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List of Australian films: 1940s-1970s
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A list of films produced in Australia by year, from the 1940s to the end of the 1970s, in the List of Australian films.
For an A-Z list of Australian films see Category:Australian films
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1940 | ||||
| Ants in His Pants | William Freshman | Will Mahoney, Ann Richards | Comedy/Musical | IMDb |
| Dad Rudd, M.P. | Ken G. Hall | Bert Bailey, Connie Martyn | Comedy | IMDb |
| Water Ballet: Sydney | ? | Short | IMDb | |
| Wings of Destiny | Rupert Kathner | Marshall Crosby, John Fernside | Action drama | IMDb |
| 1941 | ||||
| 40,000 Horsemen | Charles Chauvel | Harvey Adams, Betty Bryant | War | IMDb |
| Advance to Libya | Frank Hurley | Documentary | IMDb | |
| The Power and the Glory | Noel Monkman | Katrin Rosselle, Peter Finch | Drama / Thriller | Based on book of same title IMDb |
| Racing Luck | Rupert Kathner | Joe Valli, George Lloyd | Adventure comedy | IMDb |
| That Certain Something | Clarence G. Badger | Megan Edwards, Thelma Grigg | Drama | IMDb |
| Water Ballet | ? | Annette Kellerman | Short | IMDb |
| 1942 | ||||
| 100,000 Cobbers | Ken G. Hall | Ron Randell, Ann Richards | Drama / Short | IMDb |
| Jewel of the Pacific | Frank Hurley | Short documentary | IMDb | |
| Kokoda Front Line! | Damien Parer (camera) | War documentary | Won Oscar IMDb | |
| Men of Timor | ? | Short documentary | IMDb | |
| Moresby Under the Blitz | Ken G. Hall | War documentary | IMDb | |
| Soldiers Without Uniforms | Charles Chauvel | Short documentary | IMDb | |
| A Yank in Australia | Alfred J. Goulding | Al Thomas, Kitty Bluett | Comedy | IMDb |
| 1943 | ||||
| Assault on Salamaua | ? | Documentary | IMDb | |
| The Bismarck Convoy Smashed | Peter Bathurst (voice) | War documentary | IMDb | |
| 1944 | ||||
| Red Sky at Morning | Hartney J. Arthur | John Alden, Dorothea Dunstan, Peter Finch | Drama | IMDb |
| 1945 | ||||
| Harvest Gold | Mervyn Murphy | Joe Valli, Harry Abdy | Drama / Thriller | IMDb |
| Mid East | Frank Hurley | Documentary | IMDb | |
| 1946 | ||||
| A Son Is Born | Eric Porter | Muriel Steinbeck, Ron Randell, Peter Finch | Drama | IMDb |
| Indonesia Calling | Joris Ivens | Peter Finch | Short documentary | IMDb |
| The Overlanders | Harry Watt | Chips Rafferty, Daphne Campbell | Adventure | IMDb |
| Walkabout | Charles Mountford | Short/Documentary | IMDb | |
| 1947 | ||||
| Bush Christmas | Ralph Smart | Chips Rafferty, Thelma Grigg | Adventure | IMDb |
| School in the Mailbox | ? | Short documentary | Nominated for Oscar | |
| 1948 | ||||
| Always Another Dawn | T.O. McCreadie | Guy Doleman, Queenie Ashton | War drama | IMDb |
| 1949 | ||||
| The Inlanders | John Kingsford-Smith | David Low | Documentary | IMDb |
| Into the Straight | T.O. McCreadie | Margo Lee | Drama | IMDb |
| Sons of Matthew | Charles Chauvel | Michael Pate, John Ewart | Adventure / Drama | IMDb |
| Strong Is the Seed | Arthur Greville Collins | Queenie Ashton, Guy Doleman | Drama | IMDb |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||
| Bitter Springs | Ralph Smart | IMDb | ||
| The Kangaroo Kid | ||||
| 1951 | ||||
| The Glenrowan Affair | ||||
| 1952 | ||||
| Mike and Stefani | ||||
| Night Club | ||||
| 1953 | ||||
| Captain Thunderbolt | ||||
| King of the Coral Sea | ||||
| The Phantom Stockman | ||||
| Wherever She Goes | Michael Gordon | Drama | IMDb | |
| 1954 | ||||
| The Back of Beyond | John Heyer | Documentary | IMDb | |
| Long John Silver | ||||
| 1955 | ||||
| Jedda | ||||
| 1956 | ||||
| Olympic Games 1956 | ||||
| Walk Into Paradise | Marcello Pagliero, Lee Robinson | Adventure | IMDb | |
| 1957 | ||||
| Robbery Under Arms | ||||
| Three in One | ||||
| 1958 | ||||
