List of films shot in Sydney
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The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 or elsewhere in New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

. There are almost 200 movies listed in the IMDb as having been shot in Sydney. This is a list of the more prominent, commercial or notable films.

Films

Film Year Locations References
40,000 Horsemen 1941 Cronulla, Sydney, Kurnell, New South Wales - Australia
Accidents Happen
Accidents Happen
Accidents Happen is a 2010 Australian coming of age comedy drama film directed by Andrew Lancaster and starring Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Sebastian Gregory, Harry Cook, Joel Tobeck and Sarah Woods. Written by Brian Carbee, based on his own childhood and adolescence, the story revolves...

2009 Moore Park, Sydney, West Pymble, St Ives, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named...

1994 Broken Hill, Darling Harbour, Erskineville, Newtown, Silverton, Stephen's Creek, Sydney, New South Wales; Alice Springs, Watarrka National Park, Northern Territory; Coober Pedy, Moon Plain, South Australia - Australia
Age of Consent 1969 Sydney, New South Wales; Breakfast Creek, Brisbane, Dunk Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland - Australia
Australia
Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic historical romance film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee. The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood...

2008 Camden, Moore Park, Sydney, Vaucluse, New South Wales; Bowen, Roma, Queensland; Kimberley Range, Kununurra, Western Australia; Darwin, Northern Territory - Australia
Babe
Babe (film)
Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...

1995 Albion Park, Robertson, Southern Highlands, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Babe: Pig in the City
Babe: Pig in the City
Babe: Pig in the City is a 1998 sequel to the 1995 film Babe. It occurs in the fictional city of Metropolis. Due to the unexpected darker and more mature subject matter , the film was not received as well as the first Babe film was, as it flopped at the box office and reviews were generally...

1998 Albion Park, Moore Park, Robertson, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Bachna Ae Haseeno
Bachna Ae Haseeno
Bachna Ae Haseeno is a Bollywood film released on 15 August 2008. It stars Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba and Deepika Padukone. The film was directed by Siddharth Anand whose previous films include Salaam Namaste and Ta Ra Rum Pum .-Plot:The film follows the journey of a young man...

2008 Hyde Park, The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Amritsar, Punjab, Delhi; Mumbai, Maharashtra, - India; Bangkok - Thailand; Greece; Isle of Capri, Naples, Campania; Rome, Lazio; Venice - Italy; Rougemont, Vaud - Switzerland
Better Than Sex 2000 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Birthday Girl
Birthday Girl
Birthday Girl is a 2001 British-American drama and crime film directed by Jez Butterworth. The plot focuses on English bank clerk John Buckingham who orders a Russian mail-order bride, Nadia. It becomes clear upon her arrival that Nadia cannot speak English, and early into her stay, two mysterious...

2001 Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Beaconsfield, Newport Pagnell, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire; Ashridge Park, Little Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
The Black Balloon
The Black Balloon (film)
The Black Balloon is a 2008 Australian|British AFI award-winning dramedy feature film which stars Toni Collette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward as well as a cast of newcomers. It is directed by first time feature film director, Elissa Down.The film was released in Australian...

2008 Holsworthy, Epping, Granville, Richmond, New South Wales - Australia
Bliss
Bliss (1985 film)
Bliss is a 1985 Australian film directed by Ray Lawrence, co-adapted by Lawrence and Peter Carey, author of the original novel Bliss from which it is adapted....

1985 Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
BMX Bandits
BMX Bandits (film)
BMX Bandits is a 1983 Australian children's adventure film featuring one of Nicole Kidman's earliest appearances.The film follows the exploits of two young BMX experts, P.J. and Goose , and their friend Judy , also starring James Mackay as the bike mechanic, after stumbling upon a box of...

1983 Manly, Sydney, Warringah Mall, Brookvale, New South Wales - Australia
Bootmen
Bootmen
Bootmen is a 2000 Australian comedy-drama film, directed by Dein Perry. It was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures in Canada and USA and 20th Century Fox Distribution in Australia and funded by the Australian Film Finance Corporation...

2000 Newcastle, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Boys 1998 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Cactus
Cactus (2008 film)
Cactus is a 2008 Australian mystery-thriller film, it is the directing debut for Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan.-Plot:The movie begins with John Kelly pulling Eli Jones from his city residence, drugging him and driving across regional Australia for three days...

2008 Bathurst, Broken Hill, Cobar, Sydney, Wilcannia, New South Wales - Australia
Caddie
Caddie (film)
Caddie is an Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie, released in 1976, and belonging to the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade....

1976 Sydney, The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Call Me Mr. Brown 1990 Adelaide, South Australia; Bondi, Glebe, Sydney, Long Bay Gaol, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Candy
Candy (2006 film)
Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction. Candy was directed by debut film-maker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush....

2006 Kings Cross, Milsons Point, Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria - Australia
Captain Thunderbolt 1953 New England, New South Wales, Australia
Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You is a 1983 Australian drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name by Australian-American author Sumner Locke Elliott....

1983 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Cars That Ate Paris
The Cars that Ate Paris
The Cars That Ate Paris is a 1974 Australian horror comedy film. Directed by Peter Weir, it was his first feature film. Shot mostly in the rural town of Sofala, New South Wales, the film is set in the fictional town of Paris in which most of the inhabitants appear to be directly, or indirectly,...

