778 Films & TV Shows Set In Oceania
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Dimboola
VictoriaAccept your invitation to the wackiest, most riotous wedding ceremony of the year! — Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
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The Plumber
South AustraliaWhen your waterworks come back to haunt you! — At first simply grating, the presence of a hard-edged, macho plumber who damages more than he repairs and returns day after day soon turns menacing for the intellectual wife of a distracted doctor.
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The Little Convict
🇦🇺 Australia The 19th CenturyIn old New South Wales a new bunch of convicts arrives including the little convict, young Toby Nelson. Consigned to a Government farm they are subjected to the cruelty of Sergeant Billy Langdon and Corporal Weazel Wesley. Toby escapes and flees into the Australian bush where he is saved from death by the aboriginal boy, Wahroonga. Together, with another escapee, the highwayman, Jack Doolan, and Wahroonga’s animal friends, they launch a spectacular mission to rescue the blacksmith, Big George, and Toby’s sister, Polly.
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Dawn!
🇦🇺 Australia The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sThe movie reveals what the headlines concealed. — Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
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Patrick
VictoriaHe's in a coma... Yet, he can kill... — A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
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Money Movers
New South WalesAction that will hit you like an armoured truck! — A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
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Slave of the Cannibal God
🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaWhen the price of lust is death..! — A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
🇦🇺 Australia The 1900s The 19th CenturyThe chant of the underdog — The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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Blue Fin
South AustraliaHigh seas adventure from the makers of "Storm Boy". — Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
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Weekend of Shadows
🇦🇺 Australia The 1930sIn the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
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Little Boy Lost
New South WalesFor four days and three nights a nation prayed and waited . . . The true story of Australia's biggest search — The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies. After four tense days, hopes wanes. At last, a group of searchers spot the young Stephen, and its members are able to convice him that they want to help him reach home and family. - Written by
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Summer City
New South Wales The 1960sFour friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is angered by the obnoxious, womanizing Boo who seduces a teenaged girl while on their trip in one of his usual one night stands. Meanwhile, the girl's psychotic dad is also looking for Boo out of revenge for what he did to his daughter. Boo is in for a major wake up call.
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Backroads
New South WalesTwo strangers - one white, one black - steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.
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Storm Boy
South AustraliaWild things should be free. — Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
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ABBA: The Movie
🇦🇺 AustraliaFrontstage, backstage & on the road - take the tour — A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Australia.
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Dot and the Kangaroo
🇦🇺 AustraliaAn Australian girl gets lost in the Outback, but she is befriended by a kangaroo who gives her a ride in her pouch as they search for the girl's home. Aiding the pair are musically gifted koalas, platypuses, and kookaburras in this film based on Ethel Pedley's 1899 children's book, with animated humans and animals superimposed upon a live background.
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The FJ Holden
New South Wales The 1970sSuburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack (featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks and Renee Geyer) and the screen debut of future star Sigrid Thornton. THE FJ HOLDEN forged a strong connection with 70s mainstream youth audiences and today
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Sleeping Dogs
🇳🇿 New ZealandWhat happens when you're hunted...and there's no place to run! — Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
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The Getting of Wisdom
Victoria The 19th CenturyThe Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. The film is about a young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.
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The Pyjama Girl Case
🇦🇺 AustraliaTwo seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?
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The Last Wave
New South WalesHasn't the weather been strange...could it be a warning? — Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the Aboriginal people and their prophecies.
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Journey Among Women
🇦🇺 Australia The 19th CenturySavagery and passion amongst the wild women convicts of early Australia. — Nine women convicts escape from a prison hell-hole and dare to create a savage world free of man.
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Raw Deal
🇦🇺 Australia The 19th CenturyIn the 1870s, the colonial administrator hires bounty hunter Palmer and gun salesman Ben to wipe out an army of Irish Catholic revolutionaries in their stronghold. Palmer and Ben recruit three gun men to help them and their mission is successful but when they go to get their payment they are trapped by treacherous officials. Ben and Palmer must fight their way to safety.
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Blue Fire Lady
VictoriaWhen you're young, when you're free...when you've still got time to believe. — Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.
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Listen to the Lion
New South WalesA Sydney derelict lies drunk in an alley and is beaten up by thugs. A friend helps him find refuge in a night shelter. As he lies dying he has a vision of himself flying about the room. The man dies and after the cremation of his corpse, his spirit returns to the footpath.
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