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Plot Summary:
A teenage slacker has only one night to finish a major English assignment, his grades depends on it. He is forced to finish the work over night at a local Internet cafe where he encounters gamers, nocturnal goth-ghouls and drunken Clubbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Palm Beach (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic music, but slowly tensions mount and deep secrets arise.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The BBQ (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Last Man Standing (2005)
Plot Summary:
Follow the odyssey of three men: their quest to get inside the head of the modern woman, and find out where they went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Night, the Prowler (1978)
Plot Summary:
Felicity Bannister is a young woman living in the shadow of her overpowering mother. Her oppression is her worst enemy until the day she is attacked by an intruder who breaks into her bedroom and forces Felicity into action. The tables are suddenly turned and Felicity transforms from the helpless victim into a ruthless renegade in search of trouble, driven by the anarchic thrill of malevolence.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Picture Show Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dalkeith (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon entered into the greyhound races. Soon residents are betting on the outcome of the races, and they are given a new reason to live. But the board of trustees learn what is going on, through the disgruntled daughter of one of the residents, and heavily handedly put an end to the fun and games. After the board's intervention the residents sink into a new form of despair as life becomes even duller and more boring than before. That is until the aloof pensioner, played by Ray Barrett, reveals he was once a high profile barrister and challenges the decision in court.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Floating Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film explores the different ways the family members cope with isolation and alienation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Violet's Visit (1997)
Plot Summary:
Violet, a feisty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in fact he is in a gay relationship with his long-time lover. This inevitably leads to changes and readjustments all round as dad gets to know, reluctantly, the daughter he never wanted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dimboola (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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True Story with Hamish & Andy (2017)
Plot Summary:
In each half-hour episode Hamish and Andy meet one regular Australian who tells them an amazing, true story from their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Dusty (1983)
Plot Summary:
Plot The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out shepherd, played by Bill Kerr. The dog gives Kerr a reason for living, and vice versa. Be sure to have plenty of Kleenex handy for some of the mistier passages of Dusty.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sunstruck (1972)
Plot Summary:
Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blurred (2002)
Plot Summary:
Every year more than 70,000 Australian school leavers head to the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast to celebrate their release from the secondary school system. With a wild mixture of sun, surf and sex, this quintessential Australian tradition is known affectionately as 'Schoolies Week'. So strap on the beer goggles and follow several groups of friends as they travel to the Gold Coast by train, clapped out Holden, Limo and on foot in search of the best time of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Fran (1985)
Plot Summary:
Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
Plot Summary:
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Strange Fits of Passion (1999)
Plot Summary:
Strange Fits of Passion is a 1999 Australian film about a young woman determined to lose her virginity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: intellectual, independent film, sentimental, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual
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The Misguided (2018)
Plot Summary:
After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, dark, independent film
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Emerald City (1988)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Spanish Woman (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sexy, captivating, light, realistic, witty, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy
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Jessica (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min
Plot tags:
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Swinging Safari (2018)
Plot Summary:
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, light, erotic, funny, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, hot
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A Month of Sundays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, independent film
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
Plot Summary:
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy. The plot then splits into a series of parallels, flash forwards and flashbacks. One depicts Ralph’s imprisonment after being framed for drug trafficking. The other follows the dramatic ascent of his career to hype status and the pairing between the dynamic Patsy and himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Rikky and Pete (1988)
Plot Summary:
Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, erotic, light
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Bliss (1985)
Plot Summary:
An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, art house, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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The Efficiency Expert (1991)
Plot Summary:
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Mental (2012)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, light, captivating, entertaining, funny, anamorphic, hilarious, touching, offbeat
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The Sum of Us (1994)
Plot Summary:
"The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff unsuccessfully searches for love, with the unwanted guidance of his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, independent film, lgbt cinema, cult classic, humorous, realistic
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The Castle (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, compassionate, melancholic, talky, realistic, not serious, funny, cult classic