1974 Sofala, New South Wales - Australia
Cedar Boys
Cedar Boys
Cedar Boys is a 2009 Australian film about life of Middle Eastern young adults in Western Sydney, Australia. Written/directed/co-produced by Serhat Caradee, the film is his directorial debut, and took him 7 years from script to screen. Cedar Boys has a dedication at the end to his mother who died...

2009 Bankstown, Maitland, Punchbowl, St Marys, Wentworthville, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize-nominated novel by Thomas Keneally, and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor....

1978 Armidale, Bundarra, Dorrigo, Dubbo, Gulgong, Kempsey, Mudgee, Port Macquarie, Rylstone, Scone, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria - Australia
Charlie & Boots
Charlie & Boots
Charlie & Boots is a 2009 Australian film starring Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson. It had the best opening weekend for any Australian film in 2009 when it was released on Father's day. The film features many small towns in country Australia...

2009 Sydney, Tamworth, Waverley, New South Wales; Cape York Peninsula, Emerald, Rubyvale, Queensland; Warrnambool, Victoria - Australia
Children of the Revolution 1996 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Clubland 2007 Bankstown, Cronulla, Marrickville, West Ryde, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Coca-Cola Kid
The Coca-Cola Kid
The Coca Cola Kid is a romantic comedy Australian film, released in 1985. It was directed by Dušan Makavejev and starred Eric Roberts and Greta Scacchi. The film is based on short stories in The Americans, Baby, and The Electrical Experience by Frank Moorhouse, who wrote the screenplay...

1985 Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Combination
The Combination (film)
The Combination is a 2009 Australian drama film, directed by David Field and written by George Basha. The film covers the relations between Lebanese Australians and Anglo Australians in parts of Western Sydney...

2009 Bankstown, Granville, Guildford, Homebush, Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Cosi
Cosi (film)
Cosi is a 1996 Australian comedy-drama-musical film directed by Mark Joffe. Louis Nowra wrote both the screenplay and the play it is based on.-Plot summary:...

1996 Kings Cross, Rozelle, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee
"Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton....

1986 Sydney, New South Wales; McKinlay, Queensland; Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Manhattan, New York; Newark, New Jersey - USA
Crooked Business
Crooked Business
Crooked Business is a feature film by Chris Nyst, a successful criminal lawyer. It is a comedy of errors set in Australia's Gold Coast. It opened in Australia on 15 October 2008.-Synopsis:...

2008 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Cross 2010 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Danny Deckchair
Danny Deckchair
Danny Deckchair is a 2003 Australian comedy film written and directed by Jeff Balsmeyer. The majority of Danny Deckchair was shot in Bellingen, a Mid North Coast town in New South Wales....

2003 Bellingen, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Dark City 1998 Hyde Park, The Rocks, Moore Park, Millers Point, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Los Angeles, California - USA
Dating the Enemy
Dating the Enemy
Dating The Enemy is an Australian comedy about a boyfriend and girlfriend who swap bodies and have to live as each other.-Plot:One Valentine's evening a group of single, dateless friends get together to play Trivial Pursuit. Brett , a friend of the host from Melbourne, has just landed a job as...

1996 Hyde Park, Paddington, Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 science fiction film, a remake of the 1951 film of the same name. The screenplay is based on the 1940 classic science fiction short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, and the 1951 screenplay adaptation by Edmund H...

2008 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Brooklyn, New York City; Downey, Los Angeles, California - USA; Burnaby, Coquitlam, Deer Lake, Langley, Surrey, Vancouver, White Rock, British Columbia - Canada
Dead Calm
Dead Calm (film)
Dead Calm is a 1989 thriller film starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. It was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams...

1989 Sydney, New South Wales; Gold Coast, Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island, Queensland - Australia
Dead-End Drive In 1986 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Deck Dogz
Deck Dogz
Deck Dogz is a 2005 Australian skater film, written and directed by Steve Pasvolsky and starring Sean Kennedy, Ho Thi Lu and Richard Wilson with a guest appearance by Tony Hawk. It was filmed in and around Adelaide and Sydney, Australia...

2005 Maroubra, Mascot, Sydney, New South Wales; Adelaide, Hendon, Henley Beach, Oaklands Park, Port Adelaide, Taperoo, Marion, South Australia - Australia
Dil Chahta Hai
Dil Chahta Hai
Dil Chahta Hai is a 2001 Indian film starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, and Dimple Kapadia...

2001 Hyde Park, Moore Park, Bronte, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Mumbai, Maharashtra; Goa, India
Dirty Deeds
Dirty Deeds (2002 film)
Dirty Deeds is a 2002 film shot in Australia. It was directed by noted fringe director David Caesar and stars Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington and John Goodman and produced by Nine Films and Television, the film and television production arm of the Nine Network, owned by PBL...

2002 Broken Hill, Bronte, Kings Cross, Potts Point, Silverton, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Disgrace
Disgrace (film)
Disgrace is an Australian film set in South Africa, adapted for the screen by Anna Maria Monticelli from the 1999 J. M. Coetzee novel, Disgrace...

2008 Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Cape Town, Cedarburg, Western Cape - South Africa
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Doing Time for Patsy Cline is a 1997 Australian multi-award-winning film starring Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, and Matt Day and directed by Chris Kennedy.-Plot:...

1997 Carrathool, Griffith, New South Wales - Australia
Don's Party
Don's Party
Don's Party is a 1971 play by David Williamson set during the 1969 Australian federal election. The film based on the play was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:...

