John Bach

John Bach

John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a British-born New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than four decades. Though born in the United Kingdom, he has spent most of his career living and working in New Zealand. In 1997, his leading role as the titular detective character of Duggan was created for him, firstly in a couple of telemovies, then in a successful New Zealand series.

  • Title: John Bach
  • Popularity: 3.781
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1946-06-05
  • Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales, UK
  • Homepage: https://gcm.co.nz/artists/john-bach
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John Bach Movies

  • 2004
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    Ike: Countdown to D-Day
    Ike: Countdown to D-Day

    6.349 2004 HD

    The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tom Selleck

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  • 1982
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    Warlords of the 21st Century
    Warlords of the 21st Century

    4.621 1982 HD

    It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: Michael Beck

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  • 1982
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    Bad Blood
    Bad Blood

    6.8 1982 HD

    During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Jack Thompson

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  • 1984
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    Other Halves
    Other Halves

    7.5 1984 HD

    A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lisa Harrow

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  • 1990
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    Blood Oath
    Blood Oath

    5.5 1990 HD

    On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bryan Brown

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  • 1988
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    The Heroes
    The Heroes

    4.6 1988 HD

    Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Paul Rhys

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  • 2014
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    The Cure
    The Cure

    4.44 2014 HD

    When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Antonia Prebble

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  • 1989
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    Georgia
    Georgia

    1 1989 HD

    A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Judy Davis

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  • 1984
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    Wild Horses
    Wild Horses

    4 1984 HD

    Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Keith Aberdein

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  • 1986
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    Pallet on the Floor
    Pallet on the Floor

    5 1986 HD

    A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter McCauley

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  • 1994
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    The Last Tattoo
    The Last Tattoo

    5.5 1994 HD

    In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tony Goldwyn

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  • 1993
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    The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
    The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story

    5 1993 HD

    True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.

    Genre: History

    Cast: John Bach

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  • 1983
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    The Lost Tribe
    The Lost Tribe

    4 1983 HD

    Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: John Bach

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  • 1993
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    CrimeBroker
    CrimeBroker

    5 1993 HD

    High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Jacqueline Bisset

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  • 2011
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    Rest for the Wicked
    Rest for the Wicked

    6.5 2011 HD

    Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Tony Barry

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  • 2002
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    8.396 2002 HD

    Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Elijah Wood

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  • 2016
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    Judgement Tavern
    Judgement Tavern

    1 2016 HD

    Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body. On a cold dark night,...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Nova Waretini-Hewison

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  • 1991
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    Old Scores
    Old Scores

    6 1991 HD

    Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Pugh

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  • 2016
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    The Light Between Oceans
    The Light Between Oceans

    7.1 2016 HD

    A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Fassbender

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  • 2018
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    Mistress, Mercy
    Mistress, Mercy

    1 2018 HD

    This docu-drama dives beneath the sensational headlines to unravel the truth about a murder case that rocked New Zealand and catapulted teenage...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Xavier Horan

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  • 2003
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    8.481 2003 HD

    As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Elijah Wood

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  • 1984
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    Utu
    Utu

    7 1984 HD

    In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Anzac Wallace

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  • 1984
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    Heart of the Stag
    Heart of the Stag

    4 1984 HD

    Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bruno Lawrence

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  • 2008
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    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

    6.621 2008 HD

    One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Ben Barnes

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  • 1993
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    Typhon's People
    Typhon's People

    1 1993 HD

    A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Greg Wise

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  • 2007
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    My Name Is Bruce
    My Name Is Bruce

    5.848 2007 HD

    B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bruce Campbell

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  • 2020
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    Reunion
    Reunion

    6.2 2020 HD

    A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Julia Ormond

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  • 2009
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    Piece of My Heart
    Piece of My Heart

    6 2009 HD

    Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Rena Owen

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  • 1982
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    Carry Me Back
    Carry Me Back

    6.5 1982 HD

    Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Grant Tilly

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  • 2005
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    Kidnapped
    Kidnapped

    1 2005 HD

    15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: James Anthony Pearson

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  • 2008
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    The Hollow Men
    The Hollow Men

    10 2008 HD

    The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Nick Blake

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  • 1989
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    The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder
    The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder

    1 1989 HD

    S04E06 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater." A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs. They only have one rule...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Kiel Martin

