1980s Australian film stubs

Fran

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home...

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Squizzy Taylor

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 5.8

This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squ...

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Minnamurra

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 5.7

Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Berge...

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Run Chrissie Run!

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 5.3

The action moves along quickly, jumping over holes in the script, in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daught...

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Emma's War

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 5.1

After the start of WW2, a mother takes her children from Sydney to the countryside.

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Dead Easy

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 5

Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results in their being hunted by every thug and killer in t...

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Mesmerized

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 4.7

An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.

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Rebel

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 4.7

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia....

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