Ian Watkin
Biography: Ian Watkin was a New Zealand actor, famous for his films “Braindead” and “Sleeping Dogs”. Watkin grew up in Greymouth and moved to Australia in 1999, becoming a wine broker. He appeared in an episode of Ngaio Marsh Theater in 1977.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 15, 1940
Deathday: May 18, 2016
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Braindead
1992-08-13
Braindead
Overview: When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-13
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Charlotte's Web
2006-12-07
Charlotte's Web
Overview: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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Sleeping Dogs
1977-10-06
Sleeping Dogs
Overview: Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-06
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Death Warmed Up
1984-11-22
Death Warmed Up
Overview: A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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Pallet on the Floor
1986-01-01
Pallet on the Floor
Overview: A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Savage Honeymoon
2000-03-15
Savage Honeymoon
Overview: Dean is threatening to firebomb his ex-girlfriend's wedding. Mickey is filling the garage with stolen goods - again, and pierced teenage daughter, Leesa, is an accident waiting to happen on the family's beloved Triumph motorbike. An unconventional tough family, battling to survive with humour and love, in a world of motor bikes, rock 'n' roll, classic cars and alcohol. This is a family that you probably would not want next door, but they are fun to watch, and they have their ways of holding family together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-15
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Middle Age Spread
1979-06-01
Middle Age Spread
Overview: Colin is the deputy principal of a city high school (Avondale College, Auckland) who reluctantly applies for the principal's job on the latter's retirement. Colin's wife, Elizabeth - who is losing interest in him -gives a dinner party. Among the guests is Judy, temporarily reconciled with her husband for the sake of the children. Colin - who has taken upon jogging to combat a spreading waistline - and Judy, gradually enter into an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-01
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1980-01-31
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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Send a Gorilla
1988-12-02
Send a Gorilla
Overview: The girls and gorillas at a singing telegram company are overworked because it is Valentine's Day. A series of sub-plots - a sexist disc jockey loses his dog and the girls fine it; one of the girls fights for custody of her child; an aspiring opera singer gets her chance to audition; and evil developer demolishes the telegram company's offices, etc, which all adds up to a large dose of confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-02
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My Grandpa Is a Vampire
1992-01-01
My Grandpa Is a Vampire
Overview: Young Lonny comes from America to visit his Auntie Leah (Evision) and Grandfather Cooger (Lewis). There is something magical about Cooger and when he dies, he doesn't stay dead for long.
Genres: Family Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Lost Tribe
1983-10-01
The Lost Tribe
Overview: Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
Genres: Adventure Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Nutcase
1978-07-12
Nutcase
Overview: Evil Eva and her cronies threaten to blow their enemies sky-high by reactivating the Rangitoto volcano with a nuclear device. However, the goofy gang isn't all bad - they like to break into song and dance while holding the city for ransom. Who will save the city from destruction? Why a talented trio of kids, including a nutcase who has invented an antigravity machine. The police force, zonked out on Eva's drugged coffee, are made ineffectual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-12
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002-05-15
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Overview: Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could change the galaxy forever.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-15
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Wild Man
1977-01-01
Wild Man
Overview: The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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