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Set in the 1960s, the series revolves around three sisters and their families. As the characters address the issues of the times, their lives and relationships are thrown into turmoil by the rapid social changes which occurred at that time.
A pair of Australian moviemakers score an unexpected hit. They are approached by an American producer who wants to turn their little Australian gem into a bright American diamond - but it has to be marketed US style - and so the drama really begins.
When 18-year-old Danny Clark asks the beautiful Joanna Johnson out on a date, he tells her he owns a Jaguar car, a car he certainly doesn't have, and a car he feels he now must buy to 'prove he isn't lying'. But Danny is ripped-off by an unscrupulous used-car salesman, and when normal avenues of recourse fail, Danny and his mates take revenge on the car yard.
An anarchic comic look at contemporary urban Australia, both through the work of 'Melbourne Confidential' - part marriage bureau, part detective agency - and the personal lives of the characters involved in running it.
Athens, Greece. Luca resorts to armed robbery to fund his dream of studying method acting in New York. In a heist gone wrong, he accidently critically injures Ilias, an innocent bystander. While visiting Ilias in the hospital trauma ward, Luca forms an unlikely friendship, but he keeps his crime a secret.
Burn follows the story of 16-year-old Tee, whose life is thrown into chaos when a late-night drive with older boys erupts into violence. This gritty crime drama was improvised by the young cast and shows how high-risk group behaviour can quickly spin out of control.
Celeste was once Australia’s most beloved opera singer. Yet she threw it all away to follow the man she loved to live on a crumbling property deep in the rainforests of Tropical North Queensland. Ten years after his tragic death, Celeste is ready to make one final return to the stage. But her stepson Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives at her behest amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. When she asks Jack for an impossible favor, the secrets that drove them apart explode back into rhapsodic life.
DON'T TELL is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as a 12-year-old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together.
Lawyer Jeff Warren takes over a compensation case after the sudden death of one of his legal partners. His subsequent investigations, and growing obsession with the enigmatic Ellen Fielding, compromise his values and his view of himself as a winner. His attempts to solve the complex intrigues lead him to be accused of the murder of Ellen's husband, Harry, and even his longtime partner and friend, Alison, finds it difficult to believe that he is innocent. His moral dilemma leads him into a final graphic confrontation, with unexpected results.
FALLING FOR FIGARO is a romantic comedy set in the brutal world of opera singing competitions. The story unfolds in the tiny Scottish village of Drumbuchan, the home of Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop, a fearsome singing teacher who believes that only with a broken heart can you really learn how to sing. Preparing her two students, Max and Millie, for the same competition, Meghan manipulates their love lives to get the best performance out of them.
The story of Errol Flynn's early years, depicting his childhood in Tasmania and his wild teenage years in New Guinea. Before he was 21, he stood trial for murder. He was a thief, a liar, a gigolo, a gambler, a sailor, a streetfighter, a soldier of fortune. He was Errol Flynn.
Nick is a Greek-Australian high school student with ambitions to become a world class soccer player. Christina Papadopoulos is the new Greek teacher, caught between traditional Greek expectations and her own feelings as a woman in the 1990s. Together they take on the school's racist sportsmaster who is determined that Australian Rules football be the only official sport played. THE HEARTBREAK KID is a warm-hearted, sexy comedy about two people discovering each other, themselves, and the future.
Frustrated by the uncaring style of his megalith employer the Kent Cinema Corporation, film buff Brad McBain decides to open his own old-style cinema. The Gala Charity Opening Night is to screen the very same epic which last played at the cinema 30 years ago: HERCULES, SAMSON, MACHISMO AND URSUS ARE INVINCIBLE. However, the print is swapped and an all-Italian, non-subtitled version is delivered so our intrepid heroes attempt to 'dub' the film live!
Informer 3838 will tell the story of how Nicola Gobbo had the ultimate trust of Melbourne’s underworld and was gangland’s go-to defence lawyer, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel, the Morans, the Carlton Crew and Roberta Williams. While Nicola knew the underworld’s dirty secrets, they had no idea of hers. This explosive drama is the untold story of how one woman’s secret double life helped to fight the Melbourne gangland wars and trigger a Royal Commission. Throughout the gangland wars Nicola Gobbo was the ultimate double agent. Against all the rules, she was betraying her clients to the police while defending them in court.
THE LAST BULLET tells the story of two combatants - one Japansese, an experienced sniper, and one Australian, a raw recruit. They are the only survivors of one of the last battles of the war. Each knows of the other's existence and knows full well that this enemy soldier will kill...unless he can be killed first. Their dramatic fight for survival leads ultimately to a point where there is just one bullet left to fire. Based on an original story by Hiroaki Yoshida.
