Australian films of the 1980s
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- This is a chronological list of Australian films by decade and year for years 1980s. For a complete alphabetical A-Z list, see Category:Australian films.
A list of films produced in Australia by year during the 1980s, in the List of Australian films.
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[edit] 1980
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| ...Maybe This Time | ||||
| Blood Money | Christopher Fitchett | Crime drama | IMDb | |
| 'Breaker' Morant | ||||
| The Chain Reaction | ||||
| The Club | Bruce Beresford | Jack Thompson, John Howard | Comedy drama | |
| The Comeback | ||||
| Dead Man's Float | ||||
| The Earthling | ||||
| Fatty Finn | ||||
| Final Cut (film) | Director: Ross Dimsey Story/Screenplay: Jonathan Dawson | Jennifer Cluff | Thriller | |
| Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better | ||||
| The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris | ||||
| Groping | ||||
| Hard Knocks | ||||
| Harlequin | ||||
| The Kingdom of Nek Chand | ||||
| Lucinda Brayford | ||||
| Manganinnie | ||||
| Mystery Island | ||||
| Nightmares | ||||
| Pianoforte | ||||
| Psychic Visions of the Future | ||||
| Raccolta d'inverno | ||||
| Rush | ||||
| Stepping Out | ||||
| Stir | ||||
| Touch and Go | ||||
| Wrongsky | ||||
| Yap: How Did You Know We'd Like TV? | Dennis O'Rourke | IMDb |
[edit] 1981
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Against the Grain: More Meat Than Wheat | Tim Burns | Drama | IMDb | |
| Angels of War | Gavan Daws, Hank Nelson | Documentary | IMDb | |
| Around the World with Dot | Yoram Gross | Animation | IMDb | |
| Ayers Rock | Paul Winkler | Short | IMDb | |
| The Best of Friends | Michael Robertson | Comedy / Romance | IMDb | |
| A Dangerous Summer | ||||
| Doctors & Nurses | ||||
| Double Deal | ||||
| Gallipoli | Peter Weir | Mel Gibson | Drama | |
| Grendel Grendel Grendel | ||||
| Hoodwink | Claude Whatham | |||
| The Killing of Angel Street | ||||
| Lady Stay Dead | ||||
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | Mel Gibson | Action | ||
| The Myth Makers | Writer/Director: Jonathan Dawson | |||
| Pacific Banana | ||||
| Puberty Blues | ||||
| Race for the Yankee Zephyr | ||||
| Roadgames | ||||
| Run Rebecca, Run! | ||||
| Save the Lady | ||||
| Strange Behavior | ||||
| Strange Residues | ||||
| Viva! San Fermin | Ivor Bowen | Documentary | IMDb | |
| Winter of Our Dreams | ||||
| Wrong Side of the Road |
[edit] 1982
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack Force Z | Tim Burstall | |||
| Breakfast in Paris | ||||
| Café of Love | ||||
| Centrespread | ||||
| The Clinic | ||||
| Corpse | ||||
| Crosstalk | ||||
| The Dark Room | ||||
| Dead Easy | ||||
| Desolation Angels | ||||
| Duet for Four | ||||
| Early Frost | ||||
| An Exercise in Discipline - Peel | ||||
| Far East | ||||
| Fighting Back | ||||
| Fluteman | ||||
| Freedom | ||||
| Ginger Meggs | Director Jonathan Dawson | Gary MacDonald, Ross Higgins,Harold Hopkins, Coral Kelly, Paul Daniels | (see Ginger Meggs) | |
| Greetings from Wollongong | ||||
| Heatwave | ||||
| Highest Honor | ||||
| Journey to the End of Night | ||||
| Kitty and the Bagman | ||||
| The Little Feller | ||||
| Lonely Hearts | ||||
| Lousy Little Sixpence | ||||
| The Man from Snowy River | Film remake | |||
| Monkey Grip | Ken Cameron | Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels | ||
| The Mystery at Castle House | ||||
| Next of Kin | ||||
| Norman Loves Rose | ||||
| The Pirate Movie | ||||
| The Plains of Heaven | ||||
| Running On Empty (a.k.a. Fast Lane Fever) |
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| Shadows | ||||
| The Sharkcallers of Kontu | ||||
| Snow: The Movie | ||||
| Squizzy Taylor | ||||
