Bill Hunter
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William John "Bill" Hunter (27 February 1940 – 21 May 2011) was an Australian actor of film, stage and television. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Hunter (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 27, 1940
Deathday: May 21, 2011
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Known For
Finding Nemo
2003-05-30
Finding Nemo
Overview: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-30
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Muriel's Wedding
1994-09-29
Muriel's Wedding
Overview: A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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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 Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994-05-31
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Overview: Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and exploring new horizons.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-31
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Tom White
2004-08-19
Tom White
Overview: Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a different path and cuts ties with his normal life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-19
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The Man from Hong Kong
1975-07-31
The Man from Hong Kong
Overview: Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-31
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Backroads
1977-06-27
Backroads
Overview: Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-27
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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 Last Days of Chez Nous
1992-10-08
The Last Days of Chez Nous
Overview: The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-08
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Crackerjack
2002-07-11
Crackerjack
Overview: When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-11
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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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Stone
1974-01-02
Stone
Overview: After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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Bad Eggs
2003-07-24
Bad Eggs
Overview: Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-24
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Heatwave
1982-03-08
Heatwave
Overview: During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of Sydney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Everynight... Everynight
1995-05-24
Everynight... Everynight
Overview: Is an Australian drama film directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos and released in 1994. Based on a play of the same name, written by Ray Mooney, the film details the early life of contract killer Christopher Dale Flannery and is set inside Melbourne's HM Prison Pentridge's maximum security H Division.[1] Filming was undertaken at HM Prison Geelong. Dale, a remandee, is awaiting a court hearing and yet to be sentenced, highlighting the horrific injustice of the repeated beatings he's subjected to. Gradually Dale becomes indifferent to the bashings and horrors of prison life and develops an alternative, subversive way to exist and express his rage. As Dale walks defiantly from the prison in the last scene to be tried, the failure of the correctional system to produce docile, disciplined bodies pulls its last punch. Even if the system has enframed Dale he has maintained his sanity and his voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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The Hit
1984-09-07
The Hit
Overview: Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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Rikky and Pete
1988-06-09
Rikky and Pete
Overview: Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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The Cup
2011-11-13
The Cup
Overview: At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, Damien teams with Irish trainer Dermot Weld, and triumphs at the 2002 Melbourne Cup in one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-13
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Sky Pirates
1986-01-16
Sky Pirates
Overview: Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-16
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Police State
1989-06-15
Police State
Overview: An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anything since the convict era. Based on real events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-15
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Newsfront
1978-07-29
Newsfront
Overview: Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-29
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Death of a Soldier
1986-05-16
Death of a Soldier
Overview: Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance.
Genres: Drama History War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Fever
1988-08-26
Fever
Overview: A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Weekend of Shadows
1978-06-28
Weekend of Shadows
Overview: In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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Broken Highway
1993-06-02
Broken Highway
Overview: In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts, a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-02
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Street Hero
1984-08-15
Street Hero
Overview: Vinnie is a teenage boy who is an outcast at school, alienating teachers and students alike. He is a local courier for the local Mafia boss. He lives in welfare housing with his mother (Peta Toppano), a young brother and sister, and his Mum's lover who he can't stand. Vinnie takes out his aggression with the world practicing boxing at the local gym. He is haunted by images of his father (when just a boy he witnessed his father's murder) and his father's boxing career. His music teacher (Sandy Gore) encourages him to get involved as a drummer with the school band, and his girlfriend Gloria (Sigrid Thornton) and others influence him to stay away from the Mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-15
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Dead Man's Float
1980-01-01
Dead Man's Float
Overview: A strange warning is followed by near disaster when a speedboat slices John's surfboard in half as his friends look on in horror. His curiosity aroused, John involves himself, his family, and friends in the bizarre mystery surrounding a silent trawler. But his curiosity may get him killed... when a ruthless smuggling ring, with $5,000,000 at stake, makes the situation even more dangerous!
