Charles Tingwell
Also Known As: Bud Tingwell, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Biography: Charles William "Bud" Tingwell AM (3 January 1923 – 15 May 2009) was an Australian film, television, theatre and radio actor. Tingwell was one of the veterans of Australian film. He acted in his first motion picture in 1946 and appeared in over 100 films and numerous television programs in both the United Kingdom and Australia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Coogee, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: January 03, 1923
Deathday: May 15, 2009
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Gender: Male
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Murder Most Foul
Overview: A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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Murder Ahoy
Overview: During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-22
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Murder at the Gallop
Overview: Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-24
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Murder She Said
Overview: Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-26
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Ned Kelly
Overview: After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-22
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The Secret of Blood Island
Overview: Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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Malcolm
Overview: Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-20
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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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The Craic
Overview: When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-29
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Breaker Morant
Overview: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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WillFull
Overview: Catherine (Anna Lise Phillips) returns to Australia after years abroad only to be confronted by her wilful mother, Katya (Anne Looby)... a ghost with attitude and a wardrobe to match.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-29
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Money Movers
Overview: A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-24
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Overview: Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular
Overview: Jim Ryan and Kate Conroy love each other, but John Conroy stands in the way of their happiness until Jim Ryan recaptures a prized colt.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-25
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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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Bushfire Moon
Overview: In the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets the Christmas spirit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-10
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Amy
Overview: Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-27
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Smiley
Overview: Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is often away from home. Much to the exasperation of his overworked wife, Ma Greevins, Bill is also very fond of the drink. Smiley is determined to buy himself a push bike and so he takes on odd jobs in an effort to save up enough money. But Smiley always seems to get caught up in some sort of misadventure. Smiley is a classic Australian film that will delight audiences of all ages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Windrider
Overview: A rock star falls for a rich man's son who competitively board-sails the coast of Western Australia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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The Last Bullet
Overview: Set during WWII, an Australian and Japanese soldier play a deadly game of Cat and mouse in a South Pacific Jungle.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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My First Wife
Overview: My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the impending tragedy. Slowly he is sucked into a tunnel of despair – fighting his conservative nature and the romantic memories of his married life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-12
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Cone of Silence
Overview: A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-10
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Summerfield
Overview: When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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Irresistible
Overview: A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-18
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The Desert Rats
Overview: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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Captain Thunderbolt
Overview: Fred Ward is imprisoned for horse stealing. He escapes from Cockatoo Island and under the name of Captain Thunderbolt becomes a bushranger, working with his friend and fellow escapee Alan Blake.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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The Glenrowan Affair
Overview: Shot almost entirely in 'Kelly Country', near the country town of Benalla, The Glenrowan Affair takes us back to the era of Victoria's most notorious bushranger, showcasing thrilling action sequences and horsemanship as time and again the Kelly Gang outwit the law. The film begins with old timer, Dinny (some say he knows too much for an outsider) telling the story of the Kelly Gang to a visiting sketch artist. His tale unfolds as Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne surprise the constabulary in the bar of the Glenrowan Hotel and Ned shoots a constable in the hand. The Glenrowan Affair includes the ambush at Eleven Mile Creek, the hold up at the Jerilderie Bank and the siege at the Glenrowan Hotel where Ned, dressed in a suit of homemade armour, taunts the 'traps' in a hail of gunfire before he is shot and captured.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-17
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Into the Straight
Overview: A romance set in the world of the sport of kings. The Curzons are a racehorse breeding family, who need to strengthen their blood stock to re-establish a fading reputation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-15
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-08
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Bobbikins
Overview: Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves portray parents of the title character, an infant who talks like an adult.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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Innocence
Overview: After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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Tulip
Overview: Will, a widower struggling to cope with his wife Ruth's death, is confronted by the harsh reality of trying to cope with grief, loneliness, helplessness and the responsibility of taking care of Ruth's pet cow, Tulip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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Salvation
Overview: Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian immigrant and prostitute. Seeking better lives, both Barry and Irina find strength in each other as they seek mutual salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-19
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King of the Coral Sea
Overview: A body is found floating in the Torres Strait and pearler Ted King is asked to investigate. He discovers the murder is connected to a people smuggling ring and involves one of his men, Yusep. He is helped by Peter Merriman, the playboy owner of King's company who romances King's daughter Rusty. Yusep kidnaps Rusty but Merriman and King rescue her.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-12
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Tarzan the Magnificent
Overview: After the Banton family rob a store is a small village and kill the local police constable, Tarzan captures one of them, Coy Banton. He decides to return him to the authorities so that the dead policeman's family will benefit from the $5000 reward. The head of the clan, Abel Banton and his two sons have no intention of letting Tarzan deliver Coy and burn the river boat they were to use. Several of the passengers are now stranded forcing Tarzan to take them along on a trek through the jungle. Abel Banton trails them intent not only getting his son back but getting rid of Tarzan.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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Is There Anybody There?
