The Truman Show (1998)
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self expression
The Way Back (2010)
Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America
Witness (1985)
When a young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder, policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls school vanish without a trace Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind
Green Card (1990)
A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sellssalvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy
Gallipoli (1981)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
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
Fearless (1993)
A mans personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash
The Last Wave (1977)
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions