John Bach

John Bach

John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a British-born New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than four decades. Though born in the United Kingdom, he has spent most of his career living and working in New Zealand. In 1997, his leading role as the titular detective character of Duggan was created for him, firstly in a couple of telemovies, then in a successful New Zealand series.

  • Title: John Bach
  • Popularity: 3.942
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1946-06-05
  • Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales, UK
  • Homepage: https://gcm.co.nz/artists/john-bach
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John Bach Movies

  • 2004
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    Ike: Countdown to D-Day

    Ike: Countdown to D-Day

    6.4 2004 HD

    The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme...

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  • 1982
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    Warlords of the 21st Century

    Warlords of the 21st Century

    4.6 1982 HD

    It's the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of...

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  • 1982
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    Bad Blood

    Bad Blood

    6.8 1982 HD

    During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.

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  • 1990
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    Blood Oath

    Blood Oath

    5.5 1990 HD

    On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close...

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  • 1988
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    The Heroes

    The Heroes

    5.3 1988 HD

    Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in...

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  • 2008
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    The Hollow Men

    The Hollow Men

    10 2008 HD

    The 'stolen' insider emails that informed Nicky Hager's best-selling account of National's 2005 election campaign return in Alister Barry's (Someone...

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  • 2014
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    The Cure

    The Cure

    4.4 2014 HD

    When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to...

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  • 1989
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    Georgia

    Georgia

    1 1989 HD

    A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely...

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  • 1986
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    Pallet on the Floor

    Pallet on the Floor

    5 1986 HD

    A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a...

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  • 1994
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    The Last Tattoo

    The Last Tattoo

    5.5 1994 HD

    In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt...

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  • 1984
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    Wild Horses

    Wild Horses

    4 1984 HD

    Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to...

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  • 1984
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    Other Halves

    Other Halves

    7.5 1984 HD

    A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and...

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  • 1993
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    The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story

    The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story

    5 1993 HD

    True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.

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  • 1989
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    The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder

    The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder

    1 1989 HD

    S04E06 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater." A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs. They only have one rule...

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  • 1983
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    The Lost Tribe

    The Lost Tribe

    4 1983 HD

    Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his...

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  • 1981
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    Goodbye Pork Pie

    Goodbye Pork Pie

    6.8 1981 HD

    Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him. The ultimate New Zealand road...

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  • 1977
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    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    1 1977 HD

    The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...

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  • 1980
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    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond Reasonable Doubt

    6.5 1980 HD

    A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.

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  • 1993
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    CrimeBroker

    CrimeBroker

    5 1993 HD

    High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls...

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  • 2011
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    Rest for the Wicked

    Rest for the Wicked

    6.5 2011 HD

    Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in...

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  • 2002
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    8.399 2002 HD

    Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies...

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  • 2016
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    Judgement Tavern

    Judgement Tavern

    1 2016 HD

    Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body. On a cold dark night,...

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  • 2022
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    The Ballad of Maddog Quinn

    The Ballad of Maddog Quinn

    6.3 2022 HD

    An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across the dusty dystopia of The State on a wild quest to save what is held most dear, but things aren’t always...

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  • 1991
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    Old Scores

    Old Scores

    6 1991 HD

    Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial...

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  • 2016
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    The Light Between Oceans

    The Light Between Oceans

    7.078 2016 HD

    A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

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  • 2018
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    Mistress, Mercy

    Mistress, Mercy

    1 2018 HD

    This docu-drama dives beneath the sensational headlines to unravel the truth about a murder case that rocked New Zealand and catapulted teenage...

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  • 2003
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    8.5 2003 HD

    As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the...

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  • 1984
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    Utu

    Utu

    7 1984 HD

    In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke...

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  • 1984
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    Heart of the Stag

    Heart of the Stag

    4 1984 HD

    Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.

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  • 2008
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    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

    6.625 2008 HD

    One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a...

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  • 1993
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    Typhon's People

    Typhon's People

    1 1993 HD

    A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway...

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  • 2007
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    My Name Is Bruce

    My Name Is Bruce

    5.816 2007 HD

    B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in...

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  • 2020
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    Reunion

    Reunion

    6.2 2020 HD

    A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a...

