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- DirectorAndrew DominikStarsEric BanaSimon LyndonVince ColosimoChopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.Collingwood, Fitzroy, Coburg (Pentridge)
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMel GibsonJoanne SamuelHugh Keays-ByrneIn a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.Anakie, Melbourne Uni, Geelong, Parkville, Spotswood
- DirectorGeoffrey WrightStarsRussell CroweDaniel PollockJacqueline McKenzieA group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.Footscray
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsGregory PeckAva GardnerFred AstaireAfter a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.Swanston st (Town Hall/GPO), Berwick, Frankston (station), Docklands
- DirectorKen CameronStarsNoni HazlehurstColin FrielsAlice GarnerA frank portrayal of a year in the life of a divorced mother living in Melbourne, trying to cope with her daughter and her own relationship with a drug addict while trying to get into the music business.Carlton
- DirectorSammo Kam-Bo HungStarsJackie ChanRichard NortonMiki LeeA Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry, and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.I saw Chan and Samo Hung directing stunts for this, outside State Library on Swanston St. And other bits were shot in Healesville.
- DirectorRichard LowensteinStarsMichael HutchenceSaskia PostNique NeedlesTwo man are the key members of a band called 'Dogs in Space' and share a house in a Melbourne suburb with a variety of young music fans and social misfits, including a college student and a transient and apparently nameless teenage girl.Richmond
- DirectorRob SitchStarsMichael CatonAnne TenneyStephen CurryA working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.Essendon, Brunswick
- DirectorNadia TassStarsColin FrielsJohn HargreavesLindy DaviesA socially-awkward but mechanically-gifted man becomes involved in a quirky, unconventional crime.Flemington, Thornbury
- DirectorDavid MichôdStarsJames FrechevilleGuy PearceJoel EdgertonA seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.St Kilda, Elwood
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsJack ThompsonGraham KennedyFrank WilsonBoardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.Collingwood
- DirectorNadia TassStarsBen MendelsohnClaudia KarvanMarshall NapierTo impress a girl, a shy teenage boy buys a used Jaguar.Chinatown/Little Bourke st, Footscray, Richmond
- DirectorJohn HillcoatStarsDavid FieldMike BishopChris DeRosePrisoners and guards clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.Parliament Station
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsPaul MercurioTara MoriceBill HunterA maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.Yarraville
- DirectorAdam ElliotStarsToni CollettePhilip Seymour HoffmanEric BanaIn 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.Set in Mt Waverly (animated, so no "shooting location")
- DirectorTony MartinStarsMick MolloyBob FranklinJudith LucyBen Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity.Fountain Gate shopping centre, Narre Warren
- DirectorMark JoffeStarsAnthony HopkinsBen MendelsohnAlwyn KurtsAn expert on productivity shows wacky workers in 1966 Australia how to run their moccasin factory like clockwork, despite laying off more than half the workforce."Spotswood"- Spotswood.
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsCaroline GoodallCaroline GillmerTara MoriceThree sisters from Sorrento, Australia. Meg writes a novel she says is fiction. The book creates controversy in town as locals suspect it's based on real events.Sorrento
- DirectorJohn DuiganStarsBruce SpenceNatalie BateMax GilliesDimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.Probly Dimboola, I'm guessing?
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsRachel RobertsAnne-Louise LambertVivean GrayDuring a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.Hanging Rock (and Woodend, and Mt Macedon)
- DirectorsJon HewittRichard WolstencroftStarsJane Stuart WallaceKelly ChapmanRobert James O'NeillThree vampires wander the streets of Melbourne killing, screwing and taking drugs. They decide to carry out a heist, stealing three million and attracting the attention of various psychotics, who chase them through a blood spattered odyssey into the Melbourne underground.Nth Fitzroy
- DirectorCharles TaitStarsElizabeth TaitJohn TaitNicholas BrierleyOriginally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.Eltham, Mitcham, Greensborough
- DirectorRichard FranklinStarsSusan PenhaligonRobert HelpmannRod MullinarA young nurse who's just started working at a public clinic begins to suspect that a comatose young man may possess the powers of psychokinesis.Prahran, Glen Waverly
- DirectorBert DelingStarsSally McNeeDoc SmithRussell KirbyA group of Australian heroin addicts go out and try to score a hit after a friend overdoses."Pure Shit"- Carlton
- DirectorPhilip BrophyStarsGerard KennedyAndrew DaddoIan SmithResidents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.Blackburn, Mitcham