The Great Gold Swindle
Feb 01, 1984The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.
Crime
John Hargreaves
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Malcolm
Jul 20, 1986Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
Action
The Odd Angry Shot
Mar 01, 1979A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
War
Don's Party
Nov 10, 1976On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.
Comedy
Long Weekend
Mar 29, 1979Un couple en crise décide de passer un week-end pour tenter de se réconcilier. Sur le lieu de leur campement, ils se sentent rapidement épiés et cèdent bientôt à la terreur...
Horror
Emerald City
Dec 09, 1988A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.
Comedy
Comrades
Aug 23, 1987Grande-Bretagne, Dorset, 1834. George Loveless et ses amis, laboureurs à Tolpuddle, sont de plus en plus exploités par les propriétaires terriens, avec la complicité du clergé. Ils s’organisent pour revendiquer des hausses de salaires, et créent en secret la Société Amicale des Laboureurs. Dénoncés par un propriétaire, six d’entre eux sont condamnés à la déportation en Australie. Devenus très populaires et hérauts d’une classe de plus en plus pauvre, ils deviennent les « martyrs de Tolpuddle ».
Drama
The Heroes
Jan 01, 1988Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on board a leaky old fishing boat called 'The Krait'. Their mission, code-named Operation Jaywick, became a tense voyage through thousands of kilometres of Japanese held territory to launch a daring attack on Singapore Harbour. The raid is a success but within sight of safety they encounter a Japanese destroyer, and all prepare to die rather than be taken prisoner.
Drama
Hoodwink
Nov 05, 1981Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Crime
Deathcheaters
Dec 16, 1976Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Adventure
Dakota Harris
Jan 16, 1986Le lieutenant Harris, pilote chevronné sur Dakota pendant la guerre de 1939-1945, est requis pour un transport particulièrement important, avec à bord un scientifique original, Mitchell, et une caisse mystérieuse, dont l'ouverture par un curieux provoque la perte de l'avion, disparu aux yeux de tous... quand les rescapés sont récupérés, Harris passe en cour martiale et est condamné pour comportement incohérent, sur le témoignage de son copilote, Savage. Heureusement, il parvient à s'évader et rejoint la jolie Melanie Mitchell, fille du savant disparu, avec laquelle il parviendra peut-être à rétablir la vérité et à sauver l'humanité de forces mystérieuses...
Adventure
Pas l'ombre d'un doute
Jan 31, 1980A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
Drama
Sweet Revenge
Jul 09, 1990An attorney plays match-maker for her ex-husband, by hiring an actress to seduce him - all in an attempt to try and rid herself of alimony payments.
Comedy
My First Wife
Sep 12, 1984My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the impending tragedy. Slowly he is sucked into a tunnel of despair – fighting his conservative nature and the romantic memories of his married life.
Drama
The Removalists
Oct 15, 1975An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
Drama
Boundaries of the Heart
Jan 01, 1988A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into asking her one more time. Stella's father Billy (Norman Kaye) is a former cricket star whose career ended early when he was involved in a sex scandal. She spends the night with vacationing Arthur (Michael Siberry) when his car breaks down. Andy elects not to pop the question to Stella in lieu of her one-night stand with the stranger. When Billy elects to marry June Thompson (Julie Nihill), the local gossipmongers have a field day recalling the woman's promiscuous past.
Drama
Blackfellas
Nov 04, 1993Young Aboriginal Doug has done his time for petty theft, but quickly drifts back under the bad influence of ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. Doug knows where he’s heading – he’s seen it all before, in the hard life of his father. Returning to his traditional country and the love of girlfriend Polly is the way out. But Floyd’s mateship is hard to shake.
Drama
The Place at the Coast
Sep 17, 1987Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and places that preserve the memory of her late mother.
No Worries
Mar 31, 1994
The Killing of Angel Street
Oct 01, 1981Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.
Thriller
Careful, He Might Hear You
Sep 22, 1983Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy sister, Vanessa, returns from England and takes an interest in PS.
Drama
Rome Roméo
Apr 22, 1992Vingt ans après son départ de la ville Médicis, David Waldberg revient à Rome. Le prétexte ? Un film. Mais aussi l'étrange rendez-vous fixé jadis par la comtesse Orsini, la maîtresse qu'il abandonna brusquement. A la villa Médicis, Waldberg rencontre Quentin, peintre dont l'inspiration tarit au contact de l'institution et dont les conquêtes faciles ne peuvent guérir l'angoisse.
