Nicholas Hope
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Biography: Nicholas Hope (born 25 December 1958) is a British-born Australian actor, known for the lead role in the 1993 film Bad Boy Bubby. Born in Manchester, England, Hope's family emigrated to the steel and ship building town of Whyalla, South Australia, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. Hope won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994 for his role in Bad Boy Bubby (1993).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manchester, England, UK
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Limbo
Overview: Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-18
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3 Acts of Murder
Overview: In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-14
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Overview: A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant extended life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-25
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Bad Boy Bubby
Overview: Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers
Overview: Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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The Goddess of 1967
Overview: A rich, young businessman travels to Australia with the intention of buying a 1967 Citroën DS. Once he arrives, things do not go to plan, and he must drive the DS into the outback alongside a blind young woman in order to track down its seller.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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Redd Inc.
Overview: Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann. He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Butterflies
Overview: A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She makes drawings for the passersby. A businessman recognises her talents and offers her a paying job. The prospect seems inviting but the reality threatens to kill her imagination.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-15
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Double Happiness Uranium
Overview: The newly formed Independent Republic of South Australia is the phoenix that rises from the ashes of a decaying and corrupt Australian Commonwealth, becoming wealthy beyond imagination on the back of uranium.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-11
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Lust and Revenge
Overview: This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Scout
Overview: Scout, an Aboriginal woman living in regional New South Wales, was kidnapped out of nowhere from the safety of her own home. These days, her life is confined to a shipping container with two women, Andy, a young naïve Aboriginal woman and Jodie, a staunch black woman who is always on hand to give Scout and Andy a dose of reality. They suffer dehumanizing treatment until one day they band together and fight their oppressors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-11
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Permafrost
Overview: Synnøve seemingly has it all: a good job, a nice flat and a boyfriend on his way up. But she's stuck, and unhappy, and one night she decides to go back to her roots in the North.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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The Life of Harry Dare
Overview: Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-10
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The 13th House
Overview: A highly stylized metaphorical tale about the brutalization of employees under corporate culture.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-01
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Contagion of Fear
Overview: A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-16
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The Daughter
Overview: In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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The Night We Called It a Day
Overview: Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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Truth
Overview: As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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The Home Team
Overview: A romantic plumber and his unblinking wife are the only survivors of a suicide space cult. Two decades after the others went Next Level, they're still wearing capes, still trying to recruit members, and still not having sex. When a cancer scare forces them to face involuntary mortality, they rediscover the transcendent things down here on The Human Level.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-22
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Paradise Found
Overview: Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Mary: The Making of a Princess
Overview: This is the story of a fateful encounter and the life-changing choices that led to one of Australia's and the world's most recognisable and romantic love stories.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-15
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Uro
Overview: Turning his back on a delinquent past and joining the police force, HP is determined to start doing the right thing. Soon he finds himself trapped in a web of lies, stretching out from both sides of the law. HP soon realizes that his present mission is closely connected to his own past, and that everything he worked so hard to escape from, is coming back to haunt him.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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Little White Lies
Overview: The public facade and private life of an aspiring politician and his wife. This film reveals the little white lies that lead to revenge, blackmail and a fight for life.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-14
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Fallen
Overview: Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to lose his memory and uncovers some shocking truths.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-30
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Kangaroo Island
Overview: Forced to reunite with her sister as part of her father's wishes, a struggling Hollywood actress returns home to Kangaroo Island and confronts the issues that drove her away.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-08-21
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The Darkest Light
Overview: Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leukaemia, and the doctors aren't making headway. Meanwhile, Catherine, ten, feels lonely and neglected; befriending Uma, the first Hindu at the village school, she takes her to the Moors. Something strange happens, which Catherine interprets as a vision of the Virgin Mary, and a sign her brother will be all right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-14
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Greg's First Day
Overview: Two men in finance try to find themselves in the world after the collapse of the company they work for. Greg, a young man, should be at the beginning of his career, but suddenly he's at the end of it. Bernard, an older man, should be teaching Greg the ropes of the company. But the company is gone. Bernard will have to teach Greg in other ways.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-29
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Event Zero
Overview: When a terrorist attack hits Sydney releasing a highly contagious virus into the population, Detective Leyla Nassar must race across the city and find the culprits while the Deputy Premier Pamela Laird battles power hungry politicians eager to use the catastrophe for their own nefarious means.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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Harvey
Overview: A man without his own half of the body is looking for the other half in the opposite sex. As for the integrity of his body, so for the sake of emotional healing.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Confessor Caressor