Sophie is a beautiful dreamer. In the quiet, Gothic calm of a public library, she writes stories about daring sexual encounters in exotic places. Her characters are passionate. Her language is erotic. But she does not write from experience. Until she meets Eddie. Eddie is a young man on a roll. A dealer in rare and perfect jewels, dangerously seductive, both in business and in pleasure, and engaged to be married. Nothing ever seems to go wrong for Eddie. Until he meets Sophie, his perfect woman. But Sophie has a secret. She is not perfect.
On a remote Tasmanian island, a recently sober father tries to reconnect with his son through a traditional muttonbirding season, only to face cultural and personal crises that threaten their relationship and force them to confront their family’s disturbing history.
Based on the true story of Wally Mellish who in 1968 conducted a bizarre eight-day siege in a house in the sleepy, semi-rural area of Glenfield, on the outskirts of Sydney.
Brad and Gregor are medical students. Brad is a potentially gifted surgeon. Gregor, however, has no higher ambitions than a money-spinning practice. At the moment though, they are flat broke - worse, they are heavily into debt to a psychopathic loan shark. Unintentionally, they become players in the lucrative organ trade. Life and death. Love and passion. Murder, intrigue and 18 holes of golf. This is a doctor's lot. But they're only students.
When optometrist Alana discovers her daughter has a rare inherited eye disease, she must look into her past to realize her vision for the future. A judo athlete with a vision impairment halfway across the world may hold the answers she is searching for, but old truths threaten to derail the mission and Alana’s marriage. Can she save her daughter’s sight without losing everything else she holds dear? Inspired by true events and starring Adam Garcia (Coyote Ugly, Bootmen), Tsu Shan Chambers (Suka, Remnant), two-time Paralympic champion Eduardo Ávila Sánchez and Kieu Chinh (The Joy Luck Club, The Sympathizer), MY EYES is a heartfelt family drama about the power of unconditional love.
A bright and quirky contemporary fantasy series featuring the Twist family who live in a lighthouse on the rugged Victorian coast.
Based on Paul Jenning's popular stories, the wacky Twist family live in a lighthouse and become involved in bizarre adventures.
June 1964. Madness! Music! Emotion! Five teenagers trapped in the giant basement of the hotel where the Beatles are staying during their Australian tour. As the night unfolds they slowly start to reveal their deepest secrets, their hopes, their dreams. SECRETS features some of the most famous music ever written.
Two old timers in a small country town declare themselves a same sex couple on a tax return and then have to learn how to appear gay before the tax man arrives in a town that knows them as anything but.
As a vibrant young Australian woman, Laura forges a successful banking career in London and seemingly has the perfect marriage. Her world is turned upside down when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her husband starts to show his true colours. When a tragic accident leaves Laura a widowed mother with three sons, she returns home to Australia, and is reunited with Michael, a high school friend and a divorcee with one daughter, who has loved Laura since they were teenagers. In each other with their newly merged family in the small country town they grew up in – the couple’s lifelong search for happiness, peace and mutual love is finally realised.
The comic story of Danny, who thinks he's the world's best actor – but has never had a speaking part – and Marcus, who thinks he's the world's best heist man, but has never had a score.
Two young Indigenous players, Zane and Maki, are plucked from their modest lives to play in the big leagues - the AFL. The boys pack up and move interstate to the busy metropolis of Melbourne where their lives are turned upside down. Dislocated from traditional values, the boys struggle with their new-found celebrity and its lure of sex, drugs and fast living.
When food writer and human tornado Liv, has a major health crisis, she is forced to rethink her ‘live fast die young’ attitude. After she scores a once-in-a lifetime job that will catapult her into the American mainstream, a series of unfortunate events in Australia sees her banned from re-entering the States unless she fixes her health. Throwing herself body-first into a wellness journey, she tries everything from the benign to the bizarre in an attempt to get well quick, and reclaim her old life.
Amongst the original occupants of a New York artist housing project known as Westbeth, modern dancers Edith Stephen and Dudley Williams recall their glory days training and performing with the likes of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Alvin Ailey. Well into her twilight years, Edith has shifted her focus to experimental filmmaking, with hopes of completing her first feature by her 95th birthday. Dudley, 75, now teaches the next generation of dancers the technique of modern dance, having retired at the age of 68. As winter descends on Westbeth, Dudley and Edith’s passion to perform continues unabated.
The once infamous Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis is now in his mid-life years, still single and working as a taxi driver. His sad and lonely life continues to pass him by until one day his ex-girlfriend Cleo unexpectedly jumps into his cab and he quickly realises she might be the one that got away all those years ago. But just when he thought life couldn't get more complicated, Brianna Beagle-Thorpe, the Minister for Immigration, hatches out a plan with her brother Clayton to exact their revenge on Steve for destroying their late mother Raelene's political career, 20 years earlier.
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