John Waters

John Waters

John Waters (born December 8, 1948) is one of Australia's most recognised and respected film and theatre actors. He was born in London England, the middle of five children of Scottish actor, Russell Waters. As a child John often hung around film studios while dad worked and even starred in a few young parts. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass player with 60s R & R Band The Riots and appeared in Macbeth before travelling to Australia in 1968 with only a guitar and $90. He soon heard a US film called Adam's Woman, starring Beau Bridges, was being filmed in NSW so he managed to get himself cast in a small role. Fellow cast members recommended he try auditioning for a musical. He did, and landed the lead role of Claude in Sydney's 1969 production of the landmark rock musical, Hair. This was followed by the role of Judas in Godspell. This led to an acting career on stage, film and television that elevated him to his current status as Australia's most versatile leading man. From the brooding Sgt. McKellar Of ABC TV's Rush in 1974 which earned him a Logie Award for Best New Talent, through the Australian film boom that followed with films such as End Play, Summerfield, Breaker Morant, and on to the mini-series of the 80's, All The Rivers Run, Nancy Wake and Alice To Nowhere. Not to be forgotten was his ten year stint as host of childrens ABC program PlaySchool. John has always intrigued audiences with his diversity. Since collecting Australia's highest accolade as the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor Award in 1988 for the film Boulevard of Broken Dreams, John has re-embraced musical theatre as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, and They're Playing Our Song, and in productions of The Hunting of the Snark for Mike Batt, and A Little Night Music for the Sydney Theatre Company. He has also appeared in Love Letters at the Sydney Opera House and Children of a Lesser God. In 1995 he appeared in ReUnion a rock musical written and financed by himself and Stewart D'Arrietta. He won unanimous acclaim in the role of Pontius Pilate in the 1992 concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar with John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens and Angry Anderson which successfully toured the nation. He has made guest appearances in various TV series, including Good Guys Bad Guys, The Man From Snowy River, All Together Now and Young Lions. John's self written one man show Looking Through a Glass Onion, based on the life of John Lennon, toured nationally and regularly since 1992 and also played six months in London's West End in 1995.

  • Title: John Waters
  • Popularity: 4.574
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1948-12-08
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
  • Homepage: https://theaussiejohnwaters.homestead.com/
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John Waters Movies

  • 1999
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    Chameleon II: Death Match

    Chameleon II: Death Match

    3.3 1999 HD

    In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered)...

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  • 1998
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    The Real Macaw

    The Real Macaw

    6.4 1998 HD

    An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nursing home, when it is discovered that the talking...

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  • 1987
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    Bushfire Moon

    Bushfire Moon

    6 1987 HD

    In the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets the Christmas spirit.

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  • 1988
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    Grievous Bodily Harm

    Grievous Bodily Harm

    4.6 1988 HD

    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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  • 2024
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    The Rooster

    The Rooster

    5.3 2024 HD

    When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile hermit who was the last...

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  • 1978
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    Weekend of Shadows

    Weekend of Shadows

    1 1978 HD

    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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  • 2013
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    Return to Nim's Island

    Return to Nim's Island

    6.5 2013 HD

    Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers...

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  • 1987
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    Passion Flower

    Passion Flower

    3.5 1987 HD

    The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol...

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  • 1976
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    The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

    The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

    4.8 1976 HD

    An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.

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  • 1988
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    Boulevard of Broken Dreams

    Boulevard of Broken Dreams

    5 1988 HD

    A successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with his estranged wife and daughter.

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  • 1990
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    Heaven Tonight

    Heaven Tonight

    5 1990 HD

    The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but...

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  • 1977
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    Summerfield

    Summerfield

    6.5 1977 HD

    When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has...

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  • 2006
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    Carnivore Reflux

    Carnivore Reflux

    7 2006 HD

    A gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little-known condition brought on by carnivorous gorging and excess. This...

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  • 2003
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    Evil Never Dies

    Evil Never Dies

    5.2 2003 HD

    After his wife is brutally murdered, a policeman transfers to patrol duty at a college, only to discover that the now-executed murderder may be...

