SBS World Movies

SBS World Movies

TV guide - Thursday, 24/04/25

00:50
Defiance
In 1941, three refugee brothers turn a daily struggle to survive into a personal battle to save their people from the Nazis.
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03:20
Tralala
Tralala, a singer in the streets of Paris, meets a very beautiful young woman who sends him a single message before disappearing.
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05:30
The Movie Show
Megan Spencer, Jaimie Leonarder and Fenella Kernebone present reviews, interviews and an insider's view of the world of movies, while Marc Fennell reviews new-release DVDs.
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06:00
Heidi
Orphaned at age five, curly-haired Heidi is sent to live with her gruff recluse of a grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and soon thaws his frozen heart.
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08:05
Tourism
Nina and her best friend Su travel overseas for the first time. They enjoy the trip for a while until they lose sight of each other and their unforgettable adventure in Singapore starts.
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09:30
Voyage of the Damned
Based on the true story of a ship carrying hundreds of German-Jewish refugees, which was sent to Havana in 1939 by the Nazis but was denied permission to land anywhere. The ship was eventually obliged to return to Germany, where certain death awaited many of its passengers.
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12:20
The Scarlet and the Black
Based on the humanitarian works of Irish-born Vatican priest Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, who saved thousands of escaped prisoners of war, Jews and Italian Resistance families in occupied Rome during World War II, by hiding them in the church.
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14:55
Whina
Follows the life of trailblazing Maori leader Dame Whina Cooper, who spent her life breaking boundaries, speaking for the rights of Maori and fighting for the land.
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17:00
The Bridge on the River Kwai
In 1942, the Japanese army had captured more than 200,000 Allied prisoners of war and needed a supply route to its frontline troops in Myanmar. POWs and thousands of Asian labourers were ordered to complete a railway linking Thailand and Myanmar that would include the infamous 'bridge on the River Kwai'. Meanwhile, the U.S. was developing a 'smart bomb'. In late 1944, a group of rescued POWs provided the first accurate information about targets along the railway, and the railway was destroyed.
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20:00
The Flowers Of War
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel.
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22:35
The Lighthorsemen
Four men of the Australian Light Horse Regiment are thrust into a cavalry charge when the British campaign in Palestine becomes stalemated in 1917. In a desperate attempt, 800 young Australian horsemen set off against gunfire and insurmountable odds to save the attacking British soldiers. Stars Peter Phelps, Nick Waters and Sigrid Thorton.
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