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Plot Summary:
Marshall Law is a cheeky view of two sisters juggling the personal with the professional as they make their mark in the fascinating and often humourous world of a city Magistrate's Court.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
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CrashBurn (2003)
Plot Summary:
CrashBurn was an Australian 13-part drama series airing on Network Ten, about surviving long-term relationships in an age where multiple partners and multiple orgasms are considered a birthright. It starred Catherine McClements and Aaron Blabey as Rosie and Ben Harfield, a couple whose marriage troubles send them to a counsellor. Most of the episodes are shown in two parts: half 'He says' and half 'She says'. Most of the episodes used flashbacks to an earlier part of their relationship when the trouble started. Also appearing is the couple, Candice and Richard, who are also seeking counselling and run into Rosie and Ben's lives. There are numerous problems arising in the course of the series, not least Ben's affair with Rosie's best friend, Abby. Although the series was not a huge hit, it was noted for its fine performances.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min
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The Secret Daughter (2016)
Plot Summary:
A part-time country pub singer has a chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier which triggers a series of events that will change her life forever. Explore the worlds of 'the haves' and 'the have nots' with heart, humour, romance and music.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 44 min
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Hardball (2019)
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Follows fish out of water Mikey and his two misfit mates, Salwa and Jerry. Their goal - make Mikey the sweetest-bestest-acest handball champ Western Sydney's ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
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Bed of Roses (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bed 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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
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RAN is an Australian television program, filmed entirely on Masig Island in the tropical Torres Strait north of the Cape York Peninsula, the northernmost part of Australia, and the border with Papua New Guinea. This is an important series to Torres Strait Islanders, but also to the predominantly Anglo Australian community as it highlights the difference between Islanders and mainland Indigenous Australians and the interactions between Islander and Anglo culture. Islander actors and extras are extensively used. The series was released on DVD on 20 February 2006.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
The final two years of high school are simultaneously traumatic and exhilarating for both the kids at Jubilee High, and their parents and teachers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
After losing her parents to a mysterious fire, nine-year-old Alice Hart is raised by her grandmother June on a flower farm where she learns there are secrets within secrets. But years on, an unearthed betrayal sees Alice forced to face her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
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Head of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. Can he let go of his past in time to save the future?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sincere, captivating
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Rain Shadow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Rain Shadow is an Australian television drama series which premiered on 7 October 2007 on ABC TV. It aired on Sundays at 8.30 pm. The six-part series was produced by Southern Star. Music from The Audreys features in the soundtrack for the show, including the main theme. Rain Shadow was shot in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and is set in the fictional district of Paringa, a dry land farming area in a rain shadow. It tells the story of two characters who become the means of each other's future. It stars Rachel Ward as district vet Kate McDonald and Victoria Thaine as new veterinary assistant Jill Blake.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
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Hiding (2015)
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In order to survive, Lincoln Swift must take his family into witness protection and give evidence against his former employer, vicious crime boss Nils Vandenberg. With new names and fresh identities, the Swifts are ripped from their Gold Coast home and dumped in Western Sydney. But dislocation puts immense pressure on everyone in the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Cate Walford's relationship with vicious, business tycoon husband, Phillip, is on the ropes and their tempestuous home life is trapped in a tangled web of lies and manipulation. Through a shocking twist of fate, this dark and murky world collides with the seemingly disparate and disconnected, warm and loving world of a widow and her footy star son and musical daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Beautiful Lie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Anna is happily married. She has the perfect family. But one man will change it all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
Four strangers — a flight attendant escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal — are stuck in an immigration detention center in the Australian desert. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 316 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Plot Summary:
The story of INXS, their personal lives and their rise to fame from Australian pubs to stadiums all around the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: captivating, emotional, atmospheric, psychological, entertaining, serious, realistic
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Love Child (2014)
Plot Summary:
Love Child follows the lives of staff at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and the wild streets of Darlinghurst in the 1960s. Joan Miller is a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. Dr Patrick McNaughton is a charismatic head of obstetrics at Kings Cross Hospital. Frances Bolton is the tough matron who also controls the running of Stanton House, a home for unwed pregnant young women.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
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Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (2012)
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Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms is a six-part Australian drama miniseries, screened on Network Ten on 15 May 2012. Bikie Wars is based on the book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey. The screenplay was written by Greg Haddrick, Roger Simpson and Jo Martino. It is directed by Peter Andrikidis. Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms cost A$6,000,000 to make.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
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Satisfaction (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 354 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, tense, serious, biting, suspense
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headLand (2005)
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Headland is an Australian drama television series produced by the Seven Network which ran from 15 November 2005 to 21 January 2006. The Seven Network filmed 52 episodes in the first series. Production on the second series had begun before any episodes were aired. Set in a university, Headland premiered in Australia on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at 7.30pm. On 23 January 2006, the Seven Network officially announced that the series has been cancelled. The show aired on weekdays at 7.30pm in the United Kingdom on E4, re-formatted as half-hour episodes. E4 eventually dropped the show but episodes continued to be broadcast on Channel 4 at 12:30pm, this time in the original hour-long format.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
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Cloudstreet (2011)
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Cloudstreet is an Australian television drama miniseries for the Showcase subscription television channel, which first screened from 22 May 2011, in three parts. It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an award-winning novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was filmed in 2010 in Perth with Matthew Saville as the director, and script written by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
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Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, captivating, emotional, atmospheric, epic, serious, contemplative, stylized
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
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Small Time Gangster (2011)
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Small Time Gangster is an Australian drama series produced by Boilermaker-Burberry Entertainment for Movie Extra subscription television channel. The series follows the adventures of Tony Piccolo, a man who works hard to support his wife Cathy and two kids. While they think he's cleaning carpets, his real profession is as an underworld enforcer, a brutal standover man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Lambs of God (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min
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House of Hancock (2015)
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House of Hancock tells the epic true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang, his daughter Gina, and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, epic, saga
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Plot Summary:
All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009. It had been one of Australia's highest rating dramas and also achieved popularity overseas in many countries including United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, and Iran.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: christian film, exciting, touching, serious, realistic, medical drama
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Sisters (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sisters follows the story of three women who discover that they are sisters. Julia finds out that her Nobel prize winning father secretly used his own sperm in a number of "In Vitro Fertilisation" procedures.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, dramatic, light hearted, entertaining, live comedy
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The Time of Our Lives (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the extended Tivolli family as they navigate their way around relationships, raising kids, love, careers, divorce, disability and finding happiness. Elder brother Matt is a high-flying sports agent struggling with his obsessive wife Caroline. Younger brother Luce runs a much more relaxed household with long-time partner Bernadette, despite a chaotic schedule and financial pressures. Chai Li, the youngest, was adopted from Vietnam as a baby and is a successful and happy thirty-something until her world is shattered by a humiliating turn of events. Herb has known the family since childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, touching, serious, gloomy
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The Secret Life of Us (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Secret Life of Us is an Australian television drama series about the lives of 20-30 somethings living in the early 2000s.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Blue Murder: Killer Cop (2017)
Plot Summary:
A floating body, a drug deal gone wrong, and two former detectives the perpetrators. Life imprisonment is the end of Roger Rogerson's story. The last Blue Murder ended with his expulsion in disgrace from the NSW Police Force. In this instalment, Rogerson struggles to make a living in a world that's rapidly changing, caught between the pressures of criminals, police and a love that might save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective