David Gulpilil

David Gulpilil

Total Credits at Criticker: 21 (Actor), 1 (Writer)

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    The Last Wave
    A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown. (imdb)
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    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    The true story of Molly Craig, a young black Australian girl who leads her younger sister and cousin in an escape from an internment camp, set up as a part of a government policy to train Aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society. (Miramax)
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    The Tracker
    The year is 1922. The Tracker has the job of pursuing The Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: The Fanatic, The Follower and also The Veteran across the outback. (ArtMattan)
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    The Proposition
    Aussie director John Hillcoat helmed this gripping, epic-scale Western set in the thick of the 1880s outback. When no-nonsense lawman Capt. Stanley (Ray Winstone) apprehends the notorious Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his younger sibling, Mikey (Richard Wilson), Stanley makes Charlie an unsavory proposition: If he murders his outlaw brother, Arthur (Danny Huston), Mikey will escape the hangman's noose. Emily Watson plays Stanley's genteel wife.
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    Crocodile Dundee
    An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City. (imdb)
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    Walkabout
    Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. (imdb)
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    Until the End of the World
    Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris... (imdb)
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    Storm Boy
    His free spirit roams with his pet pelican, Mr Percival and his secret Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill. He knows no other world.
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    Ten Canoes
    Ten canoes, three wives, one hundred and fifty spears...trouble
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    Mad Dog Morgan
    The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s. (imdb)
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    Australia
    Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 1,500 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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    Dark Age
    Mythic, jumbo-sized Australian crocodile god is captured but is eventually returned to its original habitat by an aboriginal croc cult led by David (_Walkabout_, _The Last Wave_) Gulpilil. (Chas. Balun)
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    Satellite Boy
    When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country -- equipped only with ancient survival skills -- to stop the city developers in this beautiful and uplifting adventure epic. (tiff.net)
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    Charlie\
    Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
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    Serenades
    A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
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    Goldstone
    Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons enquiry. What seems like a simple light duties investigation opens a web of crime and corruption. Jay must pull his life together and bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone. (imdb)
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    Cargo
    Cargo is a post apocalyptic thriller and an emotional story of a father trying to save his child at all costs. (imdb)
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    Storm Boy
    A beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Thiele's classic Australian tale. 'Storm Boy' has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather. When Kingley starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he is forced to remember his long-forgotten childhood, growing up on an isolated coastline with his father. (imdb)
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    My Name is Gulpilil
    Early in 2017, Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer. His doctors estimated six months for him but David, being David, was always likely to defy the odds. And he continues to do so with probably his last great work, My Name is Gulpilil. (imdb)
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    Going Places with Ernie Dingo
    Ernie Dingo explores Australia's iconic destinations from the Kakadu National Park to the Great Barrier Reef, and introduces us to the people who live there in a symbiotic relationship with nature. (imdb)
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    Faraway Downs
    Faraway Downs (2023) - TV Mini-Series
    An expanded version of Luhrmann's film, AUSTRALIA, the story centres on an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and sell an unusual asset: a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback called "Faraway Downs." (disney+)
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