Jack Thompson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Thompson, AM (born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at the University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including such classics as Wake in Fright (1971), Sunday Too Far Away (1975), The Man from Snowy River (1982) and Breaker Morant (1980). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. He was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: August 31, 1940
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Known For
The Good German
2006-12-15
The Good German
Overview: An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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Original Sin
2001-05-08
Original Sin
Overview: A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-08
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004-05-17
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Overview: It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-17
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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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December Boys
2007-09-14
December Boys
Overview: For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Leatherheads
2008-03-24
Leatherheads
Overview: A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-24
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The Man from Snowy River
1982-03-25
The Man from Snowy River
Overview: Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure Western Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-25
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A Far Off Place
1993-03-12
A Far Off Place
Overview: Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997-11-21
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Overview: A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Wake in Fright
1971-07-21
Wake in Fright
Overview: A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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Flesh + Blood
1985-08-30
Flesh + Blood
Overview: A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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The Magic Pudding
2000-12-14
The Magic Pudding
Overview: Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.
Genres: Animation Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-14
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Excess Baggage
1997-08-29
Excess Baggage
Overview: A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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Mao’s Last Dancer
2009-10-01
Mao’s Last Dancer
Overview: At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-01
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Breaker Morant
1980-06-11
Breaker Morant
Overview: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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The Sum of Us
1994-07-28
The Sum of Us
Overview: A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-28
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Feed
2005-05-11
Feed
Overview: A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Mad Dog Morgan
1976-07-09
Mad Dog Morgan
Overview: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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Bad Blood
1982-11-12
Bad Blood
Overview: During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
1995-01-01
Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Overview: The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Oyster Farmer
2004-09-10
Oyster Farmer
Overview: A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Last Dance
1996-05-02
Last Dance
Overview: Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-02
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The Club
1980-09-18
The Club
Overview: The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010-11-06
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Overview: A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-06
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Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
2005-04-26
Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
Overview: This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with meticulously researched stories, it provides a unique analysis of the Gallipoli campaign, including never-seen before interviews with the last 10 Gallipoli Anzacs, rare film footage showing the beach & trenches at Gallipoli.
Genres: War Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-26
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Man-Thing
2005-04-21
Man-Thing
Overview: Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
Genres: Action Horror Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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The Earthling
1980-07-24
The Earthling
Overview: Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-24
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Ruby Cairo
1992-12-12
Ruby Cairo
Overview: Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978-06-21
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Overview: The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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Oakie's Outback Adventures
2011-08-04
Oakie's Outback Adventures
Overview: Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bungle he ends up in Texas, Queensland, in Outback Australia. Oakie is quickly befriended by Action Dann (an animated character identifiably based on Troy Dann) and they embark on a series of adventures, meeting many wonderful and quirky characters in the rugged and unique beauty of the Australian Outback.
Genres: Animation Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-04
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South Pacific
2001-03-26
South Pacific
Overview: During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart.
Genres: Drama Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-26
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Sunday Too Far Away
1975-06-01
Sunday Too Far Away
Overview: A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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McLeod's Daughters
1996-05-11
McLeod's Daughters
Overview: Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire. Although Tess and Claire have feuded in the past, they must now work together to save the ranch from bankruptcy.
Genres: Western Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1988-10-09
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
Overview: Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-09
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Jock Petersen
1974-01-01
Jock Petersen
Overview: Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Ground Zero
1987-10-01
Ground Zero
Overview: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Under the Lighthouse Dancing
1997-10-15
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
Overview: Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are visiting a small island village off the coast of west Australia, that is easier said than done.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-15
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Caddie
1976-01-01
Caddie
Overview: Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Flight of the Albatross
1996-04-29
Flight of the Albatross
Overview: After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-29
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Burke & Wills
1985-10-30
Burke & Wills
Overview: A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-30
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Mystery Road
2013-08-15
Mystery Road
Overview: A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-15
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Around the Block
2013-09-06
Around the Block
Overview: A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Blinder
2013-03-07
Blinder
Overview: An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Wind
1992-09-11
Wind
Overview: In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Australian crew. Determined to get the prize back, Will convinces Morgan to finance an experimental boat designed by his ex-girlfriend Kate's new beau, Joe Heisler. When the boat is completed, the Americans head to Australia to reclaim the cup.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Justice in a Smoking Gun
Justice in a Smoking Gun
Overview: In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
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My Name Is Gulpilil
2021-05-27
My Name Is Gulpilil
Overview: Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-27
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Turtle Beach
1992-03-19
Turtle Beach
Overview: Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to land secretly in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-19
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The Riddle of the Stinson
1988-07-25
The Riddle of the Stinson
Overview: A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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Australia
2008-11-18
Australia
Overview: 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 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-18
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Libido
1973-04-06
Libido
Overview: Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-06
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A Woman Called Golda
1982-04-26
A Woman Called Golda
Overview: The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-26
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Runt
2024-09-19
Runt
Overview: In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog Show in London in order to save their family's farm from drought and misery.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Poker Face