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  • 2003
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    Totally Gay!

    Totally Gay!

    7.5 2003 HD

    Totally Gay! is a 2003 television special on VH1 that discusses gay pop culture in the United States. The content of the show includes the hottest...

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  • 1984
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    High Country

    High Country

    1 1984 HD

    Following the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is forced to return when he learns his prize stallion is...

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  • 1991
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    Which Way Home

    Which Way Home

    4 1991 HD

    An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.

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  • 1985
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    The Perfectionist

    The Perfectionist

    1 1985 HD

    Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as...

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  • 2006
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    Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’

    Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’

    1 2006 HD

    First there was ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, then ‘My Brilliant Career’, and now best of all ‘The Getting of...

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  • 1987
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    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    6 1987 HD

    An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French and Indian War in colonial America. Hawkeye is in his...

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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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  • 1976
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    End Play

    End Play

    6.2 1976 HD

    And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.

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  • 1985
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    I Can't Get Started

    I Can't Get Started

    1 1985 HD

    Stalwart aussie actor John Waters is wannabe-novelist Robert Marks. No one can fault his persistence and application in the past - he really wants...

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  • 1977
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    The Getting of Wisdom

    The Getting of Wisdom

    5.5 1977 HD

    The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an...

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  • 2017
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    2:22

    2:22

    6 2017 HD

    Two planes almost collide after a blinding flash of light paralyzes air traffic controller Dylan Branson for a few seconds. Suspended from his job,...

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  • 1994
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    Ebbtide

    Ebbtide

    1 1994 HD

    Lawyer Jeff Warren takes over a compensation case after the sudden death of one of his legal partners. His subsequent investigations, and growing...

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  • 1999
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    The Sugar Factory

    The Sugar Factory

    4 1999 HD

    With his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a harrowing journey of humour, grief, resolution and...

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  • 1978
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    The Scalp Merchant

    The Scalp Merchant

    1 1978 HD

    Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near...

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  • 2017
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    Three Summers

    Three Summers

    5.7 2017 HD

    Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality ‘Queenie' describes...

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  • 1987
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    Going Sane

    Going Sane

    1 1987 HD

    A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live.

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  • 1988
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    Captain Johnno

    Captain Johnno

    8.3 1988 HD

    A young deaf boy who calls himself "Captain Johnno" befriends Tony, an Italian fisherman in the small Australian fishing town they live in. Both feel...

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  • 1980
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    Breaker Morant

    Breaker Morant

    7.1 1980 HD

    During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as...

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  • 1978
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    Cass

    Cass

    1 1978 HD

    Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull...

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  • 2020
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    Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

    Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

    6.1 2020 HD

    After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective...

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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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  • 1979
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    The Prophecies of Nostradamus

    The Prophecies of Nostradamus

    6 1979 HD

    An examination of the prophecies and predictions of the 16th-century mystic Michel Nostradamus.

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  • 2008
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    Not Quite Hollywood

    Not Quite Hollywood

    6.8 2008 HD

    As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging...

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  • 1982
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    Attack Force Z

    Attack Force Z

    6.125 1982 HD

    Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of...

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  • 1992
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    Jesus Christ Superstar

    Jesus Christ Superstar

    1 1992 HD

    The 1992 Australian Cast Concert Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar was a phenomenal success with fans of stage and the artists involved. To date, the...

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  • 2007
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    Ten Pound Poms

    Ten Pound Poms

    1 2007 HD

    This heart-warming film traces the extraordinary story of Australia's 'Ten Pound Poms' and their families from the post-war era through to the 1960s.

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  • 2010
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    Centre Place

    Centre Place

    5 2010 HD

    Centre Place is a sophisticated romantic drama featuring Melbourne's style, fashion and culture. Set in the very European boutiques, cafes and bars...

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  • 2005
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    Stealth

    Stealth

    5.437 2005 HD

    Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it...

