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A list of films produced in Australia by year during the 1980s, in the List of Australian films.
For an A-Z list of Australian films see Category:Australian films
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Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Attack Force Z |
[Tim Burstall]] |
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| Breakfast in Paris |
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| Café of Love |
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| Centrespread |
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| The Clinic |
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| Corpse |
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| Crosstalk |
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| The Dark Room |
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| Dead Easy |
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| Desolation Angels |
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| Duet for Four |
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| Early Frost |
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| An Exercise in Discipline - Peel |
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| Far East |
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| Fighting Back |
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| Fluteman |
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| Freedom |
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| Ginger Meggs |
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(see Ginger Meggs) |
| Greetings from Wollongong |
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| Heatwave |
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| Highest Honor |
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| Journey to the End of Night |
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| Kitty and the Bagman |
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| The Little Feller |
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| Lonely Hearts |
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| Lousy Little Sixpence |
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| The Man from Snowy River |
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| Monkey Grip |
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| The Mystery at Castle House |
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| Next of Kin |
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| Norman Loves Rose |
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| The Pirate Movie |
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| The Plains of Heaven |
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Running On Empty
(a.k.a. Fast Lane Fever) |
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| Shadows |
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| The Sharkcallers of Kontu |
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| Snow: The Movie |
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| Squizzy Taylor |
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| Starstruck |
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| Storm Riders |
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| Sweet Dreamers |
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| Tennis Elbow |
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| Turkey Shoot |
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| Warriors of the Deep |
Tony Wheeler |
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Documentary drama |
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| We of the Never Never |
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| With Prejudice |
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| The Year of Living Dangerously |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Abra Cadabra |
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Animation |
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| Allies |
Marian Wilkinson |
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Documentary |
IMDb |
| BMX Bandits |
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| Buddies |
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| Bush Christmas |
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| Careful, He Might Hear You |
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| Desert Farming |
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| Douglas Mawson: The Survivor |
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| Dusty |
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| Fight to the Death |
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| First Contact |
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| Going Down |
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| Goodbye Paradise |
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| Hostage |
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| Man of Flowers |
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| Midnite Spares |
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| Molly |
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| Moving Out |
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| Now and Forever |
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| Passionless Moments |
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Phar Lap
(a.k.a. Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation) |
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| The Return of Captain Invincible |
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| The Settlement |
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| Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse |
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| A Slice of Life |
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| Stations |
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| Tukana - husat i asua |
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| Undercover |
David Stevens |
Comedy |
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5 AFI nominations IMDb |
| The Wild Duck |
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| The Winds of Jarrah |
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| The Voyage of Bounty's Child |
Michael Edols |
narrated by Leo McKern |
Docum./Biography |
IMDb |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| After Hours |
Jane Campion |
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Short / Drama |
IMDb |
| Ana Who |
Pip Karmel |
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Documentary |
IMDb |
| Annie's Coming Out |
Gil Brealey |
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Drama |
IMDb |
The Boy Who Had Everything
(a.k.a. Winner Takes All) |
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| Bullamakanka |
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| The Camel Boy |
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| Channel Chaos |
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| The Cleaning |
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| The Coolangatta Gold |
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| Dot and the Bunny |
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| The Drover's Wife |
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| Every Day... Every Night |
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| Fantasy Man |
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| Fast Talking |
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| The Fire in the Stone |
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| Future Schlock |
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| Getting Wet |
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| A Girl's Own Story |
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| The Great Gold Swindle |
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| High Country |
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| Holzwege: Wood Roads/Wrong Ways |
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| Innocent Prey |
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| Leonora |
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| Melvin, Son of Alvin |
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| My First Wife |
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| The Naked Country |
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| The Old Curiosity Shop |
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| On Guard |
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| On the Loose |
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| One Night Stand |
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| Razorback |
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| Red Matildas |
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| Silver City |
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| The Slim Dusty Movie |
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| Stanley: Every Home Should Have One |
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| Street Hero |
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| Strikebound |
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| Tale of a Tiger |
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| Torn Allegiance |
