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1. Paradise Road (1997)
R | 122 min | Drama, History, War
A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 5,923 | Gross: $1.92M
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Votes: 41,001 | Gross: $0.23M
3. Minder (1979–1994)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. Can his ex-boxer bodyguard Terry stay level-headed whilst working for the King of Dodgy Deals?
Stars: George Cole, Glynn Edwards, Dennis Waterman, Gary Webster
Votes: 2,827
4. The Marine (2006)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A group of diamond thieves on the run kidnap the wife of a recently discharged marine who goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her.
Director: John Bonito | Stars: John Cena, Kelly Carlson, Robert Patrick, Anthony Ray Parker
Votes: 35,809 | Gross: $18.84M
5. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Votes: 22,862 | Gross: $10.28M
6. Sniper (1993)
R | 98 min | Action, Thriller, War
A veteran US Marine sniper is partnered with a rookie sniper as his spotter to take out a politician and a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young
Votes: 25,468 | Gross: $18.99M
7. Gallipoli (1981)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins
Votes: 41,939 | Gross: $5.73M
8. Mystery Road (2018– )
Not Rated | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Soon, Jay's investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
Stars: Aaron Pedersen, Tasia Zalar, Tasma Walton, Judy Davis
Votes: 4,855
9. Breaker Morant (1980)
PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown
Votes: 14,418 | Gross: $7.14M
10. The Contract (2006)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A father and his son attempt to bring in an assassin to the authorities, but his dangerous associates have other plans.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: John Cusack, Morgan Freeman, Jamie Anderson, Alice Krige
Votes: 26,039
11. Mystery Road: Origin (2022– )
TV-14 | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows Jay Swan, a young officer who arrives at his new station in the town where his estranged father lives, as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary.
Stars: Mark Coles Smith, Tuuli Narkle, Daniel Henshall, Toby Leonard Moore
Votes: 1,735
12. Black Robe (1991)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Votes: 7,663 | Gross: $8.21M
13. The Last Wave (1977)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Votes: 11,022
14. Texas Rangers (2001)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: James Van Der Beek, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher, Dylan McDermott
Votes: 6,317 | Gross: $0.62M
15. Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
PG | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Jane March, Steven Waddington, Winston Ntshona
Votes: 2,356 | Gross: $2.17M
16. Go Karts (2020)
102 min | Family, Sport
A thrilling family film about a boy who must overcome tremendous odds and his own recklessness to achieve his dream of winning the National Go Kart Championship.
Director: Owen Trevor | Stars: William Lodder, Frances O'Connor, Anastasia Bampos, Darius Amarfio Jefferson
Votes: 3,638
17. Jasper Jones (2017)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In the late '60s, two teenage boys join forces to solve a chilling mystery and navigate the prejudices and secrets of their small Australian town.
Director: Rachel Perkins | Stars: Levi Miller, Kevin Long, Toni Collette, Aaron L. McGrath
Votes: 3,711
18. The Survivor (1981)
Not Rated | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
When an airline pilot survives a crash that kills all 300 passengers, he works with a psychic and a priest to find the culprit behind the incident and pacify the souls of the victims.
Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten, Angela Punch McGregor
Votes: 1,339
19. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
PG | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Penne Hackforth-Jones
Votes: 8,296 | Gross: $4.81M
20. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 3,619
21. The Secret River (2015)
Adventure, Drama, History
In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
Stars: Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Sarah Snook, Lachy Hulme, Tim Minchin
Votes: 676
22. A Good Man in Africa (1994)
R | 94 min | Comedy
In a West African nation, the womanizing British 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner deals with different issues.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Colin Friels, Sean Connery, Joanne Whalley, John Lithgow
Votes: 2,718 | Gross: $2.31M
23. The Plumber (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Horror, Thriller
A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Robert Coleby, Candy Raymond
Votes: 2,580
24. Storm Boy (1976)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Family
Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
Directors: Henri Safran, Ian Goddard | Stars: Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil, Judy Dick
Votes: 1,516
25. Parallax (2004)
25 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Ben's life is turned upside down when he is accused of a theft that he did not commit. While in pursuit of the real thief, Ben discovers that Werrinup is a gateway to a number of parallel universes known as the Parallax.
Stars: Josh Marshall-Clarke, Gillian Alexy, Caroline Brazier, David Richardson
Votes: 259
26. Serangoon Road (2013)
561 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Serangoon Road is a detective noir series set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore.