Overview: A fake documentary following around a man who claims to be a serial killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Cold Lunch
Overview: Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Getting Hurt
Overview: The safe, secure, boring life of Charlie Cross, a wealthy, successful solicitor is irretrievably shattered when he embarks on an illicit, passionate affair with the beautiful, mysterious Viola whom he meets one evening whilst investigating the background of her husband, Edgar Bosco.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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Maurice's Symphony
Overview: A brilliant and young flute player discovers a life filled with love, joy and independence when he overcomes his disability after suffering an industrial accident.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-31
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Slam
Overview: Ricky is a young Arab Australian whose peaceful suburban life is turned on its head when his sister, Ameena, disappears without trace. In a climate of distrust and xenophobia, she is soon suspected of having joined the ranks of ISIS in Syria. In a ‘post-facts’ world, Ricky no longer knows who to believe, his sense of what’s right or the 24 hour media cycle of spin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Eldorado
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Book Week
Overview: Nicholas Cutler is a smart yet self-destructive, once famous novelist who is stuck teaching English to iPhone-addicted teenagers at a working class high school. After writing a trashy zombie story he recaptures the interest of publishers who are willing to give him a second chance as long as he can prove he has cleaned up his act. However, what could have been the best week of his life spirals into chaos and he's forced to finally put others ahead of his selfish dreams.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-16
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The School
Overview: When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive the supernatural terror and face her own demons if she is to find the truth about where her son is.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-04
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Når mørket er forbi
Overview: "Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natural resources are in the hands of organized crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-01-28
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Scooby-Doo
Overview: When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren't the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it's up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to uncover the truth behind the mysterious happenings.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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Henry Needs a New Home
Overview: Henry and his canine companion must defend their tiny home from a seemingly unstoppable force. Inspired by his loyal companion, an old man tries everything to amend his living quarters. A tale of hope and home that will leave you spinning.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-11
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Wide Blue Yonder
Overview: An anti-authority rogue in an old folks' home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend's dying wish to be buried at sea.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-25
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The Invisible Man
Overview: When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-26
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Water Easy Reach
Overview: Tells the story of Almar, a young Norwegian sailor whose gold watch, of great sentimental value, has been broken. While waiting for repairs in a remote Spanish town, he meets a number of unusual characters: Windy, an Australian seafarer with unusual experiences, real or imaginary; Marta, a beautiful Spanish girl; Martha's bizarre grandfather; and two old watchmakers who are painfully methodical. It seems to Almar that real time has also stopped when his watch did.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1998-03-06
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Henry Fool
Overview: An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-19
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The Prime Minister Is Missing
Overview: With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace—an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy. Four decades later, a coronial inquiry confirmed that Harold Holt had accidentally drowned. Some people may still believe that Holt was a spy and fled to China in a submarine. But most suspect there was more to his disappearance than has ever been revealed. Reconstructed from eyewitness accounts, this dramatised documentary tells the story of the Prime Minister's secret world in the months before he disappeared — a world of betrayal, blackmail, political treachery, a poisonous feud, mounting physical and mental strain, and near-death experiences. Featuring Normie Rowe as Harold Holt, Nicholas Hope as William McMahon and Tony Llewellyn-Jones as John McEwen, this film reveals explosive new aspects of the case.
Genres: Documentary Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-29
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North Star
Overview: Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantage of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-03
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The Flaming Brain
Overview: Abattoir worker Eric's brain is external to his head, and he keeps it protected in a jar connected by cables to his nervous system. Maddie is the mesmeric meat slicer of his dreams, but Maddie loves the overly charismatic Polson. With his weird and peripheral brain, what must Eric do to become more like Polson?
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-01
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Moon Rock for Monday
Overview: Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-06
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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Overview: In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada wounded on her property. As an unlikely bond begins to form between them he reveals secrets about her true identity. Realizing Molly’s husband is actually missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff starts being suspicious and sends his constable to investigate.
Genres: Drama Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-05
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The Story of Lee Ping
Overview: In the 1920s, the unlikely bond between Chinese erotic dancer Lee Ping and an Aboriginal farmhand enables her to escape the clutches of her white employer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-18
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Exposure
Overview: Rachel is desperate to be seen. Not the way her terminally ill father sees her, and not the way her Church Support Group sees her. Not even the way her mentor, Kathy sees her. Really seen. Newly sober and ready to start her life again, Rachel (Caroline Levien) finds herself back with her father, Glen (Nicholas Hope) and languishing in the role of his primary carer. Lonely and overlooked, Rachel turns to her online persona, 'J@de' and the world of chat-room camming as a place to see and be seen. But Rachel's escapism cannot keep the real world at bay forever. As Glen's illness deteriorates, Rachel's online identity pushes up against her own, bringing her face to face with the ultimate act of exposure.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-12
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It Will Find You
Overview: A reporter interviews a convicted killer, with terrifying results.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-05
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Krapp sving
Overview: A women lives close by a sharp curve in the road
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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