Australian films of the 1990s

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This is a chronological list of Australian films by decade and year for years 1940s-1990s. For a complete alphabetical A-Z list, see Category:Australian films.

A list of films produced in Australia by year during the 1990s, in the List of Australian films.

Contents


[edit] 1990

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
...Almost
Aya Solrun Hoaas
Beyond My Reach Dan Burstall Drama IMDb
The Big Steal
Bloodmoon Alec Mills Horror IMDb
Blood Oath
Brakewell and the Twins Ivor Bowen IMDb
Breakaway
(a.k.a. Escape from Madness)
Don McLennan Drama/Comedy/Adventure IMDb
Call Me Mr. Brown
The Castanet Club
Catch of the Day
The Circle Game
The Crossing
A Date with Destiny
Dead Sleep
Deep Dive
Fatal Sky
Father
Flowers by Request
Friday on My Mind
Golden Braid
Green Card Peter Weir Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell Romantic comedy Won Oscar & Golden Globe, +1 win, +3 nominations
Harbour Beat
Heaven Tonight
Holidays on the River Yarra
In Too Deep
Jigsaw
A Kink in the Picasso
The Man in the Blue and White Holden
Man Without Pigs
Nirvana Street Murder Aleksi Vellis Mark Little, Ben Mendelsohn, Mary Coustas Comedy
The Phantom Horsemen
Phobia
Plead Guilty, Get a Bond
Quigley Down Under Simon Wincer Tom Selleck Alan Rickman Laura San Giacomo
Raw Nerve
Return Home
Sher Mountain Killings Mystery
Sleep When You're Dead
Struck by Lightning
Swimming
The Tales of Helpmann
Talking Broken
Till There Was You
Weekend with Kate Arch Nicholson Comedy IMDb
What the Moon Saw Pino Amenta Family IMDb
The Wonderful World of Dogs

[edit] 1991

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Aberrant Brent Houghton Horror IMDb
Ali Baba (a.k.a. Burbank's ACT I: Ali Baba) Animation/Adventure/Comedy IMDb
Antarctica John Weiley Short documentary IMDb
As Happy as Larry Riju Ramrahka IMDb
Bad News Bachelors Franco di Chiera Short IMDb
Behind the Mask Frank Martin Documentary IMDb
Black Robe Bruce Beresford Lothaire Bluteau, Sandrine Holt Adventure/ Drama/ History Canadian-Australian coproduction
Born to Shop Sarah Gibson IMDb
DAAS: The Edinburgh Years
Dead End
Dead to the World
Deadly Esben Storm Crime 3 nominations
Death in Brunswick John Ruane Sam Neill, Zoe Carides Comedy 1 win & 5 nominations
Dingo Rolf de Heer Colin Friels, Miles Davis Drama 2 wins & 5 nominations
Dusty Hearts
The Emperor's New Clothes
Fantastic Futures
Fantasy
Flirting John Duigan Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman Drama 3 wins & 3 nominations
Frank Einstein
Garbo IMDb
The Girl Who Came Late
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Good Woman of Bangkok
Gotcha
Greenhouse
Hans and the Silver Skates
Hunting
Isabelle Eberhardt
Luke's Party
The Magic Riddle
My Tiger's Eyes
Placenta
Proof Jocelyn Moorhouse Hugo Weaving, Russell Crowe Drama 9 wins & 2 nominations
Puss in Boots Animation
Resonance
See Jack Run
Sexual Healer
Stan and George's New Life
Sweet Talker
Until the End of the World
(a.k.a. Bis ans Ende der Welt)
Wim Wenders German-French-Australian coproduction
Waiting Jackie McKimmie Drama IMDb
A Woman's Tale

