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Watt's Last Voyage (1965)
Character: N/A
A tale told with humour and pathos; a yarn spun between decks about an old salt whose bitter experiences one friendless dawn persuade him to abandon wayfaring for wading.
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Stork (1971)
Character: Westy
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
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Australian Dream (1987)
Character: Geoffrey Stubbs
Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with selling sex aids to housewives.
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Brake Fluid (1971)
Character: N/A
This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.
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Weekend of Shadows (1978)
Character: Bernie
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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Vietnam (1987)
Character: Miles
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Joh's Jury (1993)
Character: Nicholas Cowdery
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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The Love of Lionel's Life (2000)
Character: Stan
Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.
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Those Dear Departed (1987)
Character: Dr. Howie
A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.
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The Best of Friends (1982)
Character: Tom
The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
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Doctors & Nurses (1981)
Character: Mr X
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
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Pacific Banana (1981)
Character: Martin
The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands.
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The Naked Bunyip (1970)
Character: Graeme
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians.
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Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
Character: Italian Jack
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
Character: Dawson
A 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.
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Alvin Rides Again (1974)
Character: Alvin Purple / Balls McGee
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
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In Her Skin (2009)
Character: Ivan
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
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Midnite Spares (1983)
Character: Sidebottom
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Character: Ruwee Naberrie
When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
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Idiot Box (1997)
Character: Detective Eric
Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.
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The Distant Home (1992)
Character: Dr. Chambers
Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
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Don's Party (1976)
Character: Simon
On 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.
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Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
Character: Self
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.
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The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Character: Nils Olson
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
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Alvin Purple (1973)
Character: Alvin Purple
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
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