List of films shot in Sydney

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The Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, located at Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) have been the backdrop for a number of films shot in Sydney.

The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Sydney or elsewhere in New South Wales.

## Films

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2013)

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Film  | Year  | Refs

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6 Festivals | 2022  |
Anyone But You | 2023  |
40,000 Horsemen | 1941  |
A Silent Agreement | 2017  |
Accidents Happen | 2009  |
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994  |
Age of Consent | 1969  |
Alien: Covenant | 2017  |
The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race | 2023  |
Australia | 2008  |
Babe | 1995  |
Babe: Pig in the City | 1998  | [1]
Bachna Ae Haseeno | 2008  |
Better Than Sex | 2000  |
Better Watch Out | 2016  |
Birdeater | 2023  |
Birthday Girl | 2001  |
The Black Balloon | 2008  |
Bliss | 1985  |
BMX Bandits | 1983  |
Bootmen | 2000  |
The Boys | 1998  |
Cactus | 2008  |
Caddie | 1976  |
Call Me Mr. Brown | 1986  |
Candy | 2006  |
Captain Thunderbolt | 1953  |
Careful, He Might Hear You | 1983  |
The Cars That Ate Paris | 1974  |
Cedar Boys | 2009  |
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1978  |
Charlie & Boots | 2009  |
Children of the Corn | 2020  |
Children of the Revolution | 1996  |
Christmess | 2023  |
Clubland | 2007  |
The Coca-Cola Kid | 1985  |
The Combination | 2009  |
The Correspondent | 2024  |
Cosi | 1996  |
Crocodile Dundee | 1986  |
Crooked Business | 2008  |
The Cross | 2010  |
Danny Deckchair | 2003  |
Dark City | 1998  |
Dating the Enemy | 1996  |
The Day the Earth Stood Still | 2008  |
Dead Calm | 1989  |
Dead-End Drive In | 1986  |
Deck Dogz | 2005  |
Dil Chahta Hai | 2001  |
Dirty Deeds | 2002  |
Disgrace | 2008  |
Doing Time for Patsy Cline | 1997  |
Don's Party | 1976  |
Dot and the Kangaroo | 1977  |
Down the Wind | 1975  |
Ebbtide | 1994  |
Erskineville Kings | 1999  |
Escape from Absolom | 1994  |
Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark)  | 1988  |
The Fall Guy | 2024  |
Far East | 1982  |
Fatty Finn | 1980  |
Fear Below | 2025  |
Five Blind Dates | 2024  |
The FJ Holden | 1977  |
Flirting | 1991  |
For the Term of his Natural Life | 1927  |
Frost/Nixon | 2008  |
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | 2024  |
Gabriel | 2007  |
Garage Days | 2002  |
Gods of Egypt | 2016  |
Godzilla: Final Wars | 2004  |
Gone | 2007  |
The Great Gatsby | 2013  | [2]
Hacksaw Ridge | 2016  |
The Hard Word | 2002  |
Heatwave | 1982  |
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | 2001  |
Hercules Returns | 1993  |
High Tide | 1987  |
Holy Smoke! | 1999  |
Hoodwink | 1981  |
Housos vs. Authority | 2012  |
Icarus | 2010  |
Independence Day | 1996  |
The Invisible Man | 2019  |
In the Cut | 2003  |
Jewboy | 2005  |
Kangaroo | 2025  |
Kangaroo Jack | 2003  |
Kenny | 2006  |
The Kid Stakes | 1927  |
The Killing of Angel Street | 1981  |
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | 2024  |
Lantana | 2001  |
The Last Days of Chez Nous | 1992  |
Les Patterson Saves the World | 1987  |
Little Fish | 2005  |
Looking for Alibrandi | 2000  |
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985  |
Mad Max: Fury Road | 2015  |
Man-Thing | 2005  |
The Man Who Sued God | 2001  |
Mao's Last Dancer | 2009  |
The Matrix | 1999  |
The Matrix Reloaded | 2003  |
The Matrix Revolutions | 2003  |
Me, Myself, I | 1999  |
Men's Group | 2008  |
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie | 1995  |
Mission: Impossible 2 | 2000  |
Money Movers | 1978  |
The Monkey's Mask | 2000  |
The Moogai | 2024  |
Moulin Rouge! | 2001  |
Muriel's Wedding | 1994  |
My Brilliant Career | 1979  |
The Namesake | 2006  |
Newsfront | 1978  |
The Night We Called It a Day | 2003  |
The Nugget | 2002  |
Nugget Is Dead?: A Christmas Story | 2024  |
The Odd Angry Shot | 1979  |
On Our Selection | 1920  |
One Night Stand | 1984  |
Oscar and Lucinda | 1997  |
Oyster Farmer | 2004  |
Pacific Rim: Uprising | 2018  |
Palm Beach | 2019  |
Paperback Hero | 1999  |
Paradise Road | 1997  |
Paws | 1997  |
Peter Rabbit | 2017  |
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | 2019  |
Planet of the Apes | 2001  |
Playing Beatie Bow | 1986  |
The Portrait of a Lady | 1996  |
Primal | 2010  |
Puberty Blues | 1981  |
The Quiet American | 2002  |
The Rats of Tobruk | 1944  |
Razorback | 1984  |
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance | 2007  |
Reckless Kelly | 1993  |
Red Planet | 2000  |
The Removalists | 1975  |
Restraint | 2008  |
Robbery Under Arms | 1907  |
Robbery Under Arms | 1957  |
Sample People | 2000  |
The Sea Chase | 1955  |
The Sentimental Bloke | 1919  |
Shadow of the Boomerang | 1960  |
Sirens | 1993  |
Sissy | 2020  |
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | 2020  |
Shine | 1996  |
The Shiralee | 1957  |
Smiley | 1956  |
Smiley Gets a Gun | 1958  |
Somersault | 2004  |
Spider & Rose | 1994  |
The Square | 2008  |
Sting | 2024  |
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | 2002  |
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | 2005  |
Starstruck | 1982  |
Stone | 1974  |
Strange Bedfellows | 2004  |
Strictly Ballroom | 1992  |
Suburban Mayhem | 2006  |
The Sum of Us | 1994  |
Superman Returns | 2006  |
Tender Hooks | 1988  |
Thank God He Met Lizzie | 1997  |
They're A Weird Mob | 1966  |
Thor: Love and Thunder | 2021  |
Those Terrible Twins: Ginger Meggs and Bluey | 1925  |
Three Blind Mice | 2008  |
Tim | 1979  |
Tomorrow, When the War Began | 2010  |
Turtle Beach | 1992  |
Two Hands | 1999  |
Unbroken | 2014  |
Undercover | 1983  |
Wake in Fright | 1971  |
Walkabout | 1971  |
The Water Diviner | 2014  |
The Wolverine | 2013  |
The Wiggles Movie | 1997  |
X-Men Origins: Wolverine | 2009  |
The Year My Voice Broke | 1987  |
The Year of Living Dangerously | 1982  |
Young Einstein | 1988  |

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

## References

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1. ^ "Babe: Pig in the City rewatched – talking pig returns in grossly underrated sequel". the Guardian. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
2. ^ Maddox, Garry (3 June 2013). "Great Scott: Sydney is Gatsby scene-stealer". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

## 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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* 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)