Robyn Nevin
Biography: Robyn Nevin (born September 25, 1942) is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. She is also known for her roles in films and televisions series. Nevin entered the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of 16 in the very first intake in 1959 was a brave step, in which she was fully supported by her parents. Nevin is currently lives with her long-time partner, US-born actor and screenwriter Nicholas Hammond since 1987.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 25, 1942
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The Matrix Reloaded
2003-05-15
The Matrix Reloaded
Overview: Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Sting
2024-04-12
Sting
Overview: After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Caddie
1976-01-01
Caddie
Overview: Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Castle
1997-04-10
The Castle
Overview: A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-10
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Bad Eggs
2003-07-24
Bad Eggs
Overview: Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-24
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The Matrix Revolutions
2003-11-05
The Matrix Revolutions
Overview: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-05
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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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The Turning
2013-09-25
The Turning
Overview: Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-25
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The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race
2023-07-27
The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race
Overview: Penny returns to her childhood home for the Appleton Show and its 'world famous' potato race, she is outraged that the men's first prize pays out $2,000 and the winning woman's prize is only $200. She is determined to right this wrong.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-27
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Goodbye Paradise
1983-07-21
Goodbye Paradise
Overview: The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-21
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Temperament Unsuited
1978-07-01
Temperament Unsuited
Overview: A student teacher, Mark (Steve J. Spears) doesn't accept the teaching methods to be found in a traditional school situation, or the way the principal Ted 'Seedy' Yates (Ken Goodlet) runs the show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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The Irishman
1978-02-28
The Irishman
Overview: Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-28
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The Fourth Wish
1976-07-16
The Fourth Wish
Overview: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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Fighting Back
1982-06-01
Fighting Back
Overview: Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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Greenkeeping
1992-06-01
Greenkeeping
Overview: An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-01
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Lucky Break
1994-10-20
Lucky Break
Overview: Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-20
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Libido
1973-04-06
Libido
Overview: Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-06
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Careful, He Might Hear You
1983-09-22
Careful, He Might Hear You
Overview: Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy sister, Vanessa, returns from England and takes an interest in PS.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-22
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The Eye of the Storm
2011-09-15
The Eye of the Storm
Overview: In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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Death in Bloom
2015-06-13
Death in Bloom
Overview: Death In Bloom is a dark comedy about a Door-to-Door 'Death' Salesman, who struggles to close a deal with a fabulously difficult customer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-13
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Gods of Egypt
2016-02-25
Gods of Egypt
Overview: A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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lacerate
lacerate
Overview: Gloria, an aspiring painter, drives on an empty tank. Hands steadfast at the wheel, refusing to fill up, she tempts fate. Colliding with unspoken grievances she tries to reframe herself amongst the missing paintings in her mother's home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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For Love or Money
1983-10-28
For Love or Money
Overview: Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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Relic
2020-07-03
Relic
Overview: When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-03
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Angel Baby
1995-10-26
Angel Baby
Overview: Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-26
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Groundhog Night
2020-06-10
Groundhog Night
Overview: Gary’s so used to caring for his disabled daughter Jess, he can do it in his sleep. But when the in-laws come to stay, everyone will get a wake-up call.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-10
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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 Coolangatta Gold
1984-11-22
The Coolangatta Gold
Overview: Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is burdened by his father's desire for glory, and must win The Coolangatta Gold Tri-Aquathon, It is the greatest endurance test of them all: a marathon involving a 20 kilometer beach run, 6 kilometer swim and a 17 kilometer surf ski from Surfers Paradise along the golden arc of beach to Coolangatta and back to the start. The Coolangatta Gold is a story of human endeavor and endurance against overwhelming odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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In the Company of Actors
2007-06-10
In the Company of Actors
Overview: Within the world of theatre the rehearsal room is a sacred space -- the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks taken, mistakes made, vulnerabilities exposed and, at its very best, magic created. It's not a place into which the public is often, if ever, invited. Until now; In The Company of Actors features an ensemble of Australia's finest actors, including Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler, at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Opening night is just five weeks away and the pressure is on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-10
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Ruben Guthrie
2015-07-16
Ruben Guthrie
Overview: The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-16
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Resistance
1992-01-01
Resistance
Overview: Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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