[edit] 1992

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Amelia Rose Towers Jackie Farkas Short IMDb
Backsliding Simon Target Drama / Thriller IMDb
Big Ideas Mike Smith Drama IMDb
Black Harvest Documentary
Blinky Bill
(a.k.a. Blinky Bill: The Movie)
Animation
Bloodlust Jon Hewitt, Richard Wolstencroft Action / Horror IMDb
Brain Sarah Watt IMDb
The Candle
Clowning Around
Come by Chance
Come Rain or Shine
The Distant Home
The Door
Double Trouble
Fatal Bond Vincent Monton Linda Blair, Jerome Ehlers Drama / Thriller
FernGully: The Last Rainforest Bill Kroyer Animation Australian-USA coproduction
Garbo Ron Cobb Comedy
Girl of Refugee from Vietnam
Greenkeeping
Hidden Injuries
Hurricane Smith Colin Budds Carl Weathers Action
Illusion Is All
Isabelle Eberhardt
Jindalee Lady Brian Syron Lydia Miller, Patrick Ward, Michael Leslie Romance 2 nom. Hawaii Int. Film Festival, Dreamspeakers First Nations Int Film & Art Festival IMDb AFC
Judy in a Land Called Oz
Mad Bomber in Love
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick Mark Achbar, Noam Chomsky Documentary / War Australian-Finnish-Norwegian-Canadian coproduction
The Medium
Modern Times
North of Chiang Mai
The Nostradamus Kid Bob Ellis Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto Drama 2 AFI nominations
Numbering Bad Fruit
The Nun and the Bandit
On My Own
On the Border of Hopetown
Over the Hill http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105080/
A Passion Play
The Power of One Based on book of same title
Redheads
Resistance
Road to Alice
Romper Stomper Geoffrey Wright Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock Action / Drama 7 wins & 7 nominations
Secrets
Seeing Red
Serendipity Karen Borger http://imdb.com/title/tt0852997/|
Skippy
A Slow Night at the Kuwaiti Cafe
Something Wicked
Spotswood Mark Joffe Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn Comedy 3 wins & 7 nominations
Strictly Ballroom Baz Luhrmann Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Barry Otto Romantic comedy Nomin. for Golden Globe, +16 wins, +11 nom.
The Surrogate
Turtle Beach
Wet and Wild Summer! Maurice Murphy IMDb

[edit] 1993

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Alex Megan Simpson Huberman Drama / Sport IMDb
Australia: The Great White Shark Documentary IMDb
Bad Boy Bubby
Bedevil Tracey Moffatt Horror IMDb
Black River Kevin Lucas Russell Page, John Pringle
Body Melt
Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema Mark Christopher, Stephen Cummins IMDb
Breathing Under Water
Broken Highway
Crimestoppers
Crimetime
The Custodian
Day of the Dog
Dinosaur
Eight Ball
Encounters
Everybody's Business
Fatal Past
Fortress
Frauds
Get Away, Get Away
Gino
God's Bones
Going Down Under
Gross Misconduct
Hammers Over the Anvil
The Heartbreak Kid
Hercules Returns
The Hero
The Huntsman
Just Desserts
Kin chan no Cinema Jack
Love in Limbo
Map of the Human Heart
Memories and Dreams
Mr. Electric
No Worries
One Ten: Two Forty
The Piano Jane Campion Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
Reckless Kelly
Sacred Sex
Say a Little Prayer
Seething Night
Shotgun Wedding
Silent Number
The Silver Brumby
This Won't Hurt a Bit
The Web: Bandicoot Sarah Watt IMDb
The Web: Falcon Lucinda Clutterbuck Short animation IMDb
The Web: Frogs Lucinda Clutterbuck, Sarah Watt Short animation IMDb
The Web: Panda Sarah Watt IMDb
The Web: Rattlesnake Lucinda Clutterbuck, Sarah Watt Short animation IMDb
The Web: Seal Sarah Watt IMDb
The Web: Shark Lucinda Clutterbuck Short animation IMDb
Wide Sargasso Sea John Duigan Drama IMDb
You and Me and Uncle Bob Alister Smart Comedy IMDb
You Can't Push the River Leslie Oliver IMDb