1976 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Dot and the Kangaroo
Dot and the Kangaroo
-Film adaptations:The book was adapted into a film in 1977 which featured a combination of animation and live-action. The main character, Dot, was voiced by Barbara Frawley. The film also featured Spike Milligan as the voice of Platypus. The movie featured an original soundtrack including several...

1977 Blue Mountains, Jenolan Caves, New South Wales - Australia
Down the Wind 1975 Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Perisher, Snowy Mountains, New South Wales; Adelaide, Crafers, Morialta Gorge, Mount Bold, Stirling, South Australia - Australia
Ebbtide 1994 Sydney, New South Wales; Adelaide, Carrick Hill, Springfield, Largs Bay, Port Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Erskineville Kings
Erskineville Kings
Erskineville Kings was a Radical Media production made for Palace Films on a minimal budget and directed by newcomer Alan White. It was released on 1 January 1999...

1999 Enmore, Erskineville, Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Escape from Absolom 1994 Sydney, New South Wales; Queensland - Australia
Evil Angels 1998 Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales; Uluru/Ayers Rock, Darwin, Northern Territory; Melbourne, Victoria; Mount Isa, Queensland - Australia
Far East
Far East (film)
Far East is a 1982 Australian drama film directed by John Duigan and starring Bryan Brown, Helen Morse and John Bell. Far East is a remake of the 1942 classic Casablanca....

1982 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Macau - China; Metro Manila, Luzon - Philippines
Fatty Finn
Fatty Finn
Fatty Finn is a 1980 Australian film, directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg. It is based on the 1930s cartoon-strip character, Fatty Finn, created by Syd Nicholls and is loosely based on the 1927 silent fim, The Kid Stakes.-Plot:Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in...

1980 Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The FJ Holden
The FJ Holden
The FJ Holden is a 1977 Australian film directed by Michael Thornhill. The FJ Holden is a snapshot of the life of young teenage men in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia in 1970s....

1977 Bankstown, Greenacre, Punchbowl, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Flirting
Flirting (film)
Flirting is a 1991 Australian coming of age film about a romance between two teenagers, written and directed by John Duigan. It stars Noah Taylor, who appears again as Danny Embling, a character from Duigan's 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke. It also stars Thandie Newton and Nicole Kidman....

1991 Bathurst, Braidwood, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
For the Term of His Natural Life
For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 film)
- Plot summary :After a row, Ellinor Devine reveals to her husband Sir Richard that he is not actually the father of their son, also named Richard, but that he was fathered by her cousin, Lord Bellasis. Sir Richard throws his son out and storms off in a rage. Shortly afterwards, Richard Junior...

1927 Berrima, Bondi Junction, Sydney, Wombeyan Caves, New South Wales; Port Arthur, Tasmania - Australia
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon (film)
Frost/Nixon is a 2008 historical drama film based on the 2006 play by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film was directed by Ron Howard and produced for Universal Pictures by Howard, Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working...

2008 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, San Clemente, Yorba Linda, California - USA
Gabriel
Gabriel (film)
Gabriel is a 2007 Australian supernatural action-horror film set in purgatory. It follows the archangel Gabriel's fight to rid purgatory of the evil Fallen and save the souls of its inhabitants. Gabriel is the first feature directed by Shane Abbess, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Hylton...

2007 Heddon Greta, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Garage Days
Garage Days
Garage Days is a 2002 Australian film directed by Alex Proyas and written by Proyas, Dave Warner and Michael Udesky. The Garage Days soundtrack includes the song "Garage Days" featuring Katie Noonan, David McCormack and Andrew Lancaster.-Plot:...

2002 Camperdown, Enmore, Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla: Final Wars
is a 2004 Japanese science fiction-kaiju film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, written by Wataru Mimura and Isao Kiriyama and produced by Shogo Tomiyama. It is the twenty-eighth film in the Godzilla film series, and the sixth in terms of the series' Millennium era...

2004 Broken Hill, Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Egypt; Tokyo, Japan; New York City, New York- USA; Paris - France; Shanghai - China
Gone 2007 Byron Bay, Curl Curl Beach, Kings Cross, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales; Longreach, Winton, Queensland - Australia
The Hard Word
The Hard Word
The Hard Word is a 2002 Australian crime film about three bank-robbing brothers who are offered a role in a bold heist while serving time in prison. The film was written and directed by Scott Roberts, and stars Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths....

2002 Melbourne, Victoria; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Heatwave
Heatwave (film)
Heatwave is a 1982 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce. Around Christmas time a heatwave hits Sydney and an architect undertakes a controversial project.-Cast:*Judy Davis as Kate Dean*Richard Moir as Stephen West*Chris Haywood as Peter Houseman...

1982 Kings Cross, Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand is a novel by John Birmingham, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press . The story consists of a collection of colourful anecdotes about living in share houses in Brisbane and other cities in Australia with variously dubious housemates. The title refers to a...

2001 Annerley, Brisbane, Queensland; Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Hercules Returns
Hercules Returns
Hercules Returns is a 1993 Australian comedy film directed by David Parker, starring David Argue, Michael Carman, Bruce Spence and Mary Coustas. The film has a cult following in Australia and other countries...

1993 Sydney, New South Wales; St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria - Australia
High Tide 1987 Eden, Merimbula, Sydney, Sublime Point, New South Wales - Australia
Holy Smoke!
Holy Smoke!
Holy Smoke! is a 1999 Australian drama film directed by Jane Campion, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Anna. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was shown at the New York Film Festival and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival before being released theatrically.-Plot...

