John Bach
Biography: John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a British-born New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than four decades. Though born in the United Kingdom, he has spent most of his career living and working in New Zealand. In 1997, his leading role as the titular detective character of Duggan was created for him, firstly in a couple of telemovies, then in a successful New Zealand series.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 05, 1946
Deathday: N/A
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Ike: Countdown to D-Day
2004-05-31
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Overview: The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.
Genres: Drama War History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-31
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Warlords of the 21st Century
1982-01-01
Warlords of the 21st Century
Overview: It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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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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Blood Oath
1990-07-26
Blood Oath
Overview: On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-26
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The Heroes
1988-01-01
The Heroes
Overview: Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on board a leaky old fishing boat called 'The Krait'. Their mission, code-named Operation Jaywick, became a tense voyage through thousands of kilometres of Japanese held territory to launch a daring attack on Singapore Harbour. The raid is a success but within sight of safety they encounter a Japanese destroyer, and all prepare to die rather than be taken prisoner.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Hollow Men
2008-07-07
The Hollow Men
Overview: The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone Else's Country) new film - just in time to caution us against campaigning politicians in 2008. Addressing each other like schoolboy Machiavellis, party leader Don Brash and his advisors spelled out how they'd copy the big boys in Australia and the US in order to win the votes of people who'd never support the kind of policies such men are widely presumed to represent. The dividing and conquering began at Orewa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-07
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The Cure
2014-02-06
The Cure
Overview: When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to release it to the world. Knowing that they make more money from chemotherapy drugs than the cure, the company does everything it can to stop her.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-06
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Georgia
1989-10-12
Georgia
Overview: A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely an accident?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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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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The Last Tattoo
1994-07-01
The Last Tattoo
Overview: In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt from military service and living it up on black market profits. Girls under the control of the union - of whom the victim's fiancee, Rose, is one - give sexual favours to the Americans, in return for information. The marine assigned to investigate the murder, tries to find Rose through a public health nurse who traces VD infections. However they discover there it more going on than they realized, involving a conspiracy amongst the Union, the government and the U.S. military.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Wild Horses
1984-04-18
Wild Horses
Overview: Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to the wild horses as a source of income. With rope and snare - and the help of an experienced horse catching team - Sam and Sara's example, the rough ex-loggers learn to respect a delicate balance between the wild horses and their catchers. The best stallions are left to breed and their riding horses are retired back into the wild herds.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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Other Halves
1984-10-01
Other Halves
Overview: A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
1993-07-18
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
Overview: True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-18
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The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder
1989-08-11
The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder
Overview: S04E06 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater." A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs. They only have one rule that's there to protect the time line: Never get off the beaten path.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-11
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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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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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Goodbye Pork Pie
1981-02-05
Goodbye Pork Pie
Overview: Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road trip adventure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-05
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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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CrimeBroker
1993-07-01
CrimeBroker
Overview: High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls apart when she takes part in a multi-million dollar bank robbery and becomes an accessory to murder.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-01
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Rest for the Wicked
2011-11-24
Rest for the Wicked
Overview: Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in the Knightsbridge Gardens Retirement Village. In order to catch his man, Murray goes undercover by becoming a resident. He also discovers a world of sex, drugs and rocking chairs where life is lived and being old does not mean feeling past it. However Murray discovers that things are not always what they may seem to be.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-24
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002-12-18
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Overview: Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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Judgement Tavern
2016-06-09
Judgement Tavern
Overview: Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body. On a cold dark night, they take shelter in a small village tavern - where a mysterious stranger with unfinished business is waiting.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-09
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The Ballad of Maddog Quinn
2022-12-31
The Ballad of Maddog Quinn
Overview: An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what is held most dear, but things aren’t always what they seem on the desolate wasteland frontier.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-31
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Old Scores
1991-01-01
Old Scores
Overview: Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original teams. The now old men pull on their jerseys one more time while Morgan deals with his past on his return home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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Mistress, Mercy
2018-07-15
Mistress, Mercy
Overview: This docu-drama dives beneath the sensational headlines to unravel the truth about a murder case that rocked New Zealand and catapulted teenage dominatrix Renee Chignell and cricket umpire Peter Plumley Walker into the national consciousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-15
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003-12-17
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Overview: As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-17
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Utu
1984-06-27
Utu
Overview: In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.
Genres: War Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-27
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Heart of the Stag
1984-07-28
Heart of the Stag
Overview: Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-28
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008-05-15
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Overview: One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz. Now, with the help of a colorful cast of new characters, including Trufflehunter the badger and Nikabrik the dwarf, the Pevensie clan embarks on an incredible quest to ensure that Narnia is returned to its rightful heir.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-15
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Typhon's People
1993-01-01
Typhon's People
Overview: A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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My Name Is Bruce
2007-10-01
My Name Is Bruce
Overview: B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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Reunion
2020-11-05
Reunion
Overview: A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-05
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Piece of My Heart
2009-11-26
Piece of My Heart
Overview: Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and teenage mothers in 1950s and 60s Aotearoa
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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Carry Me Back
1982-06-01
Carry Me Back
Overview: Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and the boys need to smuggle his body back to their farm and make it appear that he died there to satisfy a clause in his will or else they won't inherit the property.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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Kidnapped
2005-02-27
Kidnapped
Overview: 15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-27
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