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Horseplay
2003-05-22
Horseplay
Overview: A small-time horse trainer has successfully screwed up his life. His wife hates him, hie mistress loathes him and his father-in-law wants to kill him. With nothing to lose, he enlists the help of his best friend and concocts a plan to rig the biggest horse race in Australia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-22
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In Search of Anna
1979-07-28
In Search of Anna
Overview: Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road hoping to find her and makes a friend along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-28
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...Maybe This Time
1981-03-19
...Maybe This Time
Overview: Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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Far East
1982-07-30
Far East
Overview: A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband, an investigative journalist, is prosecuted by the junta for discovering too much.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-30
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An Indecent Obsession
1985-05-23
An Indecent Obsession
Overview: Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-23
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Mull
1989-04-06
Mull
Overview: A teenage girl has to terms with her family and herself when her mother falls critically ill. She decides to leave school to look after her family, which turns outto be an enormous challenge, as she has to deal with her father’s fanatical religion, her brother’s experimentation with drugs and homosexuality, her desire for the wrong boy, and her younger brother and sister’s inability to cope with the family’s instability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-06
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The Violent Earth
1998-09-01
The Violent Earth
Overview: The Violent Earth is a 1998 French-Australian mini series set in New Caledonia from 1888 to 1977.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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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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Shotgun Wedding
1994-05-26
Shotgun Wedding
Overview: Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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River Street
1997-07-17
River Street
Overview: Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station. Sentenced to community service at a local day centre, Ben's influence with a young tearaway forces him to question his values and he learns to see life from a different angle when he falls in love with Wendy, the centre's formidable and devoted manager...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-17
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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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Race the Sun
1996-03-22
Race the Sun
Overview: A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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The Return of Captain Invincible
1983-01-28
The Return of Captain Invincible
Overview: In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come back to the States in order to help stop evil and restore his sterling reputation. Unfortunately, Captain Invincible is a drunk now...
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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27A
1974-06-05
27A
Overview: A middle-aged alcoholic is sentenced to six weeks in jail for a minor offense. While there he undergoes psychiatric treatment for his alcoholism and is committed to a hospital for the criminally insane for the duration of his sentence. However, under Section 27A of the Queensland Mental Health Act, he can be detained indefinitely until the hospital authorities declare him eligible for release.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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A Difficult Woman
1999-05-21
A Difficult Woman
Overview: Anne (Caroline Goodall) is a successful pathologist for a top pharmaceutical corporation, and her life couldn't be better. That is, until one of her oldest and dearest friends is murdered, turning Anne's world upside down. Not satisfied with the status of the investigation, she takes it on herself, and what she finds out could threaten her career -- and her life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Rebel
1985-12-05
Rebel
Overview: This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-05
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Road to Nhill
1997-11-13
Road to Nhill
Overview: Four women bowlers on their way home to Pyramid Hill (population 550) from a tournament roll their car on a deserted road in rural Victoria. They are coping fairly well until the local men and emergency services start trying to help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-13
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The Leaving of Liverpool
1992-07-08
The Leaving of Liverpool
Overview: A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-08
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
1976-12-16
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Overview: An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Call Me Mr. Brown
1985-12-31
Call Me Mr. Brown
Overview: Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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The Square
2008-06-30
The Square
Overview: Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-30
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Blue Murder
1995-09-14
Blue Murder
Overview: Detective Sergeant Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson got fame because he knew how to take care of most dangerous and violent criminals. His success was, however, also due to the sinister alliance with violent underworld figures like Neddy Smith who got police protection in exchange for tips and money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Yobbos Up The Guts
Yobbos Up The Guts
Overview: A stand-up promoter assembles a roughshod gang of Yobbos for one last comedy tour 'Up The Guts'. A 'Yobbomentary' crew accompany the tour to film an outback roadtrip, shot over a week with no script, no props, and no rest-stops.
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Original Language: en
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The Wedding Party
2010-01-01
The Wedding Party
Overview: When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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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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Hard Knocks
1980-10-23
Hard Knocks
Overview: A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-23
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Kangaroo Jack
2003-01-17
Kangaroo Jack
Overview: Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-17
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15 Amore
1998-07-18
15 Amore
Overview: An adult's memoir of a childhood spent with his mother and two sisters in Australia in the closing year of WWII. While his father off fighting the Japanese, two Italian prisoners of war are assigned to help out on the family's estate. Later they are joined by two German refugee women. Problems of country life and personal tensions come to a head.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-18
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Gallipoli
1981-08-13
Gallipoli
Overview: As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-13
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On the Beach
2000-05-28
On the Beach
Overview: The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-28
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Cody: Fall from Grace
1995-08-17
Cody: Fall from Grace
Overview: A jockey is found dead in the street after falling from a balcony of a Hotel. What is thought to be a routine suicide inquiry becomes a murder investigation leading Cody to uncover a race-fixing scam
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-17
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The Echo of Thunder
1998-04-19
The Echo of Thunder
Overview: Scenic settings in Australia enhance this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, a simple yet engaging tale about a teenage girl's adjustment to a new family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-19
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The Shiralee
1957-07-11
The Shiralee
Overview: An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-11
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Red Dog
2011-08-04
Red Dog
Overview: The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-04
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