[edit] 1994

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert Stephan Elliott Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce
Aeroplane Dance Trevor Graham Drama
Bernie's Magic Moment Mark Hanlin Short IMDb
Bête noire
Book of Dreams: 'Welcome to Crateland Short
The Coffee Connection
Country Life
The Crossing
Dallas Doll
Dot in Space
Ebbtide
El Angelito Guillermo Martín Sepúlveda Short
EnvironMental
Eternity
Everynight ... Everynight
Exile
Fuckwit
Gino
Gorgeous
Gran's Adventure
Harry: The Story of an Urban Hermit
The Intruder
Kevin Rampenbacker and the Electric Kettle
Kid in a Bin
Ladykiller
A Lamb of Our Own Flock
Lex and Rory
Lightning Jack
Lucky Break
Mary
Metal Skin
Michelle's Third Novel
Midday Crisis
Muriel's Wedding P.J. Hogan Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter
Only the Brave
Our Feral Friends
Point of No Return
Police Rescue
Prickly Heat
Red Ted and the Great Depression
The Roly Poly Man Bill Young Paul Chubb, Susan Lyons, Les Foxcroft Noir comedy
Rough Diamonds
Secrets of the City
The Seventh Floor
Signal One
Sirens
Spider & Rose
The Sum of Us
Talk
That Eye, the Sky
This Marching Girl Thing
Total Recession
Traps
Undying Andrew Connell Crime/ Drama/ Action IMDb
What's Going On, Frank? John Polson Hugo Weaving Short comedy IMDb
Writer's Block

[edit] 1995

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Adventures of Jimmy Cliche Harlan Alston Short / Action IMDb
All Men Are Liars Gerard Lee Toni Pearen, David Price Comedy IMDb
Angel Baby Michael Rymer John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie
Audacious Samantha Lang Short IMDb
Babe Chris Noonan James Cromwell Comedy Won Oscar IMDb
Back of Beyond Michael Robertson Thriller IMDb
Bathing Boxes Kathy Drayton Short IMDb
Billy's Holiday John Steven Lasher Short documentary IMDb
The Bounty
Capital V for Virtue
Code Blue
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
Despondent Divorcee
The Existentialist Cowboy's Last Stand
Fido Jones and the Lost Treasure
The Final Stage
Flashlight
Fly Peewee, Fly!
Frailejón
God I Missed You Baby
Hayride to Hell
Hotel Sorrento
The Journey
Ladies Please!
The Last Game
The Last True Action Hero
Lessons in the Language of Love
The Life of Harry Dare
Lilian's Story
Lucinda, 31
The Mangler
Mushrooms
Napoleon
On the Dead Side
Out
Rainbow's End
Raskols
Roses Are Red
Sanctuary
Sex Is a Four Letter Word
Shipwreck Coast
Small Treasures
Stitched
Swerve
Swinger
Teenage Portraits
The Third Stroke
Tunnel Vision
Under the Gun Matthew George Action IMDb
Vacant Possession
Victoria in the Ashes Emma Freeman Susie Lindeman as Victoria IMDb
Video Fool for Love Robert Gibson Autobiography IMDb
Violet's Visit Richard Turner Drama comedy IMDb
What I Have Written[1] John Hughes Drama/Mystery IMDb

