Chris Haywood
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chris Haywood (born 24 July 1948) is an English-born, Australian-based film and television actor/producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Haywood, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: July 24, 1948
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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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Love You Like That
2021-10-21
Love You Like That
Overview: Cupids arrow has hit the coastal town of Seafront Sands. A lonely soul will discover a secret about the love we all share for the first time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Jindabyne
2006-07-20
Jindabyne
Overview: Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Shine
1996-08-15
Shine
Overview: Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-15
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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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Black and White
2002-10-31
Black and White
Overview: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Quigley Down Under
1990-10-17
Quigley Down Under
Overview: American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-17
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Razorback
1984-04-19
Razorback
Overview: In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-19
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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
1988-12-15
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Overview: Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-15
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Malcolm
1986-07-20
Malcolm
Overview: Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-20
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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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Attack Force Z
1982-06-01
Attack Force Z
Overview: Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of World War II, a gritty drama based on actual events. Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific, Capt. P.G. Kelly (Gibson) and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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The Cars That Ate Paris
1974-10-10
The Cars That Ate Paris
Overview: After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur soon realizes the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret: they orchestrate car accidents and rob the victims. Survivors are brought to the local hospital, lobotomized, and used for a local doctor's experiments.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
2009-01-29
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Overview: Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-29
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Running on Empty
1982-08-05
Running on Empty
Overview: Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his head in racing for his girl, his money and his life. Through racing, sex, nightclubs and small road trips the film depicts what it was like to be a teenager in Australia in the 1980's.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-05
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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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Emerald City
1988-12-09
Emerald City
Overview: A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Sweet River
2021-04-23
Sweet River
Overview: Hannah's search for her son's body leads her to sleepy Billins, where her investigations uncover more than she expected and threaten to expose towns dark secrets....secrets that both the living and the dead will fight to protect.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Mountain of Gold
2016-11-24
Mountain of Gold
Overview: The story of Almayer, a Dutch trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century. His dream of finding a mythical gold mountain is challenged by his scheming wife, the colonial authorities, the political machinations of the local chief and Arab traders, and his daughter's love for a freedom-fighting Malay prince.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Blackrock
1997-05-01
Blackrock
Overview: In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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A Woman's Tale
1991-09-26
A Woman's Tale
Overview: Uplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead actress, Sheila Florance, who was in fact dying of cancer as she created what is essentially a self-portrait.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-26
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Lockout
2007-08-23
Lockout
Overview: In 1929 one of the darkest chapters in Australian industrial history was written in blood and bitterness on the Northern Coalfields of NSW, a tale that will echo across our landscape in story, song and legacy.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-23
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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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Subterano
2003-01-03
Subterano
Overview: Eleven souls, trapped in an underground carpark, are attacked by deadly, remote controlled toys. Only a few will survive.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-03
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Man of Flowers
1983-09-22
Man of Flowers
Overview: An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-22
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Palawan Fate
2011-07-11
Palawan Fate
Overview: Punay was born with wounds on her feet so that she cannot step on the earth. Her brother, Angkarang, carries her through a hammock, as he searches the changing landscape of Palawan in hoping to find a healer who can cure Punay. Different people help him carry his sister along the way- a woman looking for her husband, a fisherman who lost his boat, and a young man who is searching for himself- and each one meets their fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2011-07-11
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The Great Gold Swindle
1984-02-01
The Great Gold Swindle
Overview: The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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Golden Braid
1990-09-07
Golden Braid
Overview: When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past and the woman he imagines the braid belonged to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-07
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Lonely Hearts
1982-11-01
Lonely Hearts
Overview: In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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Strikebound
1984-09-20
Strikebound
Overview: Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization."
