Roger Newcombe
Actor
Movies14
Movie6.2FantasyActionIn WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come back to the States in order to help stop evil and restore his sterling reputation. Unfortunately, Captain Invincible is a drunk now...
The Return of Captain Invincible
1983 · 39 votes
Movie6.1WarActionA group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
The Odd Angry Shot
1979 · 29 votes
Movie7.6DramaWarThe trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Vietnam
1987 · 8 votes
Movie6.2DramaAustralia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Black and White
2002 · 14 votes
Movie6.3WesternDramaTess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire. Although Tess and Claire have feuded in the past, they must now work together to save the ranch from bankruptcy.
McLeod's Daughters
1996 · 5 votes
Movie5.6MysteryHorrorA family driving through Nevada decides to take some snapshots at an out-of-the-way ghost town named Weaver, and horrible things start happening.
Disappearance
2002 · 30 votes
Movie5.0ComedyShaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife wielding chef … their friendship is put to the test! But, rest assured, these resilient women-of-the-world will pull through and enjoy many more entrées together at Luigi’s!
Luigi’s Ladies
1989 · 3 votes
MovieCrimeThrillerA low-level criminal trying to go straight takes his replacement, the boss's son, into the Australian Outback on one last job to collect four cases of cash.
Crew Cut
2016
Movie4.3DramaFamilyA sheep-rancher's son aspires to win a music conservatory scholarship, but to apply he needs musicians who can play his music. Circumstances lead him to form a band out of prison inmates.
Broken Hill
2009 · 9 votes
MovieFamilyComedyDoctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
Doctors & Nurses
1981
Movie3.7ComedyThis caustic Australian comedy meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It is also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, Lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
Lust and Revenge
1996 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieFairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
The Battlers
1994 · 1 votes
MovieAdventureFantasyBanished to the Wasteland, anthropomorphic panda Isaac sets out to find a young girl and reinstate his family into the Tribe of Legion in this feature-length version of the Australian web series.
- MovieComedyDrama
In the lead up to the first ever Australian superhero audition, a documentary crew spend a week with South Australia's premiere crime-fighting team, the Justice Squad.
Justice Squad
2012
Series3
TV7.2DramaWhen Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback. Ultimately, Tess and Claire decide to run the ranch together, with their housekeeper, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they've inherited.
McLeod's Daughters
2001 · 63 votes
TV9.0ComedyFamilyA group of kids try to run a successful riverboat business with the help of some ghostly friends.
Chuck Finn
1999 · 1 votes
- TVDocumentaryWar & Politics
The Greco-Persian War was pivotal in the creation of the modern world - yet all that is generally remembered are the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. This documentary examines the whole history, from the Ionian Revolt (497BC) to the Peace of Callias (449BC), and also covers the legacies of the war - including Democracy.