1999 Moore Park, Sans Souci, Sydney, New South Wales; Flinders Ranges, Hawker, South Australia - Australia; New Delhi, Delhi; Pushkar, Rajasthan - India
Hoodwink 1981 Rozelle, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Icarus 2010 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Langley, Vancouver, British Columbia - Canada; Los Angeles, California - USA
Independence Day
Independence Day (film)
Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the same...

1996 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Fontana, Los Angeles, Windsor, California; Blue Ridge, Georgia; Manhattan, New York City, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Dallas, Texas; Grants Pass, Oregon; Lakepoint, Wendover, Skull Valley, Tooele, Utah; Michigan City, Indiana; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rachel, Nevada; Socorro, Bonneville Salt Flats, White Sands, New Mexico; Washington DC; West New York, New Jersey - USA; Mount Kilimanjaro - Kenya; Reykjavík - Iceland; Stockholm - Sweden; Giza - Egypt
In the Cut
In the Cut
In the Cut is a 2003 American erotic thriller and mystery film, written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Campion's screenplay is an adaption of the novel of the same name by Susanna Moore...

2003 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; New York City, New York - USA
Jewboy
Jewboy
Jewboy is a 2005 Australian film directed by Tony Krawitz. The film stars Ewen Leslie, Chris Hayward, Saskia Burmeister, and Nicholas Eadie. It won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Short Fiction Film, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay in a Short.The film tells of a young...

2005 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Kangaroo Jack
Kangaroo Jack
Kangaroo Jack is a 2003 American comedy film directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Estella Warren and Adam Garcia...

2003 Canowindra, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales; Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Coober Pedy, Lunar Plains, Moon Plain, South Australia - Australia; Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York; Los Angeles, California - USA
Kenny
Kenny (2006 film)
Kenny is a 2006 Australian mockumentary film starring Shane Jacobson as Kenny Smyth, a Melbourne plumber who works for corporate bathroom rental company Splashdown....

2006 Sydney, New South Wales; Calder Park, Prahran, Flemington, Maidstone, Melbourne, St. Kilda, Victoria - Australia; Nashville, Tennessee - USA
The Kid Stakes
The Kid Stakes
The Kid Stakes is a 1927 Australian silent black and white comedy film written and directed by Tal Ordell.The screenplay is based on characters created by Syd Nicholls in his comic strip, Fatty Finn. The majority of the shooting locations for The Kid Stakes were in Woolloomooloo and Potts Point in...

1927 Sydney, New South Wales; Rockhampton, Queensland - Australia
Lantana
Lantana (film)
Lantana is a 2001 Australian film, directed by Ray Lawrence and featuring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey. It is based on the play Speaking In Tongues by Andrew Bovell, which premiered at Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company...

2001 Balmain, Narrabeen, Pittwater, Broken Bay, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Last Days of Chez Nous
The Last Days of Chez Nous
The Last Days of Chez Nous is an Australian drama, directed by Gillian Armstrong and written by Helen Garner. Made in a style which emphasizes naturalism over melodrama, the film centres around what happens after Vicki arrives at the house of her older sister Beth, whose French husband falls for her...

1992 Broken Hill, Hyde Park, Sydney, Little Topar, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Les Patterson Saves the World
Les Patterson Saves the World
Les Patterson Saves the World is a 1987 Australian comedy film. The plot involves the uncouth Sir Les Patterson, played by Barry Humphries, teaming up with Dame Edna Everage to save the world from a virulent bioterror attack ordered by Colonel Richard Godowni of the Gulf State of Abu Niveah.The...

1987 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Morocco
Little Fish
Little Fish (film)
Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods and written by Jacquelin Perske. It was filmed in and around Sydney, in Cabramatta and in Fairfield...

2005 Bankstown, Bexley North, Cabramatta, Fairfield, Sans Souci, Sydney, Sylvania Waters, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Looking For Alibrandi
Looking for Alibrandi
Looking for Alibrandi is a 1999 Australian film written by Melina Marchetta based on the novel of the same name. The film sets in the 1990s Sydney, New South Wales and starring Australian actors, including Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, the film's main character, Anthony LaPaglia as her...

2000 Bellevue Hill, Bondi Beach, Camperdown, Cremorne, Dee Why, Five Dock, Glebe, Leichhardt, Manly, Marrickville, Rose Bay, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, written by Miller, Doug Mitchell and Terry Hayes, and starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. It is the third installment in the action movie Mad Max franchise...

1985 Blackheath, Botany Bay, Glebe, Homebush Bay, Kurnell, Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales; Breakaways Reserve, Coober Pedy, Moon Plain, South Australia - Australia; Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía - Spain
Man-Thing
Man-Thing (film)
Man-Thing is a 2005 straight to video then telefilm, directed by Brett Leonard and featuring the Marvel Comics creature created by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. The plot is based loosely on a storyline by Steve Gerber, who wrote the most well-known series of Man-Thing comics.Agents of an...

2005 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Man Who Sued God
The Man Who Sued God
The Man Who Sued God is a 2001 Australian film, starring Billy Connolly and directed by Mark Joffe.-Plot:Advocate Steve Myers is a disillusioned lawyer who becomes fed-up with the perceived corruption within the judicial system. He quits the law business and buys a small fishing boat and takes up...

