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2000s

The Black Balloon 2007

Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) is 15 and his life is in chaos. His autistic brother Charlie (Luke Ford) creates havoc wherever he goes; their mother Maggie (Toni Collette) is pregnant and has to stay in bed. ...

Black Water 2007

Based on a true story, Adam (Andy Rodoreda), his girlfriend Grace (Diana Glenn) and her younger sister Lee (Maeve Dermody) set out on a driving holiday in a lush area of northern Australia. After a ...

Bomb Harvest 2007

Bomb Harvest follows Laith Stevens, an Australian bomb disposal specialist training a team in Laos to clear bombs left from the ‘secret war’ the US waged at the time of the Vietnam War. The film ...

Bondi Rescue – Series 2, Episode 7 2007

A tragedy unfolds at Bondi Beach when the lifeguards see someone in difficulty in treacherous water who then disappears from view behind the waves. There are 20,000 people at the beach that day and when ...

Boxing Day 2007

Chris (Richard Green), a convict serving out the remainder of his sentence in home detention, is determined to stay both on the wagon and out of trouble. He’s carefully preparing a Boxing Day lunch for ...

Bra Boys 2007

This is an insider account of surf culture, localism, belonging and loyalty in the Sydney beach suburb of Maroubra, presented by the 'Bra Boys’, in particular the Abberton brothers – Koby, Sunny and Jai. The ...

The Bronze Mirror 2007

On his way home from the village market, a man finds a bronze mirror which has fallen from a passing noblewoman’s carriage. The man mistakes his own reflection for that of a lucky spirit who ...

Bungalung: A Dreaming of Cannibals 2007

Young men re-enact the Bungalung story as told by Anmatjere elders Patsy and Jane Briscoe. The film depicts the battle between two young men and the demon Bungalung in the Dreamtime. The two young men ...

Cactus 2007

In inner-city Sydney at night, John Kelly (Travis McMahon) captures and drugs a young man, Eli (David Lyons), places him in the boot of his beat-up 1972 Ford Fairmont XA and drives him out of ...

Children of the Silk Road 2007

This large-scale period film is a love story set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation of China in the years leading up to the Second World War. Young British journalist George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys ...

The Circuit – It’s a Long Way Home 2007

Young lawyer Drew Ellis (Aaron Pedersen) arrives in Broome to work for the Aboriginal Legal Service. His first day is a disaster: he crashes his car en route and is arrested through a misunderstanding. He ...

Clubland 2007

Jean Dwight (Brenda Blethyn) is an English comedienne stranded in the western suburbs of Sydney. Her marriage to a country singer (Frankie J Holden) has dissolved, leaving her with two sons and a mortgage. She’s ...

Curtin 2007

John Curtin (William McInnes) assumes office as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia on 7 October 1941 after patiently allowing the former Liberal Government led by Robert Menzies to implode. Australia, as part of the ...

Deadly Yarns 3 – Who Paintin’ Dis Wandjina? 2007

Traditional owners from the Worora, Wunumbal and Ngarinyin, express offence at the culturally inappropriate use of a Wandjina image stencilled across the streetscape of Perth over 500 times by an anonymous graffiti artist. The film ...

Death Defying Acts 2007

In Edinburgh, Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) entertain audiences with a psychic act that depends on trickery. They spy on members of their audience and steal from them so they ...

Double Trouble – Episode 1 2007

Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. In this, the ...

Double Trouble – Episode 4 2007

Double Trouble is about twin sisters previously unknown to each other – one lives in Alice Springs, the other in Sydney. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places.

Double Trouble – Episode 7 2007

Double Trouble is about twin sisters previously unknown to each other – one lives in Alice Springs, the other in Sydney. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap identities. In this seventh episode ...

Dr Plonk 2007

In 1907 the eccentric scientist and inventor Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) discovers the world will end in 2008. Plonk presents his findings to Prime Minister Stalk (Wayne Anthony), but Stalk and his sceptical advisers demand ...

East West 101 – The Enemy Within 2007

When a police officer is shot after an armed hold-up, the Lakemba Major Crime Squad go in search of men 'of Middle Eastern appearance’. As the net closes around two suspects, Detective Zane Malik (Don ...

Eco House Challenge – Episode 1, Stop Your Gassing 2007

Two Australian families have accepted the eco challenge to turn their lives around by changing their daily usage of water, transport, energy and waste removal. One family is led by an ex-army commando father, who ...

Eco House Challenge – Episode 3, Emission Impossible 2007

The families from the first two programs who had to survive for 24 hours with no water, electricity, cars or waste disposal, have now had one of those resources returned so long as they can ...

End of the Rainbow 2007

End of the Rainbow is an Australian-French co-production that tracks an industrial gold mine being dismantled piece by piece in Kalimantan, Borneo in Indonesia and reconstructed in a remote part of Guinea, West Africa. To ...

The Final Winter 2007

After 13 years of first grade rugby league for the Newtown Jets, Mick 'Grub’ Henderson (Matt Nable) faces his hardest challenge – the end of his career. His vicious late hit on a St George ...

Forbidden Lie$ 2007

Forbidden Lie$ is a real-life thriller about the incredible journey of author, Norma Khouri, to defend herself against claims that her best-selling book, Forbidden Love (2003), was fraudulent. Forbidden Love is about the honour killing ...

Gone 2007

A young British backpacker, Alex (Shaun Evans), en route to join his girlfriend in Byron Bay, meets a friendly American outside a Sydney hostel. They have a wild night with two girls, then Taylor (Scott ...

