Nicholas Hope

Nicholas Hope

Born: December 25, 1958
in Manchester, England, UK
Nicholas Hope (born 25 December 1958) is a British-born Australian actor, known for the lead role in the 1993 film Bad Boy Bubby.

Born in Manchester, England, Hope's family emigrated to the steel and ship building town of Whyalla, South Australia, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers.

Hope won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994 for his role in Bad Boy Bubby (1993).

Movies for Nicholas Hope...

Contagion of Fear
Title: Contagion of Fear
Character: Langston Charlesworth
Released: January 16, 2024
Type: Movie
A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading.
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Title: The Artful Dodger
Character: Justice Micawber
Released: November 29, 2023
Type: TV
In 1850s Australia, in the lively colony of Port Victory, Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, has transferred his fast fingers as a pickpocket to the nimble skilled fingers of a surgeon. Dodger's past returns to haunt him with the arrival of Fagin, luring him back into a world of crime. A greater threat – to Dodger's heart – is Lady Belle, the Governor's daughter, determined to become the colony's first female surgeon.
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Limbo
Title: Limbo
Character: Joseph
Released: May 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Title: The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Character: Judge Eisenmangher
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada wounded on her property. As an unlikely bond begins to form between them he reveals secrets about her true identity. Realizing Molly’s husband is actually missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff starts being suspicious and sends his constable to investigate.
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The Home Team
Title: The Home Team
Character: Darren
Released: January 22, 2022
Type: Movie
A romantic plumber and his unblinking wife are the only survivors of a suicide space cult. Two decades after the others went Next Level, they're still wearing capes, still trying to recruit members, and still not having sex. When a cancer scare forces them to face involuntary mortality, they rediscover the transcendent things down here on The Human Level.
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The Story of Lee Ping
Title: The Story of Lee Ping
Released: August 18, 2021
Type: Movie
In the 1920s, the unlikely bond between Chinese erotic dancer Lee Ping and an Aboriginal farmhand enables her to escape the clutches of her white employer.
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Moon Rock for Monday
Title: Moon Rock for Monday
Character: The Bobbins
Released: May 6, 2021
Type: Movie
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
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Title: Deadhouse Dark
Character: David
Released: April 29, 2021
Type: TV
In six interconnected short tales of terror, a woman receives a ‘mystery box’ from the dark web. Each item within will gradually reveal a dark and troubling truth.
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Title: Operation Buffalo
Character: Dr. Breston
Released: May 31, 2020
Type: TV
A captivating drama set in Maralinga, South Australia, at the height of the Cold War. At a remote army base carrying out British nuclear testing, paranoia runs rife and nuclear bombs are not the only things being tested, as loyalty, love, and betrayal are pitted against each other.
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The Invisible Man
Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Head Doctor
Released: February 26, 2020
Type: Movie
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
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Slam
Title: Slam
Character: Pete the Journalist
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Ricky Nasser is a young Australian whose peaceful suburban life turns to hell when his sister Ameena disappears without a trace. In a climate of distrust and xenophobia, Ricky is forced to denounce her as an extremist.
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Henry Needs a New Home
Title: Henry Needs a New Home
Released: August 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Henry and his canine companion must defend their tiny home from a seemingly unstoppable force. Inspired by his loyal companion, an old man tries everything to amend his living quarters. A tale of hope and home that will leave you spinning.
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Scout
Title: Scout
Character: Boss
Released: August 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Scout, an Aboriginal woman living in regional New South Wales, was kidnapped out of nowhere from the safety of her own home. These days, her life is confined to a shipping container with two women, Andy, a young naïve Aboriginal woman and Jodie, a staunch black woman who is always on hand to give Scout and Andy a dose of reality. They suffer dehumanizing treatment until one day they band together and fight their oppressors.
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Book Week
Title: Book Week
Character: Ken Cutler
Released: May 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Nicholas Cutler is a smart yet self-destructive, once famous novelist who is stuck teaching English to iPhone-addicted teenagers at a working class high school. After writing a trashy zombie story he recaptures the interest of publishers who are willing to give him a second chance as long as he can prove he has cleaned up his act. However, what could have been the best week of his life spirals into chaos and he's forced to finally put others ahead of his selfish dreams.
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The School
Title: The School
Character: Dr. Masuta
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive the supernatural terror and face her own demons if she is to find the truth about where her son is.
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Title: Jade of Death
Character: Wilkins
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
Small town girl Jade has a powerful ability. She can hear when and how people are going to die. She ran away from her hometown and gets by working at a seedy freak show carnival as the "Fortune-Teller of Death", but now people are after her. There's more to her past than she lets on, and there's more to her abilities than she knows.
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Event Zero
Title: Event Zero
Character: Langston Charlesworth
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
When a terrorist attack hits Sydney releasing a highly contagious virus into the population, Detective Leyla Nassar must race across the city and find the culprits while the Deputy Premier Pamela Laird battles power hungry politicians eager to use the catastrophe for their own nefarious means.
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Title: Random and Whacky
Character: Nigel
Released: June 4, 2017
Type: TV