2001 Bermagui, Epping, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Mao's Last Dancer
Mao's Last Dancer (film)
Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian biographical film, directed by Bruce Beresford, based on ballet dancer Li Cunxin's autobiography Mao's Last Dancer. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao , Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo and Huang Wen Bin...

2009 Redfern, Kensington, Rose Bay, The Rocks, Vaucluse, Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; China; Houston, Texas; Washington, DC - USA
The Matrix
The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...

1999 Balmain, Chippendale, Hyde Park, Moore Park, Millers Point,Pittwater, Broken Bay, Redfern, Rozelle, Surry Hills, Waterloo, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; San Francisco, California - USA
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by the Wachowskis. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15,...

2003 Moore Park, Redfern, Sydney, White Bay, New South Wales - Australia; Alameda, Oakland, California - USA
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction film and the third installment of The Matrix trilogy. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and released simultaneously in sixty countries on November 5,...

2003 Hyde Park, Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Alameda, Oakland, California - USA
Me, Myself, I
Me Myself I (film)
Me Myself I is a 2000 Australian comedy film.-Plot:Pamela Drury is single and works as a serious journalist. She spends her birthday alone and becomes lonely and reflects upon her life and the choices she made. In a box of photos of old boyfriends, she reflects upon why she broke up with one in...

1999 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Men's Group
Men's Group
Men's Group is a 2008 Australian drama film. The film is directed by Michael Joy and produced by John L. Simpson.-Plot:The film follows the lives of six men over a period of months as they convene weekly in a self-help style group....

2008 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible II is a 2000 action film directed by John Woo, and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer...

2000 Broken Hill, Darling Harbour, Elizabeth Bay, La Perouse, Malabar, Moore Park, Mosman, Randwick, The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Azusa, Los Angeles, San Gabriel Mountains, California, Moab, Monument Valley, Utah - USA
Money Movers
Money Movers
Money Movers is a 1978 crime action drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film was based on the book Money Movers by Devon Minchin, founder of Metropolitan Security Services...

1978 Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales; Adelaide, Norwood, South Australia - Australia
The Monkey's Mask
The Monkey's Mask
The Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect in the disappearance of a young woman...

2000 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...

2001 Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Madrid - Spain
Muriel's Wedding
Muriel's Wedding
Muriel's Wedding is a 1994 Australian-French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by P. J. Hogan. The film, which stars actresses Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie Lee, and Bill Hunter, focuses on the socially awkward Muriel whose ambition is to have a glamorous wedding and improve...

1994 Darling Harbour, Darling Point, Darlinghurst, Eastwood, Kensington, Narrabeen, Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales; Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Hamilton Island, Surfers Paradise, Queensland - Australia
My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career (film)
My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on the book of the same name by Miles Franklin....

1979 Monaro region, New South Wales - Australia
The Namesake
The Namesake (film)
The Namesake is a 2006 film which was released in the United States on March 9, 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City. It was directed by Mira Nair and is based upon the novel of the same name by Jhumpa Lahiri, who appeared in the movie. Sooni Taraporevala...

2006 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Calcutta, Shantiniketan, West Bengal - India; New York City, Nyack, Scarsdale, Yonkers, New York - USA
Newsfront
Newsfront
Newsfront is a 1978 Australian drama film starring Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, and Bryan Brown, directed by Phillip Noyce. The screenplay is written by David Elfick, Bob Ellis, Philippe Mora, and Phillip Noyce. The original music score is composed by William Motzing...

1978 Surry Hills, Narrabeen, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Night We Called It a Day
The Night We Called It a Day (film)
The Night We Called It a Day is an Australian film directed by Peter Clifton starring Dennis Hopper as Frank Sinatra and Melanie Griffith as Barbara Marx, and featuring Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, and David Hemmings. The movie is based on the true events surrounding one of several...

2003 Moore Park, Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; New York City, New York - USA
The Nugget
The Nugget
The Nugget is a 2002 comedy film about three friends who find the world's largest nugget of gold.-Storyline:The story concerns a group of three road workers who stumble upon the world's biggest nugget of gold, and become instant millionaires — or so they think...

2002 Mudgee, New South Wales - Australia
The Odd Angry Shot
The Odd Angry Shot
Based on the novel of the same name by William L. Nagle, The Odd Angry Shot is a film following the experience of Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War...

1979 Canungra, Queensland; Watsons Bay, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
On Our Selection 1920 Baulkham Hills, Leeton, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda (film)
Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.-Plot:...

1997 Glebe, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales; Hobart, Tasmania - Australia; Boscastle, Crackington Haven, Morwenstow, Port Isaac, Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall - England
Oyster Farmer
Oyster Farmer
Oyster Farmer is a 2004 Australian romantic comedy / drama film about a young man who runs away to the Hawkesbury River and gets a job with eighth generation oyster farmers...

2004 Brooklyn, Sydney, Hawkesbury River, Wondabyne, New South Wales - Australia
Paperback Hero
Paperback Hero (1999 film)
Paperback Hero is a 1999 Australian comedy film starring Claudia Karvan and Hugh Jackman. It was directed by Antony Bowman who also wrote the screenplay. The film was predominantly shot in Queensland including Nindigully.-Synopsis:...