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  • 2011
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    Kapyong

    Kapyong

    1 2011 HD

    On April 24, 1951, following a rout of the South Korean army, the Chinese People Volunteer Army pursued their enemy to the lines of Australian and...

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  • 2022
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    Blaze

    Blaze

    5.3 2022 HD

    After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.

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  • 1994
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    Singapore Sling

    Singapore Sling

    1 1994 HD

    John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love...

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  • 2012
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    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

    6.5 2012 HD

    Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the...

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  • 1983
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    All the Rivers Run

    All the Rivers Run

    7.313 1983 HD

    Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a...

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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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  • 2020
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    Halifax: Retribution

    Halifax: Retribution

    6.8 2020 HD

    A sniper is on the loose, as Jane Halifax comes back to the rescue to find the sniper before its too late. 20 years on the race for answers is more...

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  • 2013
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    The Doctor Blake Mysteries

    The Doctor Blake Mysteries

    7.8 2013 HD

    Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also...

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  • 2008
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    Underbelly

    Underbelly

    6.6 2008 HD

    Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.

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  • 1974
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    Rush

    Rush

    5 1974 HD

    Rush was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1974 and 1976. The first 13 episodes were...

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  • 2004
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    Fireflies

    Fireflies

    1 2004 HD

    Fireflies is an Australian television show which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia and RTÉ One in Ireland. It...

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  • 2004
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    Wonders of Australia's National Parks

    Wonders of Australia's National Parks

    10 2004 HD

    Witness remote and exotic wonders as you explore the wild, timeless Australia seen by so few. Encounter dazzling wildlife and trek through glorious...

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  • 2010
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    Offspring

    Offspring

    7.1 2010 HD

    An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a...

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  • 1997
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    Good Guys, Bad Guys

    Good Guys, Bad Guys

    6.5 1997 HD

    Good Guys, Bad Guys was an Australian crime TV series that screened on the Nine Network between 1997 and 1998, with a telemovie and twenty-six...

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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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  • 2008
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    Who Do You Think You Are?

    Who Do You Think You Are?

    2.8 2008 HD

    Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be...

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  • 1987
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    Nancy Wake

    Nancy Wake

    1 1987 HD

    Nancy Wake tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse'. This miniseries event begins in...

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  • 1990
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    All The Rivers Run II

    All The Rivers Run II

    1 1990 HD

    At the turn of the century, new roads and railway lines threaten the very existence of the once thriving river boat trade. While trying to mediate in...

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  • 2013
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    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse

    7.4 2013 HD

    In this series of cartoon shorts, Mickey Mouse finds himself in silly situations all around the world! From New York to Paris to Tokyo, Mickey...

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  • 2022
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    Darby and Joan

    Darby and Joan

    6.6 2022 HD

    An English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey...

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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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  • 2024
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    The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

    The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

    7.4 2024 HD

    Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak — aliens, best friends and intergalactically renowned surgeons — tackle anxiety-eating parasites, illegal time...

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  • 2009
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    Celebrity Ghost Stories

    Celebrity Ghost Stories

    7.3 2009 HD

    Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour...

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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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  • 1991
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    Kelly

    Kelly

    10 1991 HD

    Kelly is a Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 1991. The series was produced by Jonathan M. Shiff...

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  • 2002
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    Young Lions

    Young Lions

    1 2002 HD

    Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the...

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  • 2014
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    ANZAC Girls

    ANZAC Girls

    7.4 2014 HD

    The unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.

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  • 1986
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    Alice to Nowhere

    Alice to Nowhere

    6 1986 HD

    A nurse who has been hired to staff a remote outpost in the Australian outback unwittingly carries a stash of jewels taken in a foiled robbery. The...

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  • 2011
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    Bubble Guppies

    Bubble Guppies

    7.4 2011 HD

    The adventures of seven fish-tailed kids- Molly, Gil, Oona, Deema, Nonny, Goby, and Zooli!

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  • 1999
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    The Lost World

    The Lost World

    7.2 1999 HD

    Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding...

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  • 2018
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    Mystery Road

    Mystery Road

    7 2018 HD

    When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma...

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