Random and Whacky is a comedy series based on the problems faced by kids. Random and Whacky isn't just the title of the show, it's the name of the top-secret agency that attempts to solve these problems with ludicrous solutions. They provide advice you would never hear from a parent, teacher or "responsible" adult. Their solutions may not work, but they will be hilarious. At the start of every episode the Random and Whacky team assemble in a classified location. The Random and Whacky agents gain access with the use of their unique insignias. Once inside a high tech lab suddenly materialises around them, with video screens, holographic projectors, alien computers, gizmo's and gadgets James Bond could only dream of.
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Maurice's Symphony
Title: Maurice's Symphony
Character: Mr. Ferk
Released: January 31, 2017
Type: Movie
A brilliant and young flute player discovers a life filled with love, joy and independence when he overcomes his disability after suffering an industrial accident.
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Mary: The Making of a Princess
Title: Mary: The Making of a Princess
Character: Per Thornitt
Released: November 15, 2015
Type: Movie
This is the story of a fateful encounter and the life-changing choices that led to one of Australia's and the world's most recognisable and romantic love stories.
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Title: Ash vs Evil Dead
Character: Professor Raymond Knowby
Released: October 31, 2015
Type: TV
Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.
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Truth
Title: Truth
Character: Marcel Matley
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.
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The Daughter
Title: The Daughter
Character: Peterson
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.
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Title: Gallipoli
Character: Walter Braithwaite
Released: February 9, 2015
Type: TV
As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous foothold on the treacherous slopes and deep ravines. They endure the next eight months on the peninsula learning lessons of survival. By the time of the final evacuation they have also learned the skills of combat and what it means to be a young man in war.
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Permafrost
Title: Permafrost
Character: Max
Released: March 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Synnøve seemingly has it all: a good job, a nice flat and a boyfriend on his way up. But she's stuck, and unhappy, and one night she decides to go back to her roots in the North.
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Butterflies
Title: Butterflies
Character: Dalton Hearst
Released: June 15, 2013
Type: Movie
A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She makes drawings for the passersby. A businessman recognises her talents and offers her a paying job. The prospect seems inviting but the reality threatens to kill her imagination.
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Greg's First Day
Title: Greg's First Day
Character: Bernard
Released: May 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Two men in finance try to find themselves in the world after the collapse of the company they work for. Greg, a young man, should be at the beginning of his career, but suddenly he's at the end of it. Bernard, an older man, should be teaching Greg the ropes of the company. But the company is gone. Bernard will have to teach Greg in other ways.
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Double Happiness Uranium
Title: Double Happiness Uranium
Character: Reuben Henschke
Released: February 11, 2013
Type: Movie
The newly formed Independent Republic of South Australia is the phoenix that rises from the ashes of a decaying and corrupt Australian Commonwealth, becoming wealthy beyond imagination on the back of uranium.
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Redd Inc.
Title: Redd Inc.
Character: Thomas Reddmann
Released: November 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann. He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.
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Wide Blue Yonder
Title: Wide Blue Yonder
Character: Eric
Released: May 25, 2012
Type: Movie
An anti-authority rogue in an old folks' home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend's dying wish to be buried at sea.
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Title: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Character: Geoffrey Spall
Released: February 24, 2012
Type: TV
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
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3 Acts of Murder
Title: 3 Acts of Murder
Character: Detective Harry Manning
Released: June 14, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
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The Prime Minister Is Missing
Title: The Prime Minister Is Missing
Character: William McMahon
Released: October 29, 2008
Type: Movie
With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace—an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy. Four decades later, a coronial inquiry confirmed that Harold Holt had accidentally drowned. Some people may still believe that Holt was a spy and fled to China in a submarine. But most suspect there was more to his disappearance than has ever been revealed. Reconstructed from eyewitness accounts, this dramatised documentary tells the story of the Prime Minister's secret world in the months before he disappeared — a world of betrayal, blackmail, political treachery, a poisonous feud, mounting physical and mental strain, and near-death experiences. Featuring Normie Rowe as Harold Holt, Nicholas Hope as William McMahon and Tony Llewellyn-Jones as John McEwen, this film reveals explosive new aspects of the case.
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Cold Lunch
Title: Cold Lunch
Character: Restaurateur
Released: February 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.
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Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers
Title: Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers
Character: Warren Donaldson
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
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Uro
Title: Uro
Character: Dealeren
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Turning his back on a delinquent past and joining the police force, HP is determined to start doing the right thing. Soon he finds himself trapped in a web of lies, stretching out from both sides of the law. HP soon realizes that his present mission is closely connected to his own past, and that everything he worked so hard to escape from, is coming back to haunt him.
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Fallen
Title: Fallen
Character: Chief Supt. Edridge
Released: November 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to lose his memory and uncovers some shocking truths.
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Title: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Character: Christian Van Dyke
Released: August 25, 2004
Type: Movie
The blood orchid - a rare flower that could hold the secret of eternal life and be worth a fortune to the company that finds it first. Led by a pharmaceutical research team, a scientific expedition sets out to go and explore deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and bring back samples of the legendary plant. Battling through rainstorms to make their way upriver, the group encounters poisonous insects and a ferocious crocodile, only to discover they're being stalked by an even greater danger: a gathering of giant anacondas. Heat-sensing, fifty-foot-long flesh eaters that will go after anyone that crosses in their path.
