Tony Rickards
Also Known As: Tony Rickhards
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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The Clinic
Overview: A comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-21
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The Great Gold Swindle
Overview: The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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Squizzy Taylor
Overview: This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's. Squizzy romances brash moll Dolly and works for bookie Henry Stokes before branching out on his own while being hounded by the police and courted by the press the whole time.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-07
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Castaway
Overview: Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-05
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The Whistleblower
Overview: Following a fatal accident, a Chinese expatriate working for a mining company in Australia discovers that new technology developed by the company may be a health risk, and investigates a web of conspiracies in his search for the truth.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-12-06
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The Cup
Overview: At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, Damien teams with Irish trainer Dermot Weld, and triumphs at the 2002 Melbourne Cup in one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-13
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Pawno
Overview: Pawno is a character driven ensemble film set in the diverse and multicultural suburb of Footscray in Melbourne, Australia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-05
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Waterfront
Overview: Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Loot
Overview: Jon Peregrine (Jason Donovan), a financial slueth investigates a stock market rort which caused his brother-in-law to commit suicide. Meanwhile his ex-wife asks for his help to investigate a missing underworld "business" figure.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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Holding the Man
Overview: Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Wills & Burke
Overview: Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-23
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Overview: Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through the young city, still flush from its gold-rush boom.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-28
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Curtin
Overview: 1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-21
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This Marching Girl Thing
Overview: Cindy is a baton twirler with the Southern Twirlettes. Make-up, hair, letards, sequins and stockings...she looks like she fits in. She's just beginning to feel like she doesn't.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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