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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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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Dangerous Remedy
2012-11-04
Dangerous Remedy
Overview: The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put his life at risk to expose police corruption in an effort to change the law on abortion and put an end to the illegal operations that were killing young women. It’s a truly inspiring story. Dr Wainer’s determination, even when his own life and that of his family’s was threatened, never faltered. He was living proof that one person can make a difference and change the status quo. With the support of Dr Wainer’s family, the filmmakers have endeavoured to capture the essence of his struggle to expose police corruption and change the law.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-04
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Human Touch
2005-04-14
Human Touch
Overview: To try to raise money for her choir's trip to China, Anna poses nude for an ageing artist and upon seeing the finished results goes on a journey of self discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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Island
1989-09-09
Island
Overview: Island is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging from extreme passion to fear, leading to murder - from loneliness to sensuality. Three women from Australia, Sri Lanka, and Greece meet on a Greek island. All are exiles escaping from their own personal tragedies. Ultimately, it is the island itself, with the generosity and warmth of the islanders, which leads all three women to revelations about themselves and their place in the world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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The Tale of Ruby Rose
1988-05-25
The Tale of Ruby Rose
Overview: The year is 1933. Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) is an Australian woman living with her Welsh immigrant husband Henry (Chris Haywood) in the Tasmanian highlands. Cut off from her superjudgmental family, for whom Henry had once worked as a humble farm hand, Ruby remains isolated in her tiny house. Superstitiously terrified of the dark, she begins developing her own folklore about the inky blackness that surrounds her each night; this folklore eventually develops into Ruby's own personal religion, created to ward off the evils that she imagines lurk in every corner. Only by venturing out of her house and rekindling her relationship with her embittered father is Ruby able to exorcise her fears. Almost hypnotic in its stark beauty, Tale of Ruby Rose is proof enough that writer/director Roger Scholes deserves to be far better known.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-25
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Lust and Revenge
1996-05-28
Lust and Revenge
Overview: This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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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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The Bit Part
1987-06-20
The Bit Part
Overview: Career counsellor Michael Thornton decides to change his career and become an actor. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television ad where only his hands appear on camera. He finds a friend in actress Mary McAllister (Nicole Kidman) until she is called to Hollywood to star in a horror feature. Katrina Foster plays Michael's understanding wife Helen, who supports him while he pursues his elusive dream.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-20
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The Removalists
1975-10-15
The Removalists
Overview: An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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The Great MacArthy
1975-08-04
The Great MacArthy
Overview: Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South Melbourne football club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-04
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The Clinic
1983-04-21
The Clinic
Overview: A comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-21
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The View from Greenhaven
2008-10-15
The View from Greenhaven
Overview: A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Salvation
2009-03-19
Salvation
Overview: Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian immigrant and prostitute. Seeking better lives, both Barry and Irina find strength in each other as they seek mutual salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-19
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Sweet Talker
1991-05-10
Sweet Talker
Overview: When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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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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Savages Crossing
2011-05-11
Savages Crossing
Overview: When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-11
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Alex
1993-05-07
Alex
Overview: It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002-04-25
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
Overview: Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-25
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The Trespassers
1976-08-18
The Trespassers
Overview: In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two woman meet and become friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-18
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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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A Street to Die
1985-10-03
A Street to Die
Overview: An Australian who has fought in Vietnam blames Agent Orange for his cancer, and sues for compensation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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Aya
1991-10-24
Aya
Overview: Aya, a young Japanese war bride, arrives in a small Australian town during the 1950s. She and her husband, Frank, are very much in love. Yet somehow Aya still feels more comfortable with the Japanese-speaking Mac, a close friend of Frank's, whose wartime experiences left him with a deep regard for Japanese culture. But Frank wants Aya to forget her Japanese past. Aya finds work in a Japanese restaurant and has a short affair with an Australian-Japanese businessman. With her marriage falling apart, Aya leaves Frank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-24
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The Widower
2004-06-01
The Widower
Overview: Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. When Neville is diagnosed as terminally ill his son Blake returns from boarding school and their unresolved feelings of loss re-surface. An unconventional and unique film that uses music and poetry as the narrative rather than dialogue, creating an emotionally insightful human drama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-01
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Beneath Hill 60
2010-04-15
Beneath Hill 60
Overview: The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-15
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The Extraordinary Tale Of William Buckley
2010-04-11
The Extraordinary Tale Of William Buckley
Overview: Presented by Michael Cathcart, this is one of Australia's great untold stories of escaped convict, William Buckley's amazing story of survival - living for over 30 years with an Aboriginal tribe.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-11
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Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
2003-11-05
Lennie Cahill Shoots Through
Overview: An unsolved crime, a retiring cop and a dying crim determined not to take his regrets to the grave.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-05
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Innocence
2000-09-08
Innocence
Overview: After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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The Coca-Cola Kid
1985-07-14
The Coca-Cola Kid
Overview: An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-14
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Love Is Now
2014-12-04
Love Is Now
Overview: Love is Now is the intriguing and mysterious drama chronicling a summer of love for experienced photographer Audrey (Van Der Boom) and aspiring snapper Dean (Farren). Propelled by new love and Audrey's free spirit, the couple embarks on a formative country adventure following the NSW Harvest Trail where they discover significantly more than they ever expected along the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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The Dam
2016-08-17
The Dam
Overview: A lifelong friendship is under siege when two mature Australian men visit the monolithic dam that defined their young lives and are confronted by feelings that were impounded long ago, but cannot be contained any longer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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The Aussie Boys
