Barry Otto
Biography: Barry Otto (born 1941) is an Australian actor, primarily of cinema, and an amateur artist. He is the father of two daughters, Miranda Otto and Gracie Otto, who are actresses.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1941
Deathday: N/A
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Strictly Ballroom
1992-08-20
Strictly Ballroom
Overview: Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-20
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The Punisher
1989-10-05
The Punisher
Overview: The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. His ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast and became the Punisher, living in the sewers and exacting vigilante violence against mob bosses throughout the city. When the populace is caught in the midst of a gang war that he caused, Castle must again emerge from the shadows and save the innocent.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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Howling III: The Marsupials
1987-05-15
Howling III: The Marsupials
Overview: A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Three Blind Mice
2008-06-08
Three Blind Mice
Overview: Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-08
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010-07-10
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Overview: When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-10
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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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South Solitary
2010-07-29
South Solitary
Overview: Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-29
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Bliss
1985-10-04
Bliss
Overview: An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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I've Come About The Suicide
1988-12-16
I've Come About The Suicide
Overview: Australian TV-Movie (Comedy), Also known as Pigs Will Fly
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Cosi
1996-03-04
Cosi
Overview: Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-04
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Waiting for the Turning of the Earth
2011-12-01
Waiting for the Turning of the Earth
Overview: It is not everyday that you meet a man on the beach in his pajamas. It is even less often that you find he has brought his bed with him. A gentle film about life, death and forgiveness, starring two of Australia's best loved actors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-01
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Love's Brother
2004-04-01
Love's Brother
Overview: Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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Lilian's Story
1996-05-09
Lilian's Story
Overview: For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve out a place for herself. As she explores Sydney and the people who live and work around her she sees others looking for love. Lilian shows us it is never too late to change your life and that even unusual choices can bring contentment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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Undercover
1984-02-24
Undercover
Overview: The uniquely Australian underwear invention of the Berlei Bra and under corsetry of the time is lovingly and lavishly depicted in David Elfick's lush and amusing production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-24
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The More Things Change...
1986-03-19
The More Things Change...
Overview: A couple hires a young girl to take care of their son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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The Custodian
1994-03-17
The Custodian
Overview: Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-17
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Dead Letter Office
1998-08-20
Dead Letter Office
Overview: After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-20
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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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Mr. Nice Guy
1997-01-31
Mr. Nice Guy
Overview: A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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The Dressmaker
2015-10-29
The Dressmaker
Overview: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Genres: Drama Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-29
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Blinky Bill the Movie
2015-08-21
Blinky Bill the Movie
Overview: Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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Touch Me
1993-12-16
Touch Me
Overview: Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-16
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Revealed: Otto By Otto
2024-06-16
Revealed: Otto By Otto
Overview: Inspired to make an original, intimate family portrait, Gracie Otto directs a feature length documentary on her father, Barry Otto, whose career in Australian theatre, film and television has spanned more than 50 years. Baz as he is affectionately known is one of a kind - a truly creative, endearing and extremely eccentric personality who embraces the serious and the silly. This story is about Gracie's relationship with her father, in the twilight of his career and his life, as she tries to capture his memories, before his memory disappears. This is not a traditional biopic, but a deeply personal, artistic and cinematic reflection. Sometimes poignant in its exploration of deteriorating health, the film looks at the world through Baz's eyes, an ode to living a passionate life, that both honours him and preserves his memory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-16
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The Visitor
2002-06-14
The Visitor
Overview: Michael, at his beach-home in Australia, is avoiding phone calls regarding his dear lifelong friend and former lover of two-years Chris who is dying back in Boston, America. While trying to write, he is disturbed by the noisy surfers next door as they get ready for a weekend away of surf. C.K., one of the surfers, remains behind to surf the local beach....
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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Loot
2004-06-25
Loot
Overview: Jon Peregrine (Jason Donovan), a financial slueth investigates a stock market rort which caused his brother-in-law to commit suicide. Meanwhile his ex-wife asks for his help to investigate a missing underworld "business" figure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989-02-13
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Overview: The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-13
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Vietnam
1987-02-23
Vietnam
Overview: The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-23
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A Cautionary Tail
2012-01-01
A Cautionary Tail
Overview: A little girl is born with a tail that expresses her emotions. As a child, her parents celebrate their daughter's uniqueness and her tail inspires magical make-believe adventures with her friends. As she grows up, however, the young woman faces pressure to fit in, and must choose between conformity and self-expression. An animated short film starring Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, using a striking collage of 3D animated characters and hand-made miniature sets.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Schadenfreude
2009-02-21
Schadenfreude
Overview: An existential fable about a man who wakes to find himself broke, homeless, and missing one shoe.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-21
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Takeover
1988-02-10
Takeover
Overview: George Oppenheimer has two problems: an eccentric wife and an uncontrollable child. At work his team invented a computer with personality. George thinks the computer is faster, smarter and elegant. When his life falls apart, the computer offers suicide as the only alternative.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-10
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Benny Hill Down Under
1977-10-11
Benny Hill Down Under
Overview: A one-off special starring Benny Hill, filmed entirely in Australia. Includes a sketch about "Benny Kelly," son of infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly; "Hold Back the Wind" (a Tennessee Williams parody); "Archie's Angels" (a spoof of Charlie's Angels); and "Lady Godiva." Also: a vagabond dreams of moving up to the high life; an interview with Chow Mein; a dance routine set to the themes from The Avengers, M*A*S*H and Hawaii Five-O; and closing hijinks around the beach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-11
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The Dismissal
1983-03-06
The Dismissal
Overview: The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-06
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$9.99
2009-04-29
$9.99
Overview: Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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Oscar and Lucinda
1997-12-31
Oscar and Lucinda
Overview: After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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Mr. Reliable
1996-11-22
Mr. Reliable
Overview: All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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Norman Loves Rose
1982-09-17
Norman Loves Rose
Overview: A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a notion he does nothing to discourage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Rogue
2007-11-08
Rogue
Overview: When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Kiss or Kill
1997-07-01
Kiss or Kill
Overview: Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-01
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