Colin Friels
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1952-09-25
Locus Natus: Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Et ut:
Dark City
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic...
release : 1998.02.27popularis : 17.7
Angel Baby
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
release : 1995.10.26popularis : 2.671
Tom White
Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not...
release : 2004.08.19popularis : 2.343
The Informant
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in...
release : 2008.11.14popularis : 1.264
Darkman
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been...
release : 1990.08.24popularis : 14.065
The Man Who Sued God
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance...
release : 2001.10.25popularis : 6.317
Malcolm
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from...
release : 1986.07.20popularis : 3.124
A Good Man in Africa
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish...
release : 1994.07.14popularis : 5.58
The Illustrated Family Doctor
Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be...
release : 2005.03.03popularis : 0.924
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their...
release : 2010.08.08popularis : 12.137
Hoodwink
Hoodwink 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...
release : 1981.11.05popularis : 4.068
Dingo
Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown...
release : 1991.06.02popularis : 3.877
The Turning
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi...
release : 2013.09.25popularis : 16.806
BlackJack: Sweet Science
Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.
release : 2004.11.07popularis : 1.622
BlackJack: In the Money
Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some...
release : 2005.09.11popularis : 0.716
Cosi
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney...
release : 1996.03.04popularis : 3.284
A Heartbeat Away
A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks...
release : 2011.03.11popularis : 1.339
The Crossing
A tender fable of an ageing sea captain, who risks the lives of his men when he decides to change course, taking his ship through a violent storm.
release : 2016.06.18popularis : 0.972
Solo
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm...
release : 2006.07.27popularis : 1.698
Monkey Grip
Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when...
release : 1982.06.17popularis : 2.204
Ground Zero
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and...
release : 1987.10.01popularis : 4.318
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a...
release : 1987.05.10popularis : 1.982
Buddies
Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly
release : 1983.06.23popularis : 1.315
Grievous Bodily Harm
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
release : 1988.10.26popularis : 3.388
Mabo
The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge...
release : 2012.06.10popularis : 3.277
Interceptor
A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack...
release : 2022.05.26popularis : 17.656
The Coolangatta Gold
Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is...
release : 1984.11.22popularis : 2.743
Back of Beyond
A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.
release : 1995.11.02popularis : 1.555
Schapelle
A 27-year-old beauty school dropout, Schapelle, was arrested at Bali airport with 4.2kg of marijuana. At first, her arrest was barely noticed by the...
release : 2014.03.11popularis : 1.331
My Husband, My Killer
Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.
release : 2001.11.13popularis : 2.484
Weekend with Kate
This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women...
release : 1990.11.29popularis : 0.979
The Nostradamus Kid
When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
release : 1993.10.14popularis : 5.836
Mr. Reliable
All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police...
release : 1996.11.22popularis : 2.276
Max's Dreaming
A hospitalized amnesiac boy, victim of an abduction gone wrong, brings police detective Mark Bryce (Friels) and nurse Rose (Picot) together. Both...
release : 2003.06.08popularis : 1.494
Black and White
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation...
release : 2002.10.31popularis : 5.501
Australia: Land of Parrots
Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots....
release : 2008.01.01popularis : 3.182
The Eye of the Storm
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir...
release : 2011.09.15popularis : 3.705
The Book of Revelation
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
release : 2006.07.29popularis : 5.076
Class Action
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie...
release : 1991.03.15popularis : 14.945
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.
release : 2004.02.10popularis : 2.367
Matching Jack
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is...
release : 2010.08.19popularis : 3.507
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts...
release : 2001.12.18popularis : 1.786
High Tide
A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident,...
release : 1987.07.30popularis : 12.899
BlackJack: Ace Point Game
After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted...
release : 2006.08.20popularis : 0.813
Blind Company
Geoff Brewster has retreated to the family’s isolated, coastal shack to die in peace. He is also going blind. Geoff spends his days walking on...
release : 2009.08.01popularis : 0.318
The Man in the Iron Mask
Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him...
release : 1985.12.31popularis : 1.005
The Farm
After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be...
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 2.215
Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time...
release : 2012.10.14popularis : 4.696
Kangaroo
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in...
release : 1986.07.24popularis : 1.68
BlackJack
Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral...
release : 2003.03.16popularis : 1.05
BlackJack: Dead Memory
A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's...
release : 2006.08.27popularis : 0.968
BlackJack: Ghosts
Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for...
release : 2007.12.02popularis : 1.825
BlackJack: At the Gates
Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an...
release : 2006.09.24popularis : 1.445