Australian Cinema
by Sublevel4 | created - 08 Feb 2013 | updated - 1 week ago | PublicA list of all the films from Australia I have seen. As always, recommendations are welcome.
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1. Walkabout (1971)
GP | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon
Votes: 27,357 | Gross: $0.02M
2. Wake in Fright (1971)
R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Votes: 13,972 | Gross: $0.05M
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Votes: 41,060 | Gross: $0.23M
4. The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Kevin Miles, Rick Scully
Votes: 4,423
5. Fantasm (1976)
X | 87 min | Comedy
Professor Jungenot A. Freud explores ten common female sexual fantasies as described by some of his patients.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: John Holmes, Uschi Digard, Candy Samples, Rene Bond
Votes: 593
6. Fantasm Comes Again (1977)
X | 99 min | Comedy
An intern and a professional writer at a newspaper agency read ten letters sent to their sexual advice column detailing the erotic escapades of various women.
Director: Colin Eggleston | Stars: Rick Cassidy, Con Covert, Uschi Digard, Dee Dee Levitt
Votes: 408
7. Long Weekend (1978)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
Director: Colin Eggleston | Stars: John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Mike McEwen, Roy Day
Votes: 6,135
8. Felicity (1978)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Teenager Felicity studies at a remote Roman Catholic Church boarding school and seeks indulgence in popular erotic novels Story of O, Emmanuelle and in a lesbian love affair with her friend Jenny.
Director: John D. Lamond | Stars: Glory Annen, Chris Milne, Joni Flynn, Jody Hanson
Votes: 1,360
9. Mad Max (1979)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley
Votes: 222,544 | Gross: $8.75M
10. Road Games (1981)
PG | 101 min | Mystery, Thriller
A laid-back American truck driver in south Australia suspects that the driver of a green van is killing young women along his route, and plays a game of cat-and-mouse to catch him.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page
Votes: 9,103
11. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps
Votes: 193,848 | Gross: $12.47M
12. The Man from Snowy River (1982)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, he takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart
Votes: 10,033 | Gross: $20.66M
13. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Votes: 22,899 | Gross: $10.28M
14. Razorback (1984)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
As a vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by a hunter and a farmer in a search for the beast.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood
Votes: 7,881 | Gross: $0.15M
15. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
Directors: George Miller, George Ogilvie | Stars: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn
Votes: 147,737 | Gross: $36.20M
16. The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Ex-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.
Director: Dusan Makavejev | Stars: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood
Votes: 3,468
17. Crocodile Dundee (1986)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
Director: Peter Faiman | Stars: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil
Votes: 115,529 | Gross: $174.64M
18. Sky Pirates (1986)
PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa. But he gets lost in a supernatural storm. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape.
Director: Colin Eggleston | Stars: John Hargreaves, Meredith Phillips, Max Phipps, Bill Hunter
Votes: 520
19. Malcolm (1986)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
A socially awkward and mechanically gifted man becomes involved in a quirky and unconventional crime.
Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Lindy Davies, Chris Haywood
Votes: 2,843 | Gross: $0.54M
20. Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
PG | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
Director: John Cornell | Stars: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Ernie Dingo
Votes: 60,854 | Gross: $109.31M
21. Young Einstein (1988)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
Albert Einstein turns the science community upside down with his discoveries including a formula to put bubbles back in beer and rock n' roll.