2022-11-16
Poker Face
Overview: A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatch plans of their own breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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Blood on the Coal
2015-08-12
Blood on the Coal
Overview: A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial turmoil and the current push by global mining giants to destroy regional communities and replace local mineworkers with a subservient itinerant workforce.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987-02-21
Kojak: The Price of Justice
Overview: Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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The Letter
1982-05-03
The Letter
Overview: The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-03
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Blue World Order
2017-03-03
Blue World Order
Overview: After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an attempt to rebuild civilization, a self appointed government called 'The ORDER' distributed an immunization to the bacteria, via a massive Electro-Macnetic Pulse (EMP). Secretly, the Order also delivered a bio-tech virus through the EMP, giving them the power to control the population. One man remains immune to the Order's virus - Jake Slater. Now Jake scavenges the wasteland searching for a way to keep his unconscious daughter alive, unaware she is the last child on Earth, and the key to the survival of mankind.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Scobie Malone
1975-10-03
Scobie Malone
Overview: Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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The Journalist
1979-11-15
The Journalist
Overview: Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-15
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Don't Tell
2017-05-18
Don't Tell
Overview: Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-18
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983-05-28
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Overview: Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-05-28
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The Light Between Oceans
2016-09-02
The Light Between Oceans
Overview: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Trouble in Paradise
1989-05-16
Trouble in Paradise
Overview: Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a freighter along with her husband's casket bound for the U.S. She begins to regret this decision when she meets one of the crew members, a handsome rogue named Jake Fontaine - who has smuggled his liquor above in Arthur's coffin! Suddenly, a typhoon hits and the freighter breaks apart. Marooned on a desert island with Jake they fall in love. Shortly thereafter, Jake comes to suspect that Rachel's "late" husband Arthur might not be dead at all. Rachel is stunned when Arthur arrives on the island with his heroin smuggling partners. In the ensuing chaos, Jake overcomes each of the smugglers and heroically rescues his new love, Rachel.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Deception
Deception
Overview: After her businessman husband dies suspiciously in a Mexican plane crash, his widow begins to investigate his labyrinthine financial dealings, not all of which are legal.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
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David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017-03-09
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Overview: A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via the medium of film, to his migration to Australia as a ‘ten pound pom’ in 1963 and onto his present day reflections on the iconic themes that run through our cinematic legacy. All of this reflects a passionate engagement in a uniquely Australian medium. Parallel and at the heart of the series is the story of an industry whose growing pains David has witnessed over a lifetime. Alongside David, the protagonists of this history are the giants of Australian cinema – both behind the camera and in front of it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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Short Circuit
1986-05-09
Short Circuit
Overview: After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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One Heart: One Spirit
2017-07-15
One Heart: One Spirit
Overview: An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of Kenneth Little Hawk, an elder Micmac/Mohawk performing artist, meeting the oldest surviving culture on the planet: the 40,000 year old Yolngu nation located in northern Australia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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Swinging Safari
2018-01-18
Swinging Safari
Overview: 1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
1996-01-01
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017-04-17
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Overview: Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-17
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Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
2015-04-21
Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
Overview: Narrated by Jack Thompson and featuring the last Gallipoli Anzacs this film challenges the widely held perspective of the Gallipoli Campaign and the birth of the Anzac legend.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-21
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High Ground
2020-02-23
High Ground
Overview: In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
Genres: Thriller Action Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-23
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Home
2019-06-29
Home
Overview: Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to change forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-29
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004-09-04
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Overview: The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-04
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Not Quite Hollywood
2008-08-28
Not Quite Hollywood
Overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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The Telegram Man
2011-01-07
The Telegram Man
Overview: The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-07
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Waterfront
1984-01-01
Waterfront
Overview: Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Never Too Late
2020-04-23
Never Too Late
Overview: It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve, so they band together to devise a plan to escape their new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed. In fact, they can’t even remember what they were—and that’s half the problem.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-23
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Whaledreamers
2006-06-15
Whaledreamers
Overview: "Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an incredible glimpse into a rarely seen and scarcely understood tribal culture whose entire story of creation revolves around whales and has endured for centuries. The film passionately explores the connection between the subtle elegance of these “mothers of the sea” and ancient civilizations around the world whose culture and very existence is based on whales. Intertwining incredible underwater footage with ancient legend, whaledreamers examines the complex past and the possibly dire future of human civilization. Told with moving optimism and spiritual strength, it is a clarion call encouraging humanity’s reconnection to the profound beauty of the natural world and is an appeal to embrace all living beings thereby creating the unity and peace which the Earth itself can bring.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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Yolngu Boy
2001-03-22
Yolngu Boy
Overview: After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-22
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The Great Gatsby
2013-05-09
The Great Gatsby
Overview: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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Because He's My Friend
1978-06-11
Because He's My Friend
Overview: An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their developmentally disabled son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-11
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That Lady from Peking
1975-11-13
That Lady from Peking
Overview: Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the diplomat must turn over to Foster a diary revealing the true events taking place in China. While making his escape, the defector is killed ant the diary vanishes. The reporter sets off on a search for it, from Hong Kong to Australia. The chase ends in an action-filled climax, with the journalist finally meeting up with "That Lady from Peking" (Nancy Kwan) - the diplomat's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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Ruben Guthrie
2015-07-16
Ruben Guthrie
Overview: The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-16
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Resistance
1992-01-01
Resistance
Overview: Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Ten Empty
2008-07-03
Ten Empty
Overview: A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988-05-15
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Overview: The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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Broken Arrow
1996-02-09
Broken Arrow
Overview: When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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