John Flaus

John Flaus

Born: January 1, 1934
in Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Movies for John Flaus...

Lone Wolf
Title: Lone Wolf
Character: Old Man
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Through various modes of surveillance we observe an overprotective young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught in a web of intrigue involving a bomb plot, inept anarchists, ambitious police and a corrupt politician. The duplicity of Winnie’s boyfriend, Conrad Verloc -political activist and police informant –propels these siblings down a deadly path. But justice may prevail in the aftermath, via the surveillance collected, compiled and presented by Special Crimes Sergeant Kylie Heat.
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The Last Days of Loneliness
Title: The Last Days of Loneliness
Released: August 1, 2021
Type: Movie
A younger man encounters the old. Both fearful and aware of the impending end. The clock is almost striking 12, it has passed 5 to 12. Celebrating love between two humans they spend time together, until the old one vanishes into the wind.
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The BBQ
Title: The BBQ
Character: Seadog
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
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Title: Romper Stomper
Character: Elderly Resident
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: TV
A high stakes drama that follows a new generation of far right activists, their Anti-Fascist counterparts, and its impact on today's multicultural society.
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Title: Jack Irish
Character: Wilbur
Released: February 11, 2016
Type: TV
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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The Weatherman's Umbrella
Title: The Weatherman's Umbrella
Character: Great Grandfather
Released: January 6, 2016
Type: Movie
When the Weatherman puts on his boots it gets frosty, when he puts on his scarf it gets windy, and when he puts on his hat it gets warm. The problem is, the Weatherman's lost his umbrella. Without an umbrella, there will be no more rain.
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A Night of Horror Volume 1
Title: A Night of Horror Volume 1
Character: Bob
Released: November 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.
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Ernie Biscuit
Title: Ernie Biscuit
Character: Narrator
Released: June 23, 2015
Type: Movie
The world of a lonely deaf Parisian taxidermist is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep.
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Title: The Leftovers
Character: Old Man
Released: June 29, 2014
Type: TV
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
Title: Jack Irish: Dead Point
Character: Wilbur
Released: April 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
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Tracks
Title: Tracks
Character: Sallay
Released: December 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
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Jack Irish: Black Tide
Title: Jack Irish: Black Tide
Character: Wilbur
Released: October 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading photo on the pubs football wall of fame. So when Des Connors, the last link to his dad, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is more than happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason... As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide, and his friends are people with yet darker and even more deadly secrets.
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Title: Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Character: Wilbur
Released: October 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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Lemonade Stand
Title: Lemonade Stand
Character: Grandad
Released: February 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Benny and Grandad are best friends and never leave each other's side. They also run the most successful light refreshment stand in town. Yet all could change when an old neighbour decides to get in the way.
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Pinion
Title: Pinion
Character: Doctor
Released: July 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Suffering from a mysterious affliction, a young boy is taken to a secluded hospital by his fearful parents. Lloyd soon learns that more harm is being done than good.
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Mary and Max
Title: Mary and Max
Character: Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
Released: February 9, 2009
Type: Movie
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
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Flausfilm
Title: Flausfilm
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A portrait of the actor, film teacher, critic, and legendary cinephile, John Flaus, in a unique film mosaic structured around cryptic crossword clues and solutions suggesting the content of the twelve sequences.
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Title: Rush
Character: Mitch Rollins
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
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Title: City Homicide
Character: Dusty Beckinsdale
Released: August 27, 2007
Type: TV
City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.
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BoyTown
Title: BoyTown
Character: Priest
Released: October 19, 2006
Type: Movie
They were the hottest thing in the eighties, the pin-up boys on every teenage girl’s wall. And with hits like “Tough Titties” and “BoyTown”, they cemented their reputation as the biggest boy band on the planet. Now two decades later, BoyTown are back – they may be the Old Kids on the Block and a bit Out of Synch, but these Boys to Men are ready to suck in the gut, put on the pastels and get those middle aged women crying for more!
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Welcome Stranger
Title: Welcome Stranger
Character: Old Man
Released: July 16, 2006
Type: Movie
A strange day begins for 18 year old Adam with a phone call from an old school friend. After several years without any contact, Luke is eager for a reunion. Bewildered, Adam sets off to meet up with his childhood mate. What follows is a sequence of interactions with Luke's family members, overlaid with a drug and alcohol binge. As the day progresses through a series of funny, sad and violent clashes it becomes clear that the stranger has little in common with the people he has been thrown in with. What all these characters do share though is an intense desire to be something more than what they are.
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Blue Notes
Title: Blue Notes
Character: Helen's Father
Released: July 16, 2006
Type: Movie
A multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are "blue": a married man struggles by with depression; his son spends his days drifting; a young woman reacts to being abused by her partner; a heroin addict attempts to start a career in music; and a lonely man, bereft of family, looks for a way to connect with others.
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Three Dollars
Title: Three Dollars
Character: Old Man Williamson
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
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Harvie Krumpet
Title: Harvie Krumpet
Character: Harvie (voice)
Released: October 23, 2003
Type: Movie
The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck - but still optimistically lives own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer.
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The Secret History of Brisbane
Title: The Secret History of Brisbane
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A one off 7 minute documentary film commissioned in 2001
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The Castle
Title: The Castle
Character: Sergeant Mick Kennedy
Released: April 10, 1997
Type: Movie
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.
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The Balanced Particle Freeway
Title: The Balanced Particle Freeway
Character: Zeppa's Voice (voice)
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Welcome to the far-famed and most reliable Balanced Particle Freeway, a magical adventure that can take you anywhere in the world in no time at all! That's what the dragon Mizuchi tells Lili and Bede when he unexpectedly crash lands in their backyard. The children discover that there is an entrance to the Balanced Particle Freeway just outside their back gate and it catapults them from school holiday boredom into high adventure.
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Lilian's Story
Title: Lilian's Story
Character: Frank
