List of films shot in Sydney

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

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.

Films edit

Film Year Refs
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
Australia 2008
Babe 1995
Babe: Pig in the City 1998 [1]
Bachna Ae Haseeno 2008
Better Than Sex 2000
Better Watch Out 2016
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
Clubland 2007
The Coca-Cola Kid 1985
The Combination 2009
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
Far East 1982
Fatty Finn 1980
The FJ Holden 1977
Flirting 1991
For the Term of his Natural Life 1927
Frost/Nixon 2008
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 Jack 2003
Kenny 2006
The Kid Stakes 1927
The Killing of Angel Street 1981
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
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
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
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
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 edit

References edit

  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 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

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