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Backroads | Jack | 1977-06-27 | Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. … |
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Newsfront | Len Maguire | 1978-07-29 | Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for th… |
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Fever | Sergeant Jack Welles | 1988-08-26 | A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man…. |
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Road to Nhill | Brian | 1997-11-13 | Four women bowlers on their way home to Pyramid Hill (population 550) from a tournament roll their car on a deserted road in rural Victoria. They are … |
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Police State | Graeme Parker | 1989-01-01 | An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anyth… |
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Muriel’s Wedding | Bill Heslop | 1994-09-29 | A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love…. |
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Crackerjack | Stan Coombs | 2002-07-11 | When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it’s all hands on deck to save the clu… |
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Everynight… Everynight | Berriman | 1995-05-24 | Is an Australian drama film directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos and released in 1994. Based on a play of the same name, written by Ray Mooney, the film det… |
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Death of a Soldier | Det. Sgt. Adams | 1986-05-16 | Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the une… |
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Weekend of Shadows | Bosun | 1978-06-28 | In the 1930s, a farmer’s wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him…. |
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…Maybe This Time | Stephen | 1981-03-19 | 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 h… |
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Mull | Frank Mullens | 1989-04-06 | A teenage girl has to terms with her family and herself when her mother falls critically ill. She decides to leave school to look after her family, wh… |
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River Street | Vincent Pierce | 1997-07-17 | Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station… |
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27A | Cornish | 1974-06-05 | A middle-aged alcoholic is sentenced to six weeks in jail for a minor offense. While there he undergoes psychiatric treatment for his alcoholism and i… |
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Call Me Mr. Brown | McNeill | 1985-12-31 | Based on the 1971 true story known as “The Great Plane Robbery”, this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extort… |
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Yobbos Up The Guts | Billy T | | A stand-up promoter assembles a roughshod gang of Yobbos for one last comedy tour ‘Up The Guts’. A ‘Yobbomentary’ crew accompany the tour to film an o… |
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Hard Knocks | Brady | 1980-10-23 | A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society … |
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Strictly Ballroom | Barry Fife | 1992-08-20 | Brave new steps put Scott’s career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?… |
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Sky Pirates | O’Reilly | 1986-01-16 | Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial k… |
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Horseplay | Barry Coxhead | 2003-05-22 | A small-time horse trainer has successfully screwed up his life. His wife hates him, hie mistress loathes him and his father-in-law wants to kill him…. |
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The Violent Earth | Campbell | 1998-09-01 | The Violent Earth is a 1998 French-Australian mini series set in New Caledonia from 1888 to 1977…. |
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A Difficult Woman | Paul Scanlon | 1999-05-21 | Anne (Caroline Goodall) is a successful pathologist for a top pharmaceutical corporation, and her life couldn’t be better. That is, until one of her o… |
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Blue Murder | Angus McDonald | 1995-09-14 | Detective Sergeant Roger “The Dodger” Rogerson got fame because he knew how to take care of most dangerous and violent criminals. His success was, how… |
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Broken Highway | Wilson | 1993-06-02 | In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American “western,” but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heav… |
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Bob Spart | 1994-05-31 | Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they … |
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Mad Dog Morgan | Sgt. Smith | 1976-07-09 | The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s…. |
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Heatwave | Robert Duncan | 1982-03-08 | During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of … |
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Rikky and Pete | Whitstead | 1988-06-09 | Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia…. |
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The Cup | Bart Cummings | 2011-11-13 | At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the … |
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Street Hero | Det. Fitzpatrick | 1984-08-15 | Vinnie is a teenage boy who is an outcast at school, alienating teachers and students alike. He is a local courier for the local Mafia boss. He lives … |
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In Search of Anna | Peter | 1979-07-28 | Tony is released from prison and goes in search of what once was happiness: Anna. He hits the road hoping to find her and makes a friend along the way… |
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The Return of Captain Invincible | Tupper / Coach | 1983-01-01 | In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Austral… |
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Rebel | Browning | 1985-12-05 | This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is… |
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The Leaving of Liverpool | Father O’Neill | 1992-07-08 | A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment… |
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The Dismissal | Rex Connor | 1983-03-06 | The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia – on 11 November, 1975 – by the then Governor-Genera… |
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Cody: Fall from Grace | Sam Wolfe | 1995-08-17 | A jockey is found dead in the street after falling from a balcony of a Hotel. What is thought to be a routine suicide inquiry becomes a murder investi… |
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Bad Eggs | Ted Pratt | 2003-07-24 | Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption… |
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The Hit | Harry | 1984-09-12 | Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former “colleagues” and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance…… |
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Far East | Walker | 1982-07-30 | A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband, a… |
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Dead Man’s Float | Eddie Bell | 1980-01-01 | A strange warning is followed by near disaster when a speedboat slices John’s surfboard in half as his friends look on in horror. His curiosity arouse… |
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Tom White | Malcolm | 2004-08-19 | Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not every… |
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The Last Days of Chez Nous | Beth’s Father | 1992-10-08 | The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth’s intriguing French husband…. |
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The Custodian | Managing Director | 1994-03-17 | Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt polic… |
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The Square | Gil Hubbard | 2008-06-30 | Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla’s husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps l… |
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An Indecent Obsession | Colonel Chinstrap | 1985-05-23 | Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing… |
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The Man from Hong Kong | Peterson | 1975-07-31 | Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng (Jimmy Wang Yu) f… |
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Stone | Barman | 1974-01-02 | 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 j… |
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Kangaroo Jack | Blue | 2003-01-17 | Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia,… |
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Shotgun Wedding | Police Comm. Andrews | 1993-09-11 | Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege…. |
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The Wedding Party | Priest | 2010-01-01 | When Steve’s secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world’s most farcical wedding, the only… |
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Race the Sun | Commissioner Hawkes | 1996-03-22 | A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own … |
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15 Amore | Brendan’s Voice | 1998-07-18 | An adult’s memoir of a childhood spent with his mother and two sisters in Australia in the closing year of WWII. While his father off fighting the Jap… |
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Australia | Skipper (Qantas Sloop) | 2008-11-18 | Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to pro… |
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser | Youlden | 1976-12-16 | An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they’re shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia…. |
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The Echo of Thunder | Cooper (uncredited) | 1998-04-19 | Scenic settings in Australia enhance this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, a simple yet engaging tale about a teenage girl’s adjustment to a new fa… |
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole | Bubo (voice) | 2010-07-10 | Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie’s, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his… |
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Finding Nemo | Dentist (voice) | 2003-05-30 | Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist’s office aquarium. It’s up to his worrisome … |
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Gallipoli | Major Barton | 1981-08-13 | As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealan… |
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On the Beach | Prime Minister Seaton | 2000-05-28 | The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floati… |
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The Shiralee | Extra (uncredited) | 1957-07-11 | An Australian “swagman” finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and… |
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