| Starstruck | ||||
| Storm Riders | ||||
| Sweet Dreamers | ||||
| Tennis Elbow | ||||
| Turkey Shoot | ||||
| Warriors of the Deep | Tony Wheeler | Documentary drama | IMDb | |
| We of the Never Never | Igor Auzins | Angela Punch McGregor | Historical drama | Based on popular Australian autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn, first published in 1908 |
| With Prejudice | ||||
| The Year of Living Dangerously |
[edit] 1983
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abra Cadabra | Animation | |||
| Allies | Marian Wilkinson | Documentary | IMDb | |
| BMX Bandits | Nicole Kidman | |||
| Buddies | ||||
| Bush Christmas | Nicole Kidman | |||
| Careful, He Might Hear You | ||||
| Desert Farming | ||||
| Douglas Mawson: The Survivor | ||||
| Dusty | ||||
| Fight to the Death | ||||
| First Contact | ||||
| Going Down | ||||
| Goodbye Paradise | ||||
| Hostage | ||||
| Man of Flowers | ||||
| Midnite Spares | ||||
| Molly | ||||
| Moving Out | ||||
| Now and Forever | ||||
| Passionless Moments | ||||
| Phar Lap (a.k.a. Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation) |
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| The Return of Captain Invincible | ||||
| The Settlement | ||||
| Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse | ||||
| A Slice of Life | ||||
| Stations | ||||
| Tukana - husat i asua | ||||
| Undercover | David Stevens | Comedy | 5 AFI nominations IMDb | |
| The Wild Duck | ||||
| The Winds of Jarrah | ||||
| The Voyage of Bounty's Child | Michael Edols | narrated by Leo McKern | Docum./Biography | IMDb |
[edit] 1984
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| After Hours | Jane Campion | Short / Drama | IMDb | |
| Ana Who | Pip Karmel | Documentary | IMDb | |
| Annie's Coming Out | Gil Brealey | Drama | IMDb | |
| The Boy Who Had Everything (a.k.a. Winner Takes All) |
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| Bullamakanka | ||||
| The Camel Boy | ||||
| Channel Chaos | ||||
| The Cleaning | ||||
| The Coolangatta Gold | Grant Kenny | |||
| Dot and the Bunny | ||||
| The Drover's Wife | ||||
| Every Day... Every Night | ||||
| Fantasy Man | ||||
| Fast Talking | ||||
| The Fire in the Stone | ||||
| Future Schlock | ||||
| Getting Wet | ||||
| A Girl's Own Story | ||||
| The Great Gold Swindle | ||||
| High Country | ||||
| Holzwege: Wood Roads/Wrong Ways | ||||
| Innocent Prey | ||||
| Leonora | ||||
| Melvin, Son of Alvin | ||||
| My First Wife | ||||
| The Naked Country | ||||
| The Old Curiosity Shop | ||||
| On Guard | ||||
| On the Loose | ||||
| One Night Stand | ||||
| Razorback | ||||
| Red Matildas | ||||
| Silver City | ||||
| The Slim Dusty Movie | ||||
| Stanley: Every Home Should Have One | ||||
| Street Hero | ||||
| Strikebound | ||||
| Tale of a Tiger | ||||
| Torn Allegiance | ||||
| Where the Green Ants Dream (a.k.a. Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen) |
Werner Herzog |
[edit] 1985
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | ||||
| An Indecent Obsession | ||||
| The Big Hurt | Barry Peak | Thriller | IMDb | |
| Bliss | Ray Lawrence | Barry Otto, Lynette Curran | ||
| Bootleg | John Prescott | Crime/Drama | IMDb | |
| Burke & Wills | ||||
| The Coca-Cola Kid | ||||
| Death Warmed Up | ||||
| Don't Call Me Girlie | ||||
| Dot and the Koala | ||||
| Emoh Ruo | ||||
| The Empty Beach | ||||
| Epic | ||||
| Flight Into Hell | ||||
| Fran | ||||
| Half Life | ||||
| I Can't Get Started | ||||
| I Live with Me Dad | ||||
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | Mel Gibson,Tina Turner | |||
| Niel Lynne | ||||
| No Dance | ||||
| The Occult Experience | ||||
| Rebel | ||||
| Relatives | ||||
| Spytrap: The True Story of Petrov and Philby | ||||
| Starship | ||||
| The Still Point | ||||
| A Street to Die | ||||
