels
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Greetings from Wollongong
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Heatwave
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Judy Davis, Richard Moir
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Drama
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Highest Honor
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Journey to the End of Night
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Kitty and the Bagman
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The Little Feller
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Lonely Hearts
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Paul Cox
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Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye
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Drama
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Lousy Little Sixpence
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The Man from Snowy River
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George T. Miller
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Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Kirk Douglas, Tommy Dysart, Bruce Kerr, David Bradshaw, Sigrid Thornton, Jack Thompson, Tony Bonner, June Jago, Chris Haywood, Kristopher Steele, Gus Mercurio, Howard Eynon, Lorraine Bayly, John Nash, Jack Lovick, Charlie Lovick, John Lovick, Frank Hearn, Jack Purcell, Gerald Egan, Ken Connley, Mick Hulse, Max Scanlon, Peter McElroy, Dick Forrest, Chester Wallis, Brian Wallis, Peter Wallis, Bernie Wallis, Terry Walsh, Geoff Burrowes, Graeme Stoney, Lloyd Parkes, Bill Stacey, Brendan Purcell, Greg Purcell, Paul Purcell, Rob Purcell, Ron Purcell, Noel Egan, Basil Egan, Ricky Spottiswood, Bruce McCormack, John Coombes, Adrian Daniels, Gerald Comerford, Bill Willoughby, Rocky Black, Heath Harris, Jim James, Joe Jury, Peter Maher, Stan McKay, Tom Purcell, Kevin Stewart, Louis Trifunovic, Bob Vienna, Jim Walsh
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Film remake
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Monkey Grip
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Ken Cameron
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Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels
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Drama
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The Mystery at Castle House
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Next of Kin
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Norman Loves Rose
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Peel
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Jane Campion
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Short film
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The Pirate Movie
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Kevin Annakin
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Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Garry McDonald, Chuck McKinney, Marc Colombani, Linda Nagle, Kate Ferguson, Rhonda Burchmore, Cathrine Lynch, John Alansu, Paul Graham, Bernard Ledger, Nic Gazzana, Richard Boue, Chris Hession, Stephen Fyfield, Kjell Nilsson, Peter Pantellic, Tony Deary, Harry Morris, Roy Dudley, Roger Ward, Gene Del’Mace, Ian Mortimer, George Novak, George Zakaria, Kurt von Schneier, Zev Eleftheriou, Edward Brodsky-Schuster, Pamela Jones, Kerryn Henderson, Margot Knight, Marie T. Ploski, Anna Logan, Aleeta Northey, Gai O’Meley, Cheryl Heazlewood, Stephen Leeder, Clayton Mitchell, Iain Murton, Colin Setches, Bruno Annetta, William Binks, Peter Braendler, Phil Brock, Bill Handley, Peter Hosking, Michael Lake, Stephen Clark, Paul Hyfield, Frank Howson, Tim Hughes, William Kerr, Des McKenna, John Mesarov, Kevin Summers, Glenn Ruehland, Andris Toppe, David Swann, John O’Connell, Chris Peters, Clive Hearne, Ben Joseph, Miles Peters, Gary Felsinger, Ransley Mascurine, Sami Kfouri
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The Plains of Heaven
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Ian Pringle
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Richard Moir, Reg Evans
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Drama
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Running On Empty
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Shadows
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The Sharkcallers of Kontu
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Snow: The Movie
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Squizzy Taylor
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Starstruck
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Storm Riders
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Sweet Dreamers
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Tennis Elbow
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Turkey Shoot
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Brian Trenchard-Smith
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Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Noel Ferrier, Lynda Stoner, Roger Ward, Michael Petrovitch, Gus Mercurio, John Ley, Bill Young, Steve Rackman, John Godden, Oriana Panozzo
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Warriors of the Deep
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Tony Wheeler
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Documentary drama
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We of the Never Never
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Igor Auzins
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Angela Punch McGregor
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Historical drama
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Based on popular Australian autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn, first published in 1908
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With Prejudice
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The Year of Living Dangerously
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Peter Weir
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Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier, Bembol Roco, Paul Sonkkila, Ali Nur, Dominador Robridillo, Joel Agona, Mike Emperio, Bernardo Nacilla, Domingo Landicho, Hermino De Guzman, Coco Marantha, Kuh Ledesma, Norma Uatuhan, Lito Tolentino, Cecily Polson, David Oyang, Mark Egerton, Joonee Gamboa, Pudji Waseso, Joel Lamangan, Mario Layco, Jabo Djohansjan, Agus Widjaja, Chris Quivak
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1983
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Title
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Director
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Genre
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Abra Cadabra
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Animation
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Allies
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Marian Wilkinson
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Documentary
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BMX Bandits
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Nicole Kidman
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Buddies
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Arch Nicholson
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Colin Friels, Kris McQuade, Harold Hopkins
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Drama
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AFI Award, Best Original Screenplay for John Dingwall
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Bush Christmas
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Nicole Kidman
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Careful, He Might Hear You
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Desert Farming
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Douglas Mawson: The Survivor
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Dusty
