Don Bridges
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Troubled Minds: The Lithium Revolution
Overview: In a disused hospital pantry in the 1940s, an Australian doctor discovered an astonishing treatment for bi-polar disorder (or manic-depression, as it was then known). It would change the way we think about mental illness and mark the beginning of psychopharmacology - using drugs to manage psychiatric conditions. It would take 20 years of struggle before lithium treatment was finally accepted, but the scientists and psychiatrists who followed Cade's lead persevered. Their work has meant a chance at stability for hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and lithium remains the benchmark for bi-polar treatment today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-06
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Charlotte's Web
Overview: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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Residence
Overview: The enigmatic hero, a speechless child and a ragtag motley crew journey through a zombie filled apocalyptic landscape to seek shelter in a medieval fun park whilst being pursued by a deranged lunatic.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-03
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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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Quanta
Overview: A physicist's life-long work comes to fruition when he is reluctantly partnered with a gifted young assistant. Ego divides them when they receive an unknown signal from space.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-18
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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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The Tender Hook
Overview: The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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A Smile in the Back of my Head
Overview: A church janitor examines his own hate
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-06
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I Live With Me Dad
Overview: Peter Hehir plays full-time loser Sid McCall, professional vagrant and alcoholic on the skids. Haydon Samuels is his young son Christopher who lives with him. At the insistence of those who seek to help, child welfare workers are called-in to retrieve the lad from what authorities classify as "inappropriate living conditions." Someone seems to have overlooked the fact that Christopher does not consider his plight as distressing however and with each visit to the home, all the social workers can get in the way of co-operation, is Christopher's stock-standard reply to their questions..."I live with me dad!"
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Rikky and Pete
Overview: Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Houseboat Horror
Overview: A rowdy rock group are accompanied by a film crew to desolate Lake Infinity to produce a music video. One night the musicians visit the local pub while the various members of the film crew satisfy their carnal desires with one another aboard the luxurious houseboat they are all staying in. They are so busy they fail to notice that a rampaging lunatic has snuck aboard the boat, and one by one the various characters are brutally slaughtered in a variety of grisly ways.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-30
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Hungry
Overview: Lucy's been asleep for over 100 years, ever since that Drac guy put the bite on her. Waking up after the world's longest hangover, she's feeling, well - more than a bit peckish. Inspired by chapter XIII, pg 188 of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-31
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Troll Bridge
Overview: Set in the phenomenally successful Discworld series, Troll Bridge is about the world's last Barbarian hero (now at the age of 87) embarking on a suicide mission to battle a bridge troll in mortal combat. In a land where the undead have formed an equal rights movement, goblins are on the endangered species list and the evil Cutshade Forest is being logged; the world has truly gone mad for Cohen the Barbarian. Time has moved too fast... Troll Bridge aims to be the largest scale short film in history. Using resources garnered over a decade of dedication, love, sweat and toil, Troll Bridge has already broken records and set benchmarks internationally. Written by SnowGum Films
Genres: Fantasy Animation Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-16
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No Appointment Necessary
Overview: When Dick's therapist is locked up on suicide watch, he sees an opportunity to start his own clinic – in his garage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Plague
Overview: An independent Australian horror/drama that explores the societal norms that break down among a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. Ravenous hordes of infected zombies terrorize the survivors, but it is the horror within their own sanctuary that they must fear the most.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-12
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The Wild Women of Nowhere
Overview: At The Middle of Nowhere, a rough truck-stop brothel, Billie, a young sex worker, becomes obsessed with the mystical tale of the Wild Woman of Nowhere and convinces her friend Rosie to escape with her.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
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Rippy
Overview: Young police officer Maddy is determined to live up to her deceased father's legacy. Her courage is put to the test when locals are found brutally ripped to shreds by the zombie kangaroo. As the undead beast leaves a trail of carnage, Maddy, with the help of her eccentric Uncle Schmitty and resilient Aunt Donna, must embark on a high-stakes battle to save the town.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-25
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Nice Shootin' Cowboy
Overview: An Australian contemporary Western film.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-02
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As Time Goes By
Overview: A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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Double Deal
Overview: Wealthy Peter Sterling and his younger wife Christine have an existence of little excitement so when a stranger comes into their lives, she is intrigued. An affair turns into much more and they are soon plotting to rob Peter of a precious gemstone.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-15
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My Brother Tom
Overview: Set in Australia, against the backdrop of World War II, this epic miniseries centers on the religiously divided town of St. Helens and the innocent romance between a pair of star-crossed teenagers that threatens to tear it apart.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-22
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ABCs of Death 2 1/2
Overview: An anthology of 26 fan entries submitted for inclusion in ABCs of Death 2, each offering various takes on the letter "M".
Genres: Horror Thriller Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-02
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Judy & Punch
Overview: In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-21
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Waterborne
Overview: When a local ranger in a small country town finds an unidentified algae overwhelming the town's water supply, he knows something's not right. But it's not until the sun goes down that he discovers the true extent of the danger – it seems the town is about to experience the effects of a mysterious infection that turns not only humans, but animals too, into zombies.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-15
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The Resurgence
Overview: 20 Years into the future, the fallout after the war has left the majority of the world suffering. Ash has turned to a life of drugs and sex while trying to escape his guilt he hides away from most of the world.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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Quigley Down Under
Overview: American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-17
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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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Maggie May
Overview: Two estranged sisters, Sam and Maggie, attempt to reconnect after the death of their mother. But Maggie isn't interested in anything, and that could be Sam's worst nightmare.
Genres: Horror Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-18
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Two Heads Creek
Overview: A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Paper Champions
Overview: It is an uplifting comedy about Rey, a young man who wants to find love despite having lost his 'Mana'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-06
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In Corpore
Overview: Four couples deal with love and lust, commitment and infidelity, and the pressures of relationship expectations. Filmed in Melbourne, Berlin, Malta, and New York, In Corpore tackles the consequences faced when one chooses to either suppress or give into the inner desires of body and soul.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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Bony
Overview: Bony, a great-great-grandson of legendary part-Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte. Albert Harris had been a teenager when he knew Napolean; decades later, as a tribal elder, he had tracked and rescued Napoleon's descendant from the desert, after Bony's parents had tragically perished. 'Uncle' Albert taught the young white boy the ways of the desert. Now in 1990, Albert stands beside the 22-year-old Bony as he is inducted into the Northern Police Force. Bony is sent to Woongala. His first case concerns Angela Hemming, the young American wife of the district's most influential landowner. She claims that a Ned Bowen had attempted to rape her, but that she hadn't pressed charges on the condition he left town. Non of this rings true to Bony and he begins to investigate.
Genres: Action TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-05
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Overview: A young man discovers a hole in the floor of a local motel that leads to yesterday.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-20
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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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Ghost Turd
Overview: Ghost Turd is a horror/comedy about a vengeful spirit that haunts an inner city dog park. The spirit preys on dog owners who don't pick up after their pets.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-19
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Asian Male, 60s, Lead
Overview: 63-year-old Filipino-Australian actor Alex Montes is given 48 hours to prepare for the biggest opportunity of his life. But his scattered enthusiasm takes over and the rest of his life falls apart.
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Original Language: en
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