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2) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Formats
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Publisher
[BBC America]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (550 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After reuniting with his long-lost daughter in Singapore, Dr. Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat, Australia, where a new Senior Constable and an old foe do their best to thwart his work as police surgeon. And yet they need Blake's help to solve the murder of the mayor of Ballarat, the stabbing of a rock 'n' roll star and the poisoning of a well-dressed picnicker.
5) Don's party
Publisher
Distributed by Fox Lorber Associates
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set on the day of the Australian federal elections in October 1969. Chronicles the interaction among a group of young suburbanites who get together to watch election returns.
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A darkly humorous search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Follow Danny throught a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (727 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Phryne Fisher is back with more mysteries and fashion. A private detective in 1920s Melbourne, Phryne has a knack for being in the right place at the right time, and she's usually armed with the right weapon. Aided by her maid, Dorothy 'Dot' Williams, Phryne ventures from the city's mansions to its brothels, gaining admirers and enemies along the way.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 378 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a devout Muslim in post-9/11 Australia, detective Zane Malik feels constant pressure to prove himself but frequently clashes with his old-school superior. This critically acclaimed, award-winning crime series tackles thorny themes in today's complex world.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1376 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this season, Drovers Run is hit with more shocks and surprises than ever before. After a pregnancy scare, Tess learns that Nick, the love of her life, is still alive. Meg proposes to Terry and the girls face off against a relentless hit-man, who has been hired to kill Rob.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything away from him: a seedy place of lowlifes, corruption,...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
The unforgettable true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most controversial scandals of recent times: the organized deportation of innocent children from the UK to Australia, where they were thought to be lost in the system forever. Against overwhelming odds, and with little regard for her own safety, Humphreys reunited thousands of families and brought worldwide attention to a corrupt system and an extraordinary...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the hit Australian dramedy returns, hotshot surgeon Hugh Knight continues to serve out his probation in his rural hometown, while his family faces struggles that could bring them closer together, or tear them apart.
16) Nitram
Publisher
Ifc Films
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nitram is an isolated young man living with his parents in Australia until he meets an eccentric heiress. What follows is a gripping portrait of nihilism and violence.
17) The dry
Formats
Description
For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A matter of life and death: British flyer Peter Carter survives a jump from his burning plane without parachute and wakes up in a nether world between Earth and the next life. He is informed that he should have died and must go to Heaven, where he is put on trial for his life. He falls in love with June, an American radio operator.
Age of consent: Based on the life of controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Lindsay is a jaded painter who...
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