John Howard

John Howard

Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).

  • Title: John Howard
  • Popularity: 0.9771
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1952-10-22
  • Place of Birth: Corowa, New South Wales, Australia
  • Homepage: https://lmcm.com.au/actors/#/actors/8127
  • Also Known As: Τζον Χάουαρντ
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John Howard Movies

  • 1988
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    Young Einstein

    Young Einstein

    5.241 1988 HD

    Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.

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  • 2006
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    Jindabyne

    Jindabyne

    5.4 2006 HD

    Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.

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  • 1983
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    Gary's Story

    Gary's Story

    1 1983 HD

    A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.

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  • 1996
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    Dating the Enemy

    Dating the Enemy

    6.3 1996 HD

    Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their first anniversary, under a full moon, a frustrated Tash declares her wish that they could swap lives. The next morning, Brett and Tash awaken to find Tash's wish has come true. Forced to confront the unfamiliar sensations of their "new" bodies, both must navigate strange new experiences with friends and co-workers.

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  • 1980
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    The Club

    The Club

    5.8 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 immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.

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  • 1988
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    Around the World in Eighty Ways

    Around the World in Eighty Ways

    1 1988 HD

    Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...

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  • 1983
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    Bush Christmas

    Bush Christmas

    5.8 1983 HD

    In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.

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  • 2003
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    Take Away

    Take Away

    3.9 2003 HD

    Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys both own, live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual rivalry based on a cause long forgotten, the pair unite when the multinational fast-food outlet "Burgies" unveils a new store directly opposite the twin fish & chips shops.

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  • 1999
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    In a Savage Land

    In a Savage Land

    4.6 1999 HD

    Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.

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  • 2001
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    The Man Who Sued God

    The Man Who Sued God

    6.3 2001 HD

    A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.

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  • 1998
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    Never Tell Me Never

    Never Tell Me Never

    3.7 1998 HD

    This is the true story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.

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  • 2015
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    Mad Max: Fury Road

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    7.631 2015 HD

    An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

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  • 2004
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    A Man's Gotta Do

    A Man's Gotta Do

    3.7 2004 HD

    Eddy does what he has to do to give his family what they want. For the last 25 years, he has secretly moonlighted as a "standover" man, purely to provide his aspirational wife with her dream house and a privileged upbringing for his only daughter. Eddy finds it hard to express how he feels, especially now that his "little girl" is engaged and will soon be leaving the family home. Chantelle believes her emotionally blocked father has only two feelings "angry" and "very angry" and feels her father just doesn't understand her. Eddy is perplexed: "What's to understand?" Herein lies the problem. Over eager to get on the same wavelength as his daughter and recapture the closeness they once had, Eddy starts reading Chantelle's diary. In the process, more secrets than anyone was prepared for, begin to surface with devastating yet hilarious results. Eddy rides the storm and once the dust settles, all is well... for now.

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  • 2003
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    Japanese Story

    Japanese Story

    6.3 2003 HD

    Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.

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  • 1988
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    Evil Angels

    Evil Angels

    6.7 1988 HD

    Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

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  • 1997
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    Blackrock

    Blackrock

    5.3 1997 HD

    In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

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  • 1984
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    Strikebound

    Strikebound

    5.3 1984 HD

    Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization."

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  • 1984
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    Razorback

    Razorback

    5.9 1984 HD

    In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

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  • 2024
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    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    7.453 2024 HD

    As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

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  • 2015
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    Last Cab to Darwin

    Last Cab to Darwin

    6.8 2015 HD

    Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.

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  • 2002
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    The Road from Coorain

    The Road from Coorain

    7.3 2002 HD

    A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.

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  • 1993
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    Joh's Jury

    Joh's Jury

    7 1993 HD

    Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

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  • 2018
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    The Merger

    The Merger

    5.8 2018 HD

    A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.

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  • 1982
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    The Highest Honour

    The Highest Honour

    5.8 1982 HD

    After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

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  • 2014
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    Grace Under Water

    Grace Under Water

    1 2014 HD

    Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy afternoon at the local pool.

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  • 2018
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    Frontier

    Frontier

    5 2018 HD

    Texas, 1848. Families are being forced off their land by the settlers who come to colonize this unpopulated state. A battle for the land and oil ensues.

