Tony Barry
Biography: Tony Barry (born 28 August 1941) was an Australian tough-looking actor and activist who performed in nearly 60 feature films and over 45 television series, across a five-decade career, in both Australia and New Zealand. Barry was for a number of years afflicted by melanoma, culminating in a 2013 leg amputation. He nonetheless battled on and continued his acting career right up to his death on 21 December 2022, at the age of 81.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 28, 1941
Deathday: December 21, 2022
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Paperback Hero
1999-03-25
Paperback Hero
Overview: An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-25
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Frog Dreaming
1986-05-01
Frog Dreaming
Overview: American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange events happening in Devil's Knob national park associated with an aboriginal myth about "frog dreamings". Cody tries to investigate...
Genres: Drama Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-01
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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 Man From Snowy River II
1988-03-24
The Man From Snowy River II
Overview: After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-24
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Mullet
2001-06-28
Mullet
Overview: Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-28
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Goodbye Pork Pie
1981-02-05
Goodbye Pork Pie
Overview: Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road trip adventure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-05
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I Own the Racecourse
1986-01-01
I Own the Racecourse
Overview: A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic Australian novel of the same name by Patricia Wrightson.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1980-01-31
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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Jack Be Nimble
1993-09-15
Jack Be Nimble
Overview: Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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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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The Last of the Ryans
1997-04-23
The Last of the Ryans
Overview: Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-23
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The Night We Called It a Day
2003-08-14
The Night We Called It a Day
Overview: Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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La spagnola
2001-04-05
La spagnola
Overview: Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-05
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Mystery Road
2013-08-15
Mystery Road
Overview: A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-15
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The Ballad of Betty & Joe
2008-07-23
The Ballad of Betty & Joe
Overview: Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian tunnel below, trying to earn a living. But her earnings are meager, and to make things worse, the new security guard, Joe, is trying to confiscate her fiddle. While Betty dreams of fame and fortune, Joe dreams of earplugs – something’s got to give!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-23
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The Picture Show Man
1977-05-05
The Picture Show Man
Overview: A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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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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Fresh Air
1999-05-06
Fresh Air
Overview: Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy and kitchen-sink drama. It is also a realistic depiction of relationships among lovers, friends, and family in the multi-cultural environment of a big city. The protagonists are three thirty-something housemates with artistic aspirations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-06
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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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The Dismissal
1983-03-06
The Dismissal
Overview: The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-06
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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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Pallet on the Floor
1986-01-01
Pallet on the Floor
Overview: A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Last Tattoo
1994-07-01
The Last Tattoo
Overview: In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt from military service and living it up on black market profits. Girls under the control of the union - of whom the victim's fiancee, Rose, is one - give sexual favours to the Americans, in return for information. The marine assigned to investigate the murder, tries to find Rose through a public health nurse who traces VD infections. However they discover there it more going on than they realized, involving a conspiracy amongst the Union, the government and the U.S. military.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Break of Day
1976-12-31
Break of Day
Overview: Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-31
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The Mango Tree
1977-12-13
The Mango Tree
Overview: Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of high school, was brought up by his grandmother. Grandma Carr is known and loved by all in the town, and does her best to help Jamie through the emotional turmoil of adolescence and a society struggling under old traditions and beliefs in a new country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-13
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The Surfer
1986-03-18
The Surfer
Overview: Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thriller. When his best friend is murdered, Sam takes on the mobsters to avenge the death. With the help of a beautiful blonde, Sam uncovers a sex scandal involving a high-ranking government official. Also implicated are a sadistic soldier of fortune and a corrupt cop who tries to impede the investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-18
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Never Say Die
1988-12-09
Never Say Die
Overview: Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside Alf's house, it explodes. It is soon apparent that persons unknown want them dead, but the police are either skeptical or in the pay of those responsible. They play hide and seek around New Zealand with the stalkers, all the while coping with car chases, plane crashes, bullets and explosions.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Platypus Cove
1986-01-01
Platypus Cove
Overview: After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Rainbow Warrior
1997-03-28
The Rainbow Warrior
Overview: Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nation's government.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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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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Rest for the Wicked
2011-11-24
Rest for the Wicked
Overview: Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in the Knightsbridge Gardens Retirement Village. In order to catch his man, Murray goes undercover by becoming a resident. He also discovers a world of sex, drugs and rocking chairs where life is lived and being old does not mean feeling past it. However Murray discovers that things are not always what they may seem to be.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-24
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Initiation
1987-06-20
Initiation
Overview: After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her daughter Stevie. The farm has been going bad lately, so Matt starts smuggling Marijuana for a drug connection. When Danny joins him on one of his flights, the two-seater crashes in the middle of nowhere. Since his father is wounded, he has to conquer the jungle alone in search for help.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-20
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Absent Without Leave
1993-02-20
Absent Without Leave
Overview: In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. When Ed's leave is cancelled at the last minute he takes the dangerous decision to go absent without leave to be with Daisy on her journey home. As a deserter, Ed is hunted, captured and imprisoned. Life inside is bad enought without the worry of what is going on outside. The film is based upon a true story.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-20
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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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BabaKiueria
1986-01-01
BabaKiueria
Overview: Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white natives? In 1788, the first white settlers arrived in Botany Bay to begin the process of white colonisation of Australia. But in Babakiueria, the roles are reversed in a delightful and light-hearted look at colonisation of a different kind. This satirical examination of black-white relations in Australia first screened on ABC TV in 1986 to widespread acclaim with both critics and audiences alike. This is the story of the fictitious land of Babakiueria, where white people are the minority and must obey black laws. Aboriginal actors Michelle Torres and Bob Maza (Heartland) and supported by a number of familiar faces from the time, including Cecily Polson (E-Street) and Tony Barry, who starred in major ABC-TV hits such as I Can Jump Puddles and his Penguin award-winning Scales of Justice. Babakiueria was awarded the United Nations Media Peace Prize in 1987.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
1976-11-06
The Haunting of Hewie Dowker
Overview: Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilities, which haunt him as he has recurrent visions of a young girl being murdered during a black mass.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-06
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Home by Christmas
2010-04-29
Home by Christmas
Overview: A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Preston presents both sides of her parents' wartime marriage: the horror and hardship of battlefield and prison camp juxtaposed with the loneliness and grief of a young wife struggling with a newborn baby and a husband declared missing.Ed Preston, on his way home from rugby practice in 1940, joins the New Zealand Army to go to World War II. His new wife, Tui, is pregnant and distraught, but he tells her not to worry, he'll be home by Christmas. And so he is - four years later - after escaping from a prison camp in Italy. But while Ed is away, Tui has fallen in love with another man.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-29
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Shame
1988-02-26
Shame
Overview: Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle malfunctions and she makes a pit stop in a remote town. Cadell meets teen Elizabeth Curtis, who confides that she has just been raped, and Cadell helps the young woman report the crime to the authorities. When police corruption stands in the way of justice, she takes matters into her own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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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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Keiron: The First Voyager
1985-01-01
Keiron: The First Voyager
Overview: Humans on an artificial planet fight to survive against the Karbaths and themselves.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Archer's Adventure
1985-11-03
Archer's Adventure
Overview: During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourne Cup race.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-03
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Old Scores
1991-01-01
Old Scores
Overview: Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original teams. The now old men pull on their jerseys one more time while Morgan deals with his past on his return home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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One Answer to Cancer
2013-01-01
One Answer to Cancer
Overview: This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is legal. The other has been curing cancer for 2000 years, yet it is illegal, denounced by BIG PHARMA, BIG GOVERNMENT and BIG MEDICINE. Why? So they can hang on to their obscene profits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Grace
2017-12-17
Grace
Overview: A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship with a boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-17
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Puzzle
1978-12-05
Puzzle
Overview: Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-05
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Lady Vengeance
2005-07-29
Lady Vengeance
Overview: Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Dead Easy
1982-09-13
Dead Easy
Overview: Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results in their being hunted by every thug and killer in town.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-13
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Demolition
1979-06-21
Demolition
Overview: When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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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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Shadow of the Cobra
1989-07-18
Shadow of the Cobra
Overview: Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia during the 1970s.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-18
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Typhon's People
1993-01-01
Typhon's People
Overview: A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Nobody's Child
2017-01-01
Nobody's Child
Overview: Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that finding him will right all wrongs. Her quest leads her into an adult world, which it seems, is no place for a child. The answers Lolly seeks are secreted in the unspoken past. As the doors close on her efforts, Lolly is faced with the harshest of realities. Nobody’s Child is a coming of age story about a young girl searching for her identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Hard Knocks
1980-10-23
Hard Knocks
Overview: A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-23
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997-09-25
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Overview: Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy. The plot then splits into a series of parallels, flash forwards and flashbacks. One depicts Ralph’s imprisonment after being framed for drug trafficking. The other follows the dramatic ascent of his career to hype status and the pairing between the dynamic Patsy and himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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BlackJack
2003-03-16
BlackJack
Overview: Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral barometer. He turns a blind eye to the dubious methods employed by some of his contemporaries — prepared to let dodgy means be justified by the noble end.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-16
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Rose Against the Odds
1991-09-29
Rose Against the Odds
Overview: The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-29
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Midnite Spares
1983-02-17
Midnite Spares
Overview: After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Cross Life
2007-07-02
Cross Life
Overview: Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by the desire for love amidst the sensual delights of Sydney's red light district, Kings Cross.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-02
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
1988-12-08
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Overview: When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-08
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The Earthling
1980-07-24
The Earthling
Overview: Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-24
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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 Silence
2006-09-08
The Silence
Overview: A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Hell Has Harbour Views
2005-01-30
Hell Has Harbour Views
Overview: Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-30
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Wild Man
1977-01-01
Wild Man
Overview: The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Gone
2006-10-26
Gone
Overview: A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Two Friends
1986-05-13
Two Friends
Overview: The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of nine months.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-13
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Joyful and Triumphant
1993-12-19
Joyful and Triumphant
Overview: Follow the Bishop family through 40 years of Christmases from 1949 to 1989.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-19
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