Cast: Arthur Dignam

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Arthur Dignam. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Moulin Rouge

2001 · Movie · 125 min. · Australia

Direction Baz Luhrmann

Cast Nicole Kidman · Ewan McGregor · John Leguizamo · David Wenham

Synopsis Christian, a young Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered...

6.8

127K votes

6.8

127K votes

Direction David Garfath · John Madden · Tony Smith · Paul Weiland

Cast Michael Gambon · Brian Henson · Mark Ashman · Frances Barber

Synopsis A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus & Euridyce.

6.7

494 votes

6.7

494 votes

The Devil's Playground

1976 · Movie · 107 min. · Australia

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Arthur Dignam · Nick Tate · Simon Burke · Charles McCallum

Synopsis The Devil's Playground deals with the repressive attitudes of a Catholic boarding school as a group of young boys struggle to come to terms with their own emotional and sexual identity.

6.2

55 votes

6.2

55 votes

The Tree

2010 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Julie Bertucelli

Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Marton Csokas · Christian Byers · Morgana Davies

Synopsis After the death of her father, an 8-year-old girl becomes convinced that he is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan tree that towers over her house.

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Strange Behavior

1981 · Movie · 90 min. · Australia

Direction Michael Laughlin

Cast Michael Murphy · Louise Fletcher · Arthur Dignam · Fiona Lewis

Synopsis A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

4.7

68 votes

4.7

68 votes

The Everlasting Secret Family

1988 · Movie · 94 min. · Australia

Direction Michael Thornhill

Cast Mark Lee · Drew Norman · Dennis Miller · Arthur Dignam

Synopsis A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He...

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The Wild Duck

1984 · Movie · 95 min. · Australia

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Isabelle Eberhardt

1991 · Movie · 113 min. · Australia

Direction Ian Pringle

Cast Mathilda May · Tchéky Karyo · Peter O'Toole · Richard Moir

Synopsis Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century. The focus is on her hardships because she is a woman in an Arab...

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The Dreaming

1988 · Movie · 87 min. · Australia

Direction Mario Andreacchio

Cast Arthur Dignam · Penny Cook · Gary Sweet · Laurence Clifford

Synopsis A doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds herself having disturbing dreams and finds herself involved in a 200-year-old mystery.

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The Right Hand Man

1987 · Movie · 97 min. · Australia

Direction Di Drew

Cast Rupert Everett · Hugo Weaving · Arthur Dignam · Jennifer Claire

Synopsis A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.

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The Return of Captain Invincible

1983 · Movie · 90 min. · Australia

Direction Philippe Mora

Cast Alan Arkin · Christopher Lee · Kate Fitzpatrick · Bill Hunter

Synopsis The plot involves the Captain America/Superman inspired super-hero called "Captain Invincible" (also known as Legend in Leotards, The Caped Contender and Man of Magnet) who is active during World War II and afterwards. Once a popular hero to all Americans...

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Shadow of the Cobra (TV Miniseries)

1989 · Series · 165 min. · Australia

Direction Mark Joffe

Cast Rachel Ward · Michael Woods · Art Malik · Helen Buday

Synopsis Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia during the 1970s.

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Beneath Clouds

2002 · Movie · 90 min. · Australia

Direction Ivan Sen

Cast Dannielle Hall · Damian Pitt · Jenna Lee Connors · Simon Swan

Synopsis Lena has an absent Irish father she longs to see and an Aboriginal mother she finds disgusting. When she breaks away, she meets up with petty crim Vaughn who's just escaped from low security prison to reluctantly visit his dying...

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Summer of Secrets

1976 · Movie · 100 min. · Australia

Direction Jim Sharman

Cast Arthur Dignam · Rufus Collins · Nell Campbell · Andrew Sharp

Synopsis A young couple venture into a summer beach house and make passionate love, unaware that they are being observed by a demented doctor who later uses the girl as part of a bizarre experiment.

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We of the Never Never

1982 · Movie · 134 min. · Australia

Direction Igor Auzins

Cast Angela Punch McGregor · Arthur Dignam · Martin Vaughan · Lewis Fitzgerald

Synopsis Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.

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