Drama
Little Boy Lost
Nov 16, 1978The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies. After four tense days, hopes wanes. At last, a group of searchers spot the young Stephen, and its members are able to convice him that they want to help him reach home and family. - Written by
Drama
Mad Dog Morgan
Jul 09, 1976Evocation du destin de Daniel Morgan, dit "Mad dog", dans l'Australie des années 1860. Injustement arrêté et incarcéré dans sa jeunesse, il devint un criminel de sinistre réputation, craint par tous...
Action
Cry Freedom - Le cri de la liberté
Nov 06, 1987En 1975 en Afrique du Sud, le journaliste blanc Donald Woods se lie d'amitié avec Stephen Biko le leader d'un mouvement extrémiste: «Black Consciousness» qu'il rencontre au cours d'un reportage. De plus en plus proches, Woods est témoin d'actes de violence de la part de la police contre la communauté noire et s'implique de plus en plus dans la lutte anti-apartheid... jusqu'à l'arrestation de Biko et sa mort dans des conditions que les autorités tentent de dissimuler...
Drama
Country Life
Oct 27, 1994Pour suivre son mari, la belle Deborah accepte de s’installer en plein coeur de la campagne australienne. Le climat inhospitalier et l’isolement du lieu minent le caractère de la jeune femme. Mais elle fait rapidement la rencontre du séduisant docteur Max.
Drama
Lust and Revenge
May 28, 1996This 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.
Hotel Sorrento
Apr 20, 1995Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir in Sorrento and in her family when it is supected that the book is not as fictional as she claims.
Drama
The Dismissal
Mar 06, 1983The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
History
Double Sculls
Oct 09, 1986A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
Drama
The Lizard King
Feb 28, 1988
Blue Murder
Sep 21, 1995Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between controversial former Detective Roger "the Dodger" Rogerson and notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" Smith. Rogerson and his colleagues were accused of giving Smith a "green light" to commit crimes without Police interference, with the relationship fraying when Rogerson orders hitman Christopher "Mr. Rent-a-Kill" Flannery to murder Police Officer Michael Drury.
Drama
Young Ramsay
Nov 01, 1980Young Ramsay was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1977 to 1980 on the Seven Network. It was produced by Crawford Productions as two series of 13 episodes each.
Drama
Power Without Glory
Dec 13, 1976Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished youth in the depression of the 1890s, to his death as a multi-millionaire some sixty years later.
Drama
Les orphelins de Liverpool
Jul 09, 1992Dans les années 1950, deux enfants Lily et Bert se rencontrent à l'orphelinat "Star of the Sea" à Liverpool, en Angleterre et, sans l’accord de leurs familles, sont transportés dans un camp de travail forcé en Australie.Une histoire vraies sur des milliers d’enfants britanniques déportés dans le Commonwealth, en Australie notamment entre 1947 et 1967, mais aussi dans d’autres pays de l’Empire britannique.
Drama
Bluey
Apr 25, 1977At Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, Sgt. "Bluey" Hills, unable to work within the existing police squads, oversees Department B. They're assigned cases other departments could not readily solve by conventional means, with Hills applying his unconventional methods to bring about their resolution. Bluey's investigations are supported by newly assigned Gary Dawson, long-time cohort Monica Rourke, and undercover officer Reg Truscott, who spends his time ostensibly working as a small-time burglar, and supplying Bluey with information on the activities of local criminals.
Drama
Scales of Justice
Oct 04, 1983Scales of Justice is a three-part Australian drama miniseries, made in 1983 by director Michael Jenkins. It was one of the most controversial Australian mini-series ever produced, examining corruption in all levels of law enforcement.
Drama
Marie Curie, une femme honorable
Mar 26, 1991La jeune Marie Sklodowska manifeste des ambitions qui dépassent les frontières de sa Pologne natale. A Varsovie, les femmes sont interdites d'entrée dans les facultés.
Drama
The Dismissal
Mar 06, 1983The sensational dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor Government by the Queens representative in Australia, the Governor General, Sir John Kerr on November 11, 1975.
Drama
The Alien Years
Apr 19, 1988The Alien Years is a three-part miniseries that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 19 April 1988. It was directed by Donald Crombie and written by Peter Yeldham. It stars Victoria Longley, John Hargreaves and Academy Award-winner, Christoph Waltz. Yeldham later adapted his screenplay into a novel of the same name.
Drama
