Tim Burstall

Tim Burstall

Tim Burstall (20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for hit Australian movie Alvin Purple (1973) and its sequel Alvin Rides Again (1974).

  • Title: Tim Burstall
  • Popularity: 1.722
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-04-20
  • Place of Birth: Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK
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Tim Burstall Movies

  • 1973
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    Alvin Purple

    Alvin Purple

    5.6 1973 HD

    Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help...

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  • 1986
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    Kangaroo

    Kangaroo

    6 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Attack Force Z

    Attack Force Z

    6.185 1982 HD

    Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of...

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  • 1971
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    Stork

    Stork

    5.9 1971 HD

    Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors...

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  • 1976
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    The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

    The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

    4.8 1976 HD

    An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.

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  • 1974
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    Jock Petersen

    Jock Petersen

    4 1974 HD

    Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives...

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  • 1979
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    The Last of the Knucklemen

    The Last of the Knucklemen

    6.3 1979 HD

    In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away, this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group...

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  • 1976
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    End Play

    End Play

    6.2 1976 HD

    And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.

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  • 1976
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    End Play

    End Play

    6.2 1976 HD

    And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.

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  • 1988
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    Nightmare at Bittercreek

    Nightmare at Bittercreek

    5.6 1988 HD

    In a deadly battle for survival, four women are hunted by a ruthless group of killers they accidentally stumble upon while camping.

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  • 1985
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    The Naked Country

    The Naked Country

    3.5 1985 HD

    Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to...

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  • 1985
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    The Naked Country

    The Naked Country

    3.5 1985 HD

    Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to...

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  • 1973
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    Libido

    Libido

    4.2 1973 HD

    Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal...

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  • 1969
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    Two Thousand Weeks

    Two Thousand Weeks

    2 1969 HD

    A subjective view of a crisis in the life of a writer who calculates he has 2,000 weeks left in his life to fulfill himself.

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  • 1971
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    Stork

    Stork

    5.9 1971 HD

    Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors...

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  • 1982
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    Duet for Four

    Duet for Four

    1 1982 HD

    A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want...

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  • 1976
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    End Play

    End Play

    6.2 1976 HD

    And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.

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  • 1962
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    The Dance of the Angels: Ceramic Sculptures of John Perceval

    The Dance of the Angels: Ceramic Sculptures of John Perceval

    1 1962 HD

    Camera movement and film editing are combined to animate the ceramic figurines of John Perceval. He created his angels "more or less as symbols of...

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  • 1974
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    Three Old Friends

    Three Old Friends

    1 1974 HD

    A story of three old friends coming together.

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  • 1971
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    The Hot Centre Of The World

    The Hot Centre Of The World

    1 1971 HD

    A dramatic encounter on St Kilda Pier between two derelicts and a would-be suicide.

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  • 1969
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    Two Thousand Weeks

    Two Thousand Weeks

    2 1969 HD

    A subjective view of a crisis in the life of a writer who calculates he has 2,000 weeks left in his life to fulfill himself.

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  • 1979
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    The Last of the Knucklemen

    The Last of the Knucklemen

    6.3 1979 HD

    In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away, this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group...

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  • 1973
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    Alvin Purple

    Alvin Purple

    5.6 1973 HD

    Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help...

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  • 1975
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    Australia After Dark

    Australia After Dark

    5.429 1975 HD

    An exotic world of eroticism, witchcraft, masochism and strange secret places.

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  • 1963
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    Nullarbor Hideout

    Nullarbor Hideout

    1 1963 HD

    Bored during the summer holidays and escaping the heat, a group of kids (and their joey!) from Cook, on the Nullarbor Plain, discover a limestone...

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  • 1987
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    Great Expectations: The Untold Story

    Great Expectations: The Untold Story

    6 1987 HD

    A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

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  • 1979
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    Snapshot

    Snapshot

    5.571 1979 HD

    A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.

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  • 1977
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    High Rolling

    High Rolling

    1 1977 HD

    Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a...

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  • 1974
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    Alvin Rides Again

    Alvin Rides Again

    4.813 1974 HD

    Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.

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  • 1974
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    Alvin Rides Again

    Alvin Rides Again

    4.813 1974 HD

    Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.

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  • 1984
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    The Coolangatta Gold

    The Coolangatta Gold

    5 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

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  • 1970
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    6.6 1970 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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