Bruce Spence
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Biography: Bruce Robert Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Spence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Birthday: September 17, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Finding Nemo
Overview: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-30
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Overview: This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-02
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Dark City
Overview: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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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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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Overview: Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Genres: Crime Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-10
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Overview: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-29
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Overview: The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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The Shrimp on the Barbie
Overview: Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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Aquamarine
Overview: Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-03
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Dimboola
Overview: Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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Midnite Spares
Overview: After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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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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Twentieth Century Oz
Overview: Dorothy is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a rock band when, suddenly, the van is in a road accident, and she hits her head. She wakes up in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as the one she came from and learns she killed a young thug in the process. A gay clothier called the Good Fairy gives her a pair of red shoes as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard, an androgynous rock singer. She is pursed by the thug's brother who attempts to rape her on several occasions. She also meets a dumb surfer, a heartless mechanic, and a cowardly biker.
Genres: Music Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-29
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The Year My Voice Broke
Overview: Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Inspector Gadget 2
Overview: After capturing Claw, all the criminals have gone into hiding. Until Claw escapes! Gadget thinks he will get the case, but everyone else has other plans. A new version of the Gadget project is unveiled in the form of G2. Strict orders are given for Gadget to stay away from G2 and every crime scene, but Gadget feels he is needed more than anyone.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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Stork
Overview: Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-27
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Subdivision
Overview: Based on the change a rapidly growing town faces when southern developers take over.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-20
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I, Frankenstein
Overview: 200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Cold Water
Overview: Set in St Kilda, Australia, an elderly woman’s peaceful retirement is interrupted when her husband takes up a bizarre new hobby.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-27
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Buddies
Overview: Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-23
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Rikky and Pete
Overview: Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Newsfront
Overview: Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-29
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Rob Roy
Overview: The tale of Scottish legend Rob Roy MacGregor is retold in beautiful animation. Rob Roy borrows money from the local nobility to buy cattle to increase his status in life. When the money is stolen, he must use the fighting skills he's tried to avoid in order to escape the powerful men who believe he stole the money. Rob Roy begins by fighting for his own survival, as well as his family's, but pretty soon he is fighting for the people of Scotland. Heroism, courage, and sacrifice are at the center of this stirring tale. Rob Roy is a worthy addition to any film library.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Overview: In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada wounded on her property. As an unlikely bond begins to form between them he reveals secrets about her true identity. Realizing Molly’s husband is actually missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff starts being suspicious and sends his constable to investigate.
Genres: Drama Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-05
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The Great MacArthy
Overview: Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South Melbourne football club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-04
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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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Sugar
Overview: A science-fiction comedy by Rainer Erler.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Art of Darts & Dying
Overview: A celebrated darts player and die-hard drinker is visited by death at the pub. The two soon find themselves locked in an epic game of darts with Terry's soul and status at stake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Sweet Talker
Overview: When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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Dead Easy
Overview: A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes of Frederick Deeming, Norman List, Arnold Sodeman and Edward Leonski and reconstructs them.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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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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Let the Balloon Go
Overview: In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Bullseye
Overview: In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Pallet on the Floor
Overview: A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Brush-Off
Overview: The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-05
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Barnaby and Me
Overview: Barnaby and Me is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a girl and her talking koala who are pursued by criminals.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-08
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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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Australia
Overview: Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-18
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Hercules Returns
Overview: When Brad gets fired from his job, he goes to reopen an old cinema, he enlists his frends to help him show the last film the cinema aired before it closed... Only they don't know, the film is in Italian. With everyone sitting ready they begin to dub the movie... on the fly!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-16
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Overview: The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power -- and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-17
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Backtrack
Overview: Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-25
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Queen of the Damned
Overview: Lestat finds acceptance in a tattooed and pierced world, rekindling the desires of all-powerful Akasha.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-10
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Gods of Egypt
Overview: A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-25
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Blue World Order
Overview: After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an attempt to rebuild civilization, a self appointed government called 'The ORDER' distributed an immunization to the bacteria, via a massive Electro-Macnetic Pulse (EMP). Secretly, the Order also delivered a bio-tech virus through the EMP, giving them the power to control the population. One man remains immune to the Order's virus - Jake Slater. Now Jake scavenges the wasteland searching for a way to keep his unconscious daughter alive, unaware she is the last child on Earth, and the key to the survival of mankind.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Mad Dog Morgan
Overview: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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Double Deal
Overview: Wealthy Peter Sterling and his younger wife Christine have an existence of little excitement so when a stranger comes into their lives, she is intrigued. An affair turns into much more and they are soon plotting to rob Peter of a precious gemstone.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-15
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Overview: An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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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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Three Old Friends
Overview: A story of three old friends coming together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-23
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Dimboola: The Stage Play
Overview: A recording of the Australian Performing Group's performance of their first professional production season of Jack Hibberd's play "Dimboola" staged at the Pram Factory in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-22
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Great Expectations: The Untold Story
Overview: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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Occupation
Overview: Town residents must band together after a devastating alien invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers and work together for a chance to strike back.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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Winchester
Overview: San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-02
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Peter Pan
Overview: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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The Firm Man
Overview: Businessman Gerald Barker is invited to join a mysterious super corporation known as The Firm. His work in the organisation turns out to be of a unique and somewhat disturbing nature. But Gerald finds no comfort with his wife Melissa and friend Barry - his relationships with both collapse. In a surreal and strange fashion, Gerald eventually comes to understand what The Firm is about. Made on a tiny budget of $15,000 the film is a mix of naturalism and stylisation which the filmmaker hoped would work on 'a simple, surrealistic level'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-09
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Solo
Overview: Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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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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Children of the Corn
Overview: A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan is the town's only hope of survival.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-23
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Love and Monsters
Overview: Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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The Dry
Overview: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Bachelor Girl
Overview: Dorothy, single and one of the writers of the soap "The True World" hates living alone, but the guys she knows don't appeal to her. Her aunt Esther's attempts to match-make with random men just annoy her. Then she meets an old friend from college who he seems perfect...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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