Rabbit-Proof Fence
Phillip Noyce 2002 Australia (1st time; TV)
In 1930s Australia, three young half-caste girls escape the camp intending to domesticate them into the white community, and trek across the Outback to their home.
The kind of film the general public are inspired by and critics fall in love with; it is impressively shot by Christopher Doyle, but you never really get a sense of the heartbreak the girls must be feeling when separated from their mother, the alienation they feel once in the camp, or the adversity they face when trying to get home. Short enough to be of passing interest.

Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitchcock 1951 US (1st time; TV)
A tennis player has a chance encounter with a maniac, who suggests the two combine forces: the maniac is to kill the tennis player's wife, and the tennis player is to kill the maniac's father.
Cinematic story-telling at its finest; besides the initial conversation between the two, this could be told entirely in images, from the contrasting opening shots of feet walking to the same place but in different directions, to the suspense set-pieces around which the narrative revolves: the murder at the playground, the would-be attempt from Haines to warn Bruno's father, and the climactic merry-go-round scene - the macabre hilarity of which is telling of Hitchcock's sense of humour, even at the most seemingly inappropriate of times.