Les Foxcroft
Actor · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Movies17
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceThe Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
The Best of Friends
1982 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyCrimePrivate detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
The Roly Poly Man
1994 · 2 votes
Movie4.5DramaA champion high school rugby player has a secret desire to be a ballet dancer, having spent 11 years in ballet school. Seizing an opportunity to audition for a local company's presentation of "Romeo and Juliet", he nonetheless fears what will happen to his reputation if the other kids in his school find out. Adding the practices to his already burgeoning schedule quickly starts to create problems with his friends, his teachers, his coach, his play director, and his ballet partner. Of course, it all comes together on the stage of the Sydney Opera House.
Kick
1999 · 4 votes
Movie5.6HorrorThree stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years
Bedevil
1993 · 8 votes
Movie4.2DramaFran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.
...Maybe This Time
1981 · 6 votes
Movie7.0RomanceAustralia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle.
The Winds of Jarrah
1983 · 1 votes
Movie5.4HorrorA young woman is looking after her sister's house, unaware that her sister and neighbor have been murdered by their handyman who also happens to be a serial killer.
Lady, Stay Dead
1981 · 18 votes
Movie5.1HistoryAdventureA story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Burke & Wills
1985 · 9 votes
Movie5.2HorrorTV MovieWhen newlyweds Peter and Julie purchase an old house with plans to renovate it, they begin to discover the strangest things. First, they find one of the living room walls covered with iron plates that reveal an expanding sepia stain. Afterwards, they realize that the stain is beginning to take the shape of a man climbing from the darkness under the house. Whenever they paint over the stain, it reappears. The evil events that took place in the house 100 years prior, are becoming the cause of strange occurrences. Soon, the couple is directly threatened by the evil history of their home.
13 Gantry Row
1998 · 16 votes
Movie5.5DramaTwo brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Newsfront
1978 · 13 votes
Movie8.0ThrillerFour unsuspecting victims are hurled into a twisted and altered reality: ... a young woman tries to flee a hit-and-run with destiny... an ex-ballroom champion hides a mysterious secret from the past in his bedroom... a routine job for a hitman takes an unusual turn... and a woman finds herself trapped in a train station with a bizarre railway clerk. All four soon discover that their preconceived notions of reality couldn't be further from the truth.
Still Twisted
1997 · 1 votes
Movie8.0AdventureFamilyJourney to the land down under for a warm, thrilling story of a once proud racehorse stableowner, his adventurous grandson, and their dream to revive the golden days of horse racing glory.
Born to Run
1977 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaThe True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies.
Little Boy Lost
1978 · 2 votes
Movie4.9CrimeDramaHoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Hoodwink
1981 · 7 votes
Movie10.0ComedyCrimeThree attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school for underprivileged children open.
Touch and Go
1980
Movie10.0DramaAnn (Kerry Walker) cleans for a living. She confronts problems like a vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt from the carpet. She shares everything she has with her two moody children (Noah Taylor, Sarah Hooper) and her equally erratic neighbours. She also shares everything her rich and constantly out-of-town employers have. While Ann vacuums her clients’ penthouses, her friends enjoy the million dollar views, luxury appointments, home gyms, cocktails by the pool - the things they have always wanted, but could never in their wildest dreams afford.
The Last Crop
1991 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
An opportunistic bounty hunter and a beautiful insurance agent travel to Australia to track down stolen booty.
Tully
1975 · 1 votes
Series8
TV6.7SoapDramaAn Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
E Street
1989 · 6 votes
TV6.2CrimeDramaWater Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
Water Rats
1996 · 11 votes
TV6.2DramaMedical 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.
All Saints
1998 · 13 votes
TV8.0DramaCrimeRafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit, going into production in May 1985 as "a 15-part courtroom drama". The program had started out as a pilot episode, recorded in early 1984 with the actor Chris Haywood in the lead role. When the pilot episode was remounted later in 1984, Chris Haywood wasn't available and the lead role was re-cast to John Wood. This second recording was eventually broadcast as the program's first episode.
Rafferty's Rules
1987 · 2 votes
TV6.2FamilySkippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
1968 · 21 votes
TV8.0Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryStories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a twist at the end of the story.
Twisted Tales
1996 · 2 votes
TV6.0DramaAction & AdventureRush was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1974 and 1976. The first 13 episodes were produced in 1974 and filmed in black and white. In 1976, 13 more episodes were produced, in colour, in conjunction with French production company Antenne 2. Each series featured a different cast with the exception of John Waters.
Rush
1974 · 2 votes
TV7.0DramaIn 1829, a recently widowed Englishman brings his children to New South Wales to claim land and begin a new life, only to find it already occupied. Forced to settle as squatters, the family faces mounting challenges from colonial authorities, rival settlers, and the harsh conditions of the frontier.
Luke's Kingdom
1976 · 2 votes