Director: Yahoo Serious | Stars: Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard, Peewee Wilson
Votes: 9,282 | Gross: $11.54M
22. Dead Calm (1989)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar
Votes: 43,716 | Gross: $7.83M
23. Quigley Down Under (1990)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood
Votes: 24,564 | Gross: $21.41M
24. Sirens (1994)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a painting is termed blasphemous, a young minister and his wife visit the artist... and the three sexually playful models living with him.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle Macpherson
Votes: 11,528 | Gross: $7.77M
25. Lightning Jack (1994)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Western
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly D'Angelo, Kamala Lopez
Votes: 7,243 | Gross: $16.82M
26. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 55,145 | Gross: $11.22M
27. McLeod's Daughters (1996 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Western
Following the death of her mother, Tess Silverman travels to Drover's Run, the farm where she spent the first few years of her life. Drover's is a rural cattle property in South Australia, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Tammy Macintosh, Kris McQuade, Mercia Deane-Johns, Simone Kessell
Votes: 459
28. The Interview (1998)
Unrated | 104 min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
Director: Craig Monahan | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery, Paul Sonkkila
Votes: 8,768
29. Two Hands (1999)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field, Tom Long
Votes: 13,669
30. The Castle (1997)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
Director: Rob Sitch | Stars: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe
Votes: 17,496 | Gross: $0.86M
31. The Dish (2000)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A remote Australian community, populated by quirky characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing.
Director: Rob Sitch | Stars: Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell, Roz Hammond, Christopher-Robin Street
Votes: 17,105 | Gross: $2.25M
32. Chopper (2000)
R | 94 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo, Renée Brack
Votes: 41,530 | Gross: $0.23M
33. The Man Who Sued God (2001)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ex lawyer now fisherman sees his fishing boat sunk by a lightning. His insurance company claims "Act of God". Sue the insurance company or God/churches?
Director: Mark Joffe | Stars: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes
Votes: 5,251
34. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Australian Outback adventurer Mick "Crocodile" Dundee travels to Los Angeles with his young son while his longtime companion suspects foul play at a movie studio.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Jere Burns, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 26,239 | Gross: $25.64M
35. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Crocodile Hunter mistakes some CIA agents for poachers and sets out to stop them from capturing a wily croc which, unbeknownst to him, has swallowed a tracking drone.
Director: John Stainton | Stars: Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham
Votes: 8,221 | Gross: $28.40M
36. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan
Votes: 30,266 | Gross: $6.17M
37. The Nugget (2002)
R | 97 min | Comedy
'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.
Director: Bill Bennett | Stars: Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Dave O'Neil, Peter Moon
Votes: 2,033
38. Alexandra's Project (2003)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca, Samantha Knigge
Votes: 5,220
39. Japanese Story (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. ... See full summary »
Director: Sue Brooks | Stars: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran, Matthew Dyktynski
Votes: 6,762 | Gross: $0.65M
40. Kangaroo Jack (2003)
PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Director: David McNally | Stars: Anthony Anderson, Jerry O'Connell, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken
Votes: 33,742 | Gross: $66.93M
41. Ned Kelly (2003)
R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts
Votes: 28,100 | Gross: $0.07M
42. Fat Pizza (2003)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The life at a suburban Sydney pizzeria.
Director: Paul Fenech | Stars: Paul Fenech, Tahir Bilgic, Rob Shehadie, Bill Bentley
Votes: 3,769
43. Wolf Creek (2005)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, John Jarratt
Votes: 78,386 | Gross: $16.19M
44. Last Train to Freo (2006)
89 min | Drama, Thriller
Two thugs from the Perth suburb of Midland catch the last train to Fremantle. When a young woman boards the train a few stops later, they begin talking and find out not everyone on the train is who they seem to be.
Director: Jeremy Sims | Stars: Steve Le Marquand, Tom Budge, Gigi Edgley, Glenn Hazeldine
Votes: 897
45. Rogue (2007)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Horror
An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, Sam Worthington, Caroline Brazier
Votes: 33,431 | Gross: $0.01M
46. Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback (2007 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
True story about Joanne Lee's partner missing presumed murdered in the Australian outback some years ago.
Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Joanne Froggatt, Bryan Brown, John Wood, Tom Long
Votes: 387
47. Black Water (2007)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A boat tour of a mangrove swamp turns into a fight for survival when a group of people are attacked by a ferocious saltwater crocodile.
