Tim Robertson
Also Known As: Tim Roibertson
Biography: Tim Robertson is an English-born Australian actor and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Braintree, Essex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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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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The Time Guardian
Overview: In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the City, a huge protected construction with the ability to travel in both space and time. The City travels back to our time to save humanity...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-03
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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
Overview: A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-30
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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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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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The Big Steal
Overview: Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-20
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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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Jenny Kissed Me
Overview: A woman moves away from her boyfriend because she suspects his feelings towards her pre-teen daughter. He tries to find them in the sordid side of Melbourne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-06
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Going Sane
Overview: A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-30
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The Clean Machine
Overview: A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won’t let it go – all the way to the top.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-22
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Wrong World
Overview: David Trueman is a young doctor who dreams of going to South America to practice medicine among the disenfranchised. Arriving in Bolivia, he encounters enough corruption and oppression to drive him away from his dreams and into the drug scene. Disillusioned and escaping to the U.S., he meets Mary, a young heroin addict who shares his angst. As the two commiserate, their bleak outlook lightens, promising a glimmer of hope for the both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-04
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Father
Overview: On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-16
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Aya
Overview: Aya, a young Japanese war bride, arrives in a small Australian town during the 1950s. She and her husband, Frank, are very much in love. Yet somehow Aya still feels more comfortable with the Japanese-speaking Mac, a close friend of Frank's, whose wartime experiences left him with a deep regard for Japanese culture. But Frank wants Aya to forget her Japanese past. Aya finds work in a Japanese restaurant and has a short affair with an Australian-Japanese businessman. With her marriage falling apart, Aya leaves Frank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-24
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Riot or Revolution? The Eureka Stockade 1854
Overview: The Eureka Stockade was a civilian revolt against the gold licence. Drawings and archival photographs depict the events that lead to the battle between gold miners and authorities at the Eureka Stockade. It describes the emergence of Peter Lalor as the leader of the Stockade and how the diggers used the Southern Cross flag.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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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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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 Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Overview: The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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The First Interview
Overview: In the world's first media interview, shot in Paris in August 1886, the great photographer Nadar interviews the famous scientist and sceptic Chevreul on his 100th birthday. In their own words - originally recorded in shorthand - they discuss photography, colour theory, Moliere, the scientific method, the crazy ideas of balloonists, and - of course - how to live for 100 years. These two legends of the 19th century have a lively and interesting conversation. One was born before the French revolution; the other was destined to see the marvels of the aeroplane and the movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-24
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The Mule
Overview: In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-10
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Bliss
Overview: An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Evil Angels
Overview: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Strangers
Overview: A married man meets a stunning brunette at an airport and has an affair with her. After a while though he wants to break it off but realises the woman will do anything to stay with him no matter who gets hurt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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Vietnam
Overview: The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-23
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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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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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The Irishman
Overview: Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-28
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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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