[edit] 1996

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Baniyala: The Yirrkala Film Project Ian Dunlop Documentary IMDb
Billal Documentary
The Birds Do a Magnificent Tune
Bits & Pieces Simon Klaebe Short comedy IMDb
Black Man Down Bill McCrow Short drama IMDb
Black Sun Short
Body Corporate Stephen Cummins Short IMDb
Boy-Girl, Boy-Girl Stephen Cummins, Ira Sachs IMDb
Brilliant Lies
Cabbie of the Year
Call Me Sal
Children of the Revolution
Cinema Cinema
Cliché
Come as You Are
Cosi
The Cuckoo
Dating the Enemy
Dead Heart
Down Rusty Down
Faggots Are for Burning
Film Noir
Fistful of Flies
Floating Life
Flying Over Mother
Flynn
Freestyle
Girl
Happy Little Vegemites: Unauthorized
Hotel de Love
Idiot Box
Indulgence
The Inner Sanctuary
It Never Rains
L'Araignée Brad Hayward Short IMDb
The Legend of Fred Paterson
Let Me Die, Again
Life
Little White Lies
Loaded
Love and Other Catastrophes Emma-Kate Croghan Frances O'Connor Alice Garner Radha Mitchell Matthew Dyktynski Matt Day Kym Gyngell romantic comedy
Love Serenade
Lust and Revenge
Margaret Star: A Fall from Grace
The Miniskirted Dynamo
Mr. Reliable
My Second Car
Natural Justice: Heat
Not Fourteen Again
Offspring
Once
Pact
Page 73
Parklands Kathryn Millard Cate Blanchett, Tony Martin Drama
The Phantom
The Quiet Room
Rats in the Ranks
River Street
Savageries
Shine Scott Hicks Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor
Shooting the Breeze
Spirits of the Carnival
Susie Is a Fish
Tease
A Thin Life
This Film Is a Dog
To Have and to Hold
Tragic But True
Turning April
Two Bob Mermaid
Uncle Adam Elliot Short
Urban Fairytale Michelle Mahrer Short IMDb
Whipping Boy Di Drew Sigrid Thornton, Temuera Morrison Thriller/ Drama/ Crime IMDb
Wild Australia: The Edge
The Winner
Zone 39 John Tatoulis Sci-Fi IMDb

[edit] 1997

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
40,000 Years of Dreaming
The Alive Tribe Stephen Amis Action/ Comedy/ Romance IMDb
At Sea  ? Documentary IMDb
Barn of the Blood Llama Kevin L. West Comedy / Horror IMDb
The Beneficiary Short
Blackrock
Blow Craig Boreham Short animation IMDb
Boy Short
Brief Fiction
Bum Magnet
The Castle Rob Sitch Michael Caton, Anne Tenney Stephen Curry, Eric Bana comedy
Chastity Truth and Kinopanorama
China Dolls
Cracks in the Mask
Critical Care
A Cut in the Rates
Deadline
Devil in the Detail
Diana & Me
Doing Time for Patsy Cline Chris Kennedy Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto
Domesticated Animals
Doppelganger
Dust Off the Wings
Epsilon
Exile in Sarajevo
Exposed
Five Hundred Acres
Franz & Kafka
Go to Hell!
Guided by the Light of the Lord
Heaven
Heaven's Burning
His Mother's Voice
House Taken Over
Justice
Kiss or Kill Bill Bennett Frances O'Connor , Matt Day
Little Desert
Look, Listen, Speak
Low Job
Maslin Beach
Mrs Craddock's Complaint
Nightride
One That Got Away
Oscar and Lucinda Gillian Armstrong Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett (See also: Oscar and Lucinda)
Paradise Road
Paws
Road to Nhill
The Sapphire Room
Seamen
Sweet & Sour
Thank God He Met Lizzie Cherie Nowlan Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor
Titsiana Booberini
True Love and Chaos
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
Under the Lighthouse Dancing
Wang: Street Cop Shannon Marinko Short comedy IMDb
Welcome to Woop Woop
The Well
The Wiggles Movie Dean Covell The Wiggles Family IMDb
Year of the Dogs

