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Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
4) Mental
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
6) The bank
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young mathematician is on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market and he is quickly taken under the wing of a corrupt CEO at Centrabank. Together these two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the largest banking scandals in history.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The complex, interwoven narrative charts the subsequent investigation and the event's far-reaching impact on the students, families, and staff of Appleyard College and on the nearby township. Theories abound, long-held secrets are exposed, and paranoia and hysteria set in, as in vastly differing ways their lives are changed forever.
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a decapitated body is found in the mangroves of a coastal town, [Detective Jay Swan] teams up with local constable Fran Davis ... to investigate the crime. Soon a nearby archaeologist ... makes a find that could help with the case, but she conceals it for fear of shutting down her dig site. Facing obstruction at every turn and a rising body count, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town."--
Aaron Pedersen returns as Det. Jay...
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcement. The only way for him to save his younger brother from the gallows is to dismiss his moral judgment and kill his psychotic older brother within nine days.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Janet is seconded from a case of psychological abuse in the armed services to head up a Royal Commission into gun crime. Conscripting solicitors Richard and Lina, and the ambitious Owen Ramsey, Janet trades the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany courtrooms, wigs, and gowns for plain clothes and a community hall. There, she and her team focus on the murder of 25-year-old Hani Akvan.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary Australian detective drama about retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst eager to be mentored, whether Alexa wants to or not, Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Part of absurdist comedy, a part deep-seated satire of contemporary Australia as experienced by the young and affluent, the show follows twenty-somethings Ray and Alice as they navigate a series of increasingly awkward and comedic situations, from limp romantic encounters to bungled opportunities for professional growth. Once they have tacitly buried their vague ambitions, all that remains are half-hearted attempts with equally indeterminate results....
16) Breath
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.
17) Rams
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Two estranged brothers, Colin and Les, are at war raising separate flocks of sheep both descended from the family's bloodline. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
20) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
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