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Plot Summary:
Rain Shadow is an Australian television drama series which premiered on 7 October 2007 on ABC TV. It aired on Sundays at 8.30 pm. The six-part series was produced by Southern Star. Music from The Audreys features in the soundtrack for the show, including the main theme. Rain Shadow was shot in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and is set in the fictional district of Paringa, a dry land farming area in a rain shadow. It tells the story of two characters who become the means of each other's future. It stars Rachel Ward as district vet Kate McDonald and Victoria Thaine as new veterinary assistant Jill Blake.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
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Love is Deep (2019)
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To like someone is to love lightly while to love someone is to like deeply. There is one person in this world and in this life whom you will love deeply. This is a realistic story of healing. Zheng Ding Ding and her boyfriend Chen Xun have been dating for years. For the sake of love, she has on many occasions set aside her dream to design pet toys because she was wholly devoted to her boyfriend. When she realizes that he has not gotten over his ex-girlfriend, Zheng Ding Ding decides to give up on their unjust relationship. Surgeon Ning Wei Jin has readily stayed by Ding Ding's side as he encourages her to pursue her dreams. He has liked Ding Ding for some time but was rejected when he opened up about his feelings as she wanted to focus on her career. Ning Wei Jin doesn't give up and Ding Ding unwittingly begins to reciprocate a mutual attraction. However, problems with their work and family get in the way to test the couple as they fight for their love.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Countrymen (2021)
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Four men with dubious plans move to a farm in the countryside. More or less against their will, they end up as the founders of Norway's first halal dairy farm.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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RAN Remote Area Nurse (2006)
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RAN is an Australian television program, filmed entirely on Masig Island in the tropical Torres Strait north of the Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost part of Australia, and the border with Papua New Guinea. This is an important series to Torres Strait Islanders, but also to the predominantly Anglo Australian community as it highlights the difference between Islanders and mainland Indigenous Australians and the interactions between Islander and Anglo culture. Islander actors and extras are extensively used. The series was released on DVD on 20 February 2006.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Year Of (2023)
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The final two years of high school are simultaneously traumatic and exhilarating for both the kids at Jubilee High, and their parents and teachers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Rescue Special Ops (2009)
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Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government. This drama series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue Special Ops for a fourth season.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Parklands (1996)
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Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. Rosie puzzles about who he was, and about her early life and relationship to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 51 min
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The Caterpillar Wish (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
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Seven Brothers (1989)
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Seven brothers takes place during ten years of the seven deadbeat brothers living with their mother in Jukola, Finland. After their mother's death the brothers are forced to change their lifestyle and try to become socially accepted citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 804 min
Plot tags: folk tale, avant garde
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The River Kings (1991)
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Filmed on South Australia's glorious River Murray, this television mini-series is set during the 1920s and tells of the story of a runaway who escapes to the river to work on a paddle-boat steamer and his friendship with an old salt captain played by Bill Kerr. Based on an original novel by Max Fatchen.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 200 min
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Eight Deadly Shots (1972)
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Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story,.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 316 min
Plot tags: depressing, black and white
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The Heights (2019)
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A groundbreaking serial about a community trying to protect its way of life, while under the constant threat of gentrification and the social stratification of its neighbourhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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The Shiralee (1987)
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Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, saga
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Alice to Nowhere (1986)
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A nurse who has been hired to staff a remote outpost in the Australian outback unwittingly carries a stash of jewels taken in a foiled robbery. The robbers track her to the outback, and are determined to let nothing--and no one--get in the way of them retrieving their loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 240 min
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After losing her parents to a mysterious fire, nine-year-old Alice Hart is raised by her grandmother June on a flower farm where she learns there are secrets within secrets. But years on, an unearthed betrayal sees Alice forced to face her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dark
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Golden Fiddles (1991)
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Golden Fiddles is a 1994 Australian mini series based on the novel by Mary Grant Bruce. It was sot from 23 July to 16 September 1991 and was re-edited into a TV movie in 1994.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: family saga
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Mustangs FC (2017)
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A goal kicking comedy drama about girls who are abandoning the sidelines and starting their local football club’s first all-female team. Against the odds, they’ll stand united and overcome any challenge the club, the boys or the opposition can throw at them, all while wrestling with what it means to be a girl today.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious, children's program
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The Lakes (1997)
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Doom-laden but compelling BBC1 drama series embracing sex, death and Catholic guilt, set in a small community in the Lake District. The first four-part series centred on newcomer Danny Kavanagh; the second 10-part series featured other characters in the community.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 374 min
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Floodhouse (2004)
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Two girls are sent to live in the Australian bush with their hippy father. As they gradually bond, a stranger arrives from a town called Paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
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Fighting Season (2018)
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The story involves an Australian platoon in the Afghanistan war, forced to come home following the death of their leader. A murder mystery involving the now deceased Captain Ted Nordenfelt ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Crash Palace (2001)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Last Frontier (1986)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 180 min
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Redfern Now (2012)
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Six extraordinary stories one unmissable series. Redfern Now is the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Home Grown (2013)
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A local Belgian potato farmer loses all his money and tries to earn it back by growing cannabis.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling, humorous
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The Principal (2015)
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When history teacher Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of a notoriously violent Boys' school in Sydney's south-west, his radical approach brings him into conflict and leaves his personal life dangerously exposed. But just when he seems to be making progress, a 17-year-old student is found dead on school grounds.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
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A Place to Call Home (2013)
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A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, captivating, serious, stylized, realistic, saga, period drama
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Canal Road (2007)
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Canal Road is an Australian television drama series on the Nine Network. The series was produced in-house, under producer Susan Bower, in collaboration with writers Sarah Smith, John Ridley and Dave Warner, and directed by Kevin Carlin. It was filmed at Channel Nine’s GTV Studio 11 and on location in and around Melbourne. The series reportedly cost A$10 million to produce. The 13-part series went to air from 16 April 2008. The series debuted to mixed critical reception and only average ratings, which were further eroded when the series was moved to a later timeslot. Nine removed Canal Road from its schedules after the seventh episode, which drew in only 360,000 viewers; however the eighth episode was still made available online. Nine aired the remaining episodes during August and December 2008. Canal Road was released on DVD on 4 August 2008 in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Small Time Gangster (2011)
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Small Time Gangster is an Australian drama series produced by Boilermaker-Burberry Entertainment for Movie Extra subscription television channel. The series follows the adventures of Tony Piccolo, a man who works hard to support his wife Cathy and two kids. While they think he's cleaning carpets, his real profession is as an underworld enforcer, a brutal standover man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, psychological, captivating, rough, semi serious
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McLeod's Daughters (2001)
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McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television series that began airing on the Nine Network on 8 August 2001. This Logie award winning drama series follows the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod as they embark on a mission: to run Drovers Run, a farm that has been in the McLeod family for generations. After being passed down from father to son, Drover's has now reunited Claire and Tess after 20 years. They now have to run a farm while balancing their lives, loves and losses.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, exciting, idiotic, telenovela
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Rams (2015)
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In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, emotional, depressing, independent film, comedy drama, social, crying, light
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Rams (2020)
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In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley - so the brothers must work together to to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min
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