
Basil Clarke
Actor · 1913 – 2004 · Hackney, London, England, UK
Basil Clarke (September 26, 1913 - November 28, 2004) was an English-New Zealnder actor of the stage, film and television who at 86 won the best actor award at the Tropfest 2000 short film festival. Clarke was an actor who over his long life had three distinct careers and who never retired, remaining on his agent's books until the day he died.
Movies19
Movie5.7FamilyAdventureBabe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Babe: Pig in the City
1998 · 1.4K votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaSocially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.
Muriel's Wedding
1994 · 508 votes
Movie5.8ActionAdventureSet in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. Now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl, he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.
The Blood of Heroes
1989 · 168 votes
Movie5.8DramaHistoryAdapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972 · 21 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceAfter a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Oscar and Lucinda
1997 · 80 votes
Movie6.9DramaThe Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
Movie6.2DramaRomanceA young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
My Brilliant Career
1979 · 83 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
Movie7.2Science FictionMysteryThe fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
1988 · 4 votes
Movie7.5ComedyMystery"They say..." phrases are prescribed by the 'They' secret planning committee rather than developing organically from hearsay.
They
1998 · 8 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieJohnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not long before he will experience the harsh realities of the brutality and day to day drudgery of prison life.
Movie6.8DramaMusicA surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.
The Moon Over the Alley
1976 · 4 votes
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A crazy old man takes to the streets.
Old Man
2000 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ActionScience FictionOver the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Resistance
1992 · 3 votes
Movie4.8DramaGordon, a 25-year-old chain-smoking asthmatic who unhappily works at a Brisbane bottle shop, moves into a run-down residential hotel. He becomes embroiled in a romance with Cynthia, a former co-worker who suffers from eczema and low self-esteem. Gordon and Cynthia occupy themselves with drink, drugs, sex, and Scrabble. A love triangle arises when Gordon's former love, Rachel, comes back into his life.
Praise
1999 · 8 votes
Movie6.5FamilyDramaPrimary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters Harry who owns a sadly neglected but real Tiger Moth. Orville becomes obsessed with the notion that the Tiger might fly once more and the adventure begins when he and Harry set out to achieve that goal.
Tale of a Tiger
1984 · 4 votes
Movie4.2DramaRomanceFlesh and fantasy fill the nights of the call girls at Bambi’s, a flashy back street brothel. Join Bambi, Candy and the girls for an evening or two and find out what happens in the violent world of sex for sale. Candy is new to the business. She follows all of the rules of the house - she arrives on time, doesn’t take drugs, is polite to customers, and numb to all the men who used her. Then she meets Reg and breaks the most important rule - don’t fall in love with one of your customers. Their first encounter leaves her longing to see him again. She fantasizes about the love they share and how idyllic their life together would be. But the facts are clear. Candy is a hooker and she will never be a real part of his world … she’s one of Bambi’s girls. She has seen his life and felt his love, a brief glimpse is all she’ll ever have, KISS THE NIGHT!
Candy Regentag
1989 · 4 votes
Movie4.3ComedyEleven one-act sex comedies, involving wife swappers, a bored housewife, a young virgin, and an orgy in Kilburn.
The Love Box
1972 · 3 votes
Movie7.0RomanceDramaA man obsesses over Rubia as the girl of his dreams, but she is lost in a world of her own as she obsesses after a man who doesn't know she exists.
Rubia's Jungle
1970 · 1 votes
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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
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
TV6.2DramaThe Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottomley; E. Nesbit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Baden-Powell; Marie Lloyd; Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; and David Lloyd George.
The Edwardians
1972 · 4 votes
TV6.3CrimeDramaThree women plot revenge against a drug dealer who scammed them into working in his operations.
Ring of Scorpio
1991 · 3 votes
TV7.8DramaThe Secret Garden is British television adaptation of the novel of the same name. Adapted, produced and directed by Dorothea Brooking, it was first broadcast on BBC 1 in seven, 30 minutes episodes in 1975.
The Secret Garden
1975 · 6 votes
TV9.0ComedyAn Australian sitcom that is based on the British sitcom of the same name Mr. Humphries is sent to Australia by Mr. Grace to work temporarily for his Australian cousin Mr. Bone at Bone Brothers.
Are You Being Served in Australia?
1980 · 2 votes