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41) Last ride
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English
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Kev, a fugitive who has committed a violent crime, takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. As father and son journey into the Australian outback and an unknown future, Chook is forced to make the choice between what is right and the love of his father.
43) Macbeth
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English
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Driven by ambition and an unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders the King of Scotland and claims the throne for himself. Haunted by ghosts and vexed by witches, he and his wife descend into the depths of madness and paranoia as they crumble beneath the weight of their crimes. "Sexy, high-octane retelling of the classic Shakespeare story"--Container
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It's 1963. JFK has been assassinated. The world has changed... and tremors are being felt even all the way in Ballarat. Jean Blake is still adjusting to life after her husband Lucien's disappearance eight months earlier, when she's unexpectedly drawn into the investigation of a pair of bizarre murders. Both cases seem linked to a series of newspaper articles recently published in The Courier and Ballarat's most infamous unsolved mysteries. No one...
45) 2040
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English
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Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if the solutions already available to improve our planet were embraced. Structured as a letter to his daughter, Gameau blends documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision of how these solutions could regenerate the world.
46) Irresistible
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English
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Sophie Hartley is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's beautiful co-worker, Mara, wants her children, her husband, and her life.
47) Mary and Max
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English
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Mary is a lonely eight-year-old in the suburbs of Melbourne. Struggling with questions that no one can answer, she writes to Max, an obese 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in New York City, which starts a friendship that spans 20 years and two continents.
48) Suzi Q
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English
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Story of trailblazing American rock singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro, who helped redefine the role of women in rock 'n' roll when she broke out in 1973.
49) Winchester
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English
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Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
50) 100 bloody acres
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English
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Brothers Reg and Lindsay Morgan are struggling to keep their organic blood and bone fertilizer business in motion. Part of their secret 'recipe' is car crash victims, and supply has been scarce. Reg encounters a group of travelers stranded on the highway and cooks-up a plan to save the business.
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English
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"Reeve is a member of an elite covert group that the government has kept a secret. When the very government that he was working for captures, beats, and brutally tortures him, Reeve realizes that he must purge the demons from his past in order to understand the essence of Ninjutsu and pursue justice. Only by mastering the way of the Ninja will he be able to remember how and why he was captured, what he is meant to do, and topple the corrupt government...
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Based on horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999. The film follows a mother raising her three boys in a poor suburb. She takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead welcoming a vicious predator into her home. An uncompromising look at the alarming circumstances that led to the notorious crimes.
53) Brand new day
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English
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A hilariously devout minister is chasing a runaway seminary student named Willie across the land down under. As Willie tries to make it back to the girl of his dreams, he embarks on a glorious, uproarious road trip filled with music, magic, and foot-stomping fun.
54) Buoyancy
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Central Khmer
Description
This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.
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English
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Australia's bushfires that tore through Victoria in 2009 incinerated over a million acres of land, including mountain ash forest ecosystems. The immediate aftermath of this firestorm was devastation; millions of animals died. But burned and traumatized survivors nursed back to health at wildlife hospitals showed an ability to bounce back, and the damaged environment demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for healing itself.
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English
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A dancer is abducted by three hooded women who keep him chained in a room for 12 days, where they subject him to various humiliations, including rape and tattooing. When he is freed, he searches for the women but eventually realises the futility of his search. But the trauma of his captivity is never far below the surface, and it finally explodes into temporary insanity.
57) The loved ones
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English
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"When Brent rejects Lola's invitation to the prom, he sets off a chain of events that leave him the victim of her twisted revenge. Now he's the only guest at Lola's terrifying and demented prom, and must fight to survive what could be his final dance. Will Brent live through this nightmare of drills, nails, glitter and syringes ... or become one of Lola's 'loved ones'?"--Container.
59) Animal kingdom
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English
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Seventeen year-old J is in the process of becoming initiated into a gang of armed robbers, known as the Cody brothers. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world, but soon discovers that the entire situation is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. Meanwhile, senior police officer Nathan Leckie recognizes that J's youth and inexperience may prove to be the key to finally conquering the Codys, and hopes to lure...
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English
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Based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir, this film tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is, ultimately, a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between a father and a son.