| Dust in the Sun | ||||
| Smiley Gets a Gun | ||||
| The Stowaway | ||||
| 1959 | ||||
| L' Ambitieuse | Yves Allégret | Drama | IMDb | |
| Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | ||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||||
| Shadow of the Boomerang | ||||
| 1961 | ||||
| Bungala Boys | ||||
| 1962 | ||||
| Adam and Eve | Dusan Marek | Short/Animation | IMDb | |
| They Found a Cave | ||||
| 1963 | ||||
| House with a Secret | ||||
| 1964 | ||||
| Forgotten Loneliness | ||||
| 1965 | ||||
| Clay | ||||
| Funny Things Happen Down Under | ||||
| The Warning | Chris Löfvén | Short | IMDb | |
| 1966 | ||||
| Blunderball, or from Dr. Nofinger with Hate | Albie Thoms | Short/Comedy | IMDb | |
| Nightwait | ||||
| The Story of Making the Film They're a Weird Mob | ||||
| They're a Weird Mob | ||||
| 1967 | ||||
| Journey Out of Darkness | ||||
| The Pudding Thieves | ||||
| Wheels Across a Wilderness | Malcolm Leyland, Mike Leyland | Documentary | IMDb | |
| 1968 | ||||
| The Pictures That Moved: Australian Cinema | ||||
| Ride a White Horse | ||||
| Skindeep | ||||
| Time in Summer | ||||
| 1969 | ||||
| Age of Consent | ||||
| Color Me Dead | ||||
| Headland 69 | Kevin Kearney | Tully | Musical/Documentary | UBU News No. 14 April |
| The Intruders | ||||
| It Takes All Kinds | ||||
| Little Jungle Boy | ||||
| Sampan | ||||
| Savage Shadows | ||||
| Stockman Joe | ||||
| Strange Holiday | ||||
| Thunderbolt | ||||
| Two Thousand Weeks | ||||
| Will Ye No' Come Back Again? | ||||
| You Can't See 'round Corners | David Cahill | IMDb | ||
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ||||
| Adam's Woman | Philip Leacock | Beau Bridges, Jane Merrow, John Mills, James Booth, Andrew Keir, Tracy Reed | Drama | IMDb |
| Beyond Reason | Georgio Mangiamele | Action/ Drama/ Thriller | IMDb | |
| Boobs a Lot | Aggy Read | Short / Comedy | IMDb | |
| Dead Easy | ||||
| Jack and Jill: A Postscript | ||||
| The Journey | ||||
| The Naked Bunyip | ||||
| Nothing Like Experience | ||||
| Old Man and Dog | ||||
| Part One: 806 | ||||
| Part Two: The Beginning | ||||
| The Phallic Forest | ||||
| The Set | ||||
| Squeeze a Flower | ||||
| Toula | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| And the Word Was Made Flesh | Dusan Marek | IMDb | ||
| Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata | ||||
| Bonjour Balwyn | Nigel Buesst | Comedy | IMDb | |
| Country Town | ||||
| Demonstrator | ||||
| The Girl on the Roof | ||||
| Homesdale | ||||
| The Jumping Jeweller of Lavender Bay | ||||
| Morning of the Earth | ||||
| Nickel Queen | ||||
| Out They Go | ||||
| The Passionate Industry | ||||
| A Personal History of the Australian Surf | ||||
| Roof Needs Mowing | ||||
| Stockade | ||||
| Stork | ||||
| Sympathy in Summer | ||||
| Three to Go | ||||
| Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 | George Miller | Short | IMDb | |
| Wake in Fright | Ted Kotcheff | Drama / Thriller | IMDb | |
| 1972 | ||||
| The Adventures of Barry McKenzie | ||||
| Caravan Holiday | ||||
| A City's Child | ||||
| Flashpoint | ||||
| Gentle Strangers | ||||
| Lalai Dreamtime | ||||
| Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon | ||||
| Night of Fear | ||||
| Private Collection | ||||
| Shirley Thompson Versus the Aliens | ||||
| Sunstruck | ||||
| The Runner | ||||
| 1973 | ||||
| Aches and Snakes | David Deneen | Short | IMDb | |
| Alvin Purple | ||||
| An Essay on Pornography | ||||
| Avengers of the Reef | Chris McCullough | Adventure | IMDb | |
| Bulls | ||||
| Castor and Pollux | ||||
| Come Out Fighting | ||||
| Cruisin' | ||||
| Dalmas | ||||
| Don Quixote | ||||
| Floating This Time | ||||
| Gretel | ||||
| Libido | ||||
| Lost in the Bush | ||||
| One Hundred a Day | ||||
| Satdee Night | ||||
| That's Showbiz | ||||
