List of films shot in Adelaide
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The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

 or the state of South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

. There are around 150 movies listed in the IMDb as having been shot in South Australia. This is a list of the more prominent, commercial or notable films.

Films

Film Year Locations References
2:37
2:37
2:37 is a 2006 Australian drama film, written, produced, and directed by filmmaker Murali K. Thalluri and starring an ensemble cast including Teresa Palmer, Joel Mackenzie, Frank Sweet, Charles Baird, Sam Harris, Marni Spillane and Clementine Mellor. 2:37 was filmed in Adelaide, Australia on...

2006 Adelaide, Athelstone, South Australia - 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 Coober Pedy, Moon Plain, South Australia; Broken Hill, Darling Harbour, Erskineville, Newtown, Silverton, Stephen's Creek, Sydney, New South Wales; Alice Springs, Watarrka National Park, Northern Territory - Australia
Alexandra's Project
Alexandra's Project
Alexandra's Project is a 2003 drama/thriller Australian movie.-Plot:It depicts a family where the protagonist, Steve, comes to find the life that he has been living is a lie. After years of what he believed to be marital bliss, his wife Alexandra confronts him with her dissatisfaction in a most...

2003 Adelaide, Hendon, Brompton, South Australia - Australia
Algie's Romance 1918 Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Almost Alien 1997 Adelaide, Flinders Ranges, Hawker, South Australia; Tasmania - Australia
Australian Rules
Australian Rules (film)
Australian Rules, is a 2002 Australian film directed by Paul Goldman. The film was adapted from the novel Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne. It stars Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll, Tom Budge, Brian Torry and Lisa Flanagan...

2002 Adelaide, Dublin, Port Wakefield, Exeter, Grange, Largs Bay, Middle Beach, Thompson's Beach, South Australia - Australia
Backsliding 1992 Adelaide, Hendon, Flinders Ranges, Peterborough, Semaphore, South Australia - Australia
Bad Boy Bubby
Bad Boy Bubby
Bad Boy Bubby is an Australian black comedy/drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer. It stars Nicholas Hope and Carmel Johnson. It was released in 1993....

2002 Adelaide, Port Adelaide, North Adelaide, Thebarton, Outer Harbor, Semaphore, Torrens Island, South Australia - Australia
Beautiful
Beautiful (2009 film)
Beautiful is a 2009 Australian independent film, written and directed by Dean O'Flaherty, which was released by Adelaide-based Kojo Pictures on 5 March 2009. The film marked the feature filmmaking debut of both O'Flaherty and Kojo Pictures...

2009 Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Beautiful Kate
Beautiful Kate
Beautiful Kate is a 2009 Australian film directed by Rachel Ward and starring Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Sophie Lowe and Ben Mendelsohn. Rachel Ward adapted the script from a 1982 novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg; this was the first novel by Thornburg used for a movie since Cutter's Way...

2009 Adelaide, Flinders Ranges, Hendon, Wilpena Pound, South Australia - Australia
Bitter Springs
Bitter Springs (film)
Bitter Springs is a 1950 Australian-British film directed by Ralph Smart. An Australian pioneer family buy a piece of land from the government in the Australian outback and hire two inexperienced British men as drovers...

1950 Flinders Ranges, Quorn, Warren Gorge, Yarrah Vale, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Black and White
Black and White (2002 film)
Black and White is a 2002 Australian film, directed by Craig Lahiff and starring Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, David Ngoombujarra, and Colin Friels.Louis Nowra wrote the screenplay and Helen Leake and Nik Powell produced the film...

2002 Adelaide, Ardrossan, Carrick Hill, Springfield, Port Adelaide, Thebarton, Port Wakefield, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia - Australia
Blue Fin
Blue Fin
Blue Fin is a 1978 family movie that stars Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne. It is based on an Australian novel written by Colin Thiele and published in 1969.-Plot:...

