Max Phipps
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 18, 1939
Deathday: August 06, 2000
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Gender: Male
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Mad Max 2
Overview: Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-24
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Nate and Hayes
Overview: Nathaniel Williamsen is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes, who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Thirst
Overview: The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
Genres: Horror Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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The Cars That Ate Paris
Overview: After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur soon realizes the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret: they orchestrate car accidents and rob the victims. Survivors are brought to the local hospital, lobotomized, and used for a local doctor's experiments.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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Dark Age
Overview: In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-21
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Sky Pirates
Overview: Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-16
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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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The Blue Lightning
Overview: Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a super-criminal with an army of killers operating in the Australian outback.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-07
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What the Moon Saw
Overview: Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn into the world of the theatre, where the illusion is everything and grease-paint covers up reality. While watching a pantomime of Sinbad, Steven succumbs to the magic of the story and actually becomes the sailor on his greatest adventure ever.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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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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Stir
Overview: Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-11
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The Return of Captain Invincible
Overview: In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come back to the States in order to help stop evil and restore his sterling reputation. Unfortunately, Captain Invincible is a drunk now...
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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Polly My Love
Overview: An Australian-set romance starring Jacki Weaver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Hancock Down Under
Overview: Hancock, (who was voted Britain's best-ever comic 35 years after his death) leaves his home in Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, England for warmer, more challenging climes. He encounters the Australian natives on his terms having dragged his attitudes with him halfway across the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-25
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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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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Nightmares
Overview: A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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Filipina Dreamgirls
Overview: Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for romance and possible marriage. None of the women are the ideal Asiatic beauties the men imagined, but by the end of the tour, most of the Englishmen return with a new bride.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-15
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How Wonderful
Overview: How Wonderful is a hilarious and really honest look at pregnancy, featuring a cast of well known Australian actors and actresses.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Who Killed Baby Azaria?
Overview: During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims that she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter Azaria from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. Police note some apparent inconsistencies in her story, and she is charged with murder. The case attracts a lot of attention, turning a simple investigation into a media circus with the public divided in their opinion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-01
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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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Benny Hill Down Under
Overview: A one-off special starring Benny Hill, filmed entirely in Australia. Includes a sketch about "Benny Kelly," son of infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly; "Hold Back the Wind" (a Tennessee Williams parody); "Archie's Angels" (a spoof of Charlie's Angels); and "Lady Godiva." Also: a vagabond dreams of moving up to the high life; an interview with Chow Mein; a dance routine set to the themes from The Avengers, M*A*S*H and Hawaii Five-O; and closing hijinks around the beach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-11
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Emoh Ruo
Overview: Nothing and no one is safe in this biting satire of the trials and tribulations of young marrieds buying their first home. "Emoh Ruo" takes direct aim at the financial institutions, builders, furniture salesmen, television commercials and almost any other of the many sharks in our society who lie in waiting, ready to help eager young couples commit economic suicide for their little piece of Australia. "Emoh Ruo" is the story of the Tunkley family. Terry cleans houses for a living - but what she'd really like is a house of her own. Her husband Des is quite content to go on living in a caravan. Terry spots an advertisement for 'The Buckingham', a low-budget project home. For Terri it's love at first sight but it isn't till she reveals the depth of her desperation that Des relents and sells his boat so they'll have enough for the deposit. Excitedly they move to the outskirts of Sydney to begin their new life but they soon discover the dream can turn into a nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-12
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Sky Trackers
Overview: NASA's Tidbinbilla Tracking station in Australia prepares for the re-entry of a decaying satellite containing a dangerous biological experiment. It is decided to bring it down near the station, for which job Dr Tony Masters has been brought in to assist Dr Spencer. At the same time, and unknown to her, Dr Spencer's daughter Ali has been using her computer to hack in to the station and reprogram the dish to communicate with a decommissioned satellite. Meanwhile, an unscrupulous industrial espionage agent, has penetrated the station and is preparing to take charge of the re-entry process, causing havoc and a chase through the Australian countryside to find the potentially deadly satellite.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Siege of Barton's Bathroom
Overview: A young girl locks herself in her family bathroom in order to protest her father and neighbor's plan to cut down a beloved tree in the family's backyard. Later adapted into the pilot for a TV series called "The Bartons," with a different cast.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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