Le Secret du lac
May 01, 1986Cody, un jeune garçon aventureux, enquête sur d'étranges événements survenus dans un parc naturel australien.
Drama
John Ewart
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Razorback
Apr 19, 1984Un soir, dans une maison isolée au milieu du désert australien, un vieil homme, Jake Cullen, et son petit-fils Scotty sont attaqués par un sanglier monstrueux. L'enfant disparaît et le grand-père, amputé d'une jambe, est un moment accusé du meurtre. Deux ans plus tard, Beth Winters, journaliste américaine, débarque dans la région pour enquêter sur un massacre de kangourous...
Horror
Caddie
Jan 01, 1976Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
Romance
The Picture Show Man
May 05, 1977A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
Comedy
Save the Lady
Dec 28, 1981A ragtag group of kids set out to save derelict steam ferry Lady Hope from destruction.
Adventure
Super Sleuth
Jul 13, 1984Novelty movie which seems like just another people-gathered-in-a-country-house-murder-mystery but then lets the viewers choose the ending.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jan 01, 1986Le bon docteur Jekyll tente de débarrasser l'humanité de tout le mal tout en créant accidentellement M. Hyde, un meurtrier maléfique.
Animation
Petersen
Jan 01, 1974Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...
Drama
Sons of Matthew
Dec 16, 1949The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.
Adventure
A Slice of Life
Jul 01, 1983Toby Morris enters hospital to remove a cyst from his hand. He wakes up to find not only has the cyst been removed but he's been given a vasectomy.
Comedy
Dear Cardholder
Nov 22, 1989Hec, a sacked taxation clerk, seeks fame and fortune using the world of credit cards. Unfortunately for him, and the banks, he has no concept of credit card limit.
Comedy
The Big Hurt
Jan 01, 1986A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.
Crime
Hurricane Smith
Jan 31, 1992Un travailleur-champ pétrolifère de voyages Texas vers l'Australie pour chercher sa sœur disparue, et sa recherche serpente lui se impliquer avec une violente bande de trafic de drogue.
Action
Bush Christmas
Dec 22, 1983In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.
Family
Let the Balloon Go
Dec 16, 1976In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
Newsfront
Jul 29, 1978Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Drama
The Love Epidemic
Jan 03, 1975This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Factual segments are interspersed with humorous skits depicting how people of varying degrees of innocence can contract awful but treatable diseases.
Comedy
The Returning
Dec 10, 1990A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
Horror
L'Odyssée
Nov 09, 1987La guerre de Troie est terminée et Homère remonte à bord de on navire. Il met le cap ver la Grèce où sa famille attend son retour. Mais avant de rejoindre son pays, Homère et son équipage vivent d'incroyables aventures et rencontre d'étranges créatures, dont le cyclope et le monstre à six têtes...
Animation
Blue Fire Lady
Dec 09, 1977Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.
Family
Kindred Spirits
Jan 12, 1984A young dancer on the Sydney club circuit finds her life falling apart after she witnesses the drowning of a young man at Bondi. His presence continues to haunt her.
TV Movie
Skin Deep
Jan 01, 1983Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success.
Drama
Sunday Too Far Away
Jun 01, 1975A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
Drama
Fluteman
Nov 24, 1982When the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to make it rain by playing his flute; under the condition that he be paid. But after Fluteman makes it rain, and even stops it; the town council, blind by their greed and pride, refuse to pay him. Fluteman stands before the town and warns them of a curse he would bring; and so the next day the school playground fades into silence as all the children disappear into the bush... except one.
Drama
Cass
Oct 30, 1978Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull together the pieces of her shattered life.
Drama
Island Trader
Jan 01, 1982An island boy battles an evil ship's captain over the wreckage of a downed plane that was transporting gold bullion.
Adventure
Maître du Monde
Oct 23, 1976Avril 1910, l'inspecteur John Strock, de la police fédérale des États-Unis et pilote de course par passion, se rend à Morganton en Caroline du Nord. Le gouvernement lui confie en effet une mission de la plus haute importance: gravir et inspecter une montagne appelée le Nid de l'Aigle d’où s'échappent d'alarmantes traînées flamboyantes...
Animation
Which Way Home
Jan 28, 1991An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.
Drama
Kitty and the Bagman
Feb 18, 1983Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.
Crosstalk
Oct 08, 1982A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control.
Thriller
The True Believers
Aug 16, 1988The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
War & Politics
The Truckies
Oct 16, 1978
The Flying Doctors
Oct 06, 1992The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish.
The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
Drama
The Last Frontier
Oct 07, 1986Following a whirlwind courtship, a single mother from Los Angeles marries an Australian cattle rancher. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children but dies before they arrive, leaving his widow to deal with a debt-ridden ranch and land-grabbing neighbors.
Drama
Rafferty's Rules
Aug 31, 1990Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.
Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
Drama
Father, Dear Father
Jun 28, 1980The hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny trek down under to write the great Australian crime novel, and end up supervising Patricks boisterous young nieces while their own father is abroad.
Comedy
Rafferty's Rules
Aug 31, 1990Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.
Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
Drama
Alvin Purple
Nov 05, 1976Alvin Purple was an Australian television situation comedy series made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1976.
The series followed continued adventures of the title character, previously featured in successful sex comedy feature films Alvin Purple and Alvin Purple Rides Again.
Graeme Blundell reprises the role of Alvin in the series. Alvin cohabitates with a new character, flatmate Spike. As in the films various women inexplicably lust after Alvin. The women were played by a stream of recognisable Australian actors in guest starring roles including Tina Bursill, Jackie Weaver, Belinda Giblin, June Rich, Jane Harders, Pamela Gibbons, Kirrily Nolan, Peta Peita, Judy Lynne, Suzanne Church, Carla Hoogeveen, Chantal Contouri, Anya Saleky. Dawn Lake and Leonard Teale also acted in the series.
Comedy
