Ken Shorter
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Department: Acting
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Dragonslayer
Overview: A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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Stone
Overview: After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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4D Special Agents
Overview: A group of children in the East End of London belong to a police sponsored scheme called '4D Special Agents'.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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...Maybe This Time
Overview: Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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Sink
Overview: Shot mainly in South East London, it’s about Micky Mason, a skilled manual worker who, since the Crash, can find nothing but menial zero hours jobs. He takes a course of action that is completely out of character, but it’s the only way he can see of keeping his family together. It is about surviving, but it’s not all anguish and despair - it’s also warm and tender, and funny. It's about people finding their way through. It’s about Micky Mason; a man out there, right now, doing his best.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Scrubbers
Overview: Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-24
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You Can't See 'round Corners
Overview: Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt with SP bookies at the local pub.This film, shot at Kapooka camp, contains one of the only depictions in Australian cinema of soldiers training for Vietnam.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-15
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DragonHeart: A New Beginning
Overview: When Geoff, an orphaned stable boy (Chris Masterson), discovers Drake (voice of Robby Benson), the world's last living dragon, he realizes that his dream of becoming a knight in shining armor can now come true. Together, they soon face challenges that turn them into heroes. But caught up in the excitement of their new lives, Geoff and Drake fail to see the hidden dangers that surround them.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-08
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Not Quite Hollywood
Overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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Sunday Too Far Away
Overview: The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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The Ploughman's Lunch
Overview: As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-30
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