Classic Drama Collection
Beamafilm
This compelling array of international and Australian classic drama spans decades of cinematic history, offering a kaleidoscope of narratives that capture the diversity of classic storytelling traditions. this collection includes Hollywood classics such as Charlie Chapman, "City Lights", "A Star is Born' and "Holiday" alongside epic tales such as 'Gulliver's Travels' and 'The Triumph of Hercules". Bruce Beresford's Criterion classic, "Puberty Blues" is a classic Australian coming-of-age tale and wartime heroics are artfully depicted in "The Rats of Tobruk," painting a vivid portrait of Australian life across various eras and landscapes. The collection also features a classic adaptation of the "Bush Christmas" featuring a young Nicole Kidman and "Ginger Meggs," alongside unique entries such as the animated "Grendel Grendel Grendel" and the controversial "The Set." Historical dramas like "In the Wake of the Bounty" and "Manganinnie" provide insight into Australia's past, while action-packed entries like "Day of the Panther" and "Strike of the Panther" add thrilling diversity to the mix.
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A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl’s benefactor and suitor.
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A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
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A young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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Two teenage girls fight peer pressure in 1980's Australia. Having previously been in their own group, they desperately try to break into the "in" crowd before working to regain respect and equality again.
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A high seas coming-of-age yarn about set off Port Lincoln, SA.
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
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Years after meeting a jazzman in Australia, an outback trumpeter goes to Paris and meets him again.
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Two children set out to foil the thieves who have stolen their horse.
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An orphaned boy becomes a pawn in a bitter family feud
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A Chinese-trained agent heads for Perth, Australia, on a mission to stop the drug lord responsible for the death of his partner.
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Two young friends discover a mysterious underwater legend in the Australian bush which leads them on a strange adventure into a different world.
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Ginger Meggs is the live-action adaption of a tale about an unruly, young mischief maker who is constantly getting himself in trouble in spite of his good intentions
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In colonial Australia, an Aboriginal woman takes a lost white child under her wing.
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The monster Grendel tries to figure out his purpose in life.
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A doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people.
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A boy and his kangaroo uncover a smuggling ring. But when they are captured, it will take nerve, ingenuity and every trick in Skippy’s pouch to get them out of this tight bind.
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An Australian woman meets a musical truck driver and joins him and his buddy in crime.
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After forming a task force dedicated to the re-capture of his enemy Jim Baxter, martial artist and cop Jason Blade must venture into a volatile chemical plant to bring down the villain and save his girlfriend.
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Young Australian, Barry McKenzie, travels to England with his Aunt Edna after his father dies and a request is revealed in his will. Directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Barry Humphries, the Adventures of Barry McKenzie is an Aussie classic.
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An imaginative girl refuses the mould of Victorian society.
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The story of a country girl, Dell Ferris, drawn to the bright lights of the big city where her inheritance is soon frittered away through high society revelling. A wiser Dell returns to Moonbi Station where she is beset by the cattle rustler Jack Bronson. She finally finds...
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Three courageous men join the Australian Imperial Force at the beginning of WWII.
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In WWI, a local telegram man becomes the bearer of bad news for his community.
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Paul Lawrence is a working class man who dates Cara, sells shirts at a Sydney department store, and dreams of attending art school.
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Hercules defends a people against a race of giant warriors.
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A white authoress looking for a story in the outback is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle man and menaced by a jealous rival, a hostile witch doctor, his crazed-killer son and opium smugglers.
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A man obsessed with becoming the world's top windsurfer falls inlove with a rock star.
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An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
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To escape her demanding, sick mother and her suburban loneliness, a middle-aged woman slides into a fantasy world in which there is incredible relief.
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A part-Aboriginal teenage ex-convict is led back into crime by his reckless cousin.
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Out of boredom, a high society girl visits her father's outback cattle station. After several adventures involving a gang of ruthless cattle duffers, she falls in love with the manager of the station. Only part of this silent film survives today.
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Follow the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation.
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An infamous and daring true tale of mutiny at sea.
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