As a child, Heather Thompson (Kylie Claire) witnesses her crime lord father (Tony Blackett) electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult (now…
Browsing: Ozploitation
A sex-hungry Australian (pardon the tautology) gets into all kinds of trouble on a visit to the Mother Country in a movie which is funny,…
“The problem is, I just can’t seem to avoid sex.” This amiable sex farce follows the exploits of a young Australian man (Graeme Blundell) who…
This feeble sequel to 70s Australian sex comedy Alvin Purple (1973) has the irresistible young Alvin (Graeme Blundell) grinning and baring all as he switches places…
Z Special Force – also known as the Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) – was a secret Australian Special Forces reconnaissance and sabotage unit during World…
This 1975 ‘Ozploitation’ pretend documentary – shot on 16mm film then blown up to 35mm for distribution – looks at a random collection of stories…
Watching Barry McKenzie Holds His Own today it’s difficult to believe that as a kid I was allowed to show this movie at my high school. The…
Teenage BMX riders Goose (James Lugton) and PJ (Angelo D’Angelo) become friends with Judy (15-year-old Nicole Kidman in one of her first major roles), who…
Troubled Sydney medical student Ross (Peter Phelps) decides to head north after encountering trouble with the police and a bikie gang who look like ridiculous…
Peter Weir achieved a career-high as the Oscar-nominated director of The Truman Show (1998). His directorial debut, however, could not be more different from films such…
Made on a shoestring budget at the South Australian Film Corporation’s studio in Adelaide, this Australian film is (allegedly) set in a dystopian future where…
Produced in the wake of the worldwide success of Mad Max, this film reunited many of that film’s cast and crew (Mel Gibson even has…
A promising young music student named Anna (Vivienne Greaves) is attacked in her university room and thrown from the window. Miraculously, she survives, but is…
Mark Clifton (John Doyle, who would go on to become Rampaging Roy Slaven of the Roy and H.G. team) is an estate agent in Australia who…
”For more than 40,000 years, Australian Aborigines have lived in harmony with their land. Many of their animals are sacred. The most dangerous and awesome…
In the near future (the 1990s!) economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding gangs of ‘Car Boys’, the…
Death In Brunswick opens with an image that could be culled from any urban backstreet in Greece or Turkey. A hot wind whips along an empty…
Returned Vietnam vets Steve (John Hargreaves) and Rod (legendary Aussie stuntman Grant Page in his first starring role) are working as television stuntmen (as a…
With their exams over, three wealthy Melbourne private school girls – Jilly (Kim Trengrove), Joanne (Kerry Mack) and Liz (Marie O’Loughlin) – head off to…
Down-on-his-luck Sydney private investigator Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) is hired by wealthy Marion Singer (Belinda Giblin) to look into the disappearance of her husband, John…