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Rangi's Catch
๐ณ๐ฟ New ZealandFour children on a remote sheep station in New Zealand hear of the escape of two convicts, and realise that the crooks are responsible for burgling their house.
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To Love a Maori
๐ณ๐ฟ New ZealandTO LOVE A MAORI tells the story of Tama and Riki, two young men who leave their country marae for Auckland and the racial discrimination they face once they arrive in the city.
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Wake in Fright
๐ฆ๐บ AustraliaHave a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here. โ Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.
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Walkabout
๐ฆ๐บ AustraliaA boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier. โ Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
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A Girl in Australia
Queensland New South Wales The 1960s The 1970sThe film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
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Stork
VictoriaThere's a little bit of Stork in all of us โ Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks heโs a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting โrespectableโ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Storkโs advances, because sheโs already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
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Three to Go
New South WalesAn anthology of Australian short films by directors Brian Hannant ("Judy"), Oliver Howes ("Toula") and Peter Weir ("Michael"), each presenting a young Australian at a moment of decision about their future.
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Demonstrator
Australian Capital TerritoryAustralia Explodes! โ The story of a university student who leads a protest against an Asian security conference in Canberra which has been organised by his father the Australian Defence Minister. His life and his demonstration become disrupted.
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Too Late the Hero
๐ป๐บ Vanuatu The 1940sWar. It's a dying business. โ A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
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Ned Kelly
Victoria The 1880sUnable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
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Skullduggery
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaThe Tropi...Was It Human?...Animal?...Or The Living Descendant Of The Missing Link! โ An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
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Adam's Woman
New South Wales The 1840sAdam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia.
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Age of Consent
QueenslandLet yourself go... they do! โ 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. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
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Skippy and the Intruders
New South WalesSkippy and the Intruders (also known as The Intruders) is a 1969 Australian film directed by Lee Robinson, and is a spin-off of the popular Skippy the Bush Kangaroo TV series. A gang of criminals led by Meredith is looking for sunken treasure off Mallacoota, pretending to be diving for abalone. Sonny, son of Matt Hammond, the Chief Ranger of Waratah National Park, investigates with their family friend, Clancy. Sonny and Clancy are kidnapped. Skippy comes to the rescue. After a speedboat chase and a fight in the sand dunes, Meredith is captured.
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Thunderbird 6
New South Wales The 2060sThe International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
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Nobody Runs Forever
New South WalesIn A Moment He Could Be Dead! - and the only man who could save him was going to arrest him for murder! โ Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
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Journey Out Of Darkness
๐ฆ๐บ Australia The 1900sSet in 1901, the film follows the progress of Constable Peterson (Matthaei) on his quest to bring an Aboriginal man (Kamahl) to justice under the White Man's law. Having heard of a killing that took place under tribal law, Peterson embarks on a mission to arrest the accused man with the help of Black Tracker Jubbal (Devereaux) and bring him back to Melbourne for trial. It is a journey of discovery for both Peterson and Jubbal. Jubbal finds himself caught between black and white society, eventually dying following a curse placed on him during a traditional bone pointing ceremony. Peterson is left to try take the prisoner back to Melbourne alone, but cannot negotiate the pitfalls of the desert without the help of his prisoner. During the latter stages of his return, Peterson begins to understand the folly of his mission, releasing the Aboriginal man to return to his people. Finally, the metaphorical journey out of darkness is the one made by Peterson.
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Born Free
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaFrom The Pages Of The Beloved Best Seller... A Motion Picture To Delight All The World! โ At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
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Gamera vs. Barugon
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaGamera burns the streets of Osaka in an instant! Barugon freezes Osaka Castle with a single gust! An underwater clash at Lake Biwa! โ Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
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They're a Weird Mob
New South Wales The 1950s The 1960sNino 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 assimilate.
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
South Pacific - GeneralIt's a Beginner's Course in 'Boy-Girlsmanship' โ When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
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McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force
๐ฆ๐บ Australia The 1940sTheir All New! All Wild! Full-Length Motion Picture in Technicolor! โ The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.
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Quick Before It Melts
๐ณ๐ฟ New ZealandMan Conquers the Last & Funniest Frontier...The Frigid Zone!!! โ A magazine reporter and his photographer, on assignment in the Antarctic, attempt to fly in girls to make their chilly lives more enjoyable. Director Delbert Mann's 1964 comedy stars Robert Morse, George Maharis, Anjanette Comer, James Gregory, Michael Constantine, Howard St. John, Norman Fell, Janine Gray, Bernard Fox, Yvonne Craig, Doodles Weaver and Marjorie Bennett.
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Funny Things Happen Down Under
๐ฆ๐บ AustraliaWhen the clubhouse of a group of country kids, known as the "Terrible ten" needs money for funding they invent numerous ways to make money. During their attempts at making puddings and selling mineral water they stumble on a formula for breeding coloured sheep.