Stars: Don Hany, Joan Chen, Maeve Dermody, Alaric
Votes: 692
27. Mister Johnson (1990)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
In 1923, a local resident of British Colonial Nigeria tries to be equal with the colonial administration.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi, Beatie Edney
Votes: 1,200 | Gross: $1.46M
28. Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, Robert Bruning, Jerry Thomas
Votes: 947
29. Something Is Out There (II) (1988)
Not Rated | 200 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two police officers investigate a series of brutal murders in which the victims have had bodily organs removed. When one of them questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime ... See full summary »
Stars: Joe Cortese, Maryam d'Abo, George Dzundza, Gregory Sierra
Votes: 640
30. Stir (1980)
101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When a repeat offender returns to a prison after exposing abuses committed by its guards to the press, tensions boil between inmates and staff, culminating in a bloody riot.
Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Gary Waddell
Votes: 387
31. Cloudstreet (2011)
342 min | Drama
The lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963.
Stars: Kerry Fox, Geoff Morrell, Stephen Curry, Essie Davis
Votes: 575
32. Pacific Banana (1981)
R | 82 min | Comedy
The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his ... See full summary »
Director: John D. Lamond | Stars: Graeme Blundell, Robin Stewart, Deborah Gray, Alyson Best
Votes: 213
33. Money Movers (1978)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten security. The biggest danger of a new heist lies from within the company's own ranks.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Votes: 961
34. Bride of the Wind (2001)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This movie is a biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Sarah Wynter, Vincent Perez, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Verhoeven
Votes: 706 | Gross: $0.42M
35. Blue Fin (1978)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele', this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South ... See full summary »
Directors: Carl Schultz, Bruce Beresford | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe, John Jarratt, Liddy Clark
Votes: 272
36. Freedom (1982)
Not Rated | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
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 the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Jon Blake, Candy Raymond, Jad Capelja, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Votes: 120
37. Run Chrissie Run! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The action moves along quickly in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie when she is ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Langman | Stars: Carmen Duncan, Michael Aitkens, Shane Briant, Red Symons
Votes: 95
38. The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
PG | 98 min | Drama
Story of an aboriginal family who tries to move out of the fringe into the main white community.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza, Kylie Belling
Votes: 443 | Gross: $0.15M
39. Wormwood (2007– )
24 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The town of Wormwood is a weird place according to Ned and Danni Bourke. The town's main economy comes from worm farming and selling 'worm poo' but things start to get really weird when the kids meet the Nose of Wormwood.
Stars: Nick Stevenson, Kelly Paterniti, Karli Rae Grogan, Valentina Barron
Votes: 23
40. Undercover (1983)
100 min | Comedy, History
True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of women's lingerie, famous for its bras and girdles.
Director: David Stevens | Stars: Geneviève Picot, John Walton, Michael Paré, Sandy Gore
Votes: 119
41. Clowning Around 2 (1993 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Family
There are clowns I believe. They go around.
Director: George Whaley | Stars: Nicola Bartlett, Paul Blackwell, Jo Bolton, Reg Bolton
Votes: 35
42. Belinda (1988)
R | 97 min | Drama
16 year old Belinda wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
Director: Pamela Gibbons | Stars: Deanna Jeffs, Mary Regan, Kaarin Fairfax, Joy Smithers
Votes: 46
43. Archer's Adventure (1985 TV Movie)
93 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but ... See full summary »
Director: Denny Lawrence | Stars: Brett Climo, Robert Coleby, Ned Lander, Doreen Warburton
Votes: 298
44. A Waltz Through the Hills (1988 TV Movie)
TV-G | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Two Australian orphans undertake a dangerous overland journey towards a ship bound for England-and their only surviving relatives. They are helped along the way by an Aboriginal man who helps them live off the land and avoid detection.
Director: Frank Arnold | Stars: Dan O'Herlihy, Ernie Dingo, Andre Jansen, Tina Kemp
Votes: 96
45. Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995)
107 min | Comedy
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament.
Director: George Whaley | Stars: Leo McKern, Joan Sutherland, Geoffrey Rush, Ray Barrett
Votes: 223
46. Dawn! (1979)
Not Rated | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Biopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, Ron Haddrick, Bunney Brooke, Tom Richards
Votes: 70
47. The Great Mint Swindle (2012 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on a true story, three Australian brothers become embroiled in a scam by selling a fake gold nugget to a tycoon.
Director: Geoff Bennett | Stars: Grant Bowler, Todd Lasance, Josh Quong Tart, Shane Bourne
Votes: 223
48. The Fourth Wish (1976)
107 min | Drama
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: John Meillon, Robert Bettles, Michael Craig, Anne Haddy
Votes: 109
49. Weekend of Shadows (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
Director: Tom Jeffrey | Stars: John Waters, Wyn Roberts, Graham Rouse, Melissa Jaffer
Votes: 70
50. The First Kangaroos (1988)
Drama, Sport
The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.
Director: Frank Cvitanovich | Stars: Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood, Dominique Sweeney, Philip Quast
Votes: 42