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The Tumbler (2008)
Character: Hurtle Hamilton
Two men, lost in the Australian desert, or are they? Hurtle, a tough Aussie bloke and ex-con, and Tahir, a soft-spoken, Afghani-Australian, are near death as they stumble across Jen, a headstrong American soldier stationed alone on a remote military base. In good faith, and against regulations, Jen offers to help Tahir and Hurtle. But when Tahir drops a GPS Unit from his pocket, it becomes clear that they're not lost, they're exactly where they planned to be.
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Bush Basher (2011)
Character: Perry
A boy's weekend away between Weed and his estranged father takes a dark turn when he reveals his mother has been involved with another man.
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The Telegram Man (2011)
Character: John Lewis
The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
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Cody: A Family Affair (1994)
Character: Cody
Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.
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Subdivision (2009)
Character: Digger Kelly
Based on the change a rapidly growing town faces when southern developers take over.
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Love in Ambush (1997)
Character: Eddie Norton
An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from which Pol Pot would emerge.
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The Battlers (1994)
Character: Snow
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
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Police Rescue: The Movie (1994)
Character: Sgt. Steve 'Mickey' McClintock
A narcotics detective, suspected of corruption, gets a transfer to the Police Rescue Squad. An unstable man holds a daycare center hostage.
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Bitter & Twisted (2008)
Character: Greg Praline
A family drifts down a spiral of self-destruction and depression in the years following the death of their eldest son. Can they come to terms with what's happened before everything falls apart?
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Cody: Bad Love (1994)
Character: Cody
Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.
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Cody: The Tipoff (1994)
Character: Cody
Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.
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Cody: The Burnout (1995)
Character: Cody
Cody goes undercover on a task force established to track down arsonists who are wreaking havoc in the city. Fiorelli and Cody race against time to obtain the information they need to get Cody out alive when they discover a corrupt officer is within their ranks.
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Cody: Wrong Stuff (1995)
Character: Cody
A young girl dies after a batch of deadly pills find their way into a dance club scene. Cody and Fiorelli attempt to stop others from taking the lethal cocktail as they uncover an established underground manufacturer.
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Cody: Fall from Grace (1995)
Character: Cody
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 investigation leading Cody to uncover a race-fixing scam
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Derfydd Aur (1989)
Character: Matt
Wales in the 19th Century. Becca is married to Dai, who is transported to the penal colony of Diemen's Land (Tasmania) for rebellion. His brother Gwylim, who is a minister, travels after him by signing on as a ship's chaplain on a ship. He and Becca pretend to be husband and wife so she can come along. The pastor and his sister-in-law start a relationship.
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Hard Knox (2001)
Character: Monorail Ron
Niki Knox must stop an evil villain from stealing a gemstone which would help him obtain magical powers.
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What the Moon Saw (1990)
Character: Alan Wilson
Steven Wilson is sent to Melbourne from the outback to spend his holidays with his Grandmother, an old time Tivoli showgirl/dancer. He becomes drawn into the world of the theatre, where the illusion is everything and grease-paint covers up reality. While watching a pantomime of Sinbad, Steven succumbs to the magic of the story and actually becomes the sailor on his greatest adventure ever.
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Bodyjackers (2001)
Character: O'Grady
In the tradition of 1950s science fiction, a meteor crashes to earth and a toxic substance is released. A drifter captures some of the ooze and utilizes it to take control of the local town. The substance from another planet has cloning powers and its effect on the townsfolk has them develop religious sensibilities and a fixation for the drifter in this independent sci-fi comedy lensed in South Australia.
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CrimeBroker (1993)
Character: Luke Blair
High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls apart when she takes part in a multi-million dollar bank robbery and becomes an accessory to murder.
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Alexandra's Project (2003)
Character: Steve
Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape waiting for him. Playing that tape, he watches a bizarre and grueling recording in which his wife explains her grievance with him, her reasons for disappearing with the children and her revenge for how he treated her in a way he would never forget.
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Macbeth (2006)
Character: Duncan
Macbeth, loyal to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by witches that he will one day take over. Driven by their prophecy, he and his wife plot to kill Duncan, and takes the leadership of the gang for himself. Maintaining his power will require more murder and violence, finally driving his surviving enemies to unite and destroy him. A sexy, high octane retelling of this classic story.
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The Lighthorsemen (1987)
Character: Frank
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.
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2:37 (2006)
Character: Mr. Darcy
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
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Adore (2013)
Character: Saul
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
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The Tracker (2002)
Character: The Fanatic
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
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Fatal Honeymoon (2012)
Character: Detective Gary Campbell
Based on a true story, Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her.
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The Big House (2001)
Character: N/A
Within the concrete confines of a life sentence, one man rediscovers his capacity for love.
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The Dreaming (1988)
Character: Geoff
When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.
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Charlie's Country (2013)
Character: Bottle Shop Operator
Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
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An Indecent Obsession (1985)
Character: Michael Wilson
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.
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Ayaan (2020)
Character: Sergeant Simmons
An escaped asylum seeker encounters an Aboriginal man on a remote Australian beach. She must decide whether to trust him or journey on alone.
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Fever (1988)
Character: Jeff Maslim
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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Nerve (2013)
Character: Ben Livingston
Jakob Evans suffers an emotional breakdown after the death of his wife in a car accident. His loss and pain runs deep as he claims to have found her in bed with another man just before she died. Unable to accept her death and her infidelity, Jakob decides his only chance at closure is to find the man she was sleeping with to help him comprehend what they shared. With the help of Grace, a promiscuous and troubled girl, Jakob starts to put together the pieces of the puzzle and track down his wife's lover.
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Spit (2025)
Character: Charles 'Chicka' Martin
Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his tail and a target on his back, he navigates a series of comedic misadventures, sharing with his fellow detainees the meaning of mateship and what it is to be truly Australian.
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A Savage Christmas (2023)
Character: Peter Hall
After years of estrangement, trans woman Davina Savage returns home for Christmas with her new boyfriend. Expecting her transition to be the focus, it’s instead overshadowed by family secrets and lies which threaten not only their lives – but another Christmas lunch.
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Gettin' Square (2003)
Character: Chicka Martin
Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.
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Nightmares (1980)
Character: Terry Besanko
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.
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Dangerous Remedy (2012)
Character: Matthews
The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put his life at risk to expose police corruption in an effort to change the law on abortion and put an end to the illegal operations that were killing young women. It’s a truly inspiring story. Dr Wainer’s determination, even when his own life and that of his family’s was threatened, never faltered. He was living proof that one person can make a difference and change the status quo. With the support of Dr Wainer’s family, the filmmakers have endeavoured to capture the essence of his struggle to expose police corruption and change the law.
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A Month of Sundays (2016)
Character: Himself
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
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Paper Champions (2020)
Character: Terry
It is an uplifting comedy about Rey, a young man who wants to find love despite having lost his 'Mana'.
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Two Heads Creek (2019)
Character: Hans
A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
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Making Muriel (2017)
Character: Himself
Making Muriel gives audiences exclusive behind the scenes access as P.J. Hogan adapts his iconic film, Muriel's Wedding into a stage musical for Sydney Theatre Company, 23 years after the film was a surprise box office hit.
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