Tony Barry

Tony Barry

Tony Barry (born 28 August 1941) was an Australian tough-looking actor and activist who performed in nearly 60 feature films and over 45 television series, across a five-decade career, in both Australia and New Zealand. Barry was for a number of years afflicted by melanoma, culminating in a 2013 leg amputation. He nonetheless battled on and continued his acting career right up to his death on 21 December 2022, at the age of 81.

  • Popularity : 1.292
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1941-08-28
  • Place of Birth : Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
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Tony Barry Movies

  • 1999
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    Paperback Hero

    Paperback Hero

    6.3 1999 HD

    An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author....

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  • 1986
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    Frog Dreaming

    Frog Dreaming

    5.6 1986 HD

    American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange...

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  • 1982
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    We of the Never Never

    We of the Never Never

    5.9 1982 HD

    Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome...

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  • 1988
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    The Man From Snowy River II

    The Man From Snowy River II

    6.8 1988 HD

    After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.

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  • 2001
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    Mullet

    Mullet

    5.2 2001 HD

    Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries...

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  • 1981
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    Goodbye Pork Pie

    Goodbye Pork Pie

    6.8 1981 HD

    Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...

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  • 1986
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    I Own the Racecourse

    I Own the Racecourse

    1 1986 HD

    A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic...

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  • 2006
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    Solo

    Solo

    5.5 2006 HD

    Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm...

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  • 1980
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    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    6.5 1980 HD

    A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.

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  • 1993
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    Jack Be Nimble

    Jack Be Nimble

    5.3 1993 HD

    Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with...

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  • 1978
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    Newsfront

    Newsfront

    5.6 1978 HD

    Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing...

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  • 1997
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    The Last of the Ryans

    The Last of the Ryans

    1 1997 HD

    Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.

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  • 2003
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    The Night We Called It a Day

    The Night We Called It a Day

    5.071 2003 HD

    Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the...

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  • 2001
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    La spagnola

    La spagnola

    5.4 2001 HD

    Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter...

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  • 2013
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    Mystery Road

    Mystery Road

    6.3 2013 HD

    A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in...

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  • 2008
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    The Ballad of Betty & Joe

    The Ballad of Betty & Joe

    1 2008 HD

    Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian tunnel below, trying to earn a living. But her...

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  • 1977
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    The Picture Show Man

    The Picture Show Man

    6.3 1977 HD

    A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies

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  • 1984
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    The Settlement

    The Settlement

    1 1984 HD

    Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a...

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  • 1999
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    Fresh Air

    Fresh Air

    2 1999 HD

    Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy and kitchen-sink drama. It is also a realistic...

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  • 2004
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    The Widower

    The Widower

    1 2004 HD

    Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. When Neville is diagnosed as terminally ill his son...

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  • 1983
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    The Dismissal

    The Dismissal

    1 1983 HD

    The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then...

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  • 2003
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    Lennie Cahill Shoots Through

    Lennie Cahill Shoots Through

    1 2003 HD

    An unsolved crime, a retiring cop and a dying crim determined not to take his regrets to the grave.

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  • 1986
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    Pallet on the Floor

    Pallet on the Floor

    5 1986 HD

    A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a...

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  • 1994
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    The Last Tattoo

    The Last Tattoo

    5.5 1994 HD

    In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt...

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  • 1976
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    Break of Day

    Break of Day

    1 1976 HD

    Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her...

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  • 1977
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    The Mango Tree

    The Mango Tree

    1 1977 HD

    Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of...

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  • 1986
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    The Surfer

    The Surfer

    5 1986 HD

    Sam Barlow is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thriller. When his best friend is murdered, Sam takes...

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  • 1988
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    3.8 1988 HD

    Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside...

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  • 1986
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    Platypus Cove

    Platypus Cove

    1 1986 HD

    After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.

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  • 1997
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    The Rainbow Warrior

    The Rainbow Warrior

    5.3 1997 HD

    Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear...

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  • 1979
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    The Odd Angry Shot

    The Odd Angry Shot

    6.1 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Rest for the Wicked

    Rest for the Wicked

    6.5 2011 HD

    Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in...

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  • 1987
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    Initiation

    Initiation

    4.9 1987 HD

    After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her...

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  • 1993
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    Absent Without Leave

    Absent Without Leave

    7 1993 HD

    In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly...

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  • 1985
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    The Coca-Cola Kid

    The Coca-Cola Kid

    5.5 1985 HD

    An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley...

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  • 1986
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    BabaKiueria

    BabaKiueria

    6.5 1986 HD

    Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white natives? In 1788, the first white settlers arrived...

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  • 1978
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    Little Boy Lost

    Little Boy Lost

    5 1978 HD

    The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers,...

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  • 1976
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    The Haunting of Hewie Dowker

    The Haunting of Hewie Dowker

    1 1976 HD

    Hewie Dowker, a New South Wales (Sydney) police officer who becomes aware that he has psychic abilities, which haunt him as he has recurrent visions...

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  • 2010
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    Home by Christmas

    Home by Christmas

    4.5 2010 HD

    A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II...

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  • 1988
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    Shame

    Shame

    6 1988 HD

    Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle...

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  • 2008
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    Australia

    Australia

    6.6 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    Keiron: The First Voyager

    Keiron: The First Voyager

    1 1985 HD

    Humans on an artificial planet fight to survive against the Karbaths and themselves.

