197 Films & TV Shows Set In Oceania During The 20th Century
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The Call of Cthulhu
Rhode Island Louisiana π³π΄ Norway π¬π± Greenland New South Wales π³πΏ New Zealand The 1920s The 1900s The 1870sA dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
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Zombie Movie
π³πΏ New Zealand The 1980s1000 zombies, three bogans, half a brain β New Zealand, 1986. The zombie apocalypse is here and three mates are stranded. The trusty Holden is out of gas. With only fast food scraps and a few cigarettes for sustenance, surviving each other may prove harder than facing the undead outside
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Reigo, the Deep-Sea Monster vs. the Battleship Yamato
π«π² Micronesia The 1940sSet in World War II, the film depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.
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Love's Brother
π¦πΊ Australia The 1950sSet in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other.
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Kangaroo Jack
New York South Australia Northern Territory The 1980s The 2000sHe Stole The Money... And He's Not Giving It Back. β Two childhood friends β a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician β get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
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Swimming Upstream
Queensland The 1950s The 1960sA young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own demons.
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Travelling Light
South Australia The 1970sSometimes the only way to find yourself, is to get a little lost β Set in the early 70s, Travelling Light follows the story of two sisters growing up in surburban Adelaide.
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Austin Powers in Goldmember
California England Tokyo Prefecture π¬πΊ Guam The 2000s The 1970sHe's still evil... He's still deadly... and he's still surrounded by frickin' idiots! β The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foeβ'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Western Australia The 1930sFollow Your Heart, Follow the Fence β In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
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Windtalkers
Arizona π¬πΊ Guam πΈπ§ Solomon Islands The 1940sHonor Was Their Code. β Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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The Tracker
π¦πΊ Australia The 1920sAll men choose the path they walk. β Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
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Dirty Deeds
New South Wales The 1960sSet in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
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Black and White
South Australia The 1950sOne man's conviction divided a nation β Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country, and with a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics and the stain of institutional racism, the skills of his two gifted but naive defense lawyers are put to the test. Based on a true story.
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The Other Side of Heaven
Idaho California πΉπ΄ Tonga The 1950sAn Epic Journey. β John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever.
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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
π°π· South Korea π³πΏ New Zealand The 1980s The 2000sA male teacher starts to suspect that one of his male students is the reincarnation of his first love.
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The Dish
New South Wales The 1960sMan's first step on the moon nearly stumbled on earth β A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.
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Chopper
Victoria The 1980s The 1990sNever let the truth get in the way of a good yarn. β The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prositutes.
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The Price of Milk
π³πΏ New Zealand The 1960sNew Zealand milk farmer Rob gives his lover Lucinda a ring. Trying to spark up her relationship with Rob, she takes her friend Drosophila's advice and starts to try and make Rob angry. But she tends to go too far. Admiring her ring while driving a lonely road, she has a run-in with an older woman that sets off a chain of events that begins with her quilt being stolen
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The Magic Pudding
π¦πΊ Australia π¦πΆ Antarctica The 1960s The 1950sMeet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.
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Redball
Victoria The 1990sRedball is a 1999 Australian film. Two detectives are assigned to solve a series of grisly murders of children. However, when their investigation leads them towards someone in their own squad room as the killer, the female detective edges on a total breakdown as she loses faith in her fellow officers. The film explores the decadence and corruption that exists in the police force.
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Welcome to Australia
New South Wales The 1990sWelcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, which was directed and produced by Alan Lowery, and charts the history of injustice endured by indigenous Australians in the context of the build-up to the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
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Harry's War
π΅π¬ Papua New Guinea The 1940sA story of mateship, brothers in arms and friendship that embraces culture, war and death. Two mates β Harry is a Koori and Mitch a non-Aboriginal Australian β head off to fight in the jungles of Papua New Guinea during WWII.
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The Thin Red Line
πΈπ§ Solomon Islands The 1940sEvery man fights his own war. β The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
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Babe: Pig in the City
π¦πΊ Australia The 1990sThis little pig went to the city... β Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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When Love Comes
π³πΏ New Zealand The 1990sSix friends...Three Kinds of Love β Between getting trashed, tripping, blowing guys off and writing songs, Mark falls for Stephen. Fig and Sally put perform Marks songs between casual sex with anyone and everyone. Katie is a few-hit wonder who hit rock-bottom in L.A and returns to New Zealand to patch her life back together. Stephen, Mark and Katie branch out for a slumber party at a beach house of their better days. Fig and Sally arrive, and not long after Eddie arrives also (Katies American guy). Mark stops running away from Stephens love, Katie and Eddie get engaged and Fig and Sally ... have sex?
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