1978 Adelaide, Dulwich, Eyre Peninsula, Great Australian Bight, Nullabor Plain, Port Lincoln, Norwood, Streaky Bay, Wanna Beach, Wanna, South Australia - Australia
The Boys are Back
The Boys Are Back (film)
The Boys Are Back is a 2009 Australian/British drama film directed by Scott Hicks, produced by Greg Brenman and starring Clive Owen. Based on the book The Boys Are Back In Town by Simon Carr, the film features a score composed by Hal Lindes and a soundtrack by Sigur Rós.-Plot:Joe Warr is a British...

2009 Adelaide, McLaren Vale, Fleurieu Peninsula, Bedford Park, Glenelg South, Hendon, Kangarilla, South Australia - Australia; Forty Green, Buckinghamshire; Hammersmith, London - England
Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant (film)
Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian film about the court martial of Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring British actor Edward Woodward as Harry "Breaker" Morant...

1980 Adelaide, Burra, Clare Valley, Flinders Ranges, Marryatville, Rostrevor, Somerton Park, Norwood, South Australia - Australia
Broken Hill
Broken Hill (film)
Broken Hill is a 2009 drama film directed and written by Dagen Merrill and starring Alexa Vega and Timothy Hutton.-Plot:A gifted teenage composer , dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music...

2009 Adelaide, Athelstone, Two Wells, Norwood, Thebarton, Port Adelaide, Kent Town, South Australia; Mundi Mundi Plains, Broken Hill, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Call Me Mr. Brown 1990 Adelaide, South Australia; Bondi, Glebe, Sydney, Long Bay Gaol, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Centrespread 1981 Adelaide, Maslin Beach, Montefiore Hill, North Adelaide, Norwood - South Australia; Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise, Queensland - Australia
Closed for Winter
Closed for Winter
Closed for Winter is a 2009 Australian drama film starring Natalie Imbruglia.It is based on Georgia Blain's critically acclaimed novel of the same title...

2009 Adelaide, Semaphore, Woodville, South Australia - Australia
Coffin Rock 2009 Adelaide, Cape Jaffa, Hendon, Thompson's Beach, South Australia - Australia
Cut
Cut (film)
Cut is a 2000 Australian comedy horror film, which was directed by Kimble Rendall and stars Kylie Minogue, Molly Ringwald and Tiriel Mora.-Synopsis:...

2000 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Bridgewater, Port Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Dance Me to My Song
Dance Me to My Song
Dance Me to My Song is a 1998 Australian drama film directed by Rolf de Heer. It was entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. The film grossed $175,138 at the box office in Australia.-Cast:* John Brumpton - Eddie* Danny Cowles - Joe...

1998 Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Welland, South Australia - Australia
Dawn!
Dawn!
Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser, starring Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, written by Joy Cavill and directed by Ken Hannam.- Plot :...

1979 Adelaide, Norwood, South Australia; Townsville, Queensland; Balmain, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria - Australia; Toho Studios, Tokyo, Odawara Castle, Odawara - Japan
December Boys
December Boys
December Boys is a 2007 Australian film directed by Rod Hardy and written by Marc Rosenberg and adapted from the 1963 novel of the same name by Michael Noonan. It was released on 14 September 2007 in the UK and US and 20 September 2007 in Australia...

2007 Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Clayton, Fleurieu Peninsula, Hendon, Port Adelaide, Second Valley, South Australia; Geelong, Victoria - 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 Adelaide, Hendon, Oaklands Park, Flinders University, Henley Beach, Marion, Taperoo, Port Adelaide, South Australia; Anzac Bridge, Maroubra, Mascot, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Down the Wind 1975 Adelaide, Crafers, Morialta Gorge, Mount Bold, Stirling, South Australia; Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Perisher, Snowy Mountains, New South Wales - Australia
The Dreaming 1988 Birkenhead, Fleurieu Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, Semaphore, Second Valley, South Australia - Australia
Dr Plonk
Dr Plonk
Dr Plonk is a 2007 Australian film directed by Adelaide-based Australian director Rolf de Heer. It premiered in Australia in March 2007 at the Adelaide Film Festival. It is a silent film and at the premiere had live accompaniment by the Stiletto Sisters. The film was also screened at the launch of...

