Richard Roxburgh
Also Known As: Ричард Роксбург, Ρίτσαρντ Ρόξμπουρζ
Biography: Richard Roxburgh (born 23 January 1962) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He has received several accolades across film, television, and theatre, including AFI and AACTA Awards, Logie Awards, and Helpmann Awards. He began his career working with the Sydney Theatre Company. He went on to appear in Australian and international productions such as Baz Luhrmann's films Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Elvis(2022), the ABC series Rake (2010–2018), and the action films Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), and Van Helsing (2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Roxburgh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Albury, New South Wales, Australia
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Birthday: January 23, 1962
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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Mission: Impossible II
Overview: With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-24
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Moulin Rouge!
Overview: A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-18
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Stealth
Overview: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-27
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Fragile
Overview: Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to leave. Amy tries to protect them and convince the other staffers of the evil that lurks there.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Van Helsing
Overview: Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-03
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Overview: To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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The Touch
Overview: A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-01
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Children of the Revolution
Overview: A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-26
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his heir, Sir Henry, begs Holmes to save him from the terrifying supernatural hound that has brought fear and death to his household.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-26
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Hawke
Overview: The story of Bob Hawke - Australia's most loved Prime Minister as he faces his greatest challenge: a battle within his own party. As he fights for his life, we discover his incredible transformation from a hard-drinking womanising trade union leader into a visionary world leader. For a man who once sacrificed his family to his job, he must now rely solely on his friendships and allegiances to defeat his challenger and remain in power.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-18
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Overview: When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-10
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Matching Jack
Overview: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-19
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Like Minds
Overview: A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-03
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The Diplomat
Overview: A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to his wife, they are taken into protective custody. Then the MI6 shows up with a new piece of the puzzle.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-11
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The Last September
Overview: In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-28
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Sanctum
Overview: Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team—including 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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The One and Only
Overview: When Stevie meets Neil on the day he comes to deliver her brand new kitchen, it's already too late for love at first sight. Too late for both of them. Stevie is already five minutes pregnant by her Italian footballer husband. And too late for Neil too - his wife Jenny has already applied to adopt an African girl. But too late or otherwise, love at first sight is exactly what happens. How can Neil and Stevie get out of their mistaken marriages and into each others arms?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-04
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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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Billy's Holiday
Overview: This movie is all about a normal guy called Billy Apples. He is a social drinker and sometimes lead singer of a band. While he is doing all of this, he still manages to bring up his teenage daughter. One night while sitting at home Billy finds that he has a talent! He finds that he is able to sing like his idol, 50's singer Billie Holiday. From there he is going places, from huge live performances to even cutting a hit record, but in the end he must make a choice between the life he has, and the life he once knew. Written by Graham Wilson Jr
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-26
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Thank God He Met Lizzie
Overview: The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-20
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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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Ice
Overview: It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find indisputable evidence. Upon arrival, he realizes humankind is under immediate threat, and races home to save his family. The glacier collapses, with devastating consequences. Astonishing weather patterns emerge and plunge the world's temperatures into steep decline.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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In the Winter Dark
Overview: Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-10
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Dead to the World
Overview: Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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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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Lessons in the Language of Love
Overview: Two people meet, they connect. One disconnects, the other can't and then it's all over. The definitive guide to a language harder to learn than Votyak but much more important.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-24
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Animal Kingdom 3D: A Tale of Six Families
Overview: Animal Kingdom is a stunning exploration into just what makes our natural world so spectacular. An educational journey from A-Z, the film introduces junior audiences to animals from all over the world and explores the ways in which we can help to protect them. Across frozen snowy forests, under scorching African Sun, and into the darkest depths of the ocean, the film will break down why animals are the way they are and answer the simple but important questions that form the basis of our knowledge about the animal world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-03
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Force of Nature: The Dry 2
Overview: When five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head deep into the Victorian mountain ranges to investigate in the hopes of finding their whistle-blowing informant, Alice Russell, alive.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-08
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Talk
Overview: A day in the life of two women, writers of adult comics, whose intimate conversation is overheard by a total stranger
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Passion
Overview: Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at) which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to love him. It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger's mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-01
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Oscar and Lucinda
Overview: After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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My Freaky Family