1999 Brisbane, St George; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Paradise Road 1997 Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales; Port Douglas, Queensland - Australia; Penang - Malaysia; Raffles Hotel, Singapore
Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes (2001 film)
Planet of the Apes is a 2001 American science fiction film, based on Pierre Boulle's novel and a remake of the 1968 film of the same name. Tim Burton directed the film, which stars Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, and Estella Warren. It tells the...

2001 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Hawaii; Lake Powell, Utah; Los Angeles, Ridgecrest, Santa Clarita, California; Washington, DC, USA
Playing Beatie Bow
Playing Beatie Bow (film)
Playing Beatie Bow is a 1986 Australian drama film directed by Donald Crombie. The screenplay by Peter Gawler and Irwin Lane is based on the novel by Ruth Park.-Plot summary:...

1986 Brooklyn, The Rocks, Lavender Bay, Sydney, New South Wales; Adelaide, Hendon, Port Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady (film)
The Portrait of a Lady is a 1996 film adaptation of Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady directed by Jane Campion.The film stars Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Duvall, Richard E...

1996 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Florence, Tuscany; Rome, Lazio - Italy; West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Shepperton, Surrey; Strand, London; Middle Woodford, Wiltshire - England; Santa Monica, California - USA; Turkey
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named...

1994 Broken Hill, Darling Harbour, Erskineville, Newtown, Silverton, Stephen's Creek, Sydney, New South Wales; Alice Springs, Watarrka National Park, Northern Territory; Coober Pedy, Moon Plain, South Australia - Australia
Puberty Blues
Puberty Blues
Puberty Blues is a 1981 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford. The film is based on the 1979 novel Puberty Blues, by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, which is a proto-feminist teen novel about two 13 year-old girls from the Sutherland Shire in Sydney, Australia...

1981 Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Quiet American
The Quiet American (2002 film)
The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene's bestselling novel of the same name. It was directed by Phillip Noyce and starred Michael Caine, George Henry Hsu, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen....

2002 Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Da Nang, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hoa Lu, Hoi An, Ninh Binh - Vietnam
The Rats of Tobruk
The Rats of Tobruk (1944 film)
The Rats of Tobruk is a 1944 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel. The film follows three drover friends who enlist in the Australian Army together during World War II. Their story is based on the siege of the Libyan city of Tobruk in North Africa by Rommel's Afrika Korps...

1944 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Razorback
Razorback (film)
Razorback is a 1984 Australian film, based on Peter Brennan's novel, written by Everett De Roche, and directed by Russell Mulcahy who would later make the first two of the Highlander trilogy...

1984 Broken Hill, Silverton, New South Wales - Australia
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance is a 2007 Australian mockumentary comedy film directed by Darren Ashton about competitive dance, first screened on 15 March 2007...

2007 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Reckless Kelly
Reckless Kelly
Reckless Kelly is a 1993 Australian comedy film written, directed and starring Yahoo Serious. The story is a satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for...

1993 Broken Hill, Port Stephens, Sydney, New South Wales; Gold Coast, Queensland - Australia; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; Las Vegas, Nevada - USA
Red Planet
Red Planet (film)
Red Planet is a 2000 Technicolor science fiction film directed by Antony Hoffman, starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss. It was released on November 10, 2000.-Plot:...

2000 Balmain, Homebush Bay, Prospect, Sydney, New South Wales; Breakaways Reserve, Coober Pedy, South Australia - Australia; Wadi Rum - Jordan
The Removalists
The Removalists
The Removalists is a play written by Australian playwright David Williamson. The main issues the play addresses are violence, specifically domestic violence, and the abuse of power and authority...

1975 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Restraint
Restraint (2008 film)
Restraint is a 2008 Australian thriller film, directed by David Denneen, written by Dave Warner and starring Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel and Teresa Palmer. The film was shot on location around New South Wales, Australia in mid-2005. Working titles during production were, Ravenswood, Guests and...

2008 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Robbery Under Arms 1907 New South Wales - Australia
Robbery Under Arms
Robbery Under Arms (1957 film)
Robbery Under Arms is a 1957 British crime film directed by Jack Lee and starring Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith and Jill Ireland. It is based on the Australian novel Robbery Under Arms by Thomas Alexander Browne...

1957 Bourke, Sydney, New South Wales; Flinders Ranges, Gawler, Willochra Plain, Wilpena Pound, South Australia - Australia; Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England
Sample People 2000 Sydney, New South Wales; Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
The Sea Chase
The Sea Chase
The Sea Chase is a 1955 World War II drama film starring John Wayne and Lana Turner. It was directed by John Farrow and written by James Warner Bellah. The plot is basically a nautical cat and mouse game, with Wayne determined to get his German freighter home during the first few months of the war,...

1955 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Hawaii - USA
The Sentimental Bloke
The Sentimental Bloke
The Sentimental Bloke is an Australian silent film based on the 1915 poem The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis.The film, from the Southern Cross Feature Film Company of Adelaide, was made by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, at that time the best known partnership in Australian cinema...

1919 Bondi, Hornsby Valley, Manly Beach, Manly, Sydney, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales; Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Shadow of the Boomerang 1960 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Sirens
Sirens (film)
Sirens is a 1993 film, written and directed by John Duigan, and set in Australia between the two World Wars.Sirens, along with Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bitter Moon—all released in the U.S...

1993 Blue Mountains, Faulconbridge, Sofala, Springwood, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Shine
Shine (film)
Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Nicholas Bell, Chris...

