Australia

Nov 18, 2008

2h 45m

★ 6.6

Welcome to Australia!

Overview

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Genres

Adventure

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Bazmark

20th Century Fox

Dune Entertainment

Ingenious Film Partners

Australia Trailers

Cast

Lady Sarah Ashley

Nicole Kidman

The Drover

Hugh Jackman

Katherine

Essie Davis

Neil Fletcher

David Wenham

King Carney

Bryan Brown

King George

David Gulpilil

Sergeant

John Jarratt

Carney Boy

Shea Adams

Carney Boy

Nathin Art Butler

Carney Boy

John Walton

Carney Boy

Nigel Harbach

Bull

Eddie Baroo

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A Night at Claridge’s

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7.5

Southerly

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6.7

Music for Millions

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Seven Lost

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6.0

Drewniany różaniec

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6.0

A Man Betrayed

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A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.

8.0

Cabaret

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8.0

Las últimas horas

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Faraway Home

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Two young Jewish children are sent by their parents away from Nazi occupied Austria during WWII, on the Kindertransport, where they end up at a refugee farm in Northern Ireland.

5.7

Canopy

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Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary.

4.7

In Tenebras: Into the Darkness

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Two brothers embark on an adventure of a lifetime, a journey deep inside the WW2 tunnels of Gibraltar, to find a lost treasure. Complications arise and what started off as an adventure will end up as a life or death situation to survive.

8.0

Charlotte

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In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.

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Golden Boy

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6.7

The Great War of Archimedes

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Roots & Wings

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Roots & Wings tells the story of a Mexican family in the United States struggling to regain its balance. Ruben Diaz, a faithful husband and father, must deal with his wife’s conversion to another religion. While his wife Antonia feels she is obeying God by being baptized, Ruben feels betrayed by her disloyalty to their Catholic vows and cultural values. This conflict threatens to tear their family apart.

6.0

Light Up the Sky!

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7.0

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6.3

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5.2

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