Drama
Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.
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Antoine and Colette
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Warrior Awang and Master Tok Gajah
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IMDB 4.2 | Jul , 2012
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IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 1996
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IMDB 7 | Oct , 1989
A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.Lost in Translation
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 2003
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IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2002
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.Dead Poets Society
IMDB 8.3 | Jun , 1989
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IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 1999
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IMDB 7 | Jul , 1979
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IMDB 7 | Aug , 1994
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.La mort petita
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2022
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IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1962
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IMDB 6 | Jan , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2019
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IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2024
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IMDB 4.1 | Nov , 1980
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 1962
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IMDB 10 | Oct , 2014
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2013
In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and blue-eyed girl in her class, and she is completely overlooked by the kings and queens who do not have blond hair and blue eyes. She has a secret crush on one of the kings, who is way out of her league, and she doesn't have any friends either, but would like to become friends with Karen, also an outsider who aspires to a better status. One day, Sara eyes an opportunity to boost her popularity by humiliating herself and thereby become queen. Karen instantly becomes her friend, she seems to catch the eye of her kingly crush and popularity appears within her reach. However, her happiness is short-lived, and in the end she learns a far more valuable lesson than how to be queen for a day.Alice Rose
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2006
A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s film noir.