Directors: David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki | Stars: Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody, Andy Rodoreda, Ben Oxenbould
Votes: 16,042
48. Nature's Grave (2008)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A vacationing couple in the wilderness learns what happens when they disrespect nature.
Director: Jamie Blanks | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan, Star, John Brumpton
Votes: 6,285
49. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
R | 103 min | Documentary, History
The story of the Australian exploitation genre cinema of 1970s and 80s.
Director: Mark Hartley | Stars: Phillip Adams, Glory Annen, Christine Amor, Victoria Anoux
Votes: 4,684 | Gross: $0.02M
50. Triangle (2009)
R | 99 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman
Votes: 129,905
51. Charlie & Boots (2009)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfill their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia's northern tip.
Director: Dean Murphy | Stars: Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing, Morgan Griffin
Votes: 1,681
52. Mary and Max (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.
Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries
Votes: 186,861
53. Beautiful Kate (2009)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
A writer reawakens his childhood trauma from the past when he returns home, at the request of his estranged sister, to grieve their father's impending death.
Director: Rachel Ward | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Sophie Lowe, Maeve Dermody, Rachel Griffiths
Votes: 4,089
54. Love the Beast (2009)
R | 92 min | Documentary, Sport
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter, in the hope that you ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Bana | Stars: Eric Bana, Jeremy Clarkson, Steve Coad, Grant Denyer
Votes: 2,189
55. I Love You Too (2010)
107 min | Comedy
A commitment-phobe and a New Ager buddy-up to win over the women of their respective dreams.
Director: Daina Reid | Stars: Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Yvonne Strahovski, Peter Helliar
Votes: 2,072
56. Red Hill (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A young police officer must survive his first day's duty in a small country town.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Boom
Votes: 9,086 | Gross: $0.02M
57. Matching Jack (2010)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
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 turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Jacinda Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Tom Russell, James Nesbitt
Votes: 1,114
58. Burning Man (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Matthew Goode, Rachel Griffiths, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis
Votes: 4,046
59. Sanctum (2011)
R | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.
Director: Alister Grierson | Stars: Rhys Wakefield, Allison Cratchley, Christopher James Baker, Richard Roxburgh
Votes: 57,217 | Gross: $23.07M
60. Griff the Invisible (2010)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
Director: Leon Ford | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Marshall Napier, Patrick Brammall
Votes: 5,027
61. Last Ride (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.
Director: Glendyn Ivin | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Tom Russell, Anita Hegh, John Brumpton
Votes: 2,608 | Gross: $0.01M
62. Water Rats (1996–2001)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Beneath its surface exists a playground for the murky underworld, pollution hazards, the remnants of huge drug hauls, and a graveyard of bodies from years of suicides, accidents and murders. That's the world of the WATER RATS.
Stars: Brett Partridge, Peter Bensley, Toni Scanlan, Jay Laga'aia
Votes: 1,151
63. Rake (2010–2018)
Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
Cleaver Greene is a drug addict who has a massive gambling debt with some very shady characters and is in love with a prostitute. He's also a very good criminal lawyer, capable of winning unwinnable cases.
Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day, Kate Box, Caroline Brazier
Votes: 8,670
64. McLeod's Daughters (2001–2009)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Romance
Estranged sisters Claire and Tess are reunited after 20 years when they inherit their family's cattle station, "Drover's Run", in the outback of South Australia, following their father's death.
Stars: Aaron Jeffery, Rachael Carpani, Simmone Mackinnon, Bridie Carter
Votes: 6,664
65. The Strip (2008– )
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police detective show set in Australia's Gold Coast (Queensland).
Stars: Aaron Jeffery, Vanessa Gray, Simone McAullay, Bob Morley
Votes: 197
66. Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely teenagers band together to fight.
Director: Stuart Beattie | Stars: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis, Deniz Akdeniz
Votes: 32,026
67. Gone (VI) (2006)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Romantic English couple meets a disarming American psychopath while vacationing in Australia.