| Time After Time | John Gielgud, Googie Withers | Based on a novel by Molly Keane | ||
| Unfinished Business | ||||
| Warming Up | Bruce Best | Comedy / Family | IMDb | |
| Wills & Burke | ||||
| Wrong World |
[edit] 1986
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% Wool | ||||
| Alice to Nowhere | ||||
| The Australian Image | Graham Shirley | IMDb | ||
| BabaKiueria | Don Featherstone | Michelle Torres, Bob Maza | Drama / Short | IMDb |
| Backlash | Bill Bennett | Crime / Drama | IMDb | |
| Cactus | ||||
| Cassandra | ||||
| Coming of Age | ||||
| Cool Change | ||||
| Crocodile Dundee | Peter Faiman | Paul Hogan, John Mellion, David Gulpilil | ||
| Dead-End Drive In | ||||
| Death of a Soldier | ||||
| Departure | ||||
| Dot and Keeto | ||||
| Dot and the Whale | ||||
| Double Sculls | ||||
| Emma's War | ||||
| For Love Alone | ||||
| Fortress | Arch Nicholson | Rachel Ward, Vernon Wells | Horror | |
| The Fringe Dwellers | ||||
| Frog Dreaming | ||||
| Going Sane | ||||
| The Humpty Dumpty Man | ||||
| Jenny Kissed Me | ||||
| Just Us | ||||
| Kangaroo | ||||
| Kidnapped | ||||
| Landslides | ||||
| Le Corps imagé | ||||
| Malcolm | ||||
| Man and Boy | ||||
| Marauders | ||||
| Mesmerized | ||||
| The More Things Change... | ||||
| My Life Without Steve | ||||
| Platypus Cove | ||||
| Played in Australia | ||||
| Playing Beatie Bow | Based on a book by the same title | |||
| Raoul Wallenberg: Between the Lines | ||||
| Run Chrissie Run! | ||||
| Short Changed | ||||
| Sky Pirates | ||||
| Starview | ||||
| The Steam-Driven Adventures of Riverboat Bill | ||||
| The Surfer | ||||
| Traps | ||||
| Vengeance Land | ||||
| Windrider | ||||
| Zombie Brigade | Carmelo Musca, Barrie Pattison | Horror | IMDb |
[edit] 1987
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Around the World in Eighty Ways | Stephen MacLean | Comedy | IMDb | |
| Aussified | Ralph Lawrence Marsden | Drama | IMDb | |
| Australian Dream | Jackie McKimmie | IMDb | ||
| Australian Made: The Movie | ||||
| The Bit Part | ||||
| Bullseye | ||||
| Dangerous Game | ||||
| Dark Age | ||||
| Dear Cardholder | ||||
| Dogs in Space | ||||
| Dot and the Smugglers | ||||
| Dot Goes to Hollywood | ||||
| Echoes of Paradise | ||||
| The Edge of Power | ||||
| Feathers | ||||
| Frenchman's Farm | ||||
| Gallagher's Travels | ||||
| The Good Wife | ||||
| Ground Zero | ||||
| High Tide | ||||
| Howling III | ||||
| Hungry Heart | ||||
| Initiation | ||||
| Les Patterson Saves the World | ||||
| The Lighthorsemen | ||||
| Nepal: Where the Legends Live | ||||
| Nice Coloured Girls | ||||
| The Nights Belong to the Novelist: Elizabeth Jolley, Australian Writer | ||||
| Olive | ||||
| Outback Vampires | Colin Eggleston | Comedy/Horror | ||
| Palisade | ||||
| Passionately Single | ||||
| The Perfectionist | ||||
| The Place at the Coast | ||||
| Resan | ||||
| The Right Hand Man | ||||
| Running from the Guns | ||||
| Shaka Zulu | ||||
| Slate Wyn & Me | ||||
| Spineless | ||||
| The Tale of Ruby Rose | ||||
| Terror in Sutterville | ||||
| Those Dear Departed | ||||
| The Time Guardian | ||||
| To Market to Market | ||||
| Travelling North | ||||
| Twelfth Night | ||||
| Vincent | Animation | |||
| Watch the Shadows Dance | ||||
| With Love to the Person Next to Me | ||||
| With Time to Kill | ||||
| The Year My Voice Broke | John Duigan | Noah Taylor, Ben Mendelsohn |
[edit] 1988
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 13th Floor | |||||
| An Ordinary Woman | |||||
| As Time Goes by | Barry Peak | Comedy / Sci-Fi | IMDb | ||
| Bachelor Girl | Rivka Hartman | Comedy / Romance | IMDb | ||
| Backstage | Jonathan Hardy | Drama | IMDb | ||
| Belinda | |||||
| Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces | Gillian Armstrong | Documentary | IMDb | ||
| Black Tulip | Franco Cristofani | Animation / Adventure | IMDb | ||