2007 Adelaide, Clovelly Park, Mount Barker, Hendon, South Australia - Australia
Ebbtide 1994 Adelaide, Carrick Hill, Springfield, Largs Bay, Port Adelaide, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Fair Game
Fair Game (1986 film)
Fair Game is a 1986 Australian action thriller film directed by Mario Andreacchio from a screenplay by Rob George.A young woman who runs a wildlife sanctuary in the Outback is menaced by three kangaroo hunters who have entered the sanctuary looking for new game....

1986 Adelaide, Clare Valley, South Australia - Australia
Family Demons
Family Demons
Family Demons is a 2009 Australian psychological thriller film, written and directed by Ursula Dabrowsky and starring Cassandra Kane, Kerry Reid and Alex Rafalowicz.- Plot :...

2009 Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Fever
Fever (1989 film)
Fever is a 1989 Australian erotic thrillerfilm about an Australian policeman who finds a suitcase full of money, and the course of events which unfold when he decides to keep it. The film was directed by Craig Lahiff, and stars Bill Hunter, Gary Sweet, and Mary Regan....

1988 Adelaide, Callington, Gilman, Murraylands, Osborne, Port Adelaide, Riverland, South Australia; Broken Hill, Silverton, New South Wales - Australia; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - USA
The Fire in the Stone 1984 Adelaide, Coober Pedy, Hendon, South Australia - Australia
The Fourth Wish
The Fourth Wish
The Fourth Wish is a 1976 Australian family film directed by Don Chaffey.-Cast:*John Meillon ... Casey*Robert Bettles ... Sean*Michael Craig ... Dr. Richardson*Anne Haddy ... Dr. Kirk*Ron Haddrick ... Harbord*Robyn Nevin ... Connie...

1976 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Glenelg, Hackney, Hindmarsh, Lake Torrens, North Adelaide, Norwood, West Beach, South Australia - Australia
Freedom 1982 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Birdwood, Callington, Fleurieu Peninsula, Sedan, Hahndorf, Harrogate, Stirling, Second Valley, Sellicks Hill, Murray Bridge, Norwood, Springton, Port Adelaide, Woodville, South Australia - Australia
Gallipoli
Gallipoli (1981 film)
Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent to Turkey, where they take part in the Gallipoli Campaign. During the...

1981 Adelaide, Beltana, Coffin Bay, Dutton Bay, Eyre Peninsula, Flinders Ranges, Lake Torrens, Pichi Richi Pass, Port Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Quorn, South Australia - Australia
Hammers Over the Anvil
Hammers Over the Anvil
Hammers Over the Anvil is a 1991 Australian drama film starring Russell Crowe and Charlotte Rampling, directed by Ann Turner. The screenplay by Peter Hepworth and Ann Turner is based on the novel by Alan Marshall...

1993 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Mintaro, Clare Valley, Clare, South Australia - Australia
Heaven's Burning
Heaven's Burning
Heaven's Burning is a 1997 Australian film directed by Craig Lahiff and written by Louis Nowra.-Plot:Midori Takada arrives in Sydney with her new husband Yukio . She believes her marriage is a mistake and uses the honeymoon as a means to escape by walking out of their hotel room...

1997 Adelaide, Balaklava, Port Adelaide, Ottoway, Port Wakefield, Rapid Bay, South Australia; Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger is a 2008 Australian independent teen film written and directed by Cathy Randall. It stars Danielle Catanzariti, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Toni Collette. The film follows Jewish 13-year-old Esther , an outcast at her posh school, where she has no friends...

2008 Adelaide, Hendon, South Australia; Sydney, 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 Flinders Ranges, Hawker, South Australia; Moore Park, Sans Souci, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; New Delhi, Delhi; Pushkar, Rajasthan - India
The Honourable Wally Norman
The Honourable Wally Norman
The Honourable Wally Norman is a 2003 Australian comedy film directed by Ted Emery. It stars Kevin Harrington, Shaun Micallef, and Greig Pickhaver.It was filmed primarily in South Australia and was nominated for two AFI awards.-Plot:...