Director: Ringan Ledwidge | Stars: Shaun Evans, Scott Mechlowicz, Yvonne Strahovski, Victoria Thaine
Votes: 4,404
68. Jindabyne (2006)
R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After four men on a fishing trip discover a dead body in the water, they choose to delay reporting it and continue fishing.
Director: Ray Lawrence | Stars: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, John Howard, Stelios Yiakmis
Votes: 7,075 | Gross: $0.40M
69. Breaker Morant (1980)
PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown
Votes: 14,440 | Gross: $7.14M
70. Look Both Ways (2005)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
During one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news. This, in turn, brings them together.
Director: Sarah Watt | Stars: Mary Kostakidis, Justine Clarke, Daniela Farinacci, Robbie Hoad
Votes: 3,081 | Gross: $0.10M
71. East of Everything (2008– )
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
2 brothers who are always at odds are forced by their just-deceased mothers' strange will to work together and rescue her deteriorating backpack hostel called 'far out east'. A small town, ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Tom Long, Susie Porter, Valerie Bader
Votes: 298
72. Summer City (1977)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
The exploits of four boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious turn when they find themselves involved in a murder.
Director: Christopher Fraser | Stars: John Jarratt, Phillip Avalon, Steve Bisley, Mel Gibson
Votes: 759
73. Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014 TV Movie)
83 min | Crime, Drama
When a high profile judge commissions Jack Irish to locate a mysterious red book, Jack is thrown into a world of sexy club owners, drug dealers and unhinged killers.
Director: Jeffrey Walker | Stars: Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen, Roy Billing
Votes: 1,845
74. Animal Kingdom (2010)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: James Frecheville, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Bryce Lindemann
Votes: 60,526 | Gross: $1.04M
75. Drift (II) (2013)
R | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.
Directors: Ben Nott, Morgan O'Neill | Stars: Myles Pollard, Xavier Samuel, Sam Worthington, Lesley-Ann Brandt
Votes: 5,260
76. 2:37 (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
Director: Murali K. Thalluri | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Charles Baird
Votes: 7,365
77. Kenny (2006)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy
This hilarious mockumentary film follows the numerous misadventures of a porta-john worker through both his personal and professional life, including an oddly glamorous excursion to the Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville, TN.
Director: Clayton Jacobson | Stars: Shane Jacobson, Travis Golland, Chris Davis, Alf Scerri
Votes: 7,283
78. Gettin' Square (2003)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Barry has good intentions when he is released after 8 years in prison, but finding a job is difficult with a prison record, and he can't keep his kid brother or his friend out of crime.
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Sam Worthington, David Wenham, Timothy Spall, Freya Stafford
Votes: 3,255
79. Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
Not Rated | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Set in 1910 in Australia, the film follows the story of a 14 year old motherless youth, stricken with Polio and entering the forbidding world of adults.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Russell Crowe, Alexander Outhred, Frankie J. Holden
Votes: 648
80. The Silver Brumby (1993)
G | 93 min | Drama, Family
A mother tells her daughter a fable about the prince of the brumbies, brumby being a term for the feral horses of Australia, who must find its place among its kind, while one man makes it his mission to capture it and tame it.
Director: John Tatoulis | Stars: Caroline Goodall, Russell Crowe, Amiel Daemion, Johnny Raaen
Votes: 1,260
81. Macbeth (I) (2006)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in the ganglands of Melbourne.
Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme, Gary Sweet, Sam Worthington
Votes: 2,279 | Gross: $1.11M
82. Bait (III) (2012)
R | 93 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks.
Director: Kimble Rendall | Stars: Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson, Adrian Pang, Yuwu Qi
Votes: 19,458
83. Alvin Purple (1973)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Waterbed salesman Alvin consults a psychiatrist about his irresistibilty to women.