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  • 1981
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    Goodbye Pork Pie
    Goodbye Pork Pie

    6.7 1981 HD

    Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Tony Barry

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  • 1977
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    Wild Man
    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

    The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bruno Lawrence

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  • 1980
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    Beyond Reasonable Doubt
    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    5 1980 HD

    A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Hemmings

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  • 1970
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    Close to Home
    Close to Home

    1 1970 HD

    Close to Home is a New Zealand television soap opera which ran on Television One from 1975 to 1983. Set in a suburb of Wellington, it originally...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ilona Rodgers

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  • 2010
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    This Is Not My Life
    This Is Not My Life

    8 2010 HD

    This Is Not My Life is a 2010 New Zealand television mystery thriller which originally aired on Television New Zealand's TV ONE channel on Thursday...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tandi Wright

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  • 2006
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    The Lost Children
    The Lost Children

    1 2006 HD

    New Zealand. 1867. The rugged desolate coast of Taranaki. Three children washed ashore from a shipwreck. No food, no shelter.... no adults. Follow...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Bach

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  • 2004
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    Farscape
    Farscape

    7.856 2004 HD

    A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Ben Browder

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  • 1999
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    Duggan
    Duggan

    1 1999 HD

    Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Bach

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  • 1995
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    Mysterious Island
    Mysterious Island

    6.4 1995 HD

    Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alan Scarfe

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  • 2005
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    Kidnapped
    Kidnapped

    6 2005 HD

    15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: James Anthony Pearson

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  • 2005
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    Hercules
    Hercules

    5.3 2005 HD

    A chronicle of the life of the Greek hero who after killing his three sons must perform five labors to repent.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elizabeth Perkins

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  • 2021
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    Wentworth
    Wentworth

    8 2021 HD

    Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Danielle Cormack

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  • 2019
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    Roman Empire
    Roman Empire

    6.695 2019 HD

    This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sean Bean

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  • 1997
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    5.6 1997 HD

    New England, 1886: a creature of unknown origin is destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Michael Caine

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  • 1998
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    The Day of the Roses
    The Day of the Roses

    6.9 1998 HD

    On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and struck the pillars of an overhead road bridge, crushing...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gigi Edgley

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  • 2014
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    Hope and Wire
    Hope and Wire

    1 2014 HD

    Hope and Wire is a dramatized edition of what happened to a group of New Zealanders after the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes telling the "real story"....

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    Cast: Bernard Hill

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  • 2010
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    Legend of the Seeker
    Legend of the Seeker

    7.396 2010 HD

    The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Craig Horner

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  • 2002
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    The Lost World
    The Lost World

    7.233 2002 HD

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

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Peter McCauley

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  • 2013
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    Spartacus
    Spartacus

    7.998 2013 HD

    Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Liam McIntyre

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  • 2015
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    Gallipoli
    Gallipoli

    6.8 2015 HD

    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...

    Genre: War & Politics

    Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee

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  • 2021
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    Jack Irish
    Jack Irish

    7 2021 HD

    Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Guy Pearce

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  • 1986
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    The Great Bookie Robbery
    The Great Bookie Robbery

    7 1986 HD

    On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Bach

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  • 1998
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    The Man from Snowy River
    The Man from Snowy River

    6.6 1998 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Andrew Clarke

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  • 2004
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    Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
    Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

    7.862 2004 HD

    When a full-scale war is engaged by the evil Scarran Empire, the Peacekeeper Alliance has but one hope: reassemble human astronaut John Crichton.

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Ben Browder

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  • 1991
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    Golden Fiddles
    Golden Fiddles

    1 1991 HD

    Golden Fiddles is a 1994 Australian mini series based on the novel by Mary Grant Bruce. It was sot from 23 July to 16 September 1991 and was...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Bach

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  • 1977
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    The Governor
    The Governor

    1 1977 HD

    Historical television series about Sir George Gray

    Genre: War & Politics

    Cast: Corin Redgrave

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  • 1996
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    The Feds
    The Feds

    1 1996 HD

    The Feds is a series of Australian television films starring Robert Taylor, which were first broadcast on the Nine Network 1993-1996. The Feds...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Taylor

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  • 1991
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    Heroes II: The Return
    Heroes II: The Return

    8 1991 HD

    Heroes II: the Return is a 1991 Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during World War II. The true and tragic story of Operation Rimau, one...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nathaniel Parker

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