Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford

Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States.

  • Title: Bruce Beresford
  • Popularity: 4.683
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1940-08-16
  • Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  • Also Known As: Брюс Бересфорд, Брюс Бирсфорд
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Bruce Beresford Movies

  • 1988
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    The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen

    The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood Stuntmen

    1 1988 HD

    A follow-up special to ABC's 1987 "The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson." The program includes clips of great stunts, interviews with...

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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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  • 2008
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    Not Quite Hollywood

    Not Quite Hollywood

    6.9 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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  • 2003
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    Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star

    Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star

    6 2003 HD

    This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this...

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  • 2003
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    Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen

    Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen

    7 2003 HD

    Behind the scenes of the making of Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

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  • 2019
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    At the Coliseum Deluxe

    At the Coliseum Deluxe

    4 2019 HD

    A feature length documentary about Australian popular entertainment across 150 years; of Skating and Dancing, Vaudeville and Moving Pictures.

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  • 1976
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    Don's Party

    Don's Party

    5.5 1976 HD

    On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay...

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  • 2007
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    The Sounds of Aus

    The Sounds of Aus

    1 2007 HD

    The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved over two hundred years of colonial and cultural...

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  • 1989
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    Driving Miss Daisy

    Driving Miss Daisy

    7.236 1989 HD

    The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew...

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  • 2006
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    The Contract

    The Contract

    5.723 2006 HD

    Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble...

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  • 1999
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    Double Jeopardy

    Double Jeopardy

    6.593 1999 HD

    Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and...

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  • 2002
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    Evelyn

    Evelyn

    6.351 2002 HD

    Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in...

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  • 1972
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    The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

    The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

    5.2 1972 HD

    Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi...

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  • 1972
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    The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

    The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

    5.2 1972 HD

    Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi...

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  • 1974
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    Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

    Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

    5.423 1974 HD

    Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the...

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  • 2003
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    And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

    And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

    7.037 2003 HD

    In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for...

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  • 2009
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    Mao’s Last Dancer

    Mao’s Last Dancer

    6.6 2009 HD

    At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during...

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  • 1986
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    The Fringe Dwellers

    The Fringe Dwellers

    6 1986 HD

    The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager...

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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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  • 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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  • 1994
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    A Good Man in Africa

    A Good Man in Africa

    5.2 1994 HD

    Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish...

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  • 1991
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    Black Robe

    Black Robe

    6.6 1991 HD

    Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians,...

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  • 1978
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    Money Movers

    Money Movers

    6.2 1978 HD

    A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

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  • 1978
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    Money Movers

    Money Movers

    6.2 1978 HD

    A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

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  • 1985
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    King David

    King David

    5.477 1985 HD

    This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

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  • 1983
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    Tender Mercies

    Tender Mercies

    6.7 1983 HD

    Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume...

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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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  • 1981
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    Puberty Blues

    Puberty Blues

    5.392 1981 HD

    Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.

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  • 1965
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    King-Size Woman

    King-Size Woman

    1 1965 HD

    A colorful account of Nigeria's brilliantly painted buses with their biblical names, edited to the beat of Nigerian rock and roll.

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  • 1996
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    Last Dance

    Last Dance

    5.697 1996 HD

    Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and...

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  • 1980
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    The Club

    The Club

    6 1980 HD

    The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops...

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  • 1976
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    Don's Party

    Don's Party

    5.5 1976 HD

    On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay...

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  • 1994
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    Silent Fall

    Silent Fall

    5.2 1994 HD

    Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries...

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  • 1989
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    Her Alibi

    Her Alibi

    5.4 1989 HD

    A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first...

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  • 1986
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    Crimes of the Heart

    Crimes of the Heart

    6.1 1986 HD

    Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.

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  • 2001
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    Bride of the Wind

    Bride of the Wind

    4.3 2001 HD

    A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.458 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1991
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    Mister Johnson

    Mister Johnson

    6.3 1991 HD

    In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He...

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  • 2011
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    Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

    Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

    5.9 2011 HD

    A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her...

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  • 1992
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    Rich in Love

    Rich in Love

    6.9 1992 HD

    Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's...

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  • 1975
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    Side by Side

    Side by Side

    6.5 1975 HD

    Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.458 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1994
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    Curse of the Starving Class

    Curse of the Starving Class

    4.1 1994 HD

    Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm...

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  • 1994
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    Curse of the Starving Class

    Curse of the Starving Class

    4.1 1994 HD

    Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm...

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  • 1970
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    Magritte: The False Mirror

    Magritte: The False Mirror

    1 1970 HD

    Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions...

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  • 2006
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    Orpheus

    Orpheus

    1 2006 HD

    A guy falls for a girl who draws him into a modern-day cult.

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  • 2016
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    Mr. Church

    Mr. Church

    7.392 2016 HD

    A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last...

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  • 1999
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    Sydney: A Story of a City

    Sydney: A Story of a City

    1 1999 HD

    Virginia, a young and adventurous woman, travels from England to Sydney, Australia, in search of her Australian ancestors.

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  • 1969
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    Barbara Hepworth at the Tate

    Barbara Hepworth at the Tate

    1 1969 HD

    Dame Barbara Hepworth discusses her work in a voiceover as we see a record of her retrospective exhibition, held at the Tate Gallery in 1968.

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  • 1986
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    The Fringe Dwellers

    The Fringe Dwellers

    6 1986 HD

    The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager...

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  • 2011
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    The Telegram Man

    The Telegram Man

    7 2011 HD

    The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.

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  • 2017
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    Barracuda

    Barracuda

    6.364 2017 HD

    Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other,...

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  • 1974
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    Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

    Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

    5.423 1974 HD

    Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the...

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  • 2018
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    Ladies in Black

    Ladies in Black

    6.8 2018 HD

    Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of...

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  • 2017
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    Flint

    Flint

    6.8 2017 HD

    A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.

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  • 1987
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    Aria

    Aria

    5.6 1987 HD

    Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each...

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  • 1987
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    Aria

    Aria

    5.6 1987 HD

    Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each...

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  • 1970
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    The Place I Belong

    The Place I Belong

    1 1970 HD

    A look into the life of professional golfer Moe Norman.

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  • 2018
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    Ladies in Black

    Ladies in Black

    6.8 2018 HD

    Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of...

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  • 1970
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    Overture

    Overture

    1 1970 HD

    A successful stage designer returns to his small Australian hometown to say goodbye to his dying mother

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  • 1994
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    A Good Man in Africa

    A Good Man in Africa

    5.2 1994 HD

    Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish...

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  • 2006
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    Canvas

    Canvas

    6.5 2006 HD

    A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.

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  • 1970
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    Clear Lake

    Clear Lake

    1 1970 HD

    The story of how Holly and other famous musicians of the late 1950s gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll while changing the trajectory of civil...

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  • 2015
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    Surprise

    Surprise

    4.6 2015 HD

    A mother and son confess their secrets.

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  • 1981
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    Six Fifty-Five Special

    Six Fifty-Five Special

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1970
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    Six Fifty-Five Special

    Six Fifty-Five Special

    6.9 1970 HD

    An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

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  • 1970
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    Six Fifty-Five Special

    Six Fifty-Five Special

    7.322 1970 HD

    Miniseries based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite,...

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