Overview: A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-24
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Jindabyne
Overview: Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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End Play
Overview: And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Counterfeit Man
Overview: On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long return journey to Earth.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-11
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Lambda 1
Overview: The future. The TAU-mode shuttle carries passengers to Australia through the earth's crust. When a routine TAU-shuttle becomes entombed in solid rock miles under the earth, the only means of rescue is the experimental LAMBDA-mode shuttle; which its creator is unsure about.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-20
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Life In Emergency Ward 10
Overview: Life in Emergency Ward 10 is a 1959 film directed by Robert Day. It stars Michael Craig and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was based on the television series Emergency – Ward 10
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Tudawali
Overview: Tells the story of Robert Tudawali who starred in the first ever Australian technicolour feature film, "Jedda". Station hand, actor and then Aboriginal activist, Tudawali died in 1967 at the age of 38 in tragic circumstances. Includes brief excerpts from "Jedda". Stars Ernie Dingo in the title role.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Thunderbirds in Outer Space
Overview: Calling International Resuce… a runaway rocket carrying three astronauts is heading for a collision course with the Sun… Impact imminent!
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-09
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Always Another Dawn
Overview: Featuring Charles 'Bud' Tingwell in only his second film and first lead role, which helped prepare him for his part in the 1953 World War Two Hollywood action drama, 'The Desert Rats'. 'Always Another Dawn' celebrates the Australian Navy's contribution to the Allied victory in WW2. The ship (Dauntless) is based on the real-life HMAS Yarra, which was sunk by a Japanese cruiser squadron on 4 March 1942 with 138 lives lost. Assisted by the Royal Australian Navy, filming took place at Flinders Naval Depot Melbourne and aboard the destroyer HMAS Bataan.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-24
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The Journalist
Overview: Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-15
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Beware of the Dog
Overview: Serial in 6 episodes. Dogs and children adventures showing how one very determined boy gets the very large pet he wants and unmasks two dog-thieves.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Bitter Springs
Overview: A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-05
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Overview: An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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My Brother Tom
Overview: Set in Australia, against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the religiously divided town of St. Helens and the innocent romance between a pair of star-crossed teenagers that threatens to tear it apart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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Let Me Not
Overview: 16 year old NINA has ditched ballet lessons to work weekends in a strip club, seeking financial independence from her rich father who has recently remarried a 22-year-old model. ALEX, a 30 year old architect, sees her act when dragged to the strip club one night by a builder mate. Alex is appointed to redesign the theater facilities at Nina's school and soon their paths cross again. Despite his misgivings about their age gap, a romance starts to blossom. In many ways Nina drives things on, and Alex is smitten. But when both their worlds start to come unstuck over the relationship the strength of their love is put to the test.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-12
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Gone to Ground
Overview: A man is brutally beaten so he and 4 others head to the beach for refuge and relaxation. It soon becomes clear that they've been imprisoned by person or persons unknown. Then an unknown mad killer begins picking off the vacationers, one by one.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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The Inside Story
Overview: Dean finds a mysterious book in his uncle's old house that records the history of the universe. When Dean is seduced by the book's knowledge, all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Thriller Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-23
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The Cox Plate: Race of the Century
Overview: Bonecrusher and Our Waverley Star... it was the race of the century, the stuff of sporting legends. It's all captured here in this tribute to the Cox Plate, Australia's race of races. Race of the Century also brings you other great Cox Plate winners: Tulloch and Gunsynd, Kingston Town and Noholme, Surround and Tobin Bronze.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-31
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The Shiralee
Overview: An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-11
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Evil Angels
Overview: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Nobody Runs Forever
Overview: Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-22
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Freedom
Overview: Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Kangaroo
Overview: In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-16
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Puberty Blues
Overview: Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-10
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Thunderbirds Are GO
Overview: When the launch of a mission to Mars goes awry due to sabotage, International Rescue is requested to assist in the mission's second attempt.
Genres: Animation Family Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-15
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Chariot of Fire
Overview: A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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On the Beach
Overview: The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-28
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Menzies and Churchill at War
Overview: The true story of the dark days of 1941 when Menzies battled with Winston Churchill over the strategic direction of the Second World War with the fate of Australia hanging in the balance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-30
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Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
Overview: A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Captain Scarlet and the members of Spectrum battle the Mysterons from Mars who are trying to establish a base on the moon.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
Overview: A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, with a new opening sequence, new special effects, and an alternate ending. War erupts between Earth and Mars after a manned mission to Mars results in an attack on the city of the Mysterons.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Got Yourself Sorted Out at All?
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-25
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