25 most orgasmic Australian films.
by har_mar_superstar2 | created - 30 Jan 2011 | updated - 30 Jan 2011 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Chopper (2000)
R | 94 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo, Renée Brack
Votes: 41,499 | Gross: $0.23M
after seeing this film, brad pitt wanted eric bana cast in troy, and went on to work with the director in the assasination of jesse james by the coward robert ford. this film is the blackest and funniest comedy ive ever seen, ridiculously rewatchable........eric bana's best (even over munich).
2. Shine (1996)
PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd
Votes: 56,690 | Gross: $35.81M
Three words: "Geoffrey Rush's Doodle"
3. Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Syd Brisbane
Votes: 15,023
this is both the worst and best film ive ever seen...........if you see it youll understand what i mean.
4. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
R | 103 min | Documentary, History
The story of the Australian exploitation genre cinema of 1970s and 80s.
Director: Mark Hartley | Stars: Phillip Adams, Glory Annen, Christine Amor, Victoria Anoux
Votes: 4,683 | Gross: $0.02M
awsome documentary with some awsome quenton tarantino time.
5. Ten Canoes (2006)
Unrated | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.
Directors: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr | Stars: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu
Votes: 5,107 | Gross: $0.28M
like apocalipto, but with aboriginals...........and without smelly mel gibson.
6. Animal Kingdom (2010)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: James Frecheville, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Bryce Lindemann
Votes: 60,488 | Gross: $1.04M
an orgy of sweaty Australianism(My new favorite word) talent
7. Romper Stomper (1992)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.
Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott
Votes: 41,613 | Gross: $0.18M
if you thought Crowe was good at playing schizophrenic gladiators.....you haven't seen his Nazi, you see there's minimal acting required as Russel punches his way through the Vietnamese population of footscray,Melbourne..............a former residential address of your humble writer during a brief stint in 09. Though I do recall being woken up most mornings to the sound of 89 chinamen being assaulted by Russel Crowe.
8. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps
Votes: 193,636 | Gross: $12.47M
mel gibson, leather, more leather and titanium boomareng's (shotgun the band name 'titanium boomareng's)
9. Bondi Tsunami (2004)
Not Rated | 88 min | Music, Comedy, Documentary
Shark and Yuto are on a road trip around Autralia, surfing, smoking and drinking. They meet up with Kimiko and the mysterious Gunja Man before driving to many famous Australian landmarks.
Director: Rachael Lucas | Stars: Taki Abe, Keita Abe, Miki Sasaki, Nobuhisa Ikeda
Votes: 133
Please dont watch this movie sober whatever you do.
10. Samson & Delilah (II) (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton
Votes: 3,763
the closest film to my heart on this list, i grew up near hear, in a patch or earth no one knows anything about, even in Australia, this movie perfectly captures what it is to live in modern Northern Territory Australia. This film is an absolute undiscovered gem.
11. Candy (2006)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge
Votes: 47,740 | Gross: $0.04M
i dont know about you guys but i'd watch Heath Ledger eat an egg sandwich if i could, did i mention geoffrey rush has a part?........mmmmm id really like to watch geoffrey rush and Heath Ledger share an egg sandwich, yeah. yeah that'd be all......all hot and guey. that'd be hot "your narrator pinches his right nipple"
12. The Proposition (2005)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Richard Wilson
Votes: 54,979 | Gross: $1.90M
the best example of an Australian Western, written by Nick Cave, and directed by John Hillcoat, who went on to direct Cormack McCarthy's The Road. Ray Winstone sweating like a christmas ham inside an oven is worth the price of admission.
13. Two Hands (1999)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, David Field, Tom Long
Votes: 13,659
long before batman killed him, a young heath ledger getting into trouble with Bryan Brown (you know....the guy who slit his throat because tom cruise didnt love him in 'cocktail').
14. Dark City (1998)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 212,232 | Gross: $14.38M
the matrix stole heaps of this film's sets.....so thats good right? also featuring THE ONLY EVER APPEARANCE OF *drum rolll* : Rufus Sewell as a protagonist in any movie, as we all know if you ever see Rufus Sewell enter a scene in a movie it is only a matter of time before he tries to either murder or rape every other character in the film. Evil bastard.
15. The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance
In rural 1960s Australia, a boy watches helplessly as his best friend falls in love with a small-time criminal, setting off a violent chain of events.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell
Votes: 2,278 | Gross: $0.21M
Noah Taylor the band manager from almost famous as a geeky 14 year old australian.
16. Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Prison gangs clash in a high-tech security jail where there are no rules.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: David Field, Mike Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey
Votes: 1,959
if you never got that fix of prison rape out of your system from your box set of Oz, this movie is like......if halfway through shawshank redemption, tim Robbens didnt fight off those rapists, and they just raped himn like the entire movie, and flung feces at each other. Thats what this movies like.
17. Babe (1995)
G | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other animals accept him?
Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes
Votes: 134,086 | Gross: $66.60M
and surprisingly considerably less feces in this movie than the former.
18. Wolf Creek (2005)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, John Jarratt
Votes: 78,333 | Gross: $16.19M
Australian's find this movie slightly less creepy due to the fact the serial killer used too do the building segment on the lifestyle show "Better Homes and Gardens". Americans will find this movie awesomely horrifying and perhaps another reason not to visit Australia.
19. Look Both Ways (2005)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
During one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news. This, in turn, brings them together.
Director: Sarah Watt | Stars: Mary Kostakidis, Justine Clarke, Daniela Farinacci, Robbie Hoad
Votes: 3,081 | Gross: $0.10M
William Mcinnes.......the guy who could of been the next Javier Bardem.......only he doesnt want to be, which makes him wayyyyyy cooler.
20. Lantana (2001)
R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.
Director: Ray Lawrence | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Blake, Kerry Armstrong
Votes: 20,221 | Gross: $4.46M
she takes me money...............when in in neeed..........
21. Red Hill (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A young police officer must survive his first day's duty in a small country town.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Boom
Votes: 9,083 | Gross: $0.02M
another respectable Australian Western.
22. The Castle (1997)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
Director: Rob Sitch | Stars: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe
Votes: 17,491 | Gross: $0.86M
fix any old sad bastards day up.
23. The Combination (2009)
96 min | Drama
Set in the multi-racial suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John is released from goal to find his younger brother Charlie caught in the very same world of crime that put him behind bars.
Director: David Field | Stars: George Basha, Clare Bowen, Firass Dirani, Doris Younane
Votes: 843
perfectly captures the lebanese community of Sydney
24. Quigley Down Under (1990)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood
Votes: 24,534 | Gross: $21.41M
if this list could use anything, id say the best thing would definately be tom sellecks moustache. and the final ingredient..........
25. Harvie Krumpet (2003)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.
Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kamahl, John Flaus, Julie Forsyth
Votes: 9,021
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