Hugo Weaving
Also Known As: Хьюго Уивинг, 휴고 위빙, 雨果·维文, ヒューゴ・ウィーヴィング, ヒューゴ・ウォレス・ウィーヴィング, 雨果·威明, Hugo Wallace Weaving, هوگو ویوینگ
Biography: Hugo Wallace Weaving AO (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has also been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Weaving landed his first major role as English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series Bodyline (1984). Continuing to act in Australia, he rose to prominence with his appearances in the films Proof (1991) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), winning his first AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role with the former. By the turn of the millennium, Weaving achieved international recognition through appearances in mainstream American productions. His most notable film roles include Agent Smith in the first three The Matrix films (1999–2003), Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, the title character in V for Vendetta (2005), and Johann Schmidt / Red Skull in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). In addition to his live action appearances, Weaving has had several voice over roles, including in the films Babe (1995), Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet Two (2011), and the Transformers series as Megatron (2007–2011). He also reprised his roles of Agent Smith and Elrond in Matrix and Lord of the Rings video game adaptations. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Hugo Weaving, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ibadan, Nigeria
Birthday: April 04, 1960
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Gender: Male
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Overview: Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Overview: Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-18
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Overview: As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-17
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The Matrix
Overview: Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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The Matrix Reloaded
Overview: Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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The Matrix Revolutions
Overview: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-05
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V for Vendetta
Overview: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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Captain America: The First Avenger
Overview: During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-22
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Transformers
Overview: Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-27
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Overview: Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and exploring new horizons.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-31
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The Wolfman
Overview: Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-10
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Overview: Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-19
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Teacups
Overview: For almost half a century, Don Ritchie would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups explores Don’s surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-23
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Babe: Pig in the City
Overview: Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-25
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The Magic Pudding
Overview: Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.
Genres: Animation Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-14
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Last Ride
Overview: A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-02
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Babe
Overview: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-18
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Happy Feet
Overview: Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-16
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Little Fish
Overview: Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-19
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Peaches
Overview: This is the story of teenage girl Steph, who is brought up by her fiery aunt Jude after her pregnant mother Jass and Vietnamese father are killed in a car crash. The arrival of her late mother's diary reveals the colorful, sexy secrets of Jude and the foreman Alan that allow Steph to reinvent her vision of the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-09
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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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The Matrix Revisited
Overview: The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-19
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Proof
Overview: Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-15
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Reckless Kelly
Overview: A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for his own benefit (all money goes to the poor). Ned is forced to find another way to come up with the $1 million required to save his family island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-08
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Overview: The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-28
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The Tender Hook
Overview: The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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Confessions of an Action Star
Overview: A 'mocumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame and fortune caused Frank to lose his sense of what's truely important, he realised he's going to have to get in touch with his roots if there's ever going to be a comeback.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-23
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Overview: A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Overview: Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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Happy Feet Two
Overview: Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to bring together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-17
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Strange Planet
Overview: Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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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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The Interview
Overview: A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-03
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Oranges and Sunshine
Overview: The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Cloud Atlas
Overview: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Tackling Peace
Overview: Tackling Peace is the inspirational story of Israeli and Palestinian youths who unite over the game of Australian football. Tackling Peace goes behind the scenes as young men from different sides of a bloody political war set aside a lifetime of prejudice and hostility to compete as a team in the Australian Football League's International Cup. Few of the aspirant players had ever heard of the game and none imagined befriending teammates from across the political divide.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-04
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The Girl Who Swallowed Bees