2003 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Collinswood, Enfield, Glenelg, Littlehampton, Lobethal, Mount Barker, Nairne, Norwood, South Australia; Melbourne, Victoria; Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Human Touch
Human Touch (film)
Human Touch is a 2004 film directed by Paul Cox and starring Jacqueline McKenzie and Chris Haywood. The plot follows the story of Anna who is a singer trying to raise money for her choir's trip to China. She does this by posing nude for an ageing artist and upon seeing the finished results goes on...

2004 Adelaide, Hendon, Port Adelaide, South Australia - Australia; Rivieres de Theyrargues, Gard - France
In a Savage Land 1999 Adelaide, Port Adelaide, South Australia - Australia; Kiriwina Island, Trobriand Islands - Papua New Guinea
Incident at Raven's Gate
Incident at Raven's Gate
Incident at Raven's Gate is a 1988 science fiction arthouse feature film directed by prominent Australian director Rolf de Heer....

1988 Adelaide, Hendon, Callington, Murraylands, Riverland, South Australia - Australia
Innocence 2000 Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Parklands, Adelaide, Ashford, North Adelaide, Rymill Park, Adelaide, South Australia; Melbourne, Victoria - Australia; Belgium
Jaws
Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...

1975 Southern Ocean, South Australia - Australia; Martha's Vineyard, Falmouth, Massachusetts; Santa Catalina Island, Channel Islands, California - USA
Kangaroo
Kangaroo (1952 film)
Kangaroo is a 1952 American film directed by Lewis Milestone.The film is also known as The Australian Story .- Plot summary :...

1952 Buckaringa Gorge, Catninga, Flinders Ranges, Quorn, Sandy Creek, Port Augusta, Woolundunga Station, South Australia; Pagewood Studios, Sydney, The Rocks,New South Wales, Australia
Kiss or Kill 1997 Adelaide, Cactus Beach, Ceduna, Edwardstown, Eyre Peninsula, Great Australian Bight, Penong, Port Augusta, Streaky Bay, Woomera Highway, South Australia - Australia
Last Ride
Last Ride (film)
Last Ride is a 2009 Australian drama film directed by Glendyn Ivin. It is based on the novel The Last Ride by Denise Young. The film follows a young boy accompanying his father , who is wanted by the police, across Australia.The film was given a limited release across Australia on 2 July...

2009 Flinders Ranges, South Australia - Australia
The Last Wave
The Last Wave
The Last Wave is a 1977 Australian film directed by Peter Weir. It is about a white Australian lawyer whose seemingly normal life is disrupted after he takes on a murder case for Aborigine defendants...

1977 Adelaide, Flinders Ranges, Hammond, Mitcham, South Australia; Avalon Beach, Bondi, The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
La belle verte 1996 Flinders Ranges, Parachilna, South Australia, Australia; Paris, Saint-Andéol, Lozère - France
The Life of Harry Dare 1995 Adelaide, Birkenhead, Gawler Reach, Glanville, North Adelaide, Port Adelaide Lighthouse, Rosewater, Virginia, South Australia - Australia
Like Minds
Like Minds
Like Minds is a feature film, written and directed by Gregory J. Read. The film was produced by the South Australian Film Corporation. It debuted in Australia on 9 November 2006. The psychological thriller is the first Australian/UK co-production to be set in the UK in over a decade. Like Minds...

2006 Adelaide, Hendon, Port Adelaide, South Australia; Cessnock, New South Wales - Australia; Giggleswick, North Yorkshire; Leeds, West Yorkshire - England
Look Both Ways
Look Both Ways
Look Both Ways is a 2005 Australian independent film, written and directed by Sarah Watt, starring an ensemble cast, which was released on 18 August 2005. The film was supported by the Adelaide Film Festival fund and opened the 2005 festival. It won four AFI Awards, including Best Film and Best...

2005 Adelaide, Kewsick, Modbury, Grange, Kensington, Kilkenny, Largs Bay, Port Adelaide, Lockleys,
Manningham, Port Adelaide, Norwood, Peterhead, Semaphore, West Beach, West Lakes, South Australia - Australia
Lucky Miles
Lucky Miles
Lucky Miles is an Australian comedy/drama feature film based on several true stories involving people entering Australia illegally along the continent's coastline...

