778 Films & TV Shows Set In Oceania
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Predicament
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1930sThree Misfits And A Murder — Naïve teenager Cedric Williamson, conspires with two misfits to photograph and blackmail adulterous couples. When the scam goes wrong they end up with blood on their hands.
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Sisters of War
🇦🇺 Australia 🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaSisters of War is a World War II memoir that re-creates events in New Britain during the Japanese invasion and occupation. It is a story about the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, especially Sister Berenice Twohill and her working friendship with nursing sister, Lorna Whyte. The Australians pulled out of the mission in Vunapope outside Rabaul, leaving the nurses and wounded who took refuge there. They were captured and about to be executed when Bishop Leo Scharmach MSC bluffed the Japanese by saying that he was the representative of Hitler and his people could not be executed.
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Jaggubhai
VictoriaJagannathan, (Sarath Kumar) fondly known as ‘Jaggubhai’. is an Indian Police Officer with sharp methods. His way of dealing the criminals strikes terror in the underground world. Tough is just an ordinary word to describe this upright, straight forward police officer. Jaggubhai is sent to Australia on an important mission to deal with anti social elements there. In Australia, Jaggubai meets Meena (Srisha) and they both fall in love with each other. Jaggubai fails in his mission for which he came to Australia and the brief romance with Meena also ends abruptly....
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Virsa
🇵🇰 Pakistan New South WalesAn elderly Punjab man is saddened to find his wealthy son and grandchildren have abandoned their traditional Indian culture and morals while living in Australia.
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Sun Come Up
🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaSun Come Up tells the story of some of the world's first environmental refugees, the Carteret Islanders. The film follows relocation leader Ursula Rakova and a group of young families as they search for new homes in war torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.
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Butterfly Crush
🇦🇺 Australia The 2010sButterfly Crush is a modern love story, starring award winning Australian actress Amelia Shankley, and set against the backdrop of the Sydney music industry. The song and dance duo, Butterfly Crush are about to break big, and are up for the Australasian Song Awards, but their chance at success is jeopardized when half of the duo; Eva, gets involved with a Kings Cross cult, the “Dreamguides”, deep into astrology and virtual dreaming. Moana must risk everything to save her, in this brand new contemporary feature about music and love.
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Our Generation
Western Australia The 2000sOur Generation is a 2010 Australian documentary film about the struggle of Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory to retain their land, culture and freedom.
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Ex
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy 🇳🇿 New ZealandEx is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema. It was released February 6, 2009 in Italian cinema and has been recognized as "national cultural interest" by the Directorate General for Cinema of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.
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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Tasmania The 1820sHunger Has No Limit — Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
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Acolytes
QueenslandNothing stays buried forever. — Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
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The Combination
New South WalesNo Second Chance — Set in the maligned western suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John gets out of gaol to discover his younger brother Charlie is caught up with drugs, hookers and crime. Charlie oscillates between the streets and school. Daily clashes between Scott and Charlie's gang escalate. This feud spills into the streets in a territory and identity battle that turns bloody.
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Long Weekend
New South WalesPeter and Carla, a couple whose marriage is faltering, decide to go on a camping weekend. When they become lost, the pair sets up camp on a remote beach that doesn't seem to be on any map. At first the trip is the romantic getaway they imagined – then slowly things begin to go wrong. After Peter disrespects the unspoiled habitat, it seems as if the surroundings are exacting revenge on the couple, as insects, animals, and then nature itself become the enemy.
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Beautiful
South AustraliaGet me some secrets — After another teenager disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy, the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel, a fourteen-year-old with an obsessive crush, to help her uncover the truth.
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Van Diemen's Land
Tasmania The 1820sHunger is a strange silence — The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
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The Boys Are Back
South AustraliaInspired by a true story. — When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
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Shankam
New South WalesWhen his girlfriend is forced to return to India, a happy-go-lucky man follows her and upon asking for their marriage is tasked with picking up a violent but timid relative while making sure the rival villagers don't get a chance to attack him.
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My Year Without Sex
VictoriaOne woman is about to do the unthinkable. — A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical procedure.
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Crush
Western AustraliaAttraction can be fatal. — Julian is perfectly happy in his relationship with the pretty blond Clare. That is, until he meets Anna, a dark-haired, bikini-clad beauty who he encounters while he is house-sitting. Passion reigns in their relationship, and soon Julian learns that Anna is more dangerous than he ever would have thought.
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Mary and Max
New York Victoria The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sSometimes perfect strangers make the best friends. — A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970s, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?
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Two Fists, One Heart
🇦🇺 Australia The 2000sAll his life it's been about two fists. Now, will he be strong enough to fight for one heart? — This is a contemporary story set in Perth Western Australia . Anthony Argo is a young Italian/Australian boxer, being pushed to the limit by his Sicilian father-trainer, Joe,. Joe wants Anthony to achieve the success in the ring that he was denied as a young man. When Anthony meets Kate, he begins to see his life - and the role violence - in a different light.
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Cedar Boys
New South WalesA journey into the lives of Middle-Eastern Australians in Sydney's outer-west.
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Lake Mungo
VictoriaIf you've never seen a ghost... Look closer — After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centred in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
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Last Ride
🇦🇺 AustraliaAre some bonds meant to be broken? — A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.
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Charlie & Boots
🇦🇺 AustraliaThey're on the road to somewhere — Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
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