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  • 2019
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    A Matter Of Principle

    A Matter Of Principle

    5.5 2019 HD

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  • 1975
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    Capone

    Capone

    5.8 1975 HD

    Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.

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  • 2025
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    Riley

    Riley

    5.8 2025 HD

    The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.

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  • 1970
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    To The Rescue

    To The Rescue

    1 1970 HD

    Hubble in 1990 meant trouble. The highly touted telescope was designed to escape Earth's blurry atmosphere, yet its creators were shocked to learn that it was cruelly nearsighted from a minuscule flaw in its lens. Enter NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's scientists and engineers, who offered up an ingenious solution to Hubble's woes. But would it work?

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  • 2001
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    The Job

    The Job

    6.7 2001 HD

    Mike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. He's struggling to balance a challenging personal life with a job that leaves him wondering on a daily basis if he is the last sane person in New York. His unconventional approach to his job makes him a great cop, even on the most trying days. The only thing he can't figure out is why, if he's the only sane guy around, everyone's always looking at him like he's crazy.

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  • 1992
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    The Girl from Tomorrow

    The Girl from Tomorrow

    7.2 1992 HD

    Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the past, Alana befriends Jenny, who helps her adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and to find a way back to her own time.

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  • 1993
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    Blue Heelers

    Blue Heelers

    6.2 1993 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    Get Krack!n

    Get Krack!n

    6.1 2017 HD

    Having conquered the cutthroat world of satirical online cooking shows with The Katering Show, the two Kates are ready to take a Sassy Swipe at morning lifestyle television in Get Krack!n.

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  • 2021
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    Bump

    Bump

    7.5 2021 HD

    An unexpected pregnancy complicates the lives of two families. The series centers around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby.

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  • 2001
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    Always Greener

    Always Greener

    1 2001 HD

    Every city-dweller daydreams about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try their luck in the 'Big Smoke'. Always Greener is the story of two families who actually dare to give it a go.

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  • 2004
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    Jessica

    Jessica

    4.8 2004 HD

    Set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalised.

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  • 2014
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    Janet King

    Janet King

    6.9 2014 HD

    Senior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications throughout the judicial system.

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  • 1998
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    All Saints

    All Saints

    6.1 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 Department at All Saints Hospital.

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  • 1998
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    The Games

    The Games

    7 1998 HD

    The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.

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  • 2017
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    The Warriors

    The Warriors

    2.8 2017 HD

    The Warriors is set in the world of Australian Rules Football. It explores the elite world of professional sport through the eyes of two new recruits - plucked from obscurity to fame and fortune - and two established players as they are thrown together in a share house in Melbourne.

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.6 1986 HD

    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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  • 2014
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    Soul Mates

    Soul Mates

    7.2 2014 HD

    Soul Mates has fun with big life questions as the twin souls of a pair of Bondi Hipsters appear throughout history and the future in a fresh blend of sketch comedy with a narrative arc.

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  • 1998
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    SeaChange

    SeaChange

    7.8 1998 HD

    SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong. The director was Michael Carson. Filming was based at Barwon Heads, Victoria and St Leonards, Victoria, both locations being on the Bellarine Peninsula. A number of streets in the St Leonards Sea Change Estate have since been named to acknowledge some of the characters of the series. Many scenes were also filmed in Williamstown, including the exterior of the Williamstown Life Saving Club, which became the court house of Pearl Bay.

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  • 1981
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    A Town Like Alice

    A Town Like Alice

    7.6 1981 HD

    Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.

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  • 1980
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    Water Under the Bridge

    Water Under the Bridge

    1 1980 HD

    Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.

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  • 2022
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    Colin from Accounts

    Colin from Accounts

    7.4 2022 HD

    Ashley and Gordon are two single(ish), complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog. Flawed, funny people choosing each other and being brave enough to show their true self, scars and all, as they navigate life together.

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  • 1996
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    Pacific Blue

    Pacific Blue

    5.4 1996 HD

    Filmed on location at Santa Monica and Venice Beach, this series focuses on an elite bike cop unit of the LAPD.

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  • 1996
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    Water Rats

    Water Rats

    6 1996 HD

    Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

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  • 1998
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    All Saints

    All Saints

    6.1 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 Department at All Saints Hospital.

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