1996 Adelaide, North Adelaide, Springfield, Glenside, Henley Beach, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; South Kensington, Trafalgar Square, St James's, London - England
The Shiralee 1957 Sydney, The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Ealing Studios, Ealing, London - England
Smiley
Smiley (film)
Smiley is an American-British film made in 1956 and set in Australia. It was produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins. It starred Ralph Richardson, Chips Rafferty, and Colin Petersen as Smiley. Other cast members were Bruce Archer, Guy Doleman, Reg Lye, John McCallum, Leonard Teale and Bud Tingwell...

1956 Camden, Gundy, Rossgole, New South Wales - Australia; Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey - England
Smiley Gets a Gun 1958 Camden, Gundy, Rossgole, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Somersault
Somersault (film)
Somersault is an Australian independent film, written and directed by Cate Shortland and released in September 2004. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...

2004 Jindabyne - New South Wales; Belconnen, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory - Australia
Spider & Rose 1994 Coonabarabran, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Square
The Square (2008 film)
The Square is a neo-noir thriller film directed by Nash Edgerton, written by his brother Joel Edgerton and Matthew Dabner, and starring David Roberts and Claire van der Boom. Based upon an original idea by Joel, the project was written and then shelved by the actor because he felt it was not...

2008 Caringbah, Cronulla, Sutherland, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones 2002 Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Chott el Djerid, Nefta, Matmata - Tunisia; Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, Ealing Studios, Ealing, London - England; Royal Palace, Caserta, Campania, Lake Como, Lombardia - Italy; Plaza de España, Seville, Andalucía - Spain
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the sixth and final film released in the Star Wars saga and the third in terms of the series' internal chronology....

2005 Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Nefta, Tunisia; Shepperton, Surrey, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire - England; Grindelwald, Kanton Bern - Switzerland; Guilin, Guangxi - China; Mount Etna, Catania, Sicily - Italy; Phuket - Thailand
Starstruck
Starstruck (1982 film)
Starstruck is a 1982 Australian comedy-drama musical film starring Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan and Margo Lee about two teenagers trying to make their break into the music industry. The film was shot on location in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

1982 Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Stone 1974 Middle Head, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows (2004 film)
Strange Bedfellows is a 2004 Australian film starring Paul Hogan and Michael Caton as heterosexual men who pass themselves off as a homosexual couple in order to get financial benefits from the government...

2004 Albury, Sydney, New South Wales; Yackandandah, Victoria - Australia
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann and produced by M&A Productions. The film is the first installment in The Red Curtain Trilogy, Luhrmann's trilogy of theatre-motif-related films; the follow-ups were Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

1992 Marrickville, Pyrmont, Sydney, New South Wales; Yarraville, Victoria, Australia
Suburban Mayhem
Suburban Mayhem
Suburban Mayhem is a 2006 Australian film directed by Paul Goldman, written by Alice Bell, produced by Leah Churchill-Brown and Executive Producer Jan Chapman. It features an ensemble cast including Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes, Robert Morgan and Genevieve Lemon...

2006 Maitland, Newcastle, Stockton, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Sum of Us
The Sum of Us
The Sum of Us is a play by David Stevens.The plot revolves around the comfortable relationship between widower Harry and his gay son Jeff and their individual searches for the right mate. Harry unconditionally loves his Rugby-playing son, and even takes an active part in Jeff's search for Mr. Right...

1994 Balmain, Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Superman Returns
Superman Returns
Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film directed by Bryan Singer. It is the fifth and final installment in the original Superman film series and serves as a alternate sequel to Superman and Superman II by ignoring the events of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace .The film stars...

2006 Concord West, Darlinghurst, Hyde Park, Moore Park, Narrabeen, Newcastle, Sydney, Sylvania Waters, Tamworth, New South Wales - Australia; Los Angeles, California, Manhattan, New York City, New York - USA
Thank God He Met Lizzie
Thank God He Met Lizzie
Thank God He Met Lizzie is a 1997 Australian romantic comedy film starring Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh. It was the directorial debut of Cherie Nowlan...

1997 Mosman, Sydney, Vaucluse, New South Wales - Australia
They're A Weird Mob 1966 Bondi Beach, Circular Quay, Clark Island, Greenacre, Manly, Neutral Bay, Punchbowl, Sydney, The Rocks, New South Wales - Australia
Three Blind Mice 2008 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Tim
Tim (film)
Tim is an Australian romantic drama film. Released in 1979, it was written and directed by Michael Pate, based on the 1974 novel by Colleen McCullough....

1979 Bronte, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Tomorrow, When the War Began (film)
Tomorrow, When the War Began is a 2010 Australian adventure film written and directed by Stuart Beattie and based on the novel of the same name by John Marsden. The film is produced by Andrew Mason and Michael Boughen. The story follows Ellie Linton, one of eight teenagers waging a guerrilla war...

2010 Blue Mountains, Dungog, Moore Park, Hunter Valley, Luskintyre, Maitland, Raymond Terrace, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Turtle Beach 1992 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Phuket, Thailand
Two Hands 1999 Bondi Beach, Chinatown, Haymarket, Kings Cross, Revesby, Waterloo, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Undercover 1984 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright is a 1971 Australian film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence and Chips Rafferty. The screenplay was written by Evan Jones, based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel of the same name....

1971 Bondi, Broken Hill, Menindee Lakes, Silverton, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Walkabout
Walkabout (film)
Walkabout is a 1971 film set in Australia, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the novel Walkabout by James Vance Marshall...