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The 13th House
Title: The 13th House
Character: Man from the 14th Floor
Released: September 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A highly stylized metaphorical tale about the brutalization of employees under corporate culture.
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The Night We Called It a Day
Title: The Night We Called It a Day
Character: Phil
Released: August 14, 2003
Type: Movie
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 country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
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The Flaming Brain
Title: The Flaming Brain
Character: Eric
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Abattoir worker Eric's brain is external to his head, and he keeps it protected in a jar connected by cables to his nervous system. Maddie is the mesmeric meat slicer of his dreams, but Maddie loves the overly charismatic Polson. With his weird and peripheral brain, what must Eric do to become more like Polson?
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Paradise Found
Title: Paradise Found
Character: Maurrin
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
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Scooby-Doo
Title: Scooby-Doo
Character: Old Man Smithers
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren't the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it's up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to uncover the truth behind the mysterious happenings.
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Harvey
Title: Harvey
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Changi
Character: Guillaume Koper
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: TV
Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they are marched off to Changi prison camp. Together, the six boys survive three and a half years of incarceration. Almost sixty years later, the six prepare to get together for what may be their last hurrah.
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The Goddess of 1967
Title: The Goddess of 1967
Character: Grandpa
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
A rich, young businessman travels to Australia with the intention of buying a 1967 Citroën DS. Once he arrives, things do not go to plan, and he must drive the DS into the outback alongside a blind young woman in order to track down its seller.
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Når mørket er forbi
Title: Når mørket er forbi
Character: Edwin
Released: January 28, 2000
Type: Movie
"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natural resources are in the hands of organized crime.
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The Darkest Light
Title: The Darkest Light
Character: Father Mark
Released: January 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leukaemia, and the doctors aren't making headway. Meanwhile, Catherine, ten, feels lonely and neglected; befriending Uma, the first Hindu at the village school, she takes her to the Moors. Something strange happens, which Catherine interprets as a vision of the Virgin Mary, and a sign her brother will be all right.
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Title: BeastMaster
Released: October 9, 1999
Type: TV
BeastMaster is a Canadian television series that aired from 1999 to 2002. It was loosely based on a 1982 MGM film The Beastmaster. The series aired for three complete seasons. It is produced by Coote/Hayes Productions. The series was nominated for the Open Craft Award in the category of cinematography by the Australian Film Institute in 2000, and for the Saturn Award for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, USA, in 2001. BeastMaster is currently running in syndication on Sci-Fi Channel in the USA, but not in any prime-time slots.
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Title: Farscape
Character: Akkor
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: TV
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
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Title: Farscape
Character: Kreetago
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: TV
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
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Henry Fool
Title: Henry Fool
Character: Father Hawkes
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
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Getting Hurt
Title: Getting Hurt
Character: Edgar Bosco
Released: March 8, 1998
Type: Movie
The safe, secure, boring life of Charlie Cross, a wealthy, successful solicitor is irretrievably shattered when he embarks on an illicit, passionate affair with the beautiful, mysterious Viola whom he meets one evening whilst investigating the background of her husband, Edgar Bosco.
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Water Easy Reach
Title: Water Easy Reach
Character: Windy
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Almar, a young Norwegian sailor whose gold watch, of great sentimental value, has been broken. While waiting for repairs in a remote Spanish town, he meets a number of unusual characters: Windy, an Australian seafarer with unusual experiences, real or imaginary; Marta, a beautiful Spanish girl; Martha's bizarre grandfather; and two old watchmakers who are painfully methodical. It seems to Almar that real time has also stopped when his watch did.
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Little White Lies
Title: Little White Lies
Character: Barrett
Released: October 14, 1996
Type: Movie
The public facade and private life of an aspiring politician and his wife. This film reveals the little white lies that lead to revenge, blackmail and a fight for life.
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Lust and Revenge
Title: Lust and Revenge
Released: May 28, 1996
Type: Movie
This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
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North Star
Title: North Star
Character: Sheriff Lamont
Released: January 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantage of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
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Eldorado
Title: Eldorado
Character: Rocko
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Life of Harry Dare
Title: The Life of Harry Dare
Character: Kevin
Released: June 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?
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Title: Blue Heelers
Character: Father Leary
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
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Bad Boy Bubby
Title: Bad Boy Bubby
Character: Bubby
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.
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Confessor Caressor
Title: Confessor Caressor
Character: Michael Freely
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A fake documentary following around a man who claims to be a serial killer.