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An Aboriginal tale of magic and mystery, set in a time before white settlers came to Australia, this comic retelling of a traditional fable is the first major feature film to be made entirely with native Aboriginal dialogue. It's thoroughly entertai... Directed by Peter Djigirr / Rolf De Heer Our Price: £7.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £8.00 (50%)
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Tanamera - Lion of Singapore was a mini-series adaptation of best-selling author Noel Barber's epic story of passion, war and forbidden love set in the twilight years of the British Empire in Singapore and Malaya. John Dexter is a dashing young Engl... Directed by John Power / Kevin James Dobson Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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A stylish, fascinating Australian western penned by cult singer Nick Cave, The Proposition stars Pearce as an outlaw who is given the opportunity to save his younger brother from death, but only if he finds and kills his psychotic older brother. Directed by John Hillcoat Our Price: £6.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £13.00 (65%)
Our Price: £21.99 Blu-ray | Released 23rd Jun | Save £3.00 (12%)
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On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College took a trip to Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During the idyllic sun-drenched afternoon some of the party left the rest of the group and having cli... Directed by Peter Weir Our Price: £14.99 DVD | Released 30th Jun | Save £5.00 (25%)
Our Price: £11.99 DVD | Available | Save £1.00 (7%)
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In Antarctica, the land of the Emperor penguins, a young penguin named Mumble is born. Much to the other penguins' consternation, he cannot sing a heartsong - a song that expresses his being. What he can do however, is tapdance! When famine threaten... Directed by George Miller Our Price: £7.99 DVD | Available | Save £11.00 (57%)
Our Price: £26.49 Blu-ray | In Stock
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A highly-acclaimed adult drama based on a short story by Raymond Carver (also adapted as part of Altman's Short Cuts). A group of men on a fishing trip find an Aboriginal girl's dead body and decide to ignore it and continue fishing instead of telli... Directed by Ray Lawrence Our Price: £5.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £14.00 (70%)
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Completed while still a student, these highly accomplished and prize-winning shorts prefigure the thematics and style for which Campion has become known. 'Passionless Moments' B/W (12 min), 'A Girl's Own Story' B/W (27 min), 'Peel' Colour (9 min). Director: Jane Campion |
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After being forcibly removed from their homes and placed in a government camp, three young aboriginal girls escape and attempt the 1500 mile walk home relying on their wits and ingenuity to keep them one step ahead of the constabulary and a native ... Directed by Phillip Noyce Our Price: £6.49 DVD | In Stock | Save £11.50 (63%)
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After being caught getting cosy with her mother's boyfriend, Heidi leaves home to call on a man she once met and a romance develops in all its complexity. However Heidi challenges the man's ideas of sexuality, class and his future. Illuminated by th... Directed by Cate Shortland Our Price: £5.99 DVD | Available
Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Satisfyingly murky Australian drama, charting the complex lives of a group of disparate characters in a Sydney suburb up to the point where one of them ends up dead in the shrub of the title. A murder-mystery more concerned with how-we-got-there tha... Directed by Ray Lawrence Our Price: £5.99 DVD | Available | Save £10.00 (62%)
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The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert Wonderfully enjoyable road movie in which three Australian drag queens are invited to play a four-week engagement at an Alice Springs hotel. They board their bus - the eponymous Priscilla, and off they go to places where transsexuals and drag queens... Directed by Stephan Elliott Our Price: £5.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £14.00 (70%)
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'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' Award winning investigative journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years - and how these same policies ar... Directed by John Pilger / Christopher Martin Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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AKA Bis ans Ende der Welt. The world is going to end, but Claire is too busy to notice. Set in an alternate 1999 facing nuclear catastrophe, a young woman is chased across the globe with a mysterious fugitive in a spellbinding game of cat and mouse.... Directed by Wim Wenders Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Darkly comic tale of love, sex and revenge set in New South Wales and based around Spanish immigrant Lola, her teenage daughter and her Italian husband, who takes the savings and goes to live with his mistress. When Lola sees him starting to enjoy t... Directed by Steve Jacobs Our Price: £6.99 DVD | Available | Save £13.00 (65%)
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Maverick ballroom dancer Scott believes in dancing his own steps. After his regular partner gets fed up and ditches him, inexperienced but audacious Fran volunteers to take her job. Together these two misfits try to win the Australian championship a... Directed by Baz Luhrmann Our Price: £5.99 DVD | Available | Save £10.00 (62%)
Our Price: £14.99 Blu-ray | Released 16th Jun | Save £5.00 (25%)
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Using animated claymation techniques, Elliot presents the biography of a true hero - an ordinary man cursed with bad luck but who never loses his zest for life. Born with Tourette's Syndrome, struck by lightning, having his testicle removed and deve... Directed by Adam Elliot Our Price: £8.99 DVD | Available | Save £1.00 (10%)
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