John Jarratt
Biography: Jarratt was born and grew up in Wongawilli, a small rural town near Wollongong, New South Wales and later in the Snowy Mountains area. Jarratt’s father was a coal miner and later a concreter, who worked on the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme. His 5x great-grandfather, George Jarratt, born 1833, came from Croxton in Cambridgeshire, England; his son, John, married a Mary Kelly from Ireland. While in high school, Jarratt directed and acted in a school play which was a great success and led to his school principal recommending him for an acting career. Jarratt graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1973. His screen debut was in The Great Macarthy. He also appeared in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1975 and Summer City in 1977 with Mel Gibson. Jarratt had the lead role in the mini series The Last Outlaw playing Ned Kelly in 1979. He played a major supporting role as a young Australian soldier in Vietnam war movie The Odd Angry Shot, 1980. In the late 1980s, Jarratt recognised he had a problem with binge drinking and related violence and joined Alcoholics Anonymous, an organisation in which he continues to be active. In the 1990s, he was a presenter on the lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens with then-wife Noni Hazlehurst. He had guest roles in Inspector Morse, Police Rescue, Blue Murder, Water Rats and Blue Heelers in the 1990s and 2000s. He joined the cast of McLeod’s Daughters in 2001, and left the show in 2006. In 2010, Jarratt appeared in a commercial for Husqvarna. In May 2013, Jarratt filmed a guest star role in the third instalment of the ABC telemovie series, Jack Irish: Dead Point. In 2005, he had a major role in the Australian film Wolf Creek, playing the villain Mick Taylor.[5] In 2007, he appeared in two films, Rogue and The Final Winter. Jarratt also had a small role in the 2008 film, Australia, as a soldier. In 2008, Jarratt launched his own film production company, Winnah Films. Winnah’s first feature film, Savages Crossing (originally carrying the working title Flood) went into principal photography outside Ipswich, Queensland in February. In 2009, he appears as the father of a teenage girl via phone in Telstra’s “Next G” commercials. In 2010, Jarratt starred in the ensemble exploitation extravaganza, Bad Behaviour, written and directed by Joseph Sims. In the same year, Jarratt also had a role in the supernatural horror movie Needle. He made a cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained in 2012, appearing as an employee of the Le Quint Dickie Mining Company alongside Tarantino himself, both appearing with Australian accents. In February 2013, Jarratt reprised his role as Mick Taylor, filming the Wolf Creek sequel, Wolf Creek 2, with Matt Hearn producing and Greg McLean directing. The film was released on 20 February 2014. In January 2014, a new thriller called StalkHer began filming on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The film is co-directed by Jarratt, who also stars in the production. The producer of the film is ‘OZPIX’, a production company partly owned by Jarratt. Filming was completed in February 2014, and will screen later in the year.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 05, 1951
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
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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Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975-09-02
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Overview: In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-02
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Summer City
1977-12-22
Summer City
Overview: Four friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is angered by the obnoxious, womanizing Boo who seduces a teenaged girl while on their trip in one of his usual one night stands. Meanwhile, the girl's psychotic dad is also looking for Boo out of revenge for what he did to his daughter. Boo is in for a major wake up call.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-22
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Rogue
2007-11-08
Rogue
Overview: When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Wolf Creek
2005-09-16
Wolf Creek
Overview: Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman, who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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The Final Winter
2007-09-06
The Final Winter
Overview: Rugby league is arguably the toughest form of football on the planet played by men that play the game hard and live even harder. Set in Sydney in the 1980s, the movie is a drama about the effects upon the players, supporters and the game itself as the sport grows from being the semi-pro suburban game it's been for nearly 100 years into a fully professional international sport. Superbly written and acted by Matt Nable, a former football player along with other former players mixed in with some internationally recognised actors, the story is a realistic snapshot into the lives of people for whom the game is a weekend escape from their otherwise ordinary lives. That's all about to change as big business realises the potential the game holds leaving those clinging to the old ways in their wake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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We of the Never Never
1982-11-04
We of the Never Never
Overview: Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen, but she faces a much tougher challenge in trying to change their racist attitudes towards the indigenous aboriginal population.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-04
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The Odd Angry Shot
1979-03-01
The Odd Angry Shot
Overview: A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
Genres: War Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Blue Fin
1978-12-01
Blue Fin
Overview: Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele' , this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Dark Age
1987-05-21
Dark Age
Overview: In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-21
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Next of Kin
1982-04-30
Next of Kin
Overview: After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-30
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Shiver
2012-04-21
Shiver
Overview: Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-21
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100 Bloody Acres
2012-08-04
100 Bloody Acres
Overview: Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-04
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Bad Behaviour
2010-08-27
Bad Behaviour
Overview: Emma and Peterson encounter their fierce predator Voyte Parker, a cop confronts his son's murderer, and a man finds his wife is cheating on him. Intersecting story lines; murderers, coppers, teachers and teenagers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-27
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Wolf Creek 2
2013-08-30
Wolf Creek 2
Overview: Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site's most infamous local, the last man any traveller to the region ever wants to meet—Mick Taylor. As the backpackers flee, Mick pursues them on an epic white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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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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Hero
2017-09-15
Hero
Overview: In the quiet and picturesque Yarramalong Valley, Officers Henry and Brooks find a young woman wandering by the roadside, distraught from events she has just witnessed. Following a report of a possible crash site, the officers suspect the young woman is a survivor; taking her into their care they proceed to investigate. Within the undulating trees, not everything is as it seems. Who has come to Earth? Do we need a hero to save us all?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-15
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The Naked Country
1985-07-25
The Naked Country
Overview: Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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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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StalkHer
2015-08-27
StalkHer
Overview: An obsessive prowler Jack (Jarratt) breaks into the home of his victim Emily (Fairfax). Finding himself wounded then tied to a chair, Jack soon realises he underestimated his intended prey as the two engage in a night long tête-à-tête.