Overview: A charming animated fable with live action. This is a story about a teenage girl (Pia Miranda) who suffers from depression and dreams and sketches ways on how to end her life. She comes across a beehive one day and comes up with a bizarre plan when she decides that if she swallows enough bees they will sting her death.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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The Rooster
Overview: When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile hermit who was the last person to see his friend alive. As Dan gets closer to the truth, he must confront his own personal demons and he discovers that hope can be found in unlikely places.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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After the Deluge
Overview: Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-15
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The Key Man
Overview: An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-18
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Overview: Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-10
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Frauds
Overview: The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Overview: 'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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The Royal Hotel
Overview: After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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We're All Going to Die
Overview: A man got out of his shitty life thanks to a mysterious voice
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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True Love and Chaos
Overview: A man accompanies his lover on a journey, neglecting to mention that an angry drug dealer is in hot pursuit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-22
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Mystery Road
Overview: A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-15
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The Mule
Overview: In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-10
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The Right Hand Man
Overview: A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-02
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Franklin
Overview: Eighth-generation Tasmanian and environmentalist Oliver Cassidy embarks on a life-changing solo rafting trip down the beautiful yet remote Franklin River. His goal is to retrace his late father’s 14-day expedition to attend the blockade that helped save the World-Heritage listed national park from being destroyed by a huge hydroelectric dam project in the early 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Wendy Cracked a Walnut
Overview: An Australian salesman's bored wife escapes in a fantasy world with her dream lover.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-02
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Healing
Overview: Viktor Kahdem is a man who has almost given up on life, sentenced to a low-security prison farm, a completely non-threatening environment where it is still felt that some individuals can be reformed. At Won Wron, Case Worker Matt Perry has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men through giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors - beautiful, fearsome proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic wedge tailed eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Horseplay
Overview: A small-time horse trainer has successfully screwed up his life. His wife hates him, hie mistress loathes him and his father-in-law wants to kill him. With nothing to lose, he enlists the help of his best friend and concocts a plan to rig the biggest horse race in Australia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-22
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How to Make Gravy
Overview: Prisoner Joe writes a letter to his brother Dan about wanting to be with family at Christmas, lamenting how he can't make the gravy for the roast and how much he misses everyone. Based on the iconic Australian song by Paul Kelly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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For Love Alone
Overview: Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-22
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The Custodian
Overview: Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-17
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Russian Doll
Overview: A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-14
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Strangerland
Overview: Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-01
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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The City's Edge
Overview: In an effort to come to terms with his father's death, a young man (Weaving) moves into a rooming house amidst the decaying grandeur of Bondi Beach, where he gets enmeshed in the lives of the other boarders, including a junkie, his sister, and an Aboriginal activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Wild Australia: The Edge
Overview: From beautiful but dangerous waterfalls to canyons and underground rivers carved into stone millions of years ago, Wild Australia is a stunning look at our fragile world and how it relates to Earth of ninety million years ago
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Between a Frock and a Hard Place
Overview: This is the story behind one of the world’s most loved films; about three unlikely Australian hero-(ine)s daring to step up from the shadows in their shimmering sequined glory and be counted. It’s the story of how a low-budget Australian film about three drag queens changed the course of history and loudly and proudly brought a celebration of gay culture to the world that continues to resonate twenty years on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-18
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Everything Goes
Overview: A young couple offer to buy the furniture of a middle-aged man whose wife just left him - but they end up with more than they bargained for. Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish and Sullivan Stapleton star in an adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-14
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Dadah Is Death
Overview: On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-23
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The Dressmaker
Overview: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Genres: Drama Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-29
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Untitled Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel
Overview: Plot details are still under wraps, but it will feature a grown-up version of Tick’s 7-year-old son from the original film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Bedrooms and Hallways
Overview: At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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Road to Alice
Overview: Jimmy owes Dimitri more money than he can spare. He decides that a holiday would be a better bet. On his travels he meets Louis and things start to go wrong.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Overview: A documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-14
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Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Overview: Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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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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Ladies Please!
