Danny Adcock
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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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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Joey
Overview: Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-26
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Get Rich Quick
Overview: Set in a beach community during summer of surf and sexy curves. A fast-paced and crazy crime-comedy from down under; Get Rich Quick tells the story of a corrupt detective who interrogates an unlucky surfer suspected of robbery. The interview reveals much more, leading to a month of madness for the detective as he chases down a bunch of unsavory characters in a series of interconnected and outlandish crime-stories throughout the underbelly of Sidney.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-09
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On the Run
Overview: 1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted professional hitman who travels the world to take out notorious bad guys. When he's forced to take in his orphaned French nephew, he leaves the boy to his estate caretaker Harry who must protect him from harm.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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Fran
Overview: Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-21
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Airtight
Overview: Set in the nuclear war-torn world of 2040, a congested city is shrouded in a deadly smog, where breathable air is obtainable only through labyrinth shafts that transport the precious gas from high in the atmosphere. These passages are kept functioning by an elite 'Air Force'. The team risk annihilation to expose a deadly blackmail scheme.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Early Frost
Overview: Private Detective Mike Hayes (Guy Doleman), is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets the strange teenager David Prentice (David Franklin), who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows (Diane McLean), the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Quigley Down Under
Overview: American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-17
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Barney
Overview: A twelve year old boy and a common criminal are being transported in the same ship from England to Australia in the last century. When the ship wrecked they happen to be the only survivors of the catastrophe. Now they have to get along with each other and finally become friends.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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The Sparks Obituary
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Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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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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Cody: A Family Affair
Overview: Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-05
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Wall Boy
Overview: A young runaway falls prey to the city's darkest vice market - a youth worker on a visiting outreach bus becomes fixated with saving him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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Resistance
Overview: Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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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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Deadline
Overview: A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail. With the help of local reporters, and despite the harassment of the security agencies, he sets out to avert the crisis.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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