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Dead Poets Society
1989 • Drama
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, c…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Truman Show
1998 • Drama • Comedy
An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 • Drama • Adventure • War
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture o…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Way Back
2010 • Drama • Adventure • History
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Witness
1985 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
While protecting an Amish boy – the sole witness to a brutal murder – and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life comes under t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Gallipoli
1981 • Drama • History • War
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Mosquito Coast
1986 • Drama • Adventure
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
The Year of Living Dangerously
1982 • Drama • Romance
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975 • Drama • Mystery
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
The Cars That Ate Paris
1974 • Science Fiction • Comedy • Horror
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
Fearless
1993 • Drama
After surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability, leading to radical, compulsive actions. Can a psychologist and a fellow guil…
Why matched: genres Drama
Green Card
1990 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France w…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Last Wave
1977 • Drama • Mystery • Horror
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
The Plumber
1979 • Thriller • Comedy • TV Movie
A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessa…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Comedy