Overview: "Ladies Please" is a rare and stimulating insight into the bohemian world that is drag and into the professional and personal lives of three of its most innovative drag performers, Cindy Pastel, Strykermeyer and Lady Bump whose lives inspired the feature film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Taking traditional drag cabaret far beyond the tits and feathers of Shirley Bassey-inspired female impersonators, through their eyes we’ll be taken into their world. In an age haunted by the spectre of AIDS we will see how these Drag performers act as both court jester and social commentators. Though drawing from Japanese kabuki and pre-war Berlin Cabaret they exhibit a uniquely Australian larrikin spirit"--Container.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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Jasper Jones
Overview: Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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Black '47
Overview: In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-05
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Quest for the Ring
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-29
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Captain America: Behind the Skull
Overview: A look back at the history of Red Skull, casting the role, and creating the character's right look for the movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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Mortal Engines
Overview: Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-27
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The Forgotten Force
Overview: After the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, over 36,000 Australian men and women, part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), marched onto Japanese soil. They were assigned the toughest and most dangerous area of Japan: Hiroshima Prefecture, which included the atom-bombed city. The Forgotten Force tells for the first time the story of Australia's role in Japan. Rare archival and private footage, photographs and eyewitness accounts from both sides vividly recreate the atmosphere of post-war Japan - the horror of Hiroshima and its aftermath; the struggle to build a new "democratic" society while under the heel of military rule; the growth from suspicion and fear to friendship and trust between foes.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-04
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A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
Overview: The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-09
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In the Company of Actors
Overview: Within the world of theatre the rehearsal room is a sacred space -- the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks taken, mistakes made, vulnerabilities exposed and, at its very best, magic created. It's not a place into which the public is often, if ever, invited. Until now; In The Company of Actors features an ensemble of Australia's finest actors, including Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler, at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Opening night is just five weeks away and the pressure is on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-10
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The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'
Overview: A comprehensive documentary detailing the making of 'Hacksaw Ridge', including the real-life people and story, casting, filming, special effects, stunts, and interviews with Mel Gibson, Andrew Garfield, and more. 'Hacksaw Ridge' is the epic and inspiring true story of Desmond Doss, an army medic and conscientious objector who, during one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-21
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Measure for Measure
Overview: An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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Hearts and Bones
Overview: A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-15
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The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
Overview: The making of The Matrix Reloaded: Go to the middle movie's furthest reaches via five documentary paths revealing 21 featurettes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
Overview: The making of The Matrix Revolutions: The cataclysmic final confrontation chronicled through six documentary pods revealing 28 featurettes
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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I, Spry
Overview: With a nuclear arms race set to escalate the Cold War, Prime Minister Menzies appoints Colonel Charles Spry to take charge of the fledgling Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, ASIO. The staunchly anti-communist, fifth-generation soldier recruits new officers to fight a covert war against a cunning enemy. Their primary task is to investigate Australians spying for the Soviets and infiltrate Communist Party branches with undercover agents.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-04
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Loveland
Overview: In an uncharted future, two hardened souls meet and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-17
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Australia's Lost Impressionist
Overview: John Russell tells the fascinating story behind the only Australian artist at the centre of the Impressionist movement in France and how his famous friendships forever changed the way the world sees colour.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-30
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The Matrix Recalibrated
Overview: The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us how they were affected by the deaths of Gloria Foster and Aaliyah, and also delve into the making of the visual effects that takes up a lot of screen time. Written by Rhyl Donnelly
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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Making 'The Matrix'
Overview: A promotional making-of documentary for the film Matrix, The (1999) that devotes its time to explaining the digital and practical effects contained in the film. This is very interesting, seeing as how they're giving away the cinematic secrets that they created solely for the this movie, that have now been spoofed and referenced in countless other films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-21
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The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
Overview: This making-of piece offers the standard mix of movie snippets, behind the scenes materials, and interviews from cast and crew on the making of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-14
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Mind Over Matter: The Physicality of the Matrix Future
Overview: A look at the stunts of The Matrix Revolutions
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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The Matrix Revolutions: Double Agent Smith
Overview: The special effects of the Agent Smith scenes in Matrix Revolutions
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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Lone Wolf
Overview: Through various modes of surveillance we observe an overprotective young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught in a web of intrigue involving a bomb plot, inept anarchists, ambitious police and a corrupt politician. The duplicity of Winnie’s boyfriend, Conrad Verloc -political activist and police informant –propels these siblings down a deadly path. But justice may prevail in the aftermath, via the surveillance collected, compiled and presented by Special Crimes Sergeant Kylie Heat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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The Kiss
Overview: Bob is a car nut who's oblivious to his wife Sue's need for some amorous action and Barry's (his gay neighbor) unrequited affections. When Sue mistakes the legs sticking out under her hubby's car for Bob's and decides to take action, who can tell where events will lead?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-22
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Wild Australia: After the Fires
Overview: Charting the recovery of wildlife in the aftermath of Australia's catastrophic bushfires through stories of hope and resilience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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...Maybe This Time
Overview: Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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Little Echo Lost
Overview: LITTLE ECHO LOST takes us into the world of the last surviving Echo Man. Echoes are part of the fabric of nature, the nature we hear, not see. These are the Echo Man's responsibility.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-05
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Lord of the Piercing
Overview: Short that was shown during the "2002 MTV Movie Awards (2002)" which spoofs "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)". In it, the Council of Elrond debates about the One Ring - which, unfortunately, was made into a genital piercing by Jack the Elf.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-06
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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The Making of The Two Towers
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest adventure film franchise was born.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-01
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The Making of the Return of the King
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest adventure film franchise was born.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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