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  • 1985
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    Archer's Adventure

    Archer's Adventure

    5 1985 HD

    During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from...

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  • 1991
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    Old Scores

    Old Scores

    6 1991 HD

    Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial...

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  • 2013
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    One Answer to Cancer

    One Answer to Cancer

    10 2013 HD

    This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is legal. The other has been curing cancer for 2000...

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  • 2017
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    Grace

    Grace

    1 2017 HD

    A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship...

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  • 1978
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    Puzzle

    Puzzle

    1 1978 HD

    Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.

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  • 2005
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    Lady Vengeance

    Lady Vengeance

    7.543 2005 HD

    Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

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  • 1982
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    Dead Easy

    Dead Easy

    6.5 1982 HD

    Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results...

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  • 1979
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    Demolition

    Demolition

    3 1979 HD

    When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal...

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  • 1999
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    Change Of Heart

    Change Of Heart

    4 1999 HD

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  • 1989
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    Shadow of the Cobra

    Shadow of the Cobra

    7 1989 HD

    Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia...

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  • 1993
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    Typhon's People

    Typhon's People

    1 1993 HD

    A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway...

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  • 2017
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    Nobody's Child

    Nobody's Child

    1 2017 HD

    Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that finding him will right all wrongs. Her quest leads her...

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  • 1980
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    Hard Knocks

    Hard Knocks

    1 1980 HD

    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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  • 1997
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    Doing Time for Patsy Cline

    Doing Time for Patsy Cline

    6.2 1997 HD

    Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket...

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  • 2003
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    BlackJack

    BlackJack

    7 2003 HD

    Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral...

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  • 1991
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    Rose Against the Odds

    Rose Against the Odds

    1 1991 HD

    The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan.

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  • 1983
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    Midnite Spares

    Midnite Spares

    5.9 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    Cross Life

    Cross Life

    1 2007 HD

    Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by the desire for love amidst the sensual delights...

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  • 1988
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    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

    5.9 1988 HD

    When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of...

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  • 1980
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    The Earthling

    The Earthling

    6.2 1980 HD

    Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes...

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  • 1978
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    The Irishman

    The Irishman

    1 1978 HD

    Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman,...

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  • 2006
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    The Silence

    The Silence

    6 2006 HD

    A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.

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  • 2005
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    Hell Has Harbour Views

    Hell Has Harbour Views

    4.5 2005 HD

    Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on...

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  • 1977
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    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

    The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...

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  • 2006
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    Gone

    Gone

    5.1 2006 HD

    A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and...

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  • 1986
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    Two Friends

    Two Friends

    5.9 1986 HD

    The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of nine months.

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  • 1990
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    The Real Charlotte

    The Real Charlotte

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2020
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    The End

    The End

    6.1 2020 HD

    Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it...

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  • 2009
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    False Witness

    False Witness

    2 2009 HD

    A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to his wife, they are taken into protective custody....

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  • 1994
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    Halifax f.p.

    Halifax f.p.

    6.2 1994 HD

    Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane...

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  • 2009
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    Dirt Game

    Dirt Game

    7 2009 HD

    Enter the dramatic and dangerous world of Australia's oldest and riskiest pursuit – mining. A mismatched team strive to save a struggling but...

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  • 2019
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    Total Control

    Total Control

    5.75 2019 HD

    A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral.

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  • 2013
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    The Time of Our Lives

    The Time of Our Lives

    8 2013 HD

    The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the extended Tivolli family as they navigate their way around relationships, raising kids, love, ...

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.071 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

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  • 2023
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    Bay of Fires

    Bay of Fires

    6.7 2023 HD

    Stella is unexpectedly dropped into a small community with her children. It is the kind of place that's rife with simmering feuds, crime and...

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  • 1983
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    Scales of Justice

    Scales of Justice

    1 1983 HD

    Scales of Justice is a three-part Australian drama miniseries, made in 1983 by director Michael Jenkins. It was one of the most controversial...

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  • 2011
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    Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo

    Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo

    1 2011 HD

    In early 1972, Ita Buttrose and Kerry Packer got together to create a magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australian...

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  • 2023
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    Faraway Downs

    Faraway Downs

    6.981 2023 HD

    The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle...

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  • 1976
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    The Sullivans

    The Sullivans

    4.8 1976 HD

    The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The...

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  • 1986
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    Cyclone Tracy

    Cyclone Tracy

    1 1986 HD

    Cyclone Tracy is a 1986 Australian mini series about Cyclone Tracy.

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  • 1991
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    Police Rescue

    Police Rescue

    6.4 1991 HD

    Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work...

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  • 1994
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    The Man from Snowy River

    The Man from Snowy River

    6.6 1994 HD

    The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo...

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  • 2018
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    Harrow

    Harrow

    7.6 2018 HD

    When a dark secret from this past threatens to be exposed, unorthodox and brilliant medical examiner, Doctor Daniel Harrow, must use all his forensic...

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  • 1991
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    Soldier Soldier

    Soldier Soldier

    6.385 1991 HD

    The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

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  • 1998
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    All Saints

    All Saints

    6.2 1998 HD

    Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency...

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  • 2000
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    Grass Roots

    Grass Roots

    1 2000 HD

    Grass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 2000 and 2003. The series is set around...

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