John Brumpton
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Biography: Brumpton has performed in over 60 short films including the 2006 Tropfest finalist - Silencer. Last Ride and The Loved Ones screened in competition at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, where The Loved Ones won the Midnight Madness Audience Award. Brumpton portrays Eric Stone ("Daddy") in the Australian horror film The Loved Ones.[1] Brumpton's second film in a leading role, Dance Me to My Song (1998) was screened in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. His third film in a leading role, Redball (1999) won the Grand Jury Prize, at the 1999 Chicago Independent Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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The Combination
Overview: Set in the maligned western suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John gets out of gaol to discover his younger brother Charlie is caught up with drugs, hookers and crime. Charlie oscillates between the streets and school. Daily clashes between Scott and Charlie's gang escalate. This feud spills into the streets in a territory and identity battle that turns bloody.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-26
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Storm Warning
Overview: A couple becomes lost in a massive storm and seek refuge at a nearby farmhouse, only to be captured by deranged killers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-19
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The Loved Ones
Overview: When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-04
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Welcome Stranger
Overview: A strange day begins for 18 year old Adam with a phone call from an old school friend. After several years without any contact, Luke is eager for a reunion. Bewildered, Adam sets off to meet up with his childhood mate. What follows is a sequence of interactions with Luke's family members, overlaid with a drug and alcohol binge. As the day progresses through a series of funny, sad and violent clashes it becomes clear that the stranger has little in common with the people he has been thrown in with. What all these characters do share though is an intense desire to be something more than what they are.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-16
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Silent Number
Overview: A young woman takes a babysitting job during a bad thunderstorm. She begins to receive frightening phone calls from a young boy who claims he needs help. It seems that the boy's abusive father has locked him up somewhere, and he can't get out. The woman calls the police so they can trace the boy's call, and then they all learn the shocking truth about the boy's whereabouts.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Welcome Home Allen
Overview: A group of soldiers return home to a world that no longer recognises them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-06
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Father
Overview: A story of a father and daughter in the father's last days in life.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Crawlspace
Overview: A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-01
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Dance Me to My Song
Overview: The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After the arrival of a mysterious man, Julia begins to question the day-to-day dramas and frustrations she's tolerated for years. An achingly genuine and profoundly moving drama about a woman born with cerebral palsy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-20
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The Beautiful and Damned
Overview: Twenty something trust fund kid Anthony Patch and his party girl wife Gloria Gilbert are disinherited by their wealthy benefactor grandfather and their lives spiral out of control in a blizzard of drugs, sex and eventual violence. Based on the novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Trojan Warrior
Overview: When a comical mob bag-man rats out the local mob boss, the bagman's cousin must rescue him from both the mob and the cops so he can testify at the grand jury.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-07
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Kid Snow
Overview: A washed-up Irish boxer named Kid Snow is finally faced with a chance to redeem himself when he is offered a rematch against the man he fought a decade prior, on a night that changed his life forever. When he meets single mother Sunny, he is forced to contemplate a future beyond boxing.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Long Weekend
Overview: Peter and Carla, a couple whose marriage is faltering, decide to go on a camping weekend. When they become lost, the pair sets up camp on a remote beach that doesn't seem to be on any map. At first the trip is the romantic getaway they imagined – then slowly things begin to go wrong. After Peter disrespects the unspoiled habitat, it seems as if the surroundings are exacting revenge on the couple, as insects, animals, and then nature itself become the enemy.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-14
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Life
Overview: A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-24
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Night Out
Overview: Tony goes out for a few drinks when his lover, Steve goes on a business trip. Feeling lonely, he is picked up by another young man and they have semi-public sex only to be interrupted by gay-bashers. Although Tony is really hurt, he is more worried about how he'll explain this to Steve.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-10
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On the Border of Hopetown
Overview: A drama that chronicles travelers passing through a remote service station located in the Australian Wheat Belt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Gettin' Square
Overview: Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-09
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Last Ride
Overview: A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-02
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Red Hill