2022-07-29
The Aussie Boys
Overview: Come and take a trip 'Down Under' and witness seven stories about the lives and loves of these men and boys from across Australia. From historical beginnings in the 1600's all the way through to noughties truck stop dilemmas, present day road trip romancing and faces from the past returning for a final goodbye. The 7 short films are: Burning Soul (2016); Miles (2017); Infidels (2017); Eric (2014); What Grown-Ups Know (2004); All Good Things (2019); The Dam (2016).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-29
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Skewwhiff
2019-03-14
Skewwhiff
Overview: An elderly man insists on granting his wife’s wish of taking their car through a drive-thru car wash.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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My Husband, My Killer
2001-11-13
My Husband, My Killer
Overview: Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-13
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8
2008-10-23
8
Overview: 8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Paradise Found
2003-01-01
Paradise Found
Overview: Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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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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Muggers
2000-05-25
Muggers
Overview: When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-25
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Swerve
2012-06-06
Swerve
Overview: Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-06
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Plead Guilty, Get A Bond
1990-12-01
Plead Guilty, Get A Bond
Overview: A young white city lawyer arrives in a small Queensland country town to represent an Aboriginal lady in court. She faces minor charges of assault and thinks she will get off lightly if she, 'Plead guilty, Get a bond'. The young lawyer is amazed she is not asserting her rights.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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The Way, My Way
2024-04-16
The Way, My Way
Overview: Based on the best selling Camino memoir of the same name by Bill Bennett, the film documents one man's journey along the Camino de Santiago, searching for meaning, not realizing it was right in front of him, one step at a time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-16
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The Interviewer
2012-06-30
The Interviewer
Overview: Thomas Howell gets more than he's bargained for in a job interview at a prestigious law firm; an insult about his tie, a rendition of Harry Potter and the chance to change the lives of a father and son.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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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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Manifesto
1988-01-27
Manifesto
Overview: In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-27
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The Boys Are Back
2009-09-25
The Boys Are Back
Overview: When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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One Way Ticket
1997-01-01
One Way Ticket
Overview: Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murder and looks like he will be spending the rest of his days behind bars before he has an affair with a female guard. She helps him escape and they spend the next few days on the run. Can they make it?
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Out of It
1977-06-27
Out of It
Overview: Larry (Glenn Mason), Warren (Chris Haywood) and Tony (George Spartels) are three friends living the industrialised western suburbs of Sydney, bored by their lives and the kind of work available to them via their car-wrecking yard boss Boyle (Martin Harris). So instead of working, they strip stolen cars, and then despite girlfriend Wendy's (Margaret Nelson's) objections, Larry decides to join the other two in moving up a notch by helping steal TV sets, cassettes and radios in a warehouse robbery organised by Jacko (Terry Camilleri) and his boss Ferret (Saviour Sammut).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-27
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Dogs in Space
1986-12-18
Dogs in Space
Overview: The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-bes who survive on a diet of old TV space films, drugs and good music. And the satellite SKYLAB could crash through their roof at any moment...
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-18
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Deathcheaters
1976-12-16
Deathcheaters
Overview: Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999-03-17
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Overview: The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-17
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The First Kangaroos
1988-04-21
The First Kangaroos
Overview: The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-21
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Hotel Vladivostok
2006-08-31
Hotel Vladivostok
Overview: In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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Don Quixote of La Mancha
1987-01-01
Don Quixote of La Mancha
Overview: Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Boar
2018-06-17
Boar
Overview: In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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The Spa
2015-11-22
The Spa
Overview: When retiree Don declares he no longer wants the new spa he’s just ordered, Ivan the deliveryman suspects there’s more to the story than Don is willing to admit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-22
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Return to Nim's Island
2013-03-15
Return to Nim's Island
Overview: Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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The Media Project
1991-12-31
The Media Project
Overview: A group of people working in film and television are gathered at a dinner party to discuss Australian media coverage of the Gulf War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-31
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The Nun and the Bandit
1992-01-03
The Nun and the Bandit
Overview: Outlaws kidnap their 14-year-old cousin and hold her for ransom. The girl is being chaperoned by a visiting nun, who refuses to abandon her during the kidnapping.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-03
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Change Of Heart
1999-01-01
Change Of Heart
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Freedom
1982-04-01
Freedom
Overview: Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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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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Solo
2006-07-27
Solo
Overview: Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Double Sculls
1986-10-09
Double Sculls
Overview: A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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BlackJack: Sweet Science
2004-11-07
BlackJack: Sweet Science
Overview: Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-07
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Sleeping Beauty
2011-06-10
Sleeping Beauty
Overview: A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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Wills & Burke
1985-10-23
Wills & Burke
Overview: Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-23
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
1987-05-10
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Overview: A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until one client reaches her more than she expects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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The Nugget
2002-10-17
The Nugget
Overview: 'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-17
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Dirt Music
2020-10-08
Dirt Music
Overview: Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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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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Ivanhoe
1975-11-27
Ivanhoe
Overview: A young knight returns to England to discover that King Richard the Lionheart has been replaced by the tyrannical Prince John, while Lady Rowena, his true love, is engaged to another man.
Genres: Animation Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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The Tank
2007-01-01
The Tank
Overview: In drought stricken outback Australia a woman fights to save the farm and her marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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