Colin Friels
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Birthday: September 25, 1952
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Angel Baby
Overview: Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-26
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Tom White
Overview: Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a different path and cuts ties with his normal life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-19
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The Informant
Overview: McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-14
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Darkman
Overview: Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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The Man Who Sued God
Overview: A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Malcolm
Overview: Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-20
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A Good Man in Africa
Overview: Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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The Illustrated Family Doctor
Overview: Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be falling apart. A black comedy about coping with the modern world, based on the novel by David Snell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-03
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
Overview: Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and family have been imprisoned. When the hostile invaders become alerted to their presence, Ellie and her friends band together to escape -- and strike back against -- this mysterious enemy.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-08
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Hoodwink
Overview: Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-05
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Dingo
Overview: Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy on trumpet and makes a pilgrimage to Paris.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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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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BlackJack: In the Money
Overview: Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-11
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BlackJack: Sweet Science
Overview: Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-07
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Cosi
Overview: Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-04
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A Heartbeat Away
Overview: A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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The Crossing
Overview: A tender fable of an ageing sea captain, who risks the lives of his men when he decides to change course, taking his ship through a violent storm.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-18
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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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Monkey Grip
Overview: Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-17
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Ground Zero
Overview: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Overview: A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until one client reaches her more than she expects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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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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Grievous Bodily Harm
Overview: A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Mabo
Overview: The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-10
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Interceptor
Overview: A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-26
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The Coolangatta Gold
Overview: Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is burdened by his father's desire for glory, and must win The Coolangatta Gold Tri-Aquathon, It is the greatest endurance test of them all: a marathon involving a 20 kilometer beach run, 6 kilometer swim and a 17 kilometer surf ski from Surfers Paradise along the golden arc of beach to Coolangatta and back to the start. The Coolangatta Gold is a story of human endeavor and endurance against overwhelming odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-22
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Back of Beyond
Overview: A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-02
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Schapelle
Overview: A 27-year-old beauty school dropout, Schapelle, was arrested at Bali airport with 4.2kg of marijuana. At first, her arrest was barely noticed by the media, but it soon sparked a frenzy and attracted a frantic cast of characters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-11
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My Husband, My Killer
Overview: Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-13
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Weekend with Kate
Overview: This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women in his life -- his vivacious wife, Catherine (Catherine McClements), who wants to have a baby -- and Carla (Helen Mutkins), his ambitious mistress, who wants to have Richard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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The Nostradamus Kid
Overview: When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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Mr. Reliable
Overview: All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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Max's Dreaming
Overview: A hospitalized amnesiac boy, victim of an abduction gone wrong, brings police detective Mark Bryce (Friels) and nurse Rose (Picot) together. Both have 'baggage' -- she a recently widowed and somewhat demented father, George (Myles), living at home; Mark a divorce with only part-time access to his two children, plus a demanding and increasingly frustrating job. Over the next 24 hours the lives of this pair intersect as they each try to coax some memories from the boy (named 'Max' by Mark), while George struggles with his failing mental capacity and visions of his late wife and her dead first husband.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-08
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Black and White
Overview: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Australia: Land of Parrots
Overview: Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots. Multi-award winning, natural history filmmakers David Parer and Elizabeth Parer-Cook have turned their cameras to the sky to capture the spirit of these dazzling birds with breathtaking results - including rare and never before seen footage - all shot in HD.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Eye of the Storm
Overview: In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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The Book of Revelation
Overview: An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-29
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Class Action
Overview: A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Overview: Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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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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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
Overview: As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-18
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High Tide
Overview: A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-30
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Lest We Forget
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-02
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BlackJack: Ace Point Game
Overview: After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted away' to the basement, where old files get transferred to the national computer database. Thus he comes across fingerprints, now identifiable, in the 30 year old case of Ashley, the kidnapped son of lottery winners. Although he's too late to help him now, he tracks the perpetrators down behind his boss's back.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-20
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Blind Company
Overview: Geoff Brewster has retreated to the family’s isolated, coastal shack to die in peace. He is also going blind. Geoff spends his days walking on the beach and leaving tape-recorded confessions to his estranged wife, Sally. But Geoff’s solitude is interrupted when his Porsche driving nephew, Josh, turns up and decides to stay. Tension fills the shack as Josh’s strange behaviour sets Geoff on edge and when Sally arrives for her weekly cleaning, the shack is ready to explode. Sally encourages Geoff to audition for an amateur production of Hamlet and Geoff takes to Hamlet like Olivier. But Geoff goes totally blind. The arrival of two strangers bearing the ashes of one of Geoff’s lovers sets Geoff and Josh on a collision course that threatens to destroy the both of them. Blind Company was adapted from Austin Pendleton's stage production Uncle Bob, that was set in New York. Quite the difference in location from Tasmania.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-01
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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The Farm
Overview: After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Overview: Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-14
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Kangaroo
Overview: A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-24
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BlackJack
Overview: Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral barometer. He turns a blind eye to the dubious methods employed by some of his contemporaries — prepared to let dodgy means be justified by the noble end.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-16
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BlackJack: Dead Memory
Overview: A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-27
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BlackJack: At the Gates
Overview: Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has comes to Jack for help. Jack agrees to look into the still unsolved crime but in looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. In the end, Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-24
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BlackJack: Ghosts
Overview: Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-02
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Underbelly: Vanishing Act
Overview: Inspired by the real-life mystery that captivated the nation, Underbelly: Vanishing Act tells the story of the bizarre disappearance of Melissa Caddick, the high-roller who allegedly embezzled over $40 million before vanishing into thin air. It’s a mystery that has left Caddick’s family, clients and the police questioning everything they thought they knew about her. The popular miniseries re-edited as a film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
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Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life
Overview: The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emigration to Australia, to the massive, worldwide success of his band, to the depths of addiction and failure, to a slow climb back up the ladder seeking relevance, artistic freedom and ultimately, transcendence.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-04
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