| Body Works | David Caesar | IMDb | |||
| Boulevard of Broken Dreams | |||||
| Boundaries of the Heart | |||||
| Breaking Loose | |||||
| Cane Toads | |||||
| Cannibal Tours | |||||
| Celia | Horror / Drama | ||||
| Cherith | |||||
| Compo | |||||
| Crocodile Dundee II | John Cornell | Paul Hogan, John Mellon, Ernie Dingo | |||
| Dadah is Death | |||||
| Daisy and Simon | |||||
| Day of the Panther | |||||
| The Dreaming | |||||
| E'ellermani: The Story of Leo and Leva | |||||
| Emerald City | |||||
| Encounter at Raven's Gate | |||||
| The Everlasting Secret Family | |||||
| Evil Angels | Fred Schepisi | Meryl Streep, Sam Neill | Docudrama | Released as A Cry in the Dark in the US | |
| The First Kangaroos | |||||
| Georgia | |||||
| Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | |||||
| Grievous Bodily Harm | |||||
| Hell's Half Hectare | |||||
| In the Aftermath | |||||
| Kadaicha | |||||
| Lover Boy | |||||
| The Man from Snowy River II (a.k.a. Return to Snowy River (US) and The Untamed (UK)) |
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| Moodeitj Yorgas | |||||
| The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | |||||
| Night's High Noon: An Anti-Terrain | |||||
| Pandemonium | |||||
| Pleasure Domes | |||||
| Point of Departure | |||||
| Prisoner of Zenda | Based on book of same title | ||||
| The Pursuit of Happiness | |||||
| Rikki and Pete | |||||
| Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat | |||||
| Sebastian and the Sparrow | |||||
| Shut-In | |||||
| Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em | |||||
| Spook | |||||
| Strike of the Panther | |||||
| Two Brothers Running | |||||
| Under the Gun | James Sbardellati | Action | IMDb | ||
| Vicious! | Karl Zwicky | Drama | IMDb | ||
| Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train | Bob Ellis | Drama | IMDb | ||
| Whiteforce | Eddie Romero | Action / Drama | IMDb | ||
| Young Einstein | Yahoo Serious |
[edit] 1989
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action Replay | Sara Hourez | Shane Feeney-Connor, Rhondda Findleton | Comedy | IMDb |
| Afraid to Dance | Denny Lawrence | Crime / Romance | IMDb | |
| Against the Innocent | Daryl Dellora | Drama | IMDb | |
| The Audition | Anna Campion | Short | IMDb | |
| Bangkok Hilton | Television mini-series | |||
| Blowing Hot and Cold | Marc Gracie | Drama | IMDb | |
| Bonza | David Swann | Short / Comedy | IMDb | |
| Boys in the Island | Geoff Bennett | Adventure / Crime | IMDb | |
| Candy Regentag | ||||
| Cappuccino | ||||
| The Corsican Brothers | ||||
| Dangerfreaks | ||||
| Dead Calm | ||||
| The Delinquents | ||||
| Devil in the Flesh | ||||
| Elevation | ||||
| Fever | ||||
| Glass | ||||
| Houseboat Horror | ||||
| Island | ||||
| Its a Business Doing Pleasure | Sharon Connelly | Documentary | IMDb | |
| Joe Leahy's Neighbours | ||||
| Kokoda Crescent | ||||
| Luigi's Ladies | ||||
| Minnamurra | ||||
| Mull | ||||
| Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy | ||||
| Night Out | ||||
| Nullarbor Dreaming | ||||
| Out of the Body | ||||
| Phone Sex Girls: Australia | ||||
| The Prisoner of St. Petersburg | ||||
| The Punisher | ||||
| Salute of the Jugger | David Webb Peoples | Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D’Onofrio, Max Fairchild | Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction | IMDb, Hopscotch Films |
| Sex Rules | ||||
| The Siege of Firebase Gloria | ||||
| Sons of Steel | Gary L. Keady | Rob Hartley, Roz Wason, Jeff Duff, Dagmar Bláhová | Science Fiction / Musical | IMDb |
| The Space Between the Door and the Floor | ||||
| Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds | ||||
| A Sting in the Tail | ||||
| Teenage Babylon | ||||
| Tender Hooks | ||||
| Tripe |
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