
Kaarin Fairfax
Actor · b. 1959 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kaarin Louise Fairfax (born 30 September 1959) is an Australian actress, director and singer who played the role of Dolour Darcy in two TV miniseries, The Harp in the South (1986) and its sequel Poor Man's Orange (1987), based on books of the same names by Ruth Park. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kaarin Fairfax licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies19
Movie5.5DramaAdrian, an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, has OCD. Grace, a beautiful street artist, has multiple personality disorder. It's a love story that seems impossible. But what if it works?
What if it Works?
2017 · 13 votes
Movie5.3ComedyScience FictionAlbert 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.
Young Einstein
1988 · 179 votes
MovieDramaThree women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.
Shadow Panic
1989
MovieDramaA story about the divided relationship between a traditionalist Somali father and a gay son who live together in Melbourne, Australia.
Hakuumacaato
2017
MovieAn elderly man insists on granting his wife’s wish of taking their car through a drive-thru car wash.
Skewwhiff
2019
Movie7.1DramaMusicBased on the true story of a young girl who went missing in the Australian outback in 1932.
One Night the Moon
2001 · 8 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaA Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.
Starstruck
1982 · 14 votes
Movie10.0ComedyIt is an uplifting comedy about Rey, a young man who wants to find love despite having lost his 'Mana'.
Paper Champions
2020 · 1 votes
MovieDramaLike its predecessor The Harp In The South, Poor Man's Orange was also adapted for Australian television by the Ten Network in 1987. It continues the story of the Darcy family, living in the Surry Hills area of Sydney. Originally a novel by New Zealand-born Australian author Ruth Park, the book was published in 1949. The Darcys a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock - Mumma (Anne Phelan), dad Hughie (Martyn Sanderson), Roie (Anna Hruby) and the younger daughter Dolour (Kaarin Fairfax), through whose eyes we hear their story.
Movie3.9ComedyRomanceAn obsessive prowler Jack (Jarratt) breaks into the home of his victim Emily (Fairfax). Finding himself wounded then tied to a chair, Jack soon realises he underestimated his intended prey as the two engage in a night long tête-à-tête.
StalkHer
2015 · 8 votes
Movie5.0Drama16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
Midnight Dancer
1988 · 3 votes
Movie6.1DramaA father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
West of Sunshine
2018 · 10 votes
Movie9.0DramaWe first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.
The Harp in the South
1987 · 1 votes
Movie8.2MusicDocumentaryAn intimate portrait of Paul Kelly, Australia's foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country, described its landscapes and cities, and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs, penned lyrics for many other singers, co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul Kelly is both candid and reserved. He has lived in the public eye but has remained an enigma.
Paul Kelly: Stories of Me
2012 · 5 votes
Movie5.0DramaCallan is twenty and is overcome with impulses that he finds it increasingly difficult to control. In order to protect others from his strange behavior, Malcolm, his father, tries to channel his son's attention by every means possible.
The Diver
2019 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaWith his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his mother had a one-night stand with - 30 years ago.
What About Sal?
2024 · 3 votes
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20 Years into the future, the fallout after the war has left the majority of the world suffering. Ash has turned to a life of drugs and sex while trying to escape his guilt he hides away from most of the world.
The Resurgence
2018
Movie5.0ComedyAdventureUnadventurous office worker Hannah and her childhood friend Trixie's world is turned upside down when the ghost of her late sister appears; guiding them on a road trip to scatter her ashes at a destination she once sought but never found. What starts off as a simple journey turns into an unpredictable adventure and the two friends must overcome their sheltered existence and find out who they really are and what they are truly capable of.
Just Between Us
2018 · 1 votes
MovieWhen tragedy strikes a small coastal town, those effected must decide to either pick up the pieces and confront their own misgivings or allow the cycle to continue.
Pillars
2017
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TV7.4DramaCrimeA high-stakes Aussie police drama following the lives of Melbourne’s finest girls and boys in blue – members of a prestigious Tactical Response team.
Rush
2008 · 14 votes
TV6.2MysteryDramaAn English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey together.
Darby and Joan
2022 · 19 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaAn unmistakable Australian icon - a smoking revolver, two piercing eyes behind a makeshift mask of armour. But beyond the armour, behind the eyes was a man both ruthless and gentle, rugged and kind - the infamous last outlaw, Ned Kelly was his name. Both revered and reviled throughout the ages Ned Kelly was an Irish-Australian battler-cum-bushranger, fiercely independent and pushed into action by the repressive colonial authorities of the time. The Last Outlaw examines the life of Ned Kelly, and expounds the legend from early indiscretions and the formation of his gang through to the violent killings at Stringy Bark Creek, culminating in his explosive last stand and shoot out at Glenrowan. The Last Outlaw is a remarkable four-part miniseries presentation that deflects historical judgement and allows the legend to live on.
The Last Outlaw
1980 · 2 votes
TVDramaBed of Roses is an Australian comedy / drama television series which first screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 10 May 2008. It stars Kerry Armstrong and was created by Jutta Goetze and Elizabeth Coleman; produced by Mark Ruse and Stephen Luby.
Bed of Roses
2008
TVThe Harp in the South (1948), a classic Australian novel by Ruth Park, follows the Darcy family, a poor group of Irish immigrants who live in Shanty Town, or Surry Hills, a slum for Irish Catholic families living in Australia during the middle of the twentieth century.