List of films shot in Adelaide

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This is a list of films shot in Adelaide or in the state of South Australia.

## Films

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Film  | Year  | References

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100 Bloody Acres | 2012  | [1]
Algie's Romance | 1918  |
Australian Rules | 2002  | [2]
The Babadook | 2014  | [3]
Bad Boy Bubby | 1993  | [4]
Beautiful | 2009  |
Bitter Springs | 1950  |
The Boys Are Back | 2009  | [5]
Centrespread | 1981  |
Closed for Winter | 2009  | [3]
Cut | 2000  |
Dawn! | 1979  |
Deck Dogz | 2005  |
The Dreaming | 1988  | [6]
Emotion Is Dead | 2023  | [7]
Escape from Pretoria | 2019  |
Fair Game | 1986  | [6]
Family Demons | 2009  |
Fever | 1988  |
The Fourth Wish | 1976  |
Freedom | 1982  |
Gallipoli | 1981  |
Girl Asleep | 2015  |
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger | 2008  |
Hotel Mumbai | 2018  |
Human Touch | 2004  |
I Am Mother | 2019  |
In a Savage Land | 1999  |
Jaws | 1975  |
Kangaroo | 1952  |
The Plumber | 1979  |
Kiss or Kill | 1997  |
The Last Wave | 1977  |
Like Minds | 2006  | [6]
Look Both Ways | 2005  |
Love Story 2050 | 2008  |
Money Movers | 1978  |
Monolith | 2022  |
Mortal Kombat | 2021  |
Opal Dream | 2005  | [8]
Oranges and Sunshine | 2010  | [9]
Parklands | 1996  |
Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975  |
Playing Beatie Bow | 1986  | [3]
Remorse, a Story of the Red Plague | 1917  |
Return Home | 1990  |
Road Train | 2010  |
Robbery Under Arms | 1985  |
The Rover | 2014  |
The Royal Hotel | 2023  | [10]
Sample People | 2000  |
Sebastian and the Sparrow | 1988  |
Selkie | 2000  |
The Sentimental Bloke | 1919  |
Shine | 1996  | [11]
Snowtown | 2011  |
Spank! | 1999  |
Storm Boy | 2019  |
Struck by Lightning | 1990  |
The Survivor | 1981  | [12]
Talk to Me | 2022  |
Weekend of Shadows | 1978  |

## See also

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* 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 Darwin
* List of films shot in Melbourne
* List of films shot in Queensland
* List of films shot in Sydney
* List of films shot in Tasmania
* List of films shot in Western Australia

## References

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1. ^ Foutch, Haleigh (1 July 2013). "Colin and Cameron Cairnes Talk 100 BLOODY ACRES, the Lengthy Development Process, and More". Collider. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
2. ^ South Australia's Movie Map (single sheet printed both sides; folded map fashion). South Australian Film Corporation, South Australian Tourist Commission. c. 2003.
3. ^ a b c "Five Filming Locations In Adelaide's Backyard". Adelaide Film Festival. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
4. ^ Aveyard, Karina; Moran, Albert; Vieth, Errol (26 December 2017). Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 37\. ISBN 978-1-5381-1127-7.
5. ^ Stadler, Jane; Mitchell, Peta; Carleton, Stephen (21 December 2015). Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives. Indiana University Press. p. 30\. ISBN 978-0-253-01849-6.
6. ^ a b c Shelley, Peter (18 September 2012). Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010. McFarland. p. 99, 118 and 205. ISBN 978-0-7864-8993-0.
7. ^ Williams, Pete (1 July 2024). "Emotion is Dead May Be the Most South Australian Movie Ever Made". Broadsheet (Interview). Interviewed by Watts, Tim. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
8. ^ Opal Dream IMDb Filming locations
9. ^ Oranges and Sunshine IMDb Filming locations
10. ^ Kelly, Vivienne (10 August 2022). "'The Royal Hotel' Starts Filming in South Australia". Variety Australia. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
11. ^ "Five Films To Watch That Were Shot In South Australia". Adelaide Film Festival. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
12. ^ "The forgotten '80's straight-to-video movie filmed in Adelaide". ABC Adelaide. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

## Further reading

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* 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

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* South Australia Film Corporation
* australianscreen
* Australian Film, Television and Radio School
* Australian Government site on Film in Australia
* Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Victoria)
* Screen Australia
* Filmwest (Western Australia)
* Screen NSW (New South Wales)