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McHale's Navy
๐ณ๐จ New Caledonia The 1940sThe crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners.
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The Thin Red Line
๐ธ๐ง Solomon Islands The 1940sSet during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic, battle-scarred veteran, hates Doll, whom he considers a coward. In battle, Doll kills a Japanese soldier and is filled with remorse, which further angers the sergeant. The next day, an emboldened Doll wipes out an entire enemy machine gun post and begins to feel as sadistic as Welsh. The two must work together to clear away some mines, but as they do, their platoon is surprised by a Japanese raid.
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Runaway
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1960sToo Scared to Turn Back...A nightmare chase across the scenic splendour of New Zealand โ A nightmare chase across the scenic splendor of a wild continent. David Manning, a young accountant, is unable to live within his income. He spends his spare time in Auckland with the young set - and his friends Sandra, Dorothy and Athol all like the outdoor life in the daytime and the bright lights at night. David finds himself in financial difficulties and leaves his job.
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Donovan's Reef
South Pacific - GeneralGangway...For This Years BIG Adventure! โ 'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.
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PT 109
๐ธ๐ง Solomon Islands The 1940sMost men would have given up...But not the crew of PT 109 โ Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.
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Operation Bikini
๐ฒ๐ญ Marshall IslandsOn a BEACHHEAD or in a BEACH HOUSE... they always made a perfect score! โ The film takes place aboard an American submarine in the Pacific during World War II. The sub's commander is ordered to stop and pick up an underwater demolition team led by Lt. Hayes, whose mission is to locate and destroy a US submarine sunken in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar system on board.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
๐ต๐ซ French Polynesia South Pacific - General The 18th CenturyThe mightiest excitement that ever swept across the sea or the screen! โ The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
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In Search of the Castaways
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1850s The 1880sA Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills! โ Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
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No Man is an Island
๐ฌ๐บ GuamThe true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
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Tiara Tahiti
South Pacific - GeneralJames Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.
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They Found a Cave
TasmaniaFour English orphans migrate to Tasmania to live on a farm in the wild Tasmanian bush with their aunt, Jandie (Barbara Manning).
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock
South Pacific - GeneralThey jumped into hell to save part of heaven. โ A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
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Seven Women from Hell
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1940sSeven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
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Two Loves
๐ณ๐ฟ New ZealandSo busy with her children...SHE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET MARRIED! โ An American spinster who takes a job teaching Maori students in New Zealand finds unexpected romance with two men.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
๐ฆ๐บ Australia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1940sYou'll crack your timbers when you see how the Navy sticks the Army sad sacks with the crumbiest ship afloat! โ Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" โ a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives โ if only they can get there in one piece.
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Up Periscope
๐ฐ๐ฎ KiribatiThe man they called the 'human torpedo' - the secret underwater marauder who hit like no man hit before! โ Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
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On the Beach
Victoria The 1960sThe Biggest Story of Our Time! โ 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 of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
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The Ambitious One
South Pacific - GeneralThis Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is the black sheep of a wealthy family of mining financiers based in France. He dumps the family life style and heads to Tahiti to make it on his own. His wife, Andrea Parisy, is less than amused with Basehart's choice.
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Tarawa Beachhead
๐ฐ๐ฎ Kiribati ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand ๐ธ๐ง Solomon Islands The 1940sDirector Paul Wendkos' 1958 WWII drama stars Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Karen Sharpe and Onslow Stevens.
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The Stowaway
South Pacific - GeneralA group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti.
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Dust in the Sun
Northern TerritoryA Northern Territory policeman, is given the job of taking an Aboriginal prisoner Emu Foot, to Alice Springs to be tried for a tribal killing. Bayard is wounded during a revenge attack by tribesmen, and Emu Foot helps him get to a remote cattle station. But there Bayard gets involved in a domestic crisis involving Julie Kirkbride, the neurotic, bored wife of the station owner, and is tempted by the head stockman's daughter Chris Palady.
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Walk Into Paradise
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New GuineaLast frontier of the real witch doctor! โ 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 Towalaka, to accompany him on his "walk into hell" and then finds that a French lady doctor, Louise Dumurcet, is to go with them part of the journey. They find the malaria-stricken Jeff Clayton in a deserted village and he joins the trek. They are captured by jungle-natives but are released after Dr. Dumurcet cures the fever-stricken children of the chief.
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Bedevilled Rabbit
TasmaniaHidden in a box of carrots, Bugs lands in Tasmania, where he matches wits with the Tasmanian Devil.
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Until They Sail
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1940sThey couldn't have the love they wanted, so they took the love they could get! โ Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
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The Shiralee
๐ฆ๐บ AustraliaAn Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
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Robbery Under Arms
๐ฆ๐บ Australia The 1860sThe Outlaw Who Seared His Brand On the Land! โ 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 way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
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