2007 Adelaide, Hendon, South Australia - Australia; Cambodia
Lust and Revenge 1996 Adelaide, Carrick Hill, Springfield, Port Adelaide, South Australia - 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 Breakaways Reserve, Lunar Plains, Moon Plain, Coober Pedy, South Australia; Blackheath, Blue Mountains, Botany Bay, Glebe, Homebush Bay, Sydney, Kurnell, New South Wales - Australia; Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía - Spain
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 Adelaide, Norwood, South Australia; Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Offside
Offside (2009 film)
Offside is a 2009 Australian romantic comedy written and directed by Gian Carlo Petraccaro , and produced by Matthew Salleh at Urtext Film Productions.-Plot:...

2009 Adelaide, Henley Beach, Klemzig, Montefiore Hill, North Adelaide, West Beach, Woodville, South Australia - Australia
One Night the Moon
One Night the Moon
One Night the Moon is a 2001 Australian musical non-feature film starring husband and wife team Paul Kelly, a singer-songwriter, and Kaarin Fairfax, a film and television actress, and their daughter Memphis Kelly. Directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Perkins with John Romeril, it was filmed on...

2001 Flinders Ranges, Hawker, Leigh Creek, Yappala, South Australia - Australia
Opal Dream
Opal Dream
Opal Dream is a 2006 Australian drama film, based on the Ben Rice novella Pobby and Dingan, directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring an ensemble cast including Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie, Christian Byers and Sapphire Boyce. It was filmed on location around South Australia, in Adelaide,...

2005 Adelaide, Coober Pedy, Semaphore, Hendon, Woomera, South Australia - Australia
Oranges and Sunshine 2010 Adelaide, South Australia - Australia; Nottingham, Nottinghamshire; Wirksworth, Derbyshire - England
Our Friends the Hayseeds 1917 Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Pacific Banana 1981 Adelaide, Hendon, South Australia; Melbourne, Victoria - Australia; Huahine, Tahiti - French Polynesia
Parklands
Parklands (film)
Parklands is a 1996 Australian drama film written and directed by Kathryn Millard. The 51-minute-long movie includes Chamber of Commerce-style promotional material about Adelaide that was made in the 1950s and '60s.-Plot synopsis:...

1996 Adelaide, Ethelton, Largs Bay, Port Adelaide, Semaphore, Taperoo, South Australia - Australia
Peaches
Peaches (film)
Peaches is a 2004 Australian film, written by Sue Smith and directed by Craig Monahan. The music was by David Hirschfelder, cinematography by Ernie Clark A.C.S., editing by Suresh Ayyar and art direction by Paula Smith.-Plot:...

2004 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Berri, Hendon, Murraylands, Riverland, Swan Reach, South Australia - Australia
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 drama and mystery novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay. She wrote it over a four-week period at her home Mulberry Hill in Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. It was first published in 1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was released in...

1975 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Strathalbyn, Aldgate, Clare Valley, Clare, Stirling, Mintaro, Norwood, South Australia; Mount Macedon, Woodend, Victoria - Australia
Pitch Black 2000 Breakaways Reserve, Lunar Plains, Moon Plain, South Australia; Oxenford, Surfers Paradise, Queensland - Australia; Los Angeles, California - 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 Adelaide, Hendon, Port Adelaide, South Australia; Brooklyn, The Rocks, Lavender Bay, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Quiet Room
The Quiet Room
The Quiet Room is a 1996 Australian drama film directed by Rolf de Heer. It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Celine O'Leary - Mother* Paul Blackwell - Father* Chloe Ferguson - Girl Age 7* Phoebe Ferguson - Girl Age 3...

1996 Adelaide, Hendon, South Australia - Australia
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence (film)
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara...