| The Man Who Can't Stop | ||||
| The Office Picnic | ||||
| The Sabbat of the Black Cat | ||||
| Wheels on Fire | Gary Young | Documentary | IMDb | |
| 1974 | ||||
| 27A | ||||
| Alvin Purple Rides Again | ||||
| Australia After Dark | John D. Lamond | Documentary | IMDb | |
| Barry McKenzie Holds His Own | ||||
| Between Wars | ||||
| The Cars That Ate Paris | ||||
| A Handful of Dust | ||||
| India Our Asian Neighbours | ||||
| Lockhart Festival | ||||
| Matchless | ||||
| Moving On | ||||
| Mr. Symbol Man | ||||
| Number 96 | ||||
| Petersen | ||||
| A Steam Train Passes | David Haythornwaite | Short docum. | IMDb | |
| Sweet Feed | ||||
| The Players | ||||
| The Spiral Bureau | ||||
| Three Old Friends | ||||
| Tidikawa and Friends | ||||
| Tie jin gang da po zi yang guan | ||||
| Yackety Yack | Dave Jones | Comedy | IMDb | |
| 1975 | ||||
| Assault on Agathon | László Benedek | Adventure | ||
| The Box | Paul Eddy | IMDb | ||
| The Club | ||||
| Crystal Voyager | ||||
| Down the Wind | ||||
| The Firm Man | ||||
| The Golden Cage | ||||
| The Great McCarthy | ||||
| How Willingly You Sing | ||||
| Inn of the Damned | ||||
| Ironbark Bill in 'The Champion Buckjumper' | ||||
| The Island | ||||
| The Love Epidemic | ||||
| The Man from Hong Kong | ||||
| Nuts, Bolts and Bedroom Springs | ||||
| The Olive Tree | ||||
| Picnic at Hanging Rock | ||||
| Plugg | ||||
| Promised Woman | ||||
| Protected | ||||
| The Removalists | ||||
| Ride a Wild Pony | ||||
| Scobie Malone | ||||
| Sidecar Racers | ||||
| Smokes and Lollies | ||||
| Solo Flight | ||||
| Sunday Too Far Away | ||||
| Symbol Boy | ||||
| That Lady from Peking | ||||
| The True Story of Eskimo Nell | ||||
| We Are All Alone My Dear | Paul Cox | Short | IMDb | |
| We Should Call It a Living Room | Aleksander Danko | Short animation | IMDb | |
| 1976 | ||||
| Barney | David Waddington | Adventure | IMDb | |
| Betty Blokk-buster Follies | Peter Batey | Comedy / Musical | IMDb | |
| Break of Day | ||||
| Caddie | ||||
| Deathcheaters | ||||
| The Devil's Playground | ||||
| Don's Party | ||||
| Eliza Fraser | ||||
| End Play | ||||
| A Fair Trial | ||||
| Fantasm | ||||
| The Fourth Wish | ||||
| Goodbye, Norma Jean | ||||
| Illuminations | ||||
| Image of Death | ||||
| Jeremy and Teapot | Briann Kearney | Patrick Thompson, Brian Syron, Jack Thompson | Short fantasy | (Cinema Papers "Women in Film - Briann Kearney" Jan.Feb. 1982 : 36-37) |
| Leisure | ||||
| Let the Balloon Go | ||||
| Mad Dog Morgan | ||||
| Oz | ||||
| Pure S | ||||
| Queensland | ||||
| Shay Gap | ||||
| Storm Boy | ||||
| Stuntmen | ||||
| Summer of Secrets | ||||
| Sunshine and Shadows: 70 Years of Australian Cinema | ||||
| Surrender in Paradise | ||||
| The Trespassers | ||||
| Tubular Swells | ||||
| We Aim to Please | Robin Laurie, Margot Nash | Short | IMDb | |
| 1977 | ||||
| ABBA: The Movie | ||||
| Backroads | Phillip Noyce | Action / Drama | IMDb | |
| The Bad Society | Mike Jacob, Gil Scrine | Short documentary | IMDb | |
| Blue Fire Lady | Ross Dimsey | IMDb | ||
| Cosy Cool | ||||
| Dot and the Kangaroo | ||||
| Fantasm Comes Again | ||||
| The F.J. Holden | ||||
| High Rolling | ||||
| Inside Looking Out | ||||
| Journey Among Women | ||||
| The Last Wave | Peter Weir | Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett | Fantasy / Thriller | |
| Listen to the Lion | ||||
| The Love Letters from Teralba Road | ||||
| The Mango Tree | ||||
| The Newman Shame | ||||
| Out of It | ||||
| The Picture Show Man | ||||
| Plunge Into Darkness | ||||
| Raw Deal | ||||
| Roses Bloom Twice | ||||
| The Singer and the Dancer | ||||
| Summerfield | ||||
| What a Way to Go | Karl Rawicz | Comedy | IMDb | |
| 1978 | ||||
| And / Or = One | Briann Kearney | Kris McQuade, Vincent Gil, Anna West, Bridget Murphy | Drama | