John Ewart
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 26, 1928
Deathday: March 08, 1994
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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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Razorback
1984-04-19
Razorback
Overview: In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-19
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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 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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Save the Lady
1981-12-28
Save the Lady
Overview: A ragtag group of kids set out to save derelict steam ferry Lady Hope from destruction.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-28
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Super Sleuth
1984-07-13
Super Sleuth
Overview: Novelty movie which seems like just another people-gathered-in-a-country-house-murder-mystery but then lets the viewers choose the ending.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-13
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1986-01-01
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: This is a animated adaptation of the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Genres: Animation Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Jock Petersen
1974-01-01
Jock Petersen
Overview: Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Sons of Matthew
1949-12-16
Sons of Matthew
Overview: The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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A Slice of Life
1983-07-01
A Slice of Life
Overview: Toby Morris enters hospital to remove a cyst from his hand. He wakes up to find not only has the cyst been removed but he's been given a vasectomy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Dear Cardholder
1989-11-22
Dear Cardholder
Overview: Hec, a sacked taxation clerk, seeks fame and fortune using the world of credit cards. Unfortunately for him, and the banks, he has no concept of credit card limit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-22
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The Big Hurt
1986-01-01
The Big Hurt
Overview: A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Hurricane Smith
1992-01-31
Hurricane Smith
Overview: An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-31
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Bush Christmas
1983-12-22
Bush Christmas
Overview: In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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Let the Balloon Go
1976-12-16
Let the Balloon Go
Overview: In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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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 Love Epidemic
1975-01-03
The Love Epidemic
Overview: This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Factual segments are interspersed with humorous skits depicting how people of varying degrees of innocence can contract awful but treatable diseases.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-03
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The Returning
1990-12-10
The Returning
Overview: A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-10
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The Odyssey
1987-11-09
The Odyssey
Overview: After the Trojan War a legendary hero Odysseus makes his valiant voyage at sea, trying to reach the shores of his beloved home. While he and his crew are protected by the goddess Athena, the sea god Poseidon is avenging the harm done to his son, the giant Cyclops, by inflicting such wrathful enemies as Circe and Scylla upon the men.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-09
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Blue Fire Lady
1977-12-09
Blue Fire Lady
Overview: Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-09
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Kindred Spirits
1984-01-12
Kindred Spirits
Overview: A young dancer on the Sydney club circuit finds her life falling apart after she witnesses the drowning of a young man at Bondi. His presence continues to haunt her.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-12
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Skin Deep
1983-01-01
Skin Deep
Overview: Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Sunday Too Far Away
1975-06-01
Sunday Too Far Away
Overview: A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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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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Cass
1978-10-30
Cass
Overview: Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull together the pieces of her shattered life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Island Trader
1982-01-01
Island Trader
Overview: An island boy battles an evil ship's captain over the wreckage of a downed plane that was transporting gold bullion.
Genres: Adventure Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Master of the World
1976-10-23
Master of the World
Overview: April 1910. Inspector John Strock travels to Morganton, North Carolina. There, the government entrusts him with a mission of the utmost importance: to climb and inspect a mountain called the Eagle's Nest from which alarming flaming trails escape...
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-23
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Which Way Home
1991-01-28
Which Way Home
Overview: An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-28
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Kitty and the Bagman
1983-02-18
Kitty and the Bagman
Overview: Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Crosstalk
1982-10-08
Crosstalk
Overview: A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-08
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