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve out a place for herself. As she explores Sydney and the people who live and work around her she sees others looking for love. Lilian shows us it is never too late to change your life and that even unusual choices can bring contentment.
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The Legend of Fred Paterson
Title: The Legend of Fred Paterson
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 9, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only Communist Party member ever elected to any Australian parliament.
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Point of No Return
Title: Point of No Return
Character: Priest
Released: February 22, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Grady, a former soldier who is in prison for his part in a major money-laundering operation. Whilst inside, he learns of the brutal, yet mysterious, murder of his brother, Christian. Desperate for answers, Grady makes a daring escape while attending Christian's funeral. Grady becomes a man with one mission in life, to avenge his brother's death - no matter what the cost. His only ally is his ex-lover Kate who reluctantly agrees to help him track down Christian's murderer. To solve the mystery, two more lives are put on the line. But when you've come this far, there's no turning back.
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Uncle
Title: Uncle
Character: Uncle (voice)
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his beloved uncle.
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Title: The Man from Snowy River
Character: Ralph Temple
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: TV
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 Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.
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Title: The Man from Snowy River
Character: Masters
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: TV
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 Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.
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Open City
Title: Open City
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem.
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Title: Snowy
Character: Bert Gibson
Released: September 8, 1993
Type: TV
The family lives of those working on Australia's Snowy Mountains dam in the 1950s.
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Spotswood
Title: Spotswood
Character: Gordon
Released: January 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
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Bloodlust
Title: Bloodlust
Character: Mr. Fetish
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Three vampires wander the streets of Melbourne killing, screwing and taking drugs. They decide to carry out a heist, stealing three million and attracting the attention of various psychotics, who chase them through a blood spattered odyssey into the Melbourne underground.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Nobby
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: TV
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
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A Kink in the Picasso
Title: A Kink in the Picasso
Character: O'Connell
Released: October 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Two crooked gallery officials swap a Picasso for a fake hoping to make a fortune. When thieves break into the gallery to steal the Picasso, an amusing chain reaction snowballs into a hilarious romp.
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Breakaway
Title: Breakaway
Character: Carmichael
Released: August 1, 1990
Type: Movie
When Joey, a prisoner on the run, takes Reginald, an accountant, as his hostage, he gets more than he bargained for.
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Nirvana Street Murder
Title: Nirvana Street Murder
Character: Policeman
Released: June 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Two brothers become conflicted after one goes on the run and the other has an affair with a Greek woman and takes care of an old rich lady who could be their way out.
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Tatlin
Title: Tatlin
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Made as an exercise in my animation class at Swinburne University in 1990, Tatlin is rumination on the life & work of Vladimir Tatlin.
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Puppenhead
Title: Puppenhead
Character: Goethe
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Berlin, 1934: John Flaus plays Goethe, the puppeteer whose mechanical clockwork knife-throwing act is under surveillance by a slimy SS agent (Heinz Boeck). The showdown comes at a New York presentation of the show.
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Grievous Bodily Harm
Title: Grievous Bodily Harm
Character: Neil Bradshaw
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
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Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Title: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Released: September 11, 1988
Type: Movie
The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Australia. In the ruins that follow, three survivors find a bomb shelter. Only to find that the survivors in there are having a party.
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Title: Always Afternoon
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: March 7, 1988
Type: TV
Always Afternoon is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia. It was a co production between Germany and Australia. It inspired a series of paintings by Ross Watson.
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Feathers
Title: Feathers
Character: Doug
Released: April 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Conflicts of interest arise when a country couple are visited by a couple from the city.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Reg
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The 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.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Reg Clark
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The 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.
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Archer's Adventure
Title: Archer's Adventure
Character: Egan the Blacksmith
Released: November 3, 1985
Type: Movie
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 Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourne Cup race.
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Bootleg
Title: Bootleg
Released: May 10, 1985
Type: Movie
A detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents.
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The Plains of Heaven
Title: The Plains of Heaven
Character: Landrover owner
Released: June 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Two technicians manning a tracking station on the Victorian High Plains pursue opposite ways of coping with isolation. The ageing Cunningham seems to be rejuvenated by and obsessed with the landscape, while the younger Barker withdraws into the interior and technical world of the station.
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Pete Shields
Released: October 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A dying criminal takes his younger brother on one final job so that when the final hour comes, his brother and his brother's wife and daughter who he himself may have fathered, will be financially secured.
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Palm Beach
Title: Palm Beach
Character: Larry Kent
Released: March 6, 1980
Type: Movie
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.
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Newsfront
Title: Newsfront
Character: Father Coughlan
Released: July 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Two 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.
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The Love Letters from Teralba Road
Title: The Love Letters from Teralba Road
Released: January 2, 1977
Type: Movie
A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged girlfriend, Kris McQuade. She sees that he expresses himself more dearly in his letters and he is still quick tempered when they try to rekindle their relationship.
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Queensland
Title: Queensland
Character: Doug
Released: January 2, 1976
Type: Movie
The allure of pleasant weather, a carefree lifestyle and better job prospects in Queensland appeal to Doug, a downtrodden factory worker from Melbourne.
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Yackety Yack
Title: Yackety Yack
Character: Steve/Self
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
A classic Australian underground comedy in which a group of people fight over how to make the truly collective/revolutionary/existential movie. Original intentions get sidetracked but all attempts to set things straight result in yet another, but strangely similar, script. Cast includes: John Flaus, Peggy Cole.