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- A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
- Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
- The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".
- A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.
- A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
- Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
- When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
- Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
- In 1870, a Maori warrior working with the British finds his village massacred, and vows revenge.
- A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
- Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. Rosie puzzles about who he was, and about her early life and relationship to him.
- While out on the town in Berlin, Raymond sees and falls for Harlis, a star of a troupe of lesbian cabaret strippers. Attracted to a man for the first time, Harlis leaves her long time girlfriend and dance partner. Overwhelmed by jealousy and anger, his brother (Peter) and his ex-fiancee (Ria) are determined to sabotage this budding romance.
- From the Director of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' Jim Sharman and Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White A haunting tale of obsession and possession.
- It was only after her death that the work of New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield, became well known, thanks to her editor and husband, John Middleton-Murry. She had left New Zealand to travel around France, and she died there from tuberculosis. Thirty three years later, Middleton-Murry is invited to France to approve a new edition of her collected letters and journals, and there he meets a young woman, Marie Taylor (also from NZ) who reminds him strongly of his dead wife. As the two become friends, Marie starts reading old correspondence between Mansfield and her husband, and discovers the true nature of their relationship and that Mansfield's dying wishes regarding her writings have been ignored by the manipulative, and less-than-honest, Middleton-Murry.
- A profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- A small-town woman, fresh to the city, buys a second-hand Jaguar haunted by the ghost of a murdered woman and her killer.
- A middle-class woman and Maori boy who lives on the streets meet in drug rehab and kindle a friendship.
- Filmed at and inspired by the residents of Kohitere Boys Training Centre in Levin, New Zealand, this tale follows a group of teens who are wards of the state. It was directed by Mike Walker, who co-wrote the script with Mitchell Manuel (who also played the part of Rikihana Nathan).
- A group of Australian heroin addicts go out and try to score a hit after a friend overdoses.
- Two scientists at a remote satellite station begin to have hallucinations because of the facility's isolation. Or are they hallucinations... ?
- Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him.
- Drama about couple with no love. They constantly argue with each other and woman, which suffers from agoraphobia, trying to get out of that circle.
- The Tasmanians were a distinct people, isolated from Australia and the rest of the world for 12,000 years, until in 1803, British colonisation began.
- The adventures of three young men who leave their homeland Savannah, Niger, and go looking for fortune in Ghana.
- A gentle tale of two loners finding mid-life love at the weather bureau, Stan and George's New Life is an unconventional Aussie comedy with a sunny outlook.
- An uprising of the elderly, in the colourful setting of a Brussels retirement home, with its delightful, fragile and anarchistic residents.
- A group of actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their next musical production, unaware that a psychopath has escaped and infiltrated among them.
- To escape her demanding, sick mother and her suburban loneliness, a middle-aged woman slides into a fantasy world in which there is incredible relief.
- David is a disillusioned doctor who travels with a junkie female who has her own problems.
- In the early hours of February 13th, 1978, a bomb exploded outside the Hilton hotel in Sydney. Three people were killed in the blast. The trial of the prosecuted became known as the Hilton bomb trial.
- Two brothers from two very different lifestyles, one is a hippy the other a bikie, are examined in this short film. They share a common attitude though: to question or rebel against conventional living.
- The movie delves beneath surface appearances to reveal a strong resistance to assimilation and loss of identity, as the late Essie Coffey, a Murrawarri woman, takes us into the Aboriginal struggle for survival.
- A fly on the wall style documentary including personal interviews with inmates at a women's prison in Canada in the 80's.
- An exploration of the Samoan fa'afafine, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture.
- One hour documentary examining the seventy year history of nuclear and atomic industry, weapons, testing in South Australia from 1910 to 1980.
- Tells the story of Greta and Freda Chaplin, a pair of English identical twins who dress alike, try to walk in step and for much of the time speak the same words in unison. The program looks at their lifestyle, background and situation as two people who give the appearance of having only one mind.
- The relationship between a young man, Paul, and a confident executive, Grant, about which his soon-to-be-wife Joy knows nothing, in Auckland's gay scene in 1980, when homosexuality was illegal.
- A relationship develops between a Samoan and a New Zealander, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage.
- Two young Australian filmmakers meet in London and return home with dreams of making films that reflect their Australian ideals. A film about dreams and aspirations.
- A fifties home movie-style portrait of a fictional jazz starlet called Della Ray, played by Kate Ceberano.
- Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Covers the the Loans Affair and the sacking of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975, the Christopher Boyce spy trial, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in foreign territories and its former agent Victor Marchetti as well as government secrecy, security, intelligence, foreign affairs and policy.
- Mr Ikegami is in Sydney on business. Back in Tokyo, his wife Seisuko is expecting their first child. A tale of divided loyalties.
- A Vietnam veteran's widow and family still live under the clouds of war.