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Where the Green Ants Dream
(a.k.a. Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen) |
Werner Herzog |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
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| An Indecent Obsession |
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| The Big Hurt |
Barry Peak |
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Thriller |
IMDb |
| Bliss |
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| Bootleg |
John Prescott |
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Crime/Drama |
IMDb |
| Burke & Wills |
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| The Coca-Cola Kid |
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| Death Warmed Up |
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| Don't Call Me Girlie |
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| Dot and the Koala |
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| Emoh Ruo |
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| The Empty Beach |
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| Epic |
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| Flight Into Hell |
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| Fran |
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| Half Life |
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| I Can't Get Started |
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| I Live with Me Dad |
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| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome |
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| Niel Lynne |
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| No Dance |
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| The Occult Experience |
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| Rebel |
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| Relatives |
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| Spytrap: The True Story of Petrov and Philby |
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| Starship |
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| The Still Point |
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| A Street to Die |
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| Time After Time |
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John Gielgud, Googie Withers |
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Based on a novel by Molly Keane |
| Unfinished Business |
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| Warming Up |
Bruce Best |
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Comedy / Family |
IMDb |
| Wills & Burke |
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| Wrong World |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| 100% Wool |
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| Alice to Nowhere |
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| The Australian Image |
Graham Shirley |
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IMDb |
| BabaKiueria |
Don Featherstone |
Michelle Torres, Bob Maza |
Drama /S hort |
IMDb |
| Backlash |
Bill Bennett |
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Crime / Drama |
IMDb |
| Cactus |
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| Cassandra |
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| Coming of Age |
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| Cool Change |
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| Crocodile Dundee |
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| Dead-End Drive In |
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| Death of a Soldier |
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| Departure |
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| Dot and Keeto |
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| Dot and the Whale |
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| Double Sculls |
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| Emma's War |
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| Frog Dreaming |
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| For Love Alone |
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| The Fringe Dwellers |
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| Going Sane |
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| The Humpty Dumpty Man |
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| Jenny Kissed Me |
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| Just Us |
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| Kangaroo |
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| Kidnapped |
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| Landslides |
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| Le Corps imagé |
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| Malcolm |
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| Man and Boy |
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| Marauders |
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| Mesmerized |
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| The More Things Change... |
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| My Life Without Steve |
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| Platypus Cove |
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| Played in Australia |
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| Playing Beatie Bow |
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Based on a book by the same title |
| Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines |
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| Run Chrissie Run! |
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| Short Changed |
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| Sky Pirates |
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| Starview |
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| The Steam-Driven Adventures of Riverboat Bill |
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| The Surfer |
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| Traps |
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| Vengeance Land |
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| Windrider |
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| Zombie Brigade |
Carmelo Musca, Barrie Pattison |
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Horror |
IMDb |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Around the World in Eighty Ways |
Stephen MacLean |
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Comedy |
IMDb |
| Aussified |
Ralph Lawrence Marsden |
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Drama |
IMDb |
| Australian Dream |
Jackie McKimmie |
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IMDb |
| Australian Made: The Movie |
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| The Bit Part |
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| Bullseye |
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| Dangerous Game |
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| Dark Age |
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| Dear Cardholder |
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| Dogs in Space |
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| Dot and the Smugglers |
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| Dot Goes to Hollywood |
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| Echoes of Paradise |
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| The Edge of Power |
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| Feathers |
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| Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale |
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| Frenchman's Farm |
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| Gallagher's Travels |
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| The Good Wife |
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| Ground Zero |
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| High Tide |
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| Howling III |
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| Hungry Heart |
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| Initiation |
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| Les Patterson Saves the World |
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| The Lighthorsemen |
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| Nepal: Where the Legends Live |
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| Nice Coloured Girls |
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| The Nights Belong to the Novelist: Elizabeth Jolley, Australian Writer |
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| Olive |
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| Outback Vampires |
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| Palisade |
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| Passionately Single |
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| The Perfectionist |
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| The Place at the Coast |
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| Resan |
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| The Right Hand Man |
