Every film listed in David Stratton’s 1991 book about the 1980s Australian moviemaking boom under the controversial 10BA tax concession.

Avocado Plantation, The: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry by David Stratton

Rosey Jones and Nique Needles in Afraid to Dance (1989)

These live-action feature films, TV movies, TV series and serial films are based on the world's comic strips (English language only) from 1920s to present. If you are fan of any comic strips, please check out this listings and feel free to send me your comment.

Mary Pickford in Little Annie Rooney (1925)

Just a boatload of 80's movies. (100+ Votes) From least to most amount of votes, within their year. I highly suggest using the 'Refine' option. Happy Movie Hunting!  :)

Lisa Vanderpump in The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980)

Not to be confused with my non-poll related original list of Australian movies which I rate or are reminders for me to watch:

http://www.imdb.com/list/DzjzMdh1q-c/

I'm adding today (02/05/2014) box office results for these films via information from Wikipedia. I'll try and add data about how many AFI (i.e. Australian Film Institute) Awards some of these films got as well...but I won't be fanatical about this.

N.B. The A.F.I. Awards are now knows as AACTA Awards! Wikipedia states:

"The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Awards".

Hopefully the following URLs are useful for people looking for box office information on Australian movies:

Various all time box office records:

http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research/statistics/boxoffice.aspx

http://www.mpdaa.org.au/customers/mpdaa/mpdaa.nsf/HistoricalBoxOffice?ReadForm

http://www.moviemarshal.com.au/

Current weekly box office results and archives from early 1997:

http://www.urbancinefile.com/home/boxoffice.asp

Weekend and yearly takings from 2000 onwards:

http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/australia/

Year on year total admissions and total box office results:

http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research/statistics/wcboadmission.aspx

I initially started out giving Wikipedia box office results in Australia for a small number of films but am now using the Screen Australia link for top 100 Australian movies of all time box office returns...which I think Wikipedia maybe citing in any case. The all time box office ranking also comes via Screen Australia's list of the top 100 grossing Australian movies of all time, in Australia.

*N.B. I should point out that the order of box office takings films would no doubt change once you adjust for inflation...which these rankings aren't...see an example of this in my entry for "Crocodile Dundee".

AFI Best film winners and nominees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACTA_Award_for_Best_Film#Winners_and_nominees

Related sites:

http://www.ozmovies.com.au/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_films

[P.S. I've added the number to my list heading as sporting cultural reference. One of these days I'll work on this list to make it 'end' with that number of films in it but to do that I'll probably have to remove some titles and mention them in other titles, e.g. where the removed film was a sequel and I mention all sequels in the entry for the first in the series. Maybe a good final list is one that ends for the year 2025 with all Australian best film award winners included. N.B. IMDB's "Save list order" feature is a troll when it comes to tinkering with the order to alphebatise it.]

Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, and Luc Roeg in Walkabout (1971)

All the movies to hopefully be featured in the video store spotlight

Adrienne Barbeau, Donald Pleasence, and Kurt Russell in Escape from New York (1981)

Robert Bettles in Let the Balloon Go (1976)

Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning in Man on Fire (2004)

So your interested in Australian produced films but don't know where to start? Or perhaps you're a seasoned Australian movie cinephile & are simply looking for that next Aussie masterpiece. Look no further, you've definitely come to the right place! A selection of quality (& some not so) Australian cinema from through-out the ages. Be it Action, Drama, War, Western, Comedy, Horror, Thriller, Martial Arts, SciFi & more... your sure to find some inspiration here! I started this list because searching for 'true' Australian films here on the database always returns a mix including American productions filmed in Australia...you won't find any of them here. For a film to be included it must feature a majority Australian cast & be filmed in Australia. No American Productions filmed in Australia will be included. You WON'T be seeing films like: The Matrix, Dark City or Queen of the Damned listed here. This is an ongoing project that will be updated as I find more. Thus it's a select list which will hopefully become definitive in the not to distant future. (May 2015) Huge Update of Retro Horror & Thriller titles.

Rick Moranis, Thomas Wilson Brown, Amy O'Neill, Robert Oliveri, and Jared Rushton in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)

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