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Freedom (1982)

Freedom (1982)

Freedom (1982)
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102

Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life — blaming everyone for…

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Turkey Shoot (1982)

Turkey Shoot (1982)

Turkey Shoot (1982)
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93

In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the…

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The Man from Snowy River (1982)

The Man from Snowy River (1982)

The Man from Snowy River (1982)
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104

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father’s farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to…

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Mad Max 2 (1981)

Mad Max 2 (1981)

Mad Max 2 (1981)
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96

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly…

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Puberty Blues (1981)

Puberty Blues (1981)

Puberty Blues (1981)
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87

Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Around the World with Dot (1981)

Around the World with Dot (1981)

Around the World with Dot (1981)
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73

In this magical film Dot joins up with Santa Claus in order to help her friend the mother kangaroo find her lost baby. The pair take off into the air…

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Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)

Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)

Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
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108

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and…

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Genre: Action, Adventure
Strange Behavior (1981)

Strange Behavior (1981)

Strange Behavior (1981)
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99

When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must…

Centrespread (1981)

Centrespread (1981)

Centrespread (1981)
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82

In a world at the brink of the 21st century, where strict social stratification is rigidly enforced, and the only manifestation of violence is in magazine pages, a photographer whose…

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The Killing of Angel Street (1981)

The Killing of Angel Street (1981)

The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
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96

Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father’s mysterious…

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Lady Stay Dead (1981)

Lady Stay Dead (1981)

Lady Stay Dead (1981)
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95

A young woman is looking after her sister’s house, unaware that her sister and neighbor have been murdered by their handyman who also happens to be a serial killer.

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Genre: Horror
Gallipoli (1981)

Gallipoli (1981)

Gallipoli (1981)
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112

As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Winter of Our Dreams (1981)

Winter of Our Dreams (1981)

Winter of Our Dreams (1981)
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90

When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Survivor (1981)

The Survivor (1981)

The Survivor (1981)
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98

When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur…

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Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story (1981)

Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story (1981)

Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story (1981)
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52

A document of Australia’s nuclear industrial history, from uranium mining and its toxic legacy to the nuclear weapons tests conducted at Maralinga in South Australia.

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Genre: Documentary
Alison’s Birthday (1981)

Alison’s Birthday (1981)

Alison’s Birthday (1981)
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99

During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three years later.

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Genre: Horror
Roadgames (1981)

Roadgames (1981)

Roadgames (1981)
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101

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

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Nightmares (1980)

Nightmares (1980)

Nightmares (1980)
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83

A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother’s death in the car…

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Genre: Horror, Thriller
The Chain Reaction (1980)

The Chain Reaction (1980)

The Chain Reaction (1980)
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92

Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

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The Earthling (1980)

The Earthling (1980)

The Earthling (1980)
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97

Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents…

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Breaker Morant (1980)

Breaker Morant (1980)

Breaker Morant (1980)
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107

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Stir (1980)

Stir (1980)

Stir (1980)
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97

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and…

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Harlequin (1980)

Harlequin (1980)

Harlequin (1980)
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95

Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast’s young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast’s wife Sandy falls in love…

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Thirst (1979)

Thirst (1979)

Thirst (1979)
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95

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the “blood cows” kept at the “dairy farm”,…

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My Brilliant Career (1979)

My Brilliant Career (1979)

My Brilliant Career (1979)
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100

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Tim (1979)

Tim (1979)

Tim (1979)
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109

Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)

The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)

The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)
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93

In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away, this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group of miners…

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Genre: Drama
The Plumber (1979)

The Plumber (1979)

The Plumber (1979)
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77

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…

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Snapshot (1979)

Snapshot (1979)

Snapshot (1979)
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92

A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.

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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Dimboola (1979)

Dimboola (1979)

Dimboola (1979)
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94

Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.

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Genre: Comedy
Mad Max (1979)

Mad Max (1979)

Mad Max (1979)
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91

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force…

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Long Weekend (1979)

Long Weekend (1979)

Long Weekend (1979)
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92

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn’t in an accommodating mood.

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The Odd Angry Shot (1979)

The Odd Angry Shot (1979)

The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
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92

A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols,…

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Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Money Movers (1978)

Money Movers (1978)

Money Movers (1978)
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92

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

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Felicity (1978)

Felicity (1978)

Felicity (1978)
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94

Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she receives an invitation to her…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Patrick (1978)

Patrick (1978)

Patrick (1978)
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112

A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.

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Newsfront (1978)

Newsfront (1978)

Newsfront (1978)
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110

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in ’50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.

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Genre: Drama
Mouth to Mouth (1978)

Mouth to Mouth (1978)

Mouth to Mouth (1978)
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96

Broke and homeless Australian teenagers in love.

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Genre: Drama
Stunt Rock (1978)

Stunt Rock (1978)

Stunt Rock (1978)
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86

Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. Page helps the…

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Genre: Action, Drama, Music
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
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113

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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Genre: Crime, Drama, History