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1) Malcolm
Publisher
Cascade Films
Pub. Date
[1986, 2001]
Language
English
Description
Malcolm, a simple genius, loses his job at a Melbourne tram depot after building his own one-man tram and taking to the streets. With funds dwindling, Malcolm is forced to take in a lodger, Frank - a small-time criminal, who moves in with girlfriend Judith. Frank soon realises that Malcolm's mechanical wizardry can help his career. The result is a series of oddball but unsuccessful robberies that culminates in the heist of the decade. DVD.
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The Ball's Moccasins company is cash poor, but efficiency expert Erroll Wallace has come to rescue the eccentric family-run enterprise. With his charts, stopwatch and clipboard at the ready, Wallace aimes to streamline this, and maximize that, but can a bunch of cuckoos run a factory like clockwork?
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls and their teacher prepare for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear mysteriously and are never found. This release includes the original theatrical trailer. DVD.
Closed-captioned.
Disc characteristics: DVD Region 1.
7) Babe
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
9) Ten canoes
Publisher
[Distributed by] Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Multiple
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes, instead, that his mission is murder, to 'eliminate' the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land, Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted.
16) Black water
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, three friends must fight for their lives against a man-eating crocodile when they become trapped in a remote Australian mangrove swamp.
Author
Series
Visible evidence volume 19
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
20) Red Hill
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
On Constable Shane Cooper's first day with the Red Hill Police Department, a convicted murderer escapes from prison and seeks revenge on the men who put him there.