Heather Mitchell
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Biography: Heather Mitchell (born 1958) is an Australian actress, appearing in Australian productions of stage, television and film. She is a graduate of NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art). She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show Spellbinder.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Australia
Birthday: January 01, 1958
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Gender: Female
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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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Rogue
Overview: When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Children of the Revolution
Overview: A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-26
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-08
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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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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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Griff the Invisible
Overview: Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-01
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The Red Valentine
Overview: When a pair of young lovers are discovered dead, a tangled web of deception unravels revealing that behind the passionate tragedy lies a dangerous truth.
Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-24
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The Place at the Coast
Overview: Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and places that preserve the memory of her late mother.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-17
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Jones Family Christmas
Overview: Grandmother Heather Jones has finally managed to get her family home for Christmas. But before the festivities begin, they receive a fire evacuation order. Now, the family must band together as they rediscover what matters most – each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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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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The Wedding Party
Overview: When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Everlasting Secret Family
Overview: A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-10
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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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Ricky Stanicky
Overview: When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, the trio still uses the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. But when their spouses and partners get suspicious and demand to finally meet the fabled Mr. Stanicky, the guilty trio decide to hire a washed-up actor and raunchy celebrity impersonator to bring him to life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Overview: Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-11
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A Little Bit of Soul
Overview: Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both apply for funding from the Michael Foundation, and are asked to spend the weekend discussing the proposals with the Head of the Foundation, who happens to be married to the Australian Treasurer. They have a very interesting weekend.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-19
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Emerald Falls
Overview: After a brutal divorce, a mother and her son relocate to the Blue Mountains to run a Bed and Breakfast.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-23
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Bathing Boxes
Overview: The ebb and flow of erotic desire makes for a summertime splash in this vibrant realisation by Ann Turner. Inspired by a Jeffrey Smart painting, Turner's work starts out baking in the sun before it takes a cool dip beyond the sexual shoreline.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-01
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Pimped
Overview: Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-29
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Drown
Overview: Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-04
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Irresistible
Overview: A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-18
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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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Thank God He Met Lizzie
Overview: The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-20
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Palm Beach
Overview: A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic music, but slowly tensions mount and deep secrets arise.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-08
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The Society Murders
Overview: The Society Murders was the name given to the April 4, 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales. The crime and subsequent trial received widespread media coverage throughout Australia and later became the subject of both a book and a television film.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-18
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Hell Has Harbour Views
Overview: Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-30
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Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
Overview: The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-21
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The Great Gatsby
Overview: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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Clowning Around 2
Overview: Sim, now a member of the Winter Circus in Paris, befriends Eve, another young clown. Drawn to an experimental style of clowning used by Circus Oz and Cirque du Soleil, the techniques get them both fired, but when Sim returns home to Australia, he finds that he is now the inheritor of a share in the Rathnow Circus.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-01
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Blaze
Overview: After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-25
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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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Afterglow
Overview: AFTERGLOW is a short film about a moment in time when a man is confronted with his past actions. The love of a young woman leads him to a place of the most profound loss. A loss that will force him to question the very meaning of his own life and those he loves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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On the Beach
Overview: The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-28
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Riot
Overview: A look at the 1970s Gay Rights Movement in Australia through the eyes of dedicated activist Lance Gowland. As Lance deals with his sexuality, he must also juggle work, family and relationships.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-25
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Cody: The Tipoff
Overview: Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Cody: A Family Affair
Overview: Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-05
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Cody: Bad Love
Overview: Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-11
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Da Kath & Kim Code
Overview: The squabbling mother and daughter, Kath and Kim, embark on an excursion into the unexplored crannies of life at Lagoon Court, Fountain Lakes.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-27
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The Love of Lionel's Life
Overview: Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-09
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Bosch & Rockit
Overview: As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-18
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Daddy's Perfect Little Girl
Overview: A 12-year-old girl becomes jealous when her adoptive father develops a budding relationship with a woman and her teenage son.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-30
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My Mother My Son
Overview: Mona and her adult daughter, Kymmy, set out from their country home to get Kymmy's young son from foster care in the city. As they travel they face and overcome many setbacks, and their past and future are explored. They argue and part ways. Kymmy gets to the foster home only to find another obstacle in her way. Mona arrives later and brings about a surprising and provocative resolution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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The Fox
Overview: In this black comedic folktale, an affable foxhunter encounters a shape-shifting fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his partner into the perfect woman and in doing so take control of the natural world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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