Lynette Curran
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lynette Curran is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Australian television series and films. Between 1967 and 1974 she was a regular in soap opera Bellbird. She also acted in the film version of the serial, Country Town (1971). She started acting in the theatre in 1964. Theatre work includes The Country Wife, Rookery Nook, Richard II, Just Between Ourselves, and Ashes for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She also played in Steaming for the Seymour Centre in Sydney. Early film roles included Alvin Purple (1973), Caddie (1976), Heatwave (1982). In the late 1970s she made further television appearances, including roles in soap opera Number 96 (in 1976), and in police procedurals Bluey and Cop Shop. Curran was a recurring cast member of soap opera The Restless Years (1977-1981), playing the scheming Jean Stafford. She won a Sammy Award for her role in Australian Broadcasting Corporation series Spring and Fall. Later roles include feature films The Delinquents, Somersault, and Japanese Story. On television she played Brenda Jackson in the Love My Way, and acted in Underbelly: The Golden Mile. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynette Curran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: January 01, 1945
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Alvin Purple
1973-12-20
Alvin Purple
Overview: Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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Japanese Story
2003-08-30
Japanese Story
Overview: Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-30
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The Boys
1998-05-07
The Boys
Overview: Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-07
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Somersault
2004-06-19
Somersault
Overview: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-19
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Comrades
1987-08-23
Comrades
Overview: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-23
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The Year My Voice Broke
1987-10-15
The Year My Voice Broke
Overview: Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Bliss
1985-10-04
Bliss
Overview: An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Dead to the World
1991-06-07
Dead to the World
Overview: Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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My Mother Frank
2000-08-16
My Mother Frank
Overview: When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-16
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To The Other Shore
1996-08-01
To The Other Shore
Overview: A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life and psychotherapy with world events, including the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to evoke the complex inner world of maternal experience. Grethel’s tale from the fairy story Hansel and Grethel juxtaposes the personal story with a mythical exploration of freedom and individual responsibility.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-01
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Prime Mover
2009-02-08
Prime Mover
Overview: A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-08
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Bullseye
1987-06-01
Bullseye
Overview: In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Mushrooms
1995-07-20
Mushrooms
Overview: In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-20
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These Final Hours
2014-07-31
These Final Hours
Overview: What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-31
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
1977-11-13
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Overview: Following the instructions on a mysterious parchment, Prof. Lindenbrock and his companion, Alex, discover and explore the center of the Earth, a mysterious place full of dangerous electrical storms, prehistoric reptiles and swamp monsters. Based on author Jules Verne's fantasy novel, this animated adventure follows the explorers' struggles to survive and prove their findings to the rest of the world.
Genres: Animation Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-13
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Road to Nhill
1997-11-13
Road to Nhill
Overview: Four women bowlers on their way home to Pyramid Hill (population 550) from a tournament roll their car on a deserted road in rural Victoria. They are coping fairly well until the local men and emergency services start trying to help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-13
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Police State
1989-06-15
Police State
Overview: An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anything since the convict era. Based on real events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-15
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021-09-01
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Overview: Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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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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Stories of Lost Souls
2004-11-12
Stories of Lost Souls
Overview: Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Call Me Mum
2006-06-22
Call Me Mum
Overview: Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and the white authorities took him away. But as Warren, Flo and Kate all prepare themselves for the reunion, unbeknown to them, Kate's Brisbane based parents, Keith and Dellmay, are planning a different kind of reunion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-22
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Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
1988-03-28
Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Overview: The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-28
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Just Desserts
1993-01-01
Just Desserts
Overview: JUST DESSERTS is a reflective and evocative film which looks at the development of Maria Stroppi's sexuality through food. Set in 70s' suburban Australia, the film deals with fragments of Maria's memories of her turbulent past growing up in an Italian Catholic family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Country Town
1973-04-01
Country Town
Overview: In this movie version of "Bellbird" (1967) a reporter, Philip Henderson stirs up the town further when they are already suffering with a drought.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-01
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Brothers' Nest
2018-06-21
Brothers' Nest
Overview: With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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Birdie
2018-08-12
Birdie
Overview: A casual gesture of friendliness quickly spirals into a paralysing moment for a woman on a train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-12
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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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Bangers
1999-08-05
Bangers
Overview: Julie-Anne comes home from a hard day at the office to discover her mother has locked the cat in the house all day (again) and that she is expected to cook 'bangers" for dinner. Preparing the meal becomes a manifestation of all the repressed tensions in Julie-Anne's work and home life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-05
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Bluey
2015-06-01
Bluey
Overview: Bluey, an angry young woman trapped in a life of violence, meets a mystery mentor who could change everything. Bluey is a story of courage, heart and the fight for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-01
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Black Chook
2015-08-01
Black Chook
Overview: They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Praise
1999-04-22
Praise
Overview: An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-22
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Oscar and Lucinda
1997-12-31
Oscar and Lucinda
Overview: After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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The Delinquents
1989-12-21
The Delinquents
Overview: A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-21
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A Few Less Men
2017-03-09
A Few Less Men
Overview: Travel plans for three men in ill-fitting wedding tuxedos goes horribly wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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Prada Handbag
2007-02-15
Prada Handbag
Overview: What's a girl to do when a rare hair-loss condition leaves her with an obsession for zany wigs and make-up? Become a drag queen, of course! Having always been an outsider, a young woman finds her niche when she lands a job at a kooky drag bar and assumes the new identity of Prada Handbag. She decides to take to the stage and discovers that acceptance - and self acceptance - can be found in the most unlikely of places. Prada Handbag is a glitzy, glam cinematic extravaganza which promises to ravish the eye and warm the heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-15
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