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.

Films

FilmYearRefs 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 Around the World in 80 Ways 1988 Australia 2008 Babe 1995 Babe: Pig in the City 1998 Bachna Ae Haseeno 2008 Beast 2026 The Best of Friends 1982 Better Than Sex 2000 Better Watch Out 2016 Birdeater 2023 Birthday Girl 2001 The Birthday Trip 2026 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 The Cheaters 1930 Children of the Corn 2020 Children of the Revolution 1996 Christmess 2023 The City's Edge 1983 Clubland 2007 The Coca-Cola Kid 1985 The Combination 2009 The Correspondent 2024 Cosi 1996 Crocodile Dundee 1986 Crooked Business 2008 The Cross 2010 Dangerous Game 1987 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 Dead Easy 1982 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 The Empty Beach 1985 Erskineville Kings 1999 Escape from Absolom 1994 Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) 1988 The Fall Guy 2024 Far East 1982 Fast Talking 1984 Fatty Finn 1980 Fear Below 2025 Five Blind Dates 2024 The Fall Guy 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 Going Down 1982 Gone 2007 The Great Gatsby 2013 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 How to Talk Australians: The Movie 2026 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 The Last Wave 1977 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 1918 Shadow of the Boomerang 1960 The Siege of Pinchgut 1959 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 Son of the Mask 2005 Spaceballs: The New One 2027 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 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1959 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 Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022 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 Wiggles Movie 1997 Winter of Our Dreams 1981 The Wolverine 2013 X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2009 The Year My Voice Broke 1987 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Young Einstein 1988

See also 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

Further reading 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. Pike, Andrew and Ross Cooper. Australian Film: 1900 – 1977. revised ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. McFarland, Brian, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia : government film since 1945. Sydney : Currency Press, 1991. . Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. 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. Verhoeven, Deb. Sheep and the Australian Cinema. Melbourne : MUP, 2006. – – – ed. Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999.

External links 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)