2002 Adelaide, Flinders Ranges, Lake Torrens, McLaren Vale, Nilpena Station, Onkaparinga River National Park & Recreation Park, Parachilna, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales; Perth, Gibson Desert, The Pilbara, Western Australia - Australia
Race the Sun
Race the Sun
Race the Sun is a 1996 comedy-drama movie starring Halle Berry and James Belushi. The plot is loosely based on the true story of the Konawaena High School Solar Car Team, which finished 18th in the 1990 World Solar Challenge and first place among high school entries.-Plot:A new science teacher at...

1996 Adelaide, South Australia; Broken Hill, Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia; Hawaii - USA
Remorse, a Story of the Red Plague 1917 Adelaide, Buckland Park, South Australia - Australia
Return Home
Return Home
Return Home is a 1990 Australian drama film directed by Ray Argall. Argall won the AFI Award for Best Director in 1990 and Frankie J. Holden was nominated for Best Actor in a Lead Role.-Cast:*Dennis Coard as Noel*Frankie J...

1990 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Glenelg, Brighton, Henley Beach, South Australia; Melbourne, Victoria - Australia
Roadgames
Roadgames
Roadgames is a 1981 Australian film directed by Richard Franklin. The film stars Stacy Keach as a truck driver, and Jamie Lee Curtis as a hitchhiker.-Synopsis:...

1981 Great Australian Bight, South Australia; Eucla, Madura, Nullabor Plain, Perth, Western Australia; Diggers Rest, Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Victoria - Australia
Road Train
Road Train (film)
Road Train is an Australian horror film, known as Road Kill in the U.S., directed by Dean Francis and written by Clive Hopkins. It stars Xavier Samuel, Bob Morley, Georgina Haig and Sophie Lowe.- Plot :...

2010 Adelaide, Flinders Ranges, South Australia - Australia
Robbery Under Arms
Robbery Under Arms (1985 film)
Robbery Under Arms Acclaimed actor Sam Neill stars as the suave and enigmatic bushranger Captain Starlight in this lavish action adventure tale set in the rugged Australian outback...

1985 Adelaide, Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges, Glenside, Hackney, Hahndorf, Hendon, Hackney, Hahndorf, Hendon, Wilpena Pound, South Australia - Australia
Run Chrissie Run!
Run Chrissie Run!
Run Chrissie Run! is a 1986 Australian film, directed by Chris Langman. Graham Hartley adapted the script from the novel When We Ran by Keith Leopold...

1986 Adelaide, Barossa Valley, Hendon, Second Valley, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Sally Marshall is Not an Alien 1999 Adelaide, Semaphore, South Australia - Australia
The Salute of the Jugger
The Blood of Heroes
The Blood of Heroes is a 1989 Australian post-apocalyptic film directed by David Webb Peoples and starring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen. The film is also known by the names The Salute of the Jugger and Salute to the Jugger...

1989 Coober Pedy, South Australia - Australia
Sample People 2000 Adelaide, South Australia; Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Scratch 2000 Adelaide, Hendon, Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Selkie 2000 Adelaide, Fleurieu Peninsula, Port Noarlunga, Southern Vales, Victor Harbour, South Australia; Southport, Queensland - Australia
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 Adelaide, South Australia; Bondi, Hornsby Valley, Manly Beach, Manly, Sydney, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales - Australia
Serenades 2001 Flinders Ranges, Leigh Creek, Nilpena Station, South Australia - 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; Royal Albert Hall, Royal College of Music, South Kensington, Trafalgar Square, St James's, London - England
Siam Sunset
Siam Sunset
Siam Sunset is an Australian comedy film released in 1999. It was directed by John Polson and stars Linus Roache and Danielle Cormack.-Plot:...

1999 Adelaide, Coober Pedy, Hendon, South Australia - Australia
Spank 1999 Adelaide, Hyde Park, Modbury, North Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
Stealth
Stealth (film)
Stealth is a 2005 American science fiction action film starring Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, and Sam Shepard. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, director of The Fast and the Furious and xXx....

