Dan Wyllie
Also Known As: Daniel Wyllie
Biography: Daniel Wyllie (born 1970) is an Australian stage, film and television actor. Wyllie began acting in theatre.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: February 10, 1970
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Gender: Male
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Muriel's Wedding
Overview: A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Romper Stomper
Overview: Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-05
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Chopper
Overview: The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-21
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Holy Smoke
Overview: While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-04
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Animal Kingdom
Overview: Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-03
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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Overview: Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-29
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Spotswood
Overview: Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-23
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Sanctum
Overview: Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team—including 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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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 Hunter
Overview: Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-06
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The Thin Red Line
Overview: The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-23
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The King Is Dead!
Overview: A happy, unsuspecting couple, Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic), buy a house in what appears to be a quiet, friendly neighbourhood. Settling in well, they make friends with a nice family on one side and soon meet a more interesting family on the other side. But interesting soon becomes loud and loud soon becomes intolerable. When the intolerable becomes violent and the police are powerless, Max and Therese attempt to take matters into their own hands.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-12
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The Broken Shore
Overview: An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Recipe for Murder
Overview: Sydney, the early 1950's... a city in the grip of a deadly crime wave. In just over a year more than one hundred people were poisoned. Most of the killers were women. Recipe For Murder tells the true story of three notorious poisoners; Yvonne Fletcher, Caroline Grills and Veronica Monty. The 52 minute film combines gritty archive with stunning film noir re-enactments and interviews with witnesses. Narrated by Dan Wyllie in classic pulp crime style, the film dramatically reveals the unique ingredients that created a Recipe For Murder.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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The Water Diviner
Overview: In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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Martha's New Coat
Overview: It's Martha's birthday and the day is not turning out so well. Martha decides to get out of town and seek some excitement on the coast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-06
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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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Charlie's Country
Overview: Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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Burning Man
Overview: An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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War Machine
Overview: A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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Bait
Overview: A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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Passengers
Overview: Frustrated by their lack of connection, Patrick resorts to desperate measures to spend more time with his six-year-old son, but in a moment of truth he must make a decision that will determine their future together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-08
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Go!
Overview: Jack is a charismatic larrikin who has just discovered the one thing he's really good at — go-kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race car driver with a secret past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his recklessness if he is to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including the ruthless champion Dean, and win the National title.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-16
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Redball
Overview: Two detectives are assigned to solve a series of grisly murders of children. However, when their investigation leads them towards someone in their own squad room as the killer, the female detective edges on a total breakdown as she loses faith in her fellow officers. The film explores the decadence and corruption that exists in the police force.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-29
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Prey
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Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
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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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Ezra White, LL.B.
Overview: Ezra White is a lawyer whose business and family, on paper, look perfect. But today is the worst day of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-11
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The Money
Overview: A man is tied to a chair. Two men threaten him with a gun. A phone call will change everything.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-22
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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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The IMAX Nutcracker
Overview: This 37-minute 3-D Imax film adaptation from E.T.A. Hoffman's story is a straight narrative fantasy rather than a ballet. Little Clara receives a Christmas gift of a nutcracker doll and that night witnesses toys expanding in size and coming to life. The Nutcracker Prince takes Clara to his enchanted sugar castle where she meets pastry chef Sugar Plum who uses spun sugar to concoct the dancing Sugar Fairy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-27
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Unconditional Love
Overview: After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-23
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Cody: Wrong Stuff
Overview: A young girl dies after a batch of deadly pills find their way into a dance club scene. Cody and Fiorelli attempt to stop others from taking the lethal cocktail as they uncover an established underground manufacturer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-24
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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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Dirt Music
Overview: Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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The Alice
Overview: Alice Springs is the scene of an enchanting date with destiny. Great planetary forces are at work, drawing people to a total eclipse of the sun - An unorthodox hero seeking the love of his life, a central Australian tour gone wrong, a young romantic lost in the desert, a rogue road train and a young woman having fantasies about killing her drop-kick of a husband...
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-08
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The Entertainment System Is Down
Overview: Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment systems fail, an eclectic group of international passengers are forced to face the horror of being bored.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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