Gary Sweet
Biography: Gary Sweet (born 22 May 1957 in Melbourne) is an Australian film and television actor known for his roles in Alexandra's Project (2003), Police Rescue, Cody, Big Sky, The Battlers, Bodyline and Stingers. He grew up in Warradale, South Australia and attended Brighton high school in Adelaide. He later obtained a teaching degree and whilst at Sturt Teachers' College took up drama. His first role was in low-budget horror film Nightmares. In the early 1980s, Sweet became recognizable through the on-going role of Leslie 'Magpie' Maddern in the Crawfords television series The Sullivans. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Sweet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: May 22, 1957
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010-12-02
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Overview: This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-02
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Gettin' Square
2003-10-09
Gettin' Square
Overview: Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-09
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The Tracker
2002-08-08
The Tracker
Overview: Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-08
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Alexandra's Project
2003-05-16
Alexandra's Project
Overview: Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape waiting for him. Playing that tape, he watches a bizarre and grueling recording in which his wife explains her grievance with him, her reasons for disappearing with the children and her revenge for how he treated her in a way he would never forget.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Macbeth
2006-09-21
Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth, loyal to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by witches that he will one day take over. Driven by their prophecy, he and his wife plot to kill Duncan, and takes the leadership of the gang for himself. Maintaining his power will require more murder and violence, finally driving his surviving enemies to unite and destroy him. A sexy, high octane retelling of this classic story.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-21
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Nightmares
1980-10-30
Nightmares
Overview: A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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Subdivision
2009-08-20
Subdivision
Overview: Based on the change a rapidly growing town faces when southern developers take over.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-20
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Hard Knox
2001-06-16
Hard Knox
Overview: Niki Knox must stop an evil villain from stealing a gemstone which would help him obtain magical powers.
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-16
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Adore
2013-04-03
Adore
Overview: Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-03
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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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Fever
1988-08-26
Fever
Overview: A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Nerve
2013-06-12
Nerve
Overview: Jakob Evans suffers an emotional breakdown after the death of his wife in a car accident. His loss and pain runs deep as he claims to have found her in bed with another man just before she died. Unable to accept her death and her infidelity, Jakob decides his only chance at closure is to find the man she was sleeping with to help him comprehend what they shared. With the help of Grace, a promiscuous and troubled girl, Jakob starts to put together the pieces of the puzzle and track down his wife's lover.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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What the Moon Saw
1990-12-26
What the Moon Saw
Overview: Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn into the world of the theatre, where the illusion is everything and grease-paint covers up reality. While watching a pantomime of Sinbad, Steven succumbs to the magic of the story and actually becomes the sailor on his greatest adventure ever.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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A Savage Christmas
2023-11-16
A Savage Christmas
Overview: After years of estrangement, trans woman Davina Savage returns home for Christmas with her new boyfriend. Expecting her transition to be the focus, it’s instead overshadowed by family secrets and lies which threaten not only their lives – but another Christmas lunch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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An Indecent Obsession
1985-05-23
An Indecent Obsession
Overview: Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-23
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The Dreaming
1988-05-13
The Dreaming
Overview: When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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Love in Ambush
1997-02-28
Love in Ambush
Overview: An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from which Pol Pot would emerge.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-28
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The Tumbler
2008-07-13
The Tumbler
Overview: Two men, lost in the Australian desert, or are they? Hurtle, a tough Aussie bloke and ex-con, and Tahir, a soft-spoken, Afghani-Australian, are near death as they stumble across Jen, a headstrong American soldier stationed alone on a remote military base. In good faith, and against regulations, Jen offers to help Tahir and Hurtle. But when Tahir drops a GPS Unit from his pocket, it becomes clear that they're not lost, they're exactly where they planned to be.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-13
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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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Police Rescue: The Movie
1994-03-16
Police Rescue: The Movie
Overview: A narcotics detective, suspected of corruption, gets a transfer to the Police Rescue Squad. An unstable man holds a daycare center hostage.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-16
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Bodyjackers
2001-11-20
Bodyjackers