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  • 2009
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    Piece of My Heart

    Piece of My Heart

    6 2009 HD

    Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and...

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  • 1982
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    Carry Me Back

    Carry Me Back

    6.5 1982 HD

    Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and...

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  • 2005
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    1 2005 HD

    15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his...

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  • 2006
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    The Lost Children

    The Lost Children

    1 2006 HD

    New Zealand. 1867. The rugged desolate coast of Taranaki. Three children washed ashore from a shipwreck. No food, no shelter.... no adults. Follow...

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  • 2010
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    Spartacus

    Spartacus

    8 2010 HD

    Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime...

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  • 2015
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    Gallipoli

    Gallipoli

    6.8 2015 HD

    As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and...

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  • 1999
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    Farscape

    Farscape

    7.856 1999 HD

    A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.

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  • 2016
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    Jack Irish

    Jack Irish

    6.964 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Duggan

    Duggan

    1 1997 HD

    Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan....

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  • 1970
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    Close to Home

    Close to Home

    1 1970 HD

    Close to Home is a New Zealand television soap opera which ran on Television One from 1975 to 1983. Set in a suburb of Wellington, it originally...

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  • 1995
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    Mysterious Island

    Mysterious Island

    6.4 1995 HD

    Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The...

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  • 2010
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    This Is Not My Life

    This Is Not My Life

    8 2010 HD

    This Is Not My Life is a 2010 New Zealand television mystery thriller which originally aired on Television New Zealand's TV ONE channel on Thursday...

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  • 2005
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    6 2005 HD

    15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his...

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  • 2005
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    Hercules

    Hercules

    5.3 2005 HD

    A chronicle of the life of the Greek hero who after killing his three sons must perform five labors to repent.

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  • 2004
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    Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

    Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

    7.641 2004 HD

    When a full-scale war is engaged by the evil Scarran Empire, the Peacekeeper Alliance has but one hope: reassemble human astronaut John Crichton.

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  • 1991
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    Golden Fiddles

    Golden Fiddles

    1 1991 HD

    Golden Fiddles is a 1994 Australian mini series based on the novel by Mary Grant Bruce. It was sot from 23 July to 16 September 1991 and was...

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  • 2013
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    Wentworth

    Wentworth

    8.1 2013 HD

    Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and...

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  • 2016
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    Roman Empire

    Roman Empire

    6.8 2016 HD

    This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Rome's fall.

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  • 1977
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    The Governor

    The Governor

    1 1977 HD

    Historical television series about Sir George Gray

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  • 1986
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    The Great Bookie Robbery

    The Great Bookie Robbery

    7 1986 HD

    On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in...

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  • 1997
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    5.7 1997 HD

    New England, 1886: a creature of unknown origin is destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned...

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  • 1998
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    The Day of the Roses

    The Day of the Roses

    6.9 1998 HD

    On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and struck the pillars of an overhead road bridge, crushing...

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  • 1994
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    The Man from Snowy River

    The Man from Snowy River

    6.6 1994 HD

    The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo...

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  • 1993
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    The Feds

    The Feds

    1 1993 HD

    The Feds is a series of Australian television films starring Robert Taylor, which were first broadcast on the Nine Network 1993-1996. The Feds...

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  • 1991
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    Heroes II: The Return

    Heroes II: The Return

    8 1991 HD

    Heroes II: the Return is a 1991 Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during World War II. The true and tragic story of Operation Rimau, one...

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  • 2014
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    Hope and Wire

    Hope and Wire

    1 2014 HD

    Hope and Wire is a dramatized edition of what happened to a group of New Zealanders after the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes telling the "real story"....

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  • 2008
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    Legend of the Seeker

    Legend of the Seeker

    7.4 2008 HD

    The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With...

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  • 1999
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    The Lost World

    The Lost World

    7.2 1999 HD

    Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding...

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  • 1990
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    The Paper Man

    The Paper Man

    1 1990 HD

    The Paper Man is a 1990 mini series about a fictitious media mogul.

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  • 2021
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    Under the Vines

    Under the Vines

    4.8 2021 HD

    Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards star as two city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.. the only problems are that neither...

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