Genres: Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Justice in a Smoking Gun
Justice in a Smoking Gun
Overview: In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
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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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Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014-04-13
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Overview: Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-13
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Midnight Dancer
1988-08-01
Midnight Dancer
Overview: 16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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The Settlement
1984-07-19
The Settlement
Overview: Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-too-friendly reception, the pair decide to move into an abandoned shack on the outskirts of town. They are soon joined in their new home by Joycie, another town outcast with a shady past. While the three manage to start a rather happy life together, they soon find that others in the town strongly disapprove of their living arrangements.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-19
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Talk
1994-07-01
Talk
Overview: A day in the life of two women, writers of adult comics, whose intimate conversation is overheard by a total stranger
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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All Men Are Liars
1995-11-30
All Men Are Liars
Overview: Mick's father, Barry, sells the family piano, causing Mick's mother, Irene to leave. In order to raise enough money to buy the piano back, Mick dresses in his mother's clothes and becomes Michelle to join an all-girl band that has come into town for the annual harvest festival. Angela, the leader of the band, starts to question her sexuality when she begins to fall in love with Mick/Michelle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-30
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Django Unchained
2012-12-25
Django Unchained
Overview: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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Needle
2010-06-04
Needle
Overview: College student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, he must find the killer.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-04
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Dead Heart
1996-09-08
Dead Heart
Overview: Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-08
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Australian Dream
1987-01-02
Australian Dream
Overview: Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with selling sex aids to housewives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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Wolf Creek 3
Wolf Creek 3
Overview: A family of American tourists wander innocently into Taylor's hunting grounds. When the parents sacrifice themselves to save their children, the kids find themselves alone, lost and hunted in the vast Australian wilderness.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
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What About Sal?
2024-04-25
What About Sal?
Overview: With his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his mother had a one-night stand with - 30 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-25
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Little Boy Lost
1978-11-16
Little Boy Lost
Overview: The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-16
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Double or Nothing
2024-10-27
Double or Nothing
Overview: Two cousins embark on a high-energy race against the clock to find $50k when the mob discover one of them has been skimming from their Gold Coast workshop.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-27
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Observance
2016-04-03
Observance
Overview: In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-03
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The Sound of Love
1978-12-01
The Sound of Love
Overview: A romance about two people who are both disabled. Racing car driver Dave and street-girl Eileen fall in love after he has a car accident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Touch the Sun: Top Enders
1988-04-10
Touch the Sun: Top Enders
Overview: Two children get stranded in the desert in Australia's Top End.
Genres: TV Movie Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-10
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Joh's Jury
1993-02-16
Joh's Jury
Overview: Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-16
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Pirates Island
1991-01-01
Pirates Island
Overview: Pirate TV Movie from 1991
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Plunge Into Darkness
1978-01-01
Plunge Into Darkness
Overview: An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murdered couple. He runs to a nearby town for help while she keeps the boy company. Meanwhile, escaped convicts are heading to their location.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Crime of the Decade
1984-08-19
Crime of the Decade
Overview: A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-19
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Fluteman
1982-11-24
Fluteman
Overview: When the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to make it rain by playing his flute; under the condition that he be paid. But after Fluteman makes it rain, and even stops it; the town council, blind by their greed and pride, refuse to pay him. Fluteman stands before the town and warns them of a curse he would bring; and so the next day the school playground fades into silence as all the children disappear into the bush... except one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-24
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Frenzy
2015-02-28
Frenzy
Overview: After a bungled prison bus breakout 6 desperate female mental patients find themselves not only on the run from the law but also a ferocious forest cult.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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Christmas Down Under
2021-11-21
Christmas Down Under
Overview: Tightly wound Ellie flies to Australia and enlists the help of an Aboriginal Tour Guide and a YouTubefamous Uber driver to find her husband and his eclectic family, and along the way, find her true self. All before Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-21
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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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Not Quite Hollywood
2008-08-28
Not Quite Hollywood
Overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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The Making of 'Wolf Creek'
2006-01-16
The Making of 'Wolf Creek'
Overview: An overview of the making of Wolf Creek (2005).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-16
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Red Dog: True Blue
2016-12-26
Red Dog: True Blue
Overview: When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-26
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978-06-21
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Overview: The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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The Possessed
2021-10-29
The Possessed
Overview: A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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The Time Game
1992-01-01
The Time Game
Overview: 13 year old Tony Johnson and computer wizard, is of falsely accused of setting fire to his school. He is sent to stay with his grandparents over Christmas. Tony's grandfather invents things. He has designed a game called "The Time Game"...
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Chase Through the Night
1983-01-01
Chase Through the Night
Overview: A group of hardened criminals on the lam take refuge in the badlands of the Australian outback. When they come across a small settlement, they take hostages in case the law shows up, but are outwitted by a supernatural force, a powerful shaman.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Ninth Order
The Ninth Order
Overview: Jada's estranged father is murdered. His father's death draws her to an ancient Sect, led by Jada's grandfather. Jada and her friends are used as pawns. Jada's only hope is Finn, possible soulmate and her father's killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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Shed
Shed
Overview: Mia, a courageous 10 year old girl who is locked in a shed, must survive inconceivable odds whilst trying to discover what happened to her family.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
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The Tree
1977-10-28
The Tree
Overview: Australian Short Film directed by Ian Stocks
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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