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The Earthling

The Earthling

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wildness. His plans become complicated when he meets a young boy and decides to take him under his wing.

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Dusty

Dusty

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.6

The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dust...

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Fran

Fran

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home...

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Fair Game

Fair Game

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6

A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals i...

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Squizzy Taylor

Squizzy Taylor

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 5.8

This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squ...

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Minnamurra

Minnamurra

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 5.7

Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Berge...

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Run Chrissie Run!

Run Chrissie Run!

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 5.3

The action moves along quickly, jumping over holes in the script, in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daught...

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The Survivor

The Survivor

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 5.1

When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the com...

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Emma's War

Emma's War

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 5.1

After the start of WW2, a mother takes her children from Sydney to the countryside.

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Dead Easy

Dead Easy

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 5

Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results in their being hunted by every thug and killer in t...

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