List of films shot in Sydney
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The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Sydney or elsewhere in New South Wales.
Films
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2013) |
Film | Year | Refs |
---|---|---|
6 Festivals | 2022 | |
Anyone But You | 2023 | |
40,000 Horsemen | 1941 | |
A Silent Agreement | 2017 | |
Accidents Happen | 2009 | |
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | |
Age of Consent | 1969 | |
Alien: Covenant | 2017 | |
The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race | 2023 | |
Australia | 2008 | |
Babe | 1995 | |
Babe: Pig in the City | 1998 | [1] |
Bachna Ae Haseeno | 2008 | |
Better Than Sex | 2000 | |
Better Watch Out | 2016 | |
Birthday Girl | 2001 | |
The Black Balloon | 2008 | |
Bliss | 1985 | |
BMX Bandits | 1983 | |
Bootmen | 2000 | |
The Boys | 1998 | |
Cactus | 2008 | |
Caddie | 1976 | |
Call Me Mr. Brown | 1986 | |
Candy | 2006 | |
Captain Thunderbolt | 1953 | |
Careful, He Might Hear You | 1983 | |
The Cars That Ate Paris | 1974 | |
Cedar Boys | 2009 | |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1978 | |
Charlie & Boots | 2009 | |
Children of the Corn | 2020 | |
Children of the Revolution | 1996 | |
Clubland | 2007 | |
The Coca-Cola Kid | 1985 | |
The Combination | 2009 | |
Cosi | 1996 | |
Crocodile Dundee | 1986 | |
Crooked Business | 2008 | |
The Cross | 2010 | |
Danny Deckchair | 2003 | |
Dark City | 1998 | |
Dating the Enemy | 1996 | |
The Day the Earth Stood Still | 2008 | |
Dead Calm | 1989 | |
Dead-End Drive In | 1986 | |
Deck Dogz | 2005 | |
Dil Chahta Hai | 2001 | |
Dirty Deeds | 2002 | |
Disgrace | 2008 | |
Doing Time for Patsy Cline | 1997 | |
Don's Party | 1976 | |
Dot and the Kangaroo | 1977 | |
Down the Wind | 1975 | |
Ebbtide | 1994 | |
Erskineville Kings | 1999 | |
Escape from Absolom | 1994 | |
Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) | 1988 | |
The Fall Guy | 2024 | |
Far East | 1982 | |
Fatty Finn | 1980 | |
Five Blind Dates | 2024 | |
The FJ Holden | 1977 | |
Flirting | 1991 | |
For the Term of his Natural Life | 1927 | |
Frost/Nixon | 2008 | |
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | 2024 | |
Gabriel | 2007 | |
Garage Days | 2002 | |
Gods of Egypt | 2016 | |
Godzilla: Final Wars | 2004 | |
Gone | 2007 | |
The Great Gatsby | 2013 | [2] |
Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | |
The Hard Word | 2002 | |
Heatwave | 1982 | |
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | 2001 | |
Hercules Returns | 1993 | |
High Tide | 1987 | |
Holy Smoke! | 1999 | |
Hoodwink | 1981 | |
Housos vs. Authority | 2012 | |
Icarus | 2010 | |
Independence Day | 1996 | |
The Invisible Man | 2019 | |
In the Cut | 2003 | |
Jewboy | 2005 | |
Kangaroo Jack | 2003 | |
Kenny | 2006 | |
The Kid Stakes | 1927 | |
The Killing of Angel Street | 1981 | |
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | 2024 | |
Lantana | 2001 | |
The Last Days of Chez Nous | 1992 | |
Les Patterson Saves the World | 1987 | |
Little Fish | 2005 | |
Looking for Alibrandi | 2000 | |
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | |
Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015 | |
Man-Thing | 2005 | |
The Man Who Sued God | 2001 | |
Mao's Last Dancer | 2009 | |
The Matrix | 1999 | |
The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | |
The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | |
Me, Myself, I | 1999 | |
Men's Group | 2008 | |
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie | 1995 | |
Mission: Impossible 2 | 2000 | |
Money Movers | 1978 | |
The Monkey's Mask | 2000 | |
Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | |
Muriel's Wedding | 1994 | |
My Brilliant Career | 1979 | |
The Namesake | 2006 | |
Newsfront | 1978 | |
The Night We Called It a Day | 2003 | |
The Nugget | 2002 | |
The Odd Angry Shot | 1979 | |
On Our Selection | 1920 | |
One Night Stand | 1984 | |
Oscar and Lucinda | 1997 | |
Oyster Farmer | 2004 | |
Pacific Rim: Uprising | 2018 | |
Palm Beach | 2019 | |
Paperback Hero | 1999 | |
Paradise Road | 1997 | |
Paws | 1997 | |
Peter Rabbit | 2017 | |
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | 2019 | |
Planet of the Apes | 2001 | |
Playing Beatie Bow | 1986 | |
The Portrait of a Lady | 1996 | |
Primal | 2010 | |
Puberty Blues | 1981 | |
The Quiet American | 2002 | |
The Rats of Tobruk | 1944 | |
Razorback | 1984 | |
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance | 2007 | |
Reckless Kelly | 1993 | |
Red Planet | 2000 | |
The Removalists | 1975 | |
Restraint | 2008 | |
Robbery Under Arms | 1907 | |
Robbery Under Arms | 1957 | |
Sample People | 2000 | |
The Sea Chase | 1955 | |
The Sentimental Bloke | 1919 | |
Shadow of the Boomerang | 1960 | |
Sirens | 1993 | |
Sissy | 2020 | |
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | 2020 | |
Shine | 1996 | |
The Shiralee | 1957 | |
Smiley | 1956 | |
Smiley Gets a Gun | 1958 | |
Somersault | 2004 | |
Spider & Rose | 1994 | |
The Square | 2008 | |
Sting | 2024 | |
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 2002 | |
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | |
Starstruck | 1982 | |
Stone | 1974 | |
Strange Bedfellows | 2004 | |
Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | |
Suburban Mayhem | 2006 | |
The Sum of Us | 1994 | |
Superman Returns | 2006 | |
Tender Hooks | 1988 | |
Thank God He Met Lizzie | 1997 | |
They're A Weird Mob | 1966 | |
Thor: Love and Thunder | 2021 | |
Those Terrible Twins: Ginger Meggs and Bluey | 1925 | |
Three Blind Mice | 2008 | |
Tim | 1979 | |
Tomorrow, When the War Began | 2010 | |
Turtle Beach | 1992 | |
Two Hands | 1999 | |
Unbroken | 2014 | |
Undercover | 1983 | |
Wake in Fright | 1971 | |
Walkabout | 1971 | |
The Water Diviner | 2014 | |
The Wolverine | 2013 | |
The Wiggles Movie | 1997 | |
X-Men Origins: Wolverine | 2009 | |
The Year My Voice Broke | 1987 | |
The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982 | |
Young Einstein | 1988 |
See also
- Australian Film Commission
- Cinema of Australia
- Film Australia
- Screen Australia
- South Australian Film Corporation
- World cinema
- 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
References
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 0-86819-292-9.
- 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. 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
External links
- australianscreen
- Australian Film, Television and Radio School
- Australian Government site on Film in Australia
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Victoria)
- Screen Australia
- South Australia Film Corporation
- Filmwest (Western Australia)