Overview: On the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood – budding musician and magical being – just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very different family, so why is her magical Mum so against it? As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns the amazing truth about her family and discovers that the not so normal, the magical and the musical are all a part of her fabulously freaky family. It's very freaky, so be freaked freaky ahh deaky peaky neaky seaky peaky poo.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-25
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Maya the Bee Movie
Overview: A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from violin-playing grasshoppers to a hornet named Sting.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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CrimeBroker
Overview: High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls apart when she takes part in a multi-million dollar bank robbery and becomes an accessory to murder.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-01
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Looking for Grace
Overview: When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the realities of their changing relationship to one another, and to their daughter…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-26
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Blinky Bill the Movie
Overview: Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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Still Twisted
Overview: Four unsuspecting victims are hurled into a twisted and altered reality: ... a young woman tries to flee a hit-and-run with destiny... an ex-ballroom champion hides a mysterious secret from the past in his bedroom... a routine job for a hitman takes an unusual turn... and a woman finds herself trapped in a train station with a bizarre railway clerk. All four soon discover that their preconceived notions of reality couldn't be further from the truth.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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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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Breath
Overview: A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-22
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Hayride to Hell
Overview: Hayride to Hell is a 1995 Australian short subject directed and written by Kimble Rendall. It tells the story of salesman George Weygate, who comes across a girl begging for his help. Only shown in late night art houses, the film has never been widely released. It is believed that Kylie Minogue became involved in the project as a favour to the director, whom she would work with five years later on the film Cut (2000).
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-31
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A Little Bit of Soul
Overview: Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both apply for funding from the Michael Foundation, and are asked to spend the weekend discussing the proposals with the Head of the Foundation, who happens to be married to the Australian Treasurer. They have a very interesting weekend.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-19
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Hacksaw Ridge
Overview: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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The Road from Coorain
Overview: A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-03
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The Correspondent
Overview: December 2013, in the shadow of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Australian journalist Peter Greste is confronted with the brutal realities of reporting from one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Accused of terrorism, Greste becomes a pawn in the middle of a deadly game full of corrupt officials and ancient rivalries – with only his wits keeping him alive.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-17
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Tracks of Glory
Overview: Racial barriers are broken in circa-1900 Australia by Major Taylor, who becomes a world-champion bicycle racer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-05
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Blue Murder
Overview: Detective Sergeant Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson got fame because he knew how to take care of most dangerous and violent criminals. His success was, however, also due to the sinister alliance with violent underworld figures like Neddy Smith who got police protection in exchange for tips and money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Maya the Bee: The Honey Games
Overview: Following an unproductive harvest season, it’s up to Maya and her brave friends to save their hive by competing in a series of games.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-02
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Go!
Overview: Jack is a charismatic larrikin who has just discovered the one thing he's really good at — go-kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race car driver with a secret past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his recklessness if he is to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including the ruthless champion Dean, and win the National title.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-16
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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Overview: Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-08
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The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
Overview: This made-for-tv documentary treats romance fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann's musical tale of love between a poet and a courtesan in fin-de-siecle Paris. Includes interviews with director Luhrmann, stars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman and the rest of the the cast and crew of the film, who all share their experiences from working on the project, as well as discuss the special efforts that went into bringing it to completion
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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Poor Boy
Overview: A little boy announces on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny, a grown man who died seven years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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H Is for Happiness
Overview: A twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the strange new boy at school, and sets out to mend her broken family – whatever it takes.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-24
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Angel of Mine
Overview: A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-15
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The Riddle of the Stinson
Overview: A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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The Saint: Fear in Fun Park
Overview: Simon Templar thwarts a Hong Kong syndicate's takeover of a businessman's Australian fun park.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-16
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Swinging Safari
Overview: 1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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Elvis
Overview: The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-22
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Lesbian Space Princess
Overview: A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-09-11
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Forgive Us All
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus has transformed humans into violently deranged cannibals. A bereaved mother has lost everything and takes refuge in an isolated mountain cabin, until a desperate wounded stranger arrives with a story of hope.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-08
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Fing!
Overview: Librarians Mr. and Mrs. Meek indulge their demanding daughter Myrtle's every wish. When she wants a Fing, they search deep in the jungle. After finding one, Myrtle faces off against a Viscount who wants the rare creature.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
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Eden
Overview: A group of people is fueled by a profound desire for change. In order to turn their back to society they leave everything behind and set their futures on the harsh landscape of the Galapagos.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-03
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