Director: Tim Burstall | Stars: Graeme Blundell, Abigail, Lynette Curran, Christine Amor
Votes: 664
84. Alvin Rides Again (1974)
89 min | Comedy
Alvin Purple, the world's most unlikely sex symbol stumbles from woman to woman and job to job in this zany, sexy Australian comedy.
Directors: David Bilcock, Robin Copping | Stars: Graeme Blundell, Alan Finney, Gus Mercurio, Noel Ferrier
Votes: 237
85. Australia (2008)
PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo
Votes: 129,777 | Gross: $49.55M
86. Romper Stomper (1992)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.
Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott
Votes: 41,624 | Gross: $0.18M
87. In Her Skin (2009)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This is what every parent fears: their child not coming home when they're meant to. When the fifteen-year-old student, Rachel Barber, doesn't climb off the tram to meet her dad, Elizabeth, her mother, and Mike, her dad, bolt into action.
Director: Simone North | Stars: Guy Pearce, Miranda Otto, Ruth Bradley, Sam Neill
Votes: 5,428
88. Candy (2006)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge
Votes: 47,761 | Gross: $0.04M
89. The Rover (2014)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his only possession, his car. Along the way, he captures one of the thieves' brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the dangerous journey.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, David Field
Votes: 51,192 | Gross: $1.11M
90. Dear Claudia (1999)
92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A romantic comedy about a lonely postman, a desperate hitchhiker, a gifted sculptor, an infatuated pilot, a blind a sailor, a street kid, a mistress, a miner, a butcher, two thieves and a ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Cudlipp | Stars: Bryan Brown, Aleksandra Vujcic, Deborah Mailman, Kim Hillas
Votes: 366
91. Storage (I) (2009)
95 min | Crime, Thriller
Working at an underground city storage facility, a young man discovers evidence of a murder and vows to bring the killer to justice.
Director: Michael Craft | Stars: Matthew Scully, Robert Price, Elise Greig, Damien Garvey
Votes: 767
92. The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy
An exuberant, sharply satirical comedy about two parentally neglected teenagers who find the courage to believe in themselves
Director: Tony McNamara | Stars: Jordan Brooking, Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 2,935
93. Hurricane Smith (1992)
R | 86 min | Action, Drama
An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.
Director: Colin Budds | Stars: Carl Weathers, Jürgen Prochnow, Cassandra Delaney, Tony Bonner
Votes: 524
94. Broken Hill (2009)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Family, Music
A sheep-rancher's son aspires to win a music conservatory scholarship, but to apply he needs musicians who can play his music. Circumstances lead him to form a band out of prison inmates.
Director: Dagen Merrill | Stars: Luke Arnold, Alexa PenaVega, Rhys Wakefield, Timothy Hutton
Votes: 763 | Gross: $0.05M
95. All the Way (2003)
R | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Director: Paul Goldman | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith
Votes: 1,018
96. Restraint (2008)
R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller
A young couple on the run hole up in a country estate with a hostage in tow.
Director: David Denneen | Stars: Travis Fimmel, Teresa Palmer, Stephen Moyer, Philip Holder
Votes: 6,476
97. Red Dog (2011)
PG | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Director: Kriv Stenders | Stars: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rohan Nichol, Luke Ford
Votes: 19,441
98. Romulus, My Father (2007)
R | 104 min | Biography, Drama
It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Director: Richard Roxburgh | Stars: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Votes: 4,314 | Gross: $0.00M
99. Newcastle (2008)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Tragedy befalls one of three brothers while on an outback surfing outing with friends.
Director: Dan Castle | Stars: Lachlan Buchanan, Xavier Samuel, Reshad Strik, Kirk Jenkins
Votes: 1,737
100. These Final Hours (2013)
R | 87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.
Director: Zak Hilditch | Stars: Jessica De Gouw, Nathan Phillips, David Field, Lauren Cleary
Votes: 18,982
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