Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World(2003)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

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.



The Truman Show(1998)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.



The Way Back(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



The Year of Living Dangerously(1982)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 52

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.



Green Card(1990)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.



Witness(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

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 Last Wave(1977)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aborigines in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.



The Mosquito Coast(1986)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 39

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...



Gallipoli(1981)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 33

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.



Picnic at Hanging Rock(1975)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

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.



Fearless(1993)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.



The Cars That Ate Paris(1974)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.



Homesdale(1971)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Guests arrive at an expensive private guest house on a remote island near Sydney. The guest house and weird activities, like theatre sports and orienteering, are run by a leery eccentric. ...