[edit] 1998

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
15 Amore
After Mabo John Hughes Documentary IMDb
Alienation Wilma Schinella Short IMDb
All the Way Marque Owen Comedy IMDb
Amy Nadia Tass Alana De Roma, Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn Comedy drama IMDb
Babe: Pig in the City George Miller Comedy drama
The Big Night Out Tim Boyle Comedy IMDb
Blabbermouth & Stickybeak
Bloodlock Short
Bougainville: Our Island, Our Fight Documentary
Box  ? Won AFI for Best Editing (Catherine Chase) IMDb
The Boys Rowan Woods David Wenham, Toni Collette
Bubble Numb
Cherish
Chlorine Dreams
Cold Comfort
The Collector
Cousin
Crackers David Swann (Writer, and Director) Peter Rowsthorn, Susan Lyons, Warren Mitchell Dark Comedy IMDb
Crimes of Fashion
Dags
Dance Me to My Song
Dark City
Dead Letter Office
Deathbed of an Undertaker
Derwent Envy
Disturbing Behavior
Entertaining Angels
Fetch
Forbidden Love
Freedom Deep
The Game Room
Gorilla Girls
Gristle
Half Mongrel
Has Beans
Head On
Heaven on the 4th Floor
Hephzibah
Hurrah
I Want You
In the Winter Dark
The Interview Craig Monahan Hugo Weaving
The Jim Conway Blues
Justice
Kick
The Kiss
Let's Wait
A Little Bit of Soul
Little Brother, Little Sister
Liu Awaiting Spring
The Loop
Lost Marbles
Love Stinks
Magnum Opus
Mama Tina
Menswear
Mind's Eye
Ms Kieran Katt
My Bed Your Bed
Occasional Coarse Language
Otherzone http://www.archive.org/details/Other_Zone
Our Park
Pentuphouse
The Picture Woman
Pigeon
The Pitch
Possum's Rest
Praise
Radiance
The Real Macaw
Reflections
Relative Strangers
Revenge, Inc.
Revisionism
Rita Storm viharos élete
River Street
Shinsyu Symphony
Sick Puppy
The Silent Scream
Sojourn
Somewhere in the Darkness
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Static
Sticky Date
The Sugar Factory
Tears
Terra Nova
They
Three Chords and a Wardrobe
Thump
Tulip
Two Girls and a Baby
Two/Out
Vanish Ivan Sen Short IMDb
Vengeance Short animation
The Venus Factory Glenn Fraser Comedy IMDb
Weird Ones John Meagher Comedy IMDb

[edit] 1999

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
Above the Dust Level Carla Drago Short IMDb
Agnes, Maude & Pearly Too Erica Glynn Short comedy drama IMDb
The Astonishing Ashtons  ? IMDb
Bangers Short
Banjo Frogs Animation
Being There Glenn Fraser Documentary/ Sport IMDb
Bigger Than Tina Neil Foley IMDb
The Book Keeper Michael Cusack Short animation IMDb
Break & Enter Short
Brother
Burnout
Caffeine
Change of Heart
Chrissy
The Craic
The Dark Redemption
Darwin's Evolutionary Stakes
The Date
The Day Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon
Dear Claudia
Dogwatch
Driving Home
Drunken Rumble Story
Ed Venture
Emily's Eyes
Envy
Erskineville Kings Hugh Jackman (see Erskineville Kings)
The Etiquette of Letter-Writing
The Extra
Eye of the Beholder
Feeling Sexy
Flowergirl
Flux
Fresh Air
Fusion
Game Room
Glass Box
Go Before You Come
Hang Up
HeadSpace
The Heist
Help Me
Hindsight
Holding On
Holy Smoke! Jane Campion Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel Drama
Huntsman 5.1
I Promise
I'm a Luxury... But I'm Free Tonight
In a Savage Land
In the Red
Intermezzo
Island of the Vampire Birds
Island Style
Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors
Kick
Komodo
Kung Fuji
Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story
Little Echo Lost
Love Lies Bleeding
Max vs the Freeway
Me Myself I
Midas
Milk
The Missing
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
The Monster
My Mother Frank
Navin Wants to Be a Superhero
Nightmare Man
Oops!
The Order
Original Schtick
Paperback Hero
Paradise
Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa
Passion
Pearls Before Swine
Phörpa (a.k.a. The Cup)
Pilbara Pearl
Powderburn
Project Vlad
The Rabbits
Redball
Renzo Piano
The Reunion
Rise
Rotation
Rural Crisis
Sadness
Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien
Serenity
Se-tong
Siam Sunset
Slim Pickings
Smile & Wave
Soft Fruit
Spank
Sport
Stone Forever
Strange Fits of Passion
Strange Planet
Structures on Rail
Sydney: A Story of a City
Taken
Taking Care of Elvis
Theory of the Trojans
Three to Tango
The Tin Man
Tom's Funeral
Trinidad
Two Hands Gregor Jordan Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown
Urban Clan Documentary
Whiteys Like Us Rachel Landers Documentary IMDb
Wind

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ What I Have Written. Australian Film Commission. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.

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