1971 Sydney, New South Wales; Arnhem Land, Central Australia, Darwin, Northern Territory; Flinders Ranges, Iron Knob, Lake Eyre, South Australia - Australia
The Wiggles Movie
The Wiggles Movie
The Wiggles Movie is a 1997 children's movie/musical by 20th Century Fox and Gladusaurus Productions. This is the first and only theatrical feature-length film starring The Wiggles...

1997 Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 American action film based on the Marvel Comics' fictional character Wolverine. The fourth installment in the X-Men film series, it was released worldwide on May 1, 2009...

2009 Brownlow Hill, Camden, Centennial Park, Cockatoo Island, Glebe, Homebush, Lake Macquarie, Moore Park, Rozelle, Newcastle, Sydney - New South Wales, Australia; Dunedin, Glenorchy, Queenstown, Otago, Southland - New Zealand; Vancouver, Colwood, British Columbia - Canada; Shreveport, Louisiana - USA
The Year My Voice Broke
The Year My Voice Broke
The Year My Voice Broke is a 1987 coming of age story by director John Duigan, starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, and Ben Mendelsohn. Set in 1962 in the rural Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, it was the first in a projected trilogy of films centred around the experiences of an awkward...

1987 Braidwood, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Peter Weir film adapted from the novel The Year of Living Dangerously by the author Christopher Koch. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno...

1982 Balmain, Epping, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Metro Manila, Luzon - Philippines
Young Einstein
Young Einstein
Young Einstein is an Australian comedy film directed by and starring Yahoo Serious, released in 1988.-Plot:Albert Einstein, the son of an apple farmer in Tasmania in the early 1900s, splits a beer atom with a chisel in order to add bubbles to beer, discovers the theory of relativity and travels to...

1988 Blue Mountains, Newcastle, Sydney, The Rocks, Wollombi, New South Wales; Uluru/Ayers Rock, Northern Territory - Australia

See also

  • Australian Film Commission
    Australian Film Commission
    The Australian Film Commission was an Australian government agency with a mandate to promote the creation and distribution of films in Australia as well as to preserve the country's film history. It also had a production arm responsible for production and commissioning of films for government...

  • Cinema of Australia
    Cinema of Australia
    Cinema of Australia, more commonly referred to as the Australian film industry, refers to the system of production, distribution, and exhibition of films in Australia. Film production commenced in Australia in 1906 with the production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film made...

  • Film Australia
    Film Australia
    Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia. Its mission was to create an audio-visual record of Australian culture, through the commissioning, distribution and management of programs that deal with matters of national interest or...

  • Screen Australia
    Screen Australia
    Screen Australia is the Federal Government’s key funding body for the Australian screen production industry. Its functions are to support and promote the development of a highly creative, innovative and commercially sustainable industry....

  • South Australian Film Corporation
    South Australian Film Corporation
    South Australian Film Corporation is a South Australian Government statutory corporation established in 1972. Former State Premier Don Dunstan played an instrumental role in the foundation of the Corporation and its early film production activities....

  • World cinema
    World cinema
    World cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the films and film industries of non-English speaking countries. It is therefore often used interchangeably with the term foreign film...

  • List of Australian films
  • List of films set in Australia
  • List of films shot in Adelaide
  • List of films shot in Darwin
  • List of films shot in Melbourne
  • List of films shot in Queensland
  • List of films shot in Tasmania
  • List of films shot in Western Australia

Further reading

  • Adamson, Judith. A Film Australia miscellany. Lindfield, N.S.W. : Film Australia, 1991.
  • Collins, Felicity, and Theresa Davis. Australian Cinema After Mabo. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Dawson, Jonathan, and Bruce Molloy, eds. Queensland Images in Film and Television. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990.
  • Dermody, Susan and Elizabeth Jacka, eds. The Screening of Australia, Volume 1: Anatomy of a Film Industry. Sydney: Currency Press, 1987.
  • — — — . The Screening of Australia, Volume 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema. Sydney: Currency Press, 1988.
  • Moran, Albert and Tom O’Regan, eds. An Australian Film Reader (Australian Screen Series). Sydney: Currency Press, 1985.
  • Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Film in Australia: An Introduction Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Murray, Scott, ed. Australian Film: 1978 – 1994. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-553777-7
  • Pike, Andrew and Ross Cooper. Australian Film: 1900 – 1977. revised ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-550784-3
  • McFarland, Brian, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-553797-1
  • Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia : government film since 1945. Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. ISBN 0-86-819292-9.
  • Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5459-7
  • O'Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996.
  • Reade, Eric. Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History of Silent Films from 1896 to 1926. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1970.
  • — — — . History and Heartburn : The Saga of Australian Film 1896-1978. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1981.
  • Ryan, Mark, David (2009),'Whither Culture? Australian Horror Films and the Limitations of Cultural Policy', Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, no. 133, pp. 43–55.
  • Stratton, David. The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry. Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 1990. 465p. ISBN 0-7329-0250-9
  • Verhoeven, Deb
    Deb Verhoeven
    Deb Verhoeven is currently Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at Deakin University. Until recently she held the role of Director of the AFI Research Collection at RMIT. A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Verhoeven is the author of more than 30 journal articles and book...

    . Sheep and the Australian Cinema. Melbourne : MUP, 2006. ISBN 0-522-85239-4
  • — — — ed. Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-876310-00-6

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