Overview: In the tradition of 1950s science fiction, a meteor crashes to earth and a toxic substance is released. A drifter captures some of the ooze and utilizes it to take control of the local town. The substance from another planet has cloning powers and its effect on the townsfolk has them develop religious sensibilities and a fixation for the drifter in this independent sci-fi comedy lensed in South Australia.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-20
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Bitter & Twisted
2008-04-28
Bitter & Twisted
Overview: A family drifts down a spiral of self-destruction and depression in the years following the death of their eldest son. Can they come to terms with what's happened before everything falls apart?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-28
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2:37
2006-05-26
2:37
Overview: At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-26
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The Big House
2001-10-17
The Big House
Overview: Within the concrete confines of a life sentence, one man rediscovers his capacity for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-17
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Tempe Tip
2002-01-01
Tempe Tip
Overview: A feel good comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Becca
1989-12-25
Becca
Overview: Wales in the 19th Century. Becca is married to Dai, who is transported to the penal colony of Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for rebellion. His brother Gwylim, who is a minister, travels after him by signing on as a ship's chaplain on a ship. He and Becca pretend to be husband and wife so she can come along. The pastor and his sister-in-law start a relationship.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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Charlie's Country
2013-10-12
Charlie's Country
Overview: Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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Fatal Honeymoon
2012-08-25
Fatal Honeymoon
Overview: Based on a true story, Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her.
Genres: Crime Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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Making Muriel
2017-12-31
Making Muriel
Overview: Making Muriel gives audiences exclusive behind the scenes access as P.J. Hogan adapts his iconic film, Muriel's Wedding into a stage musical for Sydney Theatre Company, 23 years after the film was a surprise box office hit.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-31
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Bush Basher
2011-01-01
Bush Basher
Overview: A boy's weekend away between Weed and his estranged father takes a dark turn when he reveals his mother has been involved with another man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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The Battlers
1994-07-14
The Battlers
Overview: Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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Two Heads Creek
2019-10-12
Two Heads Creek
Overview: A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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The Telegram Man
2011-01-07
The Telegram Man
Overview: The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-07
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A Month of Sundays
2016-04-28
A Month of Sundays
Overview: Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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Ayaan
2020-06-10
Ayaan
Overview: An escaped asylum seeker encounters an Aboriginal man on a remote Australian beach. She must decide whether to trust him or journey on alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-10
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Paper Champions
2020-08-06
Paper Champions
Overview: It is an uplifting comedy about Rey, a young man who wants to find love despite having lost his 'Mana'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-06
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The Lighthorsemen
1987-09-10
The Lighthorsemen
Overview: In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-10
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Cody: The Tipoff
1994-06-01
Cody: The Tipoff
Overview: Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Cody: A Family Affair
1994-06-05
Cody: A Family Affair
Overview: Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-05
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Cody: The Burnout
1995-10-11
Cody: The Burnout
Overview: Cody goes undercover on a task force established to track down arsonists who are wreaking havoc in the city. Fiorelli and Cody race against time to obtain the information they need to get Cody out alive when they discover a corrupt officer is within their ranks.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-11
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Cody: Bad Love
1994-06-11
Cody: Bad Love
Overview: Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-11
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Cody: Fall from Grace
1995-08-17
Cody: Fall from Grace
Overview: A jockey is found dead in the street after falling from a balcony of a Hotel. What is thought to be a routine suicide inquiry becomes a murder investigation leading Cody to uncover a race-fixing scam
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-17
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Cody: Wrong Stuff
1995-08-24
Cody: Wrong Stuff
Overview: A young girl dies after a batch of deadly pills find their way into a dance club scene. Cody and Fiorelli attempt to stop others from taking the lethal cocktail as they uncover an established underground manufacturer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-24
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Patched
Patched
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Spit
2025-03-06
Spit
Overview: Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his tail and a target on his back, he navigates a series of comedic misadventures, sharing with his fellow detainees the meaning of mateship and what it is to be truly Australian.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-06
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deadfish.
deadfish.
Overview: A chronically suicidal man and a terminally ill woman engage in a candid, darkly humorous conversation on a beach following a night of awkward intimacy meant to defy their existential crises.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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