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Fight to the Death
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First Contact
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Going Down
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Goodbye Paradise
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Carl Schultz
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Ray Barrett, Robyn Nevin, Don Pascoe
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Drama
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Hostage
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Man of Flowers
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Paul Cox
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Norman Kaye, Alyson Best
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Drama
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Midnite Spares
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Molly
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Moving Out
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Now and Forever
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Passionless Moments
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Phar Lap
(a.k.a. Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation) |
Tom Burlinson, Martin Vaughan
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Drama
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The Return of Captain Invincible
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The Settlement
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse
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A Slice of Life
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Stations
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Tukana – husat i asua
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Undercover
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David Stevens
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Genevieve Picot, John Walton, Michael Pare, Sandy Gore, Peter Phelps, Barry Otto, Andrew Sharp, Caz Lederman, Susan Leith, Wallas Eaton, Nicholas Eadie, Debbie Baile, Ian Gilmour, Lyn Lovett, Denise Kerwin, Phillip Ross, Bill McCluskey, Isabelle Anderson, Dick Moss, Slim DeGrey, Margo Lloyd, Alexander Hay, Lois Ramsey, Su Cruickshank, Mary Mackay, Bettina Welch, Sally McKenzie, Greig Pickhaver, Martin Sharman, Richard Carter, Danny Caretti, Julie Nihill, Suzette Williams
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Comedy
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5 AFI nominations
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The Wild Duck
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The Winds of Jarrah
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The Voyage of Bounty’s Child
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Michael Edols
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narrated by Leo McKern
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Docum./Biography
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1984
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After Hours
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Jane Campion
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Anna Maria Monticelli, Russell Newman, Danielle Pearse, Don Reid
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Short / Drama
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Ana Who
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Pip Karmel
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Documentary
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Annie’s Coming Out
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Gil Brealey
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Angela Punch McGregor, Drew Forsythe, Liddy Clark, Monica Maughan, Philippa Baker, Tina Arhondis, Mark Butler, John Frawley, Wallas Eaton, Lyn Collingwood, Laurie Dobson, Carl Bleazby, Esme Melville, Judith Graham, Alistair Duncan, Simon Chilvers, James Wright, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell Brett Reynolds, Matthew Simpson, Pattie Alexeff, Stuart Bates, Bill Bennett, Kim Bilston, David Carlos, Wayne Cull, Sue Dukic, Louise Dunne, Michael Edgar, Dan Gerrity, Craig Hargreaves, Jennifer Hearne, Julie Hill-Parker, Roeie Hughes, Phyllis James, Jennifer Jarman-Walker, Bronwen Jones, Kathy Kerry, John Larking, Steven McCarthy, Elaine McKennar, Andrea Milner, Ann Morgan, Jane Neilson, Jeanine O’Donnell, Amanda Pile, Elizabeth Potter, Philip Stammers, Tom Stankovic, Anne Sutherland, Russell Taylor, Catherine Vincenzini, Jenny Warner, Joy Westmore, Colin Williams, Karen Wise
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Bullamakanka
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The Camel Boy
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Channel Chaos
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The Cleaning
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The Coolangatta Gold
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Grant Kenny
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Dot and the Bunny
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The Drover’s Wife
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Every Day… Every Night
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Fantasy Man
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Fast Talking
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The Fire in the Stone
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Future Schlock
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Getting Wet
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A Girl’s Own Story
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Jane Campion
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Gabrielle Shornegg, Geraldine Haywood
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Short / Drama
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27 min.
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The Great Gold Swindle
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High Country
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Holzwege: Wood Roads/Wrong Ways
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Innocent Prey
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Leonora
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Melvin, Son of Alvin
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My First Wife
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Paul Cox
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John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes
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Drama
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The Naked Country
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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On Guard
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On the Loose
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One Night Stand
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Razorback
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Red Matildas
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Silver City
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Sophia Turkiewicz
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Gosia Dobrowolska, Ivar Kants
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Drama
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The Slim Dusty Movie
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Stanley: Every Home Should Have One
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Street Hero
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Strikebound
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Tale of a Tiger
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Torn Allegiance
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Where the Green Ants Dream
(a.k.a. Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen) |
Werner Herzog
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