2005 Flinders Ranges, South Australia; Blue Mountains, Kurnell, Moore Park, Sydney, Zetland, New South Wales - Australia; Phi Phi Leh Island, Bangkok - Thailand; China; San Diego, Coronado, California - USA; Southern Alps, New Zealand; Myanmar
Stir
Stir (film)
Stir is a 1984 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace in his feature directorial debut. The prison film was written by Bob Jewson, based upon his own experience while incarcerated as the actual prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New...

1980 Clare Valley, Flinders Ranges, Gladstone, South Australia - Australia
Storm Boy
Storm Boy (film)
Storm Boy is a 1976 Australian film based on a children's book, by Colin Thiele, about a boy and his pelican.Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast of South Australia's Coorong. He and his father live a reclusive life among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean...

1976 Adelaide, Coorong National Park, Fleurieu Peninsula, Goolwa, Limestone Coast, Maslin Beach, Meningie Lakes, Murray River, Noarlunga, Port Noarlunga, Norwood, Southern Ocean, Younghusband Peninsula, South Australia - Australia
Struck by Lightning
Struck by Lightning
Struck by Lightning is a 1990 Australian film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki. The film was nominated in 4 AFI Award categories, including Best Director and Best Film. It won the film award at the Human Rights Medal and Awards in 1990.-Plot Summary:...

1990 Adelaide, Burnside, Tennyson, North Adelaide, South Australia - Australia
The Sundowners
The Sundowners
The Sundowners is a 1960 film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife's and son's desire to settle down in one place...

1960 Carriewerloo Station, Cooma, Corrabera Station, Corunna Station, Flinders Ranges, Hawker, Iron Knob, Port Augusta, Quorn, Saltia Creek, Whyalla, South Australia; Nimmitabel, Snowy Mountains, New South Wales - Australia; Borehamwood, Hertfordshire - England;
The Survivor
The Survivor (film)
The Survivor is a 1981 movie starring Robert Powell and Jenny Agutter, based on a novel of the same name by James Herbert.The film was notable for being the first Australian film to cost more than A$1,000,000 to make...

1981 Adelaide Hills, Adelaide, Edinburgh, Panorama, Norwood, Edinburgh, South Australia - Australia
Sweet Talker 1991 Beachport, Limestone Coast, Rivoli Bay, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
Tempe Tip 2002 Adelaide, Ferryden Park, South Australia - Australia
Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck (film)
Thunderstruck is a 2004 movie starring Stephen Curry , Damon Gameau , Ryan Johnson , Callan Mulvey , and Sam Worthington . The title of the movie was taken from the AC/DC song of the same name.-Plot:...

2004 Adelaide, Burra, Callington, Murray Bridge, Port Adelaide, Strathalbyn, South Australia; Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia; Sydney, New South Wales - Australia
The Tracker
The Tracker
The Tracker is an Australian drama film produced in 2002. It was directed and written by Rolf de Heer. It is a set in 1922 in outback Australia where a racist white colonial policeman used the tracking ability of an Indigenous Australian tracker to find the murderer of a white woman...

2002 Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, Dulwich, Flinders Ranges, Gammon Ranges, South Australia - Australia
Travelling Light 2003 Adelaide, Hove, Wild Horse Plains, South Australia - Australia
Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda...

1991 Coober Pedy, South Australia; Utopia Station, Northern Territory - Australia; Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Berlin - Germany; Hauts-de-Seine, Paris - France; Lisbon - Portugal; Moscow - Russia; San Francisco, California - USA; Tokyo - Japan; Venice, Veneto - Italy
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 Flinders Ranges, Iron Knob, Lake Eyre, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales; Arnhem Land, Central Australia, Darwin, Northern Territory - Australia
Weekend of Shadows 1978 Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Blakiston, Littlehampton, Macclesfield, Norwood, South Australia - Australia
The Woman Suffers 1918 Adelaide, Bridgewater, Buckland Park, Mannum, Morialta, Morphettville, Murraylands, Richmond Park, Riverland, Waterfall Gully, South Australia - 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 Darwin
  • List of films shot in Melbourne
  • List of films shot in Queensland
  • List of films shot in Sydney
  • 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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