Overview: Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Scare Campaign
Overview: A popular prank TV show, Scare Campaign, has been entertaining audiences for the last 5 years with its mix of old school scares and hidden camera fun. But as we enter a new age of online TV, the producers find themselves up against a new hard edged web series that makes their show look decidedly quaint. It's time to up the ante, but will the team go too far this time, and are they about to prank the wrong guy?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-17
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Pawno
Overview: Pawno is a character driven ensemble film set in the diverse and multicultural suburb of Footscray in Melbourne, Australia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-05
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The Menkoff Method
Overview: David Cork (Lachlan Woods) is a lowly data processor slaving away in the cubicle wasteland of Endo Bank's notorious Data Processing Centre, the DPC. But his real passion is manga. David is obsessed with the superhero Foxy Chaos - and he aspires to meet her creator, Takuya Fujimoro. David's manga dreams are shattered when a sinister Russian HR guru arrives at the DPC. Max Menkoff (Noah Taylor) has big plans and no worker is safe from his "method". Murder, chaos and office zombies take hold! Only David, in alliance with the brilliant and determined Ruby Jackson (Jessica Clarke), can stand in Menkoff's way. But what is the Menkoff Method? And what does it mean for David Cork?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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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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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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The Fall
Overview: When Aydin is approached by a budding podcaster and asked to share his experience with love, he decides to reflect on his first. Aydin questions how we can mourn the end of a moment while it is happening and the intensity of attachments throughout our life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-05
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Dogwatch
Overview: Adrift in hostile waters, during the last vicious battles of the Triad societies after explusion from mainland China, The Captain, William, is ruined. He has a shady past, a drinking problem and a dirty job to do - at the lowest ebb of his career, William has agreed to sink the Arabella for an insurance scam. A tale of lost men adrift on the high seas in a battle for survival
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Lost Gully Road
Overview: Lucy travels to an isolated house in the forest to wait for her sister. They have worked out a risky scheme for their future and all she needs to do is sit it out. However a sinister presence may have something different in mind.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-25
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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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Measure for Measure
Overview: An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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The Diver
Overview: Callan is twenty and is overcome with impulses that he finds it increasingly difficult to control. In order to protect others from his strange behavior, Malcolm, his father, tries to channel his son's attention by every means possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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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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The Rat Tamer
Overview: In this Aussie prison drama directed by Kate Woods, no one can explain why inmate Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) arrived at Blackstream Penitentiary with brain damage and horrible bruises on his body -- least of all Kevin. Can a jailhouse psychologist (played by Deborra-Lee Furness) help Kevin regain his memory, or will it take an act of violence to bring out the truth? This "Correlli" TV series pilot "The Rat Tamer" was later released separately on DVD as a feature.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-26
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Black Chook
Overview: They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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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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Widowers
Overview: An oddly comical and touching meditation on suburban masculinity as two burly, aging men negotiate grief, rage and forgiveness without exchanging a word. It’s a tale of two men bound together by a death but dealing with it in very different ways.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-24
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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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We Keep On Dancing
Overview: Two distinctly disparate characters come together over a broken down Volkswagen Beetle in this sweet, amusing tale of love, loss and... car trouble.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-18
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Sucker
Overview: When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter Sarah, and learns that even the sneakiest scam can't conjure up love. Is it a true story? That might be another of Leung's tricks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-15
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The Debt Collector
Overview: Frank Vaughan is a debt collector pushed to breaking point. In a frenzy of revenge, he tracks down the priests who abused him in boarding school and stole his childhood. Not even prayers can save them. But Frank's actions pit him against Melbourne's criminal underworld, unleashing a wave of violence across the city. Rescuing stripper Sarah from the bloody chaos, together they must fight their way out, one dead body at a time. Despite the danger, Frank won't stop until every guilty person meets their fate. Welcome to the seventh circle of hell. Every. Debt. Must. Be. Paid.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
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