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| Running from the Guns |
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| Shaka Zulu |
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| Slate Wyn & Me |
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| Spineless |
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| The Tale of Ruby Rose |
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| Terror in Sutterville |
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| Those Dear Departed |
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| The Time Guardian |
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| To Market to Market |
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| Travelling North |
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| Twelfth Night |
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| Vincent |
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Animation |
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| Watch the Shadows Dance |
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| With Love to the Person Next to Me |
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| With Time to Kill |
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| The Year My Voice Broke |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| The 13th Floor |
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| An Ordinary Woman |
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| As Time Goes by |
Barry Peak |
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Comedy / Sci-Fi |
IMDb |
| Bachelor Girl |
Rivka Hartman |
Comedy / Romance |
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IMDb |
| Backstage |
Jonathan Hardy |
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Drama |
IMDb |
| Belinda |
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| Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces |
Gillian Armstrong |
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Documentary |
IMDb |
| Black Tulip |
Franco Cristofani |
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Animation / Adventure |
IMDb |
| Body Works |
David Caesar |
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IMDb |
| Boulevard of Broken Dreams |
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| Boundaries of the Heart |
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| Breaking Loose |
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| Cane Toads |
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| Cannibal Tours |
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| Celia |
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| Cherith |
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| Compo |
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| Crocodile Dundee II |
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| Dadah is Death |
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| Daisy and Simon |
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| Day of the Panther |
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| The Dreaming |
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| E'ellermani: The Story of Leo and Leva |
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| Emerald City |
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| Encounter at Raven's Gate |
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| The Everlasting Secret Family |
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| Evil Angels |
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| The First Kangaroos |
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| Georgia |
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| Ghosts... of the Civil Dead |
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| Grievous Bodily Harm |
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| Hell's Half Hectare |
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| In the Aftermath |
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| Kadaicha |
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| Lover Boy |
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The Man from Snowy River II
(a.k.a. Return to Snowy River (US)
and The Untamed (UK)) |
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| Moodeitj Yorgas |
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| The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey |
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| Night's High Noon: An Anti-Terrain |
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| Pandemonium |
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| Pleasure Domes |
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| Point of Departure |
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| Prisoner of Zenda |
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Based on book of same title |
| The Pursuit of Happiness |
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| Rikki and Pete |
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| Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat |
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| Sebastian and the Sparrow |
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| Shut-In |
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| Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em |
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| Spook |
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| Strike of the Panther |
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| Two Brothers Running |
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| Under the Gun |
James Sbardellati |
|
Action |
IMDb |
| Vicious! |
Karl Zwicky |
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Drama |
IMDb |
| Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train |
Bob Ellis |
|
Drama |
IMDb |
| Whiteforce |
Eddie Romero |
|
Action / Drama |
IMDb |
| Young Einstein |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Action Replay |
Sara Hourez |
Shane Feeney-Connor, Rhondda Findleton |
Comedy |
IMDb |
| Afraid to Dance |
Denny Lawrence |
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Crime / Romance |
IMDb |
| Against the Innocent |
Daryl Dellora |
|
Drama |
IMDb |
| The Audition |
Anna Campion |
|
Short |
IMDb |
| Bangkok Hilton |
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Television mini-series |
| The Blood of Heroes |
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| Blowing Hot and Cold |
Marc Gracie |
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Drama |
IMDb |
| Bonza |
David Swann |
|
Short / Comedy |
IMDb |
| Boys in the Island |
Geoff Bennett |
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Adventure / Crime |
IMDb |
| Candy Regentag |
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| Cappuccino |
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| The Corsican Brothers |
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| Dangerfreaks |
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| Dead Calm |
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| The Delinquents |
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| Devil in the Flesh |
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| Elevation |
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| Fever |
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| Glass |
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| Houseboat Horror |
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| Island |
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| Its a Business Doing Pleasure |
Sharon Connelly |
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Documentary |
IMDb |
| Joe Leahy's Neighbours |
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| Kokoda Crescent |
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| Luigi's Ladies |
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| Minnamurra |
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| Mull |
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| Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy |
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| Night Out |
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| Nullarbor Dreaming |
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| Out of the Body |
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| Phone Sex Girls: Australia |
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| The Prisoner of St. Petersburg |
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| The Punisher |
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| Sex Rules |
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| The Siege of Firebase Gloria |
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| Sons of Steel |
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| The Space Between the Door and the Floor |
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| Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds |
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| A Sting in the Tail |
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| Teenage Babylon |
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| Tender Hooks |
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| Tripe |
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[edit] External links
Cinema of Australia
List of films by region and country
