Kim Gyngell
Also Known As: Kym Gyngell
Biography: Kim Gyngell (born 15 April 1952), sometimes also credited as Kym Gyngell, is an Australian comedian and film, television and stage actor. Gyngell won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1988 for his role as Ian McKenzie in Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Birthday: April 15, 1952
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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Macbeth
Overview: Macbeth, loyal to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by witches that he will one day take over. Driven by their prophecy, he and his wife plot to kill Duncan, and takes the leadership of the gang for himself. Maintaining his power will require more murder and violence, finally driving his surviving enemies to unite and destroy him. A sexy, high octane retelling of this classic story.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-21
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The Hard Word
Overview: Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-30
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Kangaroo Palace
Overview: The story of four young Australians trying their luck in 1960s London.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-25
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The Very Best of The Comedy Company Volume 1
Overview: In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - The Comedy Company. Overnight it became the highest rating series of the year. The characters - Kylie Mole, Con the Fruiterer and Colin Carpenter became household names. The show became compulsory Sunday night viewing. Now, for the first time this DVD presents a collection of their greatest sketches in their original form: uncut and uncensored. There's Kylie, Con, Colin, The Language of Football, Uncle Arthur, Jophasine and many more. Also included are some scenes that have never been broadcast.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-21
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The Very Best of The Comedy Company Volume 2
Overview: In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - The Comedy Company. Overnight it became the highest rating series of the year. The characters - Kylie Mole, Con the Fruiterer and Colin Carpenter became household names. The show became compulsory Sunday night viewing. Now, for the first time this DVD presents a collection of their greatest sketches in their original form: uncut and uncensored. There's Kylie, Con, Colin, The Language of Football, Uncle Arthur, Jophasine and many more. Also included are some scenes that have never been broadcast.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-21
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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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Love and Other Catastrophes
Overview: A day in the life of two film school students trying to find love and another housemate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-01
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Bushfire Moon
Overview: In the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets the Christmas spirit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-10
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Amy
Overview: Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-27
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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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Shaun Micallef's World Around Him
Overview: Shaun Micallef's World Around Him was an Australian sketch comedy television special. Its title is a parody of the Australian documentary series The World Around Us. Airing on the Seven Network in 1996, the special provided a major stepping stone for comedian Shaun Micallef. The show helped to develop much of the style and content of Micallef's successful sketch-comedy series The Micallef Program which began airing on the ABC in 1998.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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Salvation
Overview: Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian immigrant and prostitute. Seeking better lives, both Barry and Irina find strength in each other as they seek mutual salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-19
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Overview: A successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with his estranged wife and daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-13
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Heaven Tonight
Overview: The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but his son becomes a star of techno-pop music.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-12
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What the Moon Saw
Overview: Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn into the world of the theatre, where the illusion is everything and grease-paint covers up reality. While watching a pantomime of Sinbad, Steven succumbs to the magic of the story and actually becomes the sailor on his greatest adventure ever.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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With Love to the Person Next to Me
Overview: Wallace is a Melbourne taxi driver who lives in a block of run-down small apartments in St Kilda on the bay. When not driving his cab, he makes apple cider and broods about his past.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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The Little Death
Overview: A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-13
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Backstage
Overview: The plot centred on American pop singer Kate Lawrence (Branigan) wanting to embark on a career as an actress. The only job she can find is playing the lead role in an Australian theatre production of The Green Year Passes. The hiring of an American causes conflict with her Australian cast and crew, and the chagrin of theatre critic Robert Landau with whom she has an affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-29
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Josh Jarman
Overview: Marcus Graham plays Josh Jarman, a struggling playwright who has written a long, serious play about doomed love, failed relationships and the overall hurt and heartache of falling in love. He is extremely proud of it, and takes it to various producers around the city, hoping to find one that will produce his play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-10
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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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Bleeding Steel
Overview: Jackie Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they met in a different life.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-12-18
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Lone Rider
Overview: A portrait of an independent filmmaker and the lengths he will go to fulfill his celluloid dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-05
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Brothers' Nest
Overview: With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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The Dunera Boys
Overview: At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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The Chain Reaction
Overview: Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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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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How to Make Gravy
Overview: Prisoner Joe writes a letter to his brother Dan about wanting to be with family at Christmas, lamenting how he can't make the gravy for the roast and how much he misses everyone. Based on the iconic Australian song by Paul Kelly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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Parked
Overview: Everything's unfair, especially at the fun fair.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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