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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero!
5) Ten canoes
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
6) Dark City
Series
Formats
Description
When John Murdoch awakens in a strange hotel room, he finds that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is he can't remember a thing. Pursued by the police and haunted by the Strangers, mysterious beings who possess the ability to stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. But in a city where reality is the ultimate illusion, discovering the truth could be fatal.
Pub. Date
1999
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero!
10) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
11) Bright star
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Poet John Keats and his muse Fanny Brawne fall in love but cannot marry.
12) The proposition
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcement. The only way for him to save his younger brother from the gallows is to dismiss his moral judgment and kill his psychotic older brother within nine days.
13) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915.
14) Animal Kingdom
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
When his mother dies from an overdose, Josh Cody is taken in by his grandmother and uncles, the most notorious criminal gang in the city. When tensions rise, Josh is forced to choose between his treacherous family and the lawless police.
15) Ten canoes
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong. Narrated by veteran Aborigine actor David Gulpilil.
Pub. Date
2002.
Formats
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, traveling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by...
18) The hunter
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly...
19) Predestination
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
20) The hunter
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary, posing as a scientist sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. Hired by an anonymous company that wants the tiger's genetic material, Martin proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family, becoming increasingly close to them. However, as his attachment grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly...