List of films shot in Melbourne

The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Melbourne, Australia.

## Films[edit]

Film  | Year  | References

|
|

Ali's Wedding | 2017  |
Alvin Purple | 1973  |
Amy | 1997  |
Angel Baby | 1995  |
Animal Kingdom | 2010  |
Annie's Coming Out | 1984  |
Any Questions for Ben? | 2012  |
Backstage | 1988  |
Bad Eggs | 2003  |
The Bank | 2001  |
The Big Steal | 1990  |
Blacklight | 2022  |
Blessed | 2009  |
Body Melt | 1993  |
Boulevard of Broken Dreams | 1988  |
BoyTown | 2006  |
Brilliant Lies | 1996  |
Burke & Wills | 1985  |
The Castle | 1997  |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1978  |
Charlotte's Web | 2006  |
Children of the Silk Road | 2008  |
Chopper | 2000  |
The Clinic | 1982  |
The Club | 1980  |
Coming of Age | 1984  |
The Cost | 2022  |
Crackerjack | 2002  |
Crackers | 1998  |
The Craic | 1999  |
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles | 2001  |
Darkness Falls | 2003  |
Death in Brunswick | 1991  |
Death of a Soldier | 1986  |
Dimboola | 1979  |
The Dish | 2000  |
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | 2011  |
Dogs in Space | 1986  |
Double Vision | 2002  |
The Dressmaker | 2015  | [1]
Emo the Musical | 2016  |
The Extra | 2005  |
Father | 1990  |
Felicity | 1979  |
Flynn | 1997  |
Frog Dreaming | 1986  |
Funny Things Happen Down Under | 1965  |
Foe (film) | 2023  | [2]
The Getting of Wisdom | 1978  |
Ghost Rider | 2007  |
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | 1988  |
Georgia | 1988  |
Gross Misconduct | 1993  |
The Hard Word | 2002  |
Hating Alison Ashley | 2005  |
Head On | 1998  |
Hercules Returns | 1993  |
Holding the Man (film) | 2015  | [3]
The Home Song Stories | 2007  |
The Honourable Wally Norman | 2003  |
Horseplay | 2003  |
Hotel de Love | 1996  |
Hotel Sorrento | 1995  |
I Love You Too | 2010  |
In Her Skin | 2009  |
The Independent | 2007  |
The Interview | 1998  |
I, Frankenstein | 2014  | [1]
Irresistible | 2006  |
Jackie Chan's First Strike | 1996  |
The Jammed | 2007  |
Joffa: The Movie | 2010  | [4]
Kangaroo | 1987  |
Kangaroo Palace | 1997  |
Kenny | 2006  |
Killer Elite | 2011  |
Kitty and the Bagman | 1983  |
Knowing | 2009  |
Lake Mungo | 2008  |
The Last of the Knucklemen | 1979  |
The Legend of Ben Hall | 2016  |
Let's Get Skase | 2001  |
The Lighthorsemen | 1987  |
Lion (2016 film) | 2016  | [5]
Lonely Hearts | 1982  |
Long Weekend | 1978  |
The Lost City of Melbourne | 2022  | [6]
Love and Other Catastrophes | 1996  |
The Loved Ones | 2009  |
Love's Brother | 2004  |
Love Serenade | 1996  |
Lucky Break | 1994  |
Mad Max | 1979  |
The Magician | 2005  |
Main Aurr Mrs Khanna | 2009  |
Malcolm | 1986  |
Mallboy | 2001  |
The Man from Snowy River | 1982  |
The Man from Snowy River II | 1988  |
Man of Flowers | 1983  |
Mary and Max | 2009  |
Metal Skin | 1994  |
Monkey Grip | 1982  |
Mountains May Depart | 2015  |
Mr. Nice Guy | 1997  |
Muggers | 2000  |
The Mule | 2014  |
My First Wife | 1984  |
My Year Without Sex | 2009  |
Ned Kelly | 1970  |
Ned Kelly | 2003  |
The Neon Spectrum | 2017  |
Never Say Die | 1988  |
Next of Kin | 1982  |
Nightmares | 1980  |
Nirvana Street Murder | 1990  |
Noise | 2007  |
Oddball (film) | 2015  | [7]
Of an Age | 2022  | [8]
On the Beach | 1959  |
One Perfect Day | 2004  |
Patrick | 1978  |
Petersen | 1974  |
Petrol | 2022  | [9]
Phar Lap | 1983  |
Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975  |
The Pirate Movie | 1982  |
Predestination | 2014  |
Prey | 2009  |
Proof | 1991  |
Pure Shit | 1975  |
QUANTA | 2019  | [10]
Queen of the Damned | 2002  |
Quigley | 1990  |
Return Home | 1990  |
Ride a Wild Pony | 1975  |
Rikky and Pete | 1988  |
Roadgames | 1981  |
Rogue | 2007  |
Romper Stomper | 1992  |
Romulus, My Father | 2007  |
Salaam Namaste | 2005  |
The Silver Brumby | 1993  |
Sky Pirates | 1986  |
Soldiers of the Cross | 1900  |
South Solitary | 2010  |
Spotswood | 1992  |
Squizzy Taylor | 1982  |
The Story of the Kelly Gang | 1906  |
Strictly Ballroom | 1992  |
Summerfield | 1977  |
Take Away | 2003  |
The Tender Hook | 2008  |
Thirst | 1979  |
Three Dollars | 2005  |
Till Human Voices Wake Us | 2002  |
Tomboys | 2009  |
Tom White | 2004  |
Travelling North | 1987  |
The True Story of Eskimo Nell | 1975  |
Under the Gun | 1995  |
Visitors | 2003  |
The Wannabes | 2003  |
Upgrade | 2018  |
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train | 1988  |
The Whistleblower | 2019  |
The Wog Boy | 2000  |
Crook | 2010  |
Wog Boy 2: Kings of Mykonos | 2010  |
You and Your Stupid Mate | 2005  |
Wanda and Sully | 2023  |
When Evil Reigns | 2006  |
Where the Wild Things Are | 2009  |

## See also[edit]

* 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 Brisbane
* List of films shot in Adelaide
* List of films shot in Darwin
* 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[edit]

1. ^ a b "6 Hollywood movies that were shot in Melbourne". Meld. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
2. ^ "CAMERAS ROLLING ON AMAZON STUDIOS' STAR-STUDDED FOE IN MELBOURNE". Ausfilm. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
3. ^ Holding the Man (2015) - Filming & production - IMDb, retrieved 28 December 2023
4. ^ "Joffa: The Movie". YouTube. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021.
5. ^ "LION'S TALE: THE ROARING SUCCESS OF A HOMEGROWN STORY". Ausfilm. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
6. ^ Quinn, Karl (30 July 2022). "New film is a love song to a Melbourne almost lost to the wrecking ball". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
7. ^ Oddball (2015) - Filming & production - IMDb, retrieved 28 December 2023
8. ^ Keast, Jackie (23 March 2023). "Goran Stolevski on 'Of An Age', working with Causeway Films and finding the cinematic in suburban Melbourne". IF Magazine. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
9. ^ "This powerful film captures how some friendships can change you and others will nearly destroy you". ABC News. 21 May 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
10. ^ Govoni, Nick (15 August 2019). "New Australian Sci Fi Film Quanta Shot on URSA Mini Pro and Graded with DaVinci Resolve". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2 October 2019.

## Further reading[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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)