Oceania
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Genres / International / Oceania
SUB-GENRES · Australian · Indonesian · New Zealander
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The Lost Temple of Java
Borobudur in Central Java is unique. In the shape of a pyramid, with four square terraces leading to three circular ones, this extraordinary building is covered with 3 miles of carvings. Situated on a lush palm-covered volcanic plain, this is a building that deserves the title of "eighth wonder of the...Start your free trial to watch -
Love the Beast
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter in the hope that you could tell a great car story of the likes of GRAND PRIX. Then, one day, you happened to open your garage door and sitting there, right in...Start your free trial to watch -
Memories of Tomorrow
John and Tanya are a happily married couple living an idyllic life in New Zealand. John does not remember his past while Tanya wants to look away from it. The arrival of a mysterious stranger, Roger, triggers off a chain of events which lead to an inevitable conclusion where the past, present and futures...Start your free trial to watch
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Modern Love
John, his wife Emily and their small son Edward leave the city for what they believe will be a brief foray to the countryside to claim John's inheritance: a small shack. They find themselves in a strange back-woods rural setting. Nothing is what it seems. John's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre as he crosses paths with...Start your free trial to watch -
My Tehran for Sale
In this riveting, insider’s perspective on life in Iran’s capital city, Marzieh, a terminally ill actress wearily relates her desperate quest for political asylum through a series of interviews with an unsympathetic government official. Beginning with details of her doomed relationship with an Iranian-born...Start your free trial to watch -
Patrick
After violently murdering his mother and her lover, Patrick (Robert Thompson) is confined to a private hospital, comatose. When a pretty young nurse (Susan Penhaligon) begins working at the hospital, Patrick tries communicating with her while others in her life are being hurt and killed in mysterious ways.Start your free trial to watch
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The Photograph
Sita is a spirited young woman working to support her family as a singer and prostitute in a local brothel. Always short of funds and bullied by her pimp, she convinces an elderly portrait photographer, Mr. Johan, to rent her a room. In failing health, Mr. Johan is desperate to find an apprentice to carry on his work before...Start your free trial to watch -
Plum Role
Jacob is an up-and-coming actor living in the most famous isolated city in the world, Perth in Western Autralia. Jacob receives his big break in the form of starring role in a new cop show being filmed on the other side of the country in Sydney. However, the week before his departure, Jacob meets a vulnerable young woman...Start your free trial to watch -
The Rats of Tobruk
One of very few Australian features made during World War II, this 1944 film memorializes a great triumph of the nation's troops three years earlier. That was a standoff (alongside British and Indian soldiers) against overwhelming odds defending a Libyan port from Axis forces. These “men who stopped...Start your free trial to watch
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Scientology: The Ex-Files
Behind Scientology's high celebrity profile lies an organisation on its knees. In this powerful documentary produced for the Australian television program Four Corners, a band of former elite members emerge from the secretive religion to allege extreme cruelty, slave labour and financial greed. A...Start your free trial to watch -
Sisterhood
SISTERHOOD is a fun, irreverent and quirky comedy set between London and New Zealand. Catherine Saint John-Burke is an independent, uptight, status-obsessed, sophisticated British woman living alone in London’s Chelsea, and doing herself no favours by having an affair with a married man. Her world is turned upside down when...Start your free trial to watch
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Strange Behavior
In the peaceful town of Galesburg, Illinois, a brutal serial killer targets the local teenagers. As the bodies pile up, Sheriff John Brady (Michael Murphy) suspects the killer is connected with the high school’s Psychology department. There is something sinister about the school “research” program on...Start your free trial to watch -
Tax Me If You Can
We all know the mega rich pay much less tax than the rest of us but just how do they do it? After years working for a Liechtenstein bank, an employee turned whistleblower made off with thousands of incriminating documents. He then sold the data to a number of Western governments, who use it to track the...Start your free trial to watch -
There Once Was an Island
What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips through their already damaged...Start your free trial to watch
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Thirst
She was innocent, pure and unsuspecting. Now, Kate Davis has been kidnapped by a bloodthirsty cult and taken to a remote village. It is there that she discovers her unholy fate! According to the prophecies of the Brotherhood, she must fulfill her destiny by marrying their leader and helping them quench their eternal thirst...Start your free trial to watch -
The Tree
The exquisite Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli’s achingly beautiful follow-up to her sleeper hit SINCE OTAR LEFT. The Closing Night film at Cannes in 2010, THE TREE is a mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Not since classic 1970s works PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK and...Start your free trial to watch