H20: Just Add Water – Hocus Pocus 2007

In series one of H20: Just Add Water, three ordinary teenage girls discover an ancient underwater cavern and undergo a moonlit transformation that changes their lives – they become part-time mermaids with superpowers. Emma (Claire ...

The Jammed 2007

Ashley Hudson (Veronica Sywak) works in an insurance company in Melbourne. By chance, she meets Sunee (Amanda Ma), a Chinese woman who believes her daughter may have been sold into prostitution. Ashley doesn’t want to ...

The Librarians – Series 1 Episode 1 2007

The Librarians is a situation comedy series set in the fictitious ‘Middleton Interactive Learning Centre’ in Melbourne, known more prosaically as the local library. In this introductory episode, the weekly staff meeting is derailed by ...

Lucky Miles 2007

An Indonesian fishing boat dumps six Cambodians and six Iraqis on the remote coast of northwest Australia, in 1990. Muluk (Sawung Jabo), the captain, tells them to climb a dune to a bus stop, then ...

Maverick Mother 2007

When filmmaker Janet Merewether decides to have a baby on her own, she keeps a personal video diary and films conversations with her parents, brothers, sisters-in-law and friends. She plans to become a solo mother ...

Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica 2007

In 2007, polar adventurer Tim Jarvis returns to Antarctica to try to answer his own questions about the epic journey made by Douglas Mawson in early 1913. Mawson trekked across almost 500 km of Antarctic ...

My Mother Told Me 2007

A woman pieces together fragments of her own and her mother’s past, from stories her mother tells her. The stories are about her mother’s life in a Cambodian village before the onset of war, her ...

Noise 2007

Lavinia Smart (Maia Thomas) walks into a carriage full of dead and dying passengers on a suburban train in Melbourne. She survives an encounter with the killer but he steals a framed photograph that has ...

One Shoe Short 2007

In a town camp in Alice Springs, it’s school time and Rodney (Rodney Malbunka) can’t find shoes to wear. His school won’t allow him in class barefoot so his mate Jesse (Jesse McCormack) tries to ...

Rachel: A Perfect Life 2007

Rachel, a single mother, has been having epileptic fits ever since she was 14 years old. Now 28, with two kids, she feels the disease is controlling her life. She makes the decision to have ...

Rogue 2007

US travel writer Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) arrives in the Northern Territory and joins tour operator Kate (Radha Mitchell) and a group of tourists on a riverboat daytrip through Kakadu National Park. As they watch ...

Romulus, My Father 2007

Raimond Gaita (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lives with his father Romulus (Eric Bana) in a rundown farmhouse in central Victoria. It is 1960 and Raimond’s mother Christina (Franka Potente) returns for one of her infrequent visits. She ...

The SBF Story 2007

This is a four-part chronological documentary made by Frank Straford on the history of SBF (Straford Brothers Films) – an amateur production company formed by Frank and his brother John in the 1950s. It features ...

Sea Patrol – Cometh the Hour 2007

Patrol ship HMAS Hammersley’s navy service is coming to an end: she is due to be decommissioned and her crew relocated. She heads out on her last voyage, in pursuit of villain Rick Gallagher (Martin ...

September 2007

Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) are best friends, growing up on a farm in the West Australian wheat belt in 1968. Ed’s father Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith) runs the farm with ...

Son of a Lion 2007

In a town in Pakistan’s mountainous North-West Frontier Province, an 11-year-old Pashtun boy, Niaz Afridi (Niaz Khan Shinwari), makes illegal copies of guns in his father’s arms manufacturing workshop. His widower father, Sher (Sher Alam ...

Tnorala: Baby Falling 2007

Tnorala records an ancient central Australian Dreaming story about the formation of a large meteorite crater at Gosses Bluff or ‘Tnorala’, 175 kilometres west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Unfinished Sky 2007

Emotionally worn-out farmer John Woldring (William McInnes) is living a solitary existence in rural Queensland when a bruised, traumatised and initially speechless woman (Monic Hendrickx) stumbles onto his property. He bathes and clothes her and ...

Willaberta Jack 2007

Two elders tell the story of Willaberta Jack, set within the context of the ‘wild west’ frontier country of the Northern Territory in the 1920s. A young Aboriginal man, Philomac, deserts his job at Harry ...

Australia 2008

In 1939 English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) travels to Faraway Downs, a cattle station in the Northern Territory owned by her husband, Maitland (Anton Monsted). When she arrives, Maitland is dead. Blamed for ...

Broken Sun 2008

In 1944 Jack (Jai Koutrae), a New South Wales farmer still suffering physically and psychologically from his experiences in the First World War, has been living a solitary existence until he discovers and captures Masura ...

Bush Toys 2008

Bush Toys documents the continuity of the bush toy-making tradition in the Titjikala community, 100 kilometres south of Alice Springs. It follows a group of boys finding the materials, creating toy cars and exhibiting their ...

Cedar Boys 2008

Cedar Boys depicts young Lebanese Australians being tempted into a lifestyle of crime, driven in part by a nursed sense of class and racial grievance. Tarek (Les Chantery) is frustrated by his job as a ...

Celebrity: Dominick Dunne 2008

A prominent socialite and Hollywood film producer in the 1960s and ’70s, Dominick Dunne fell into alcoholism before re-emerging as a novelist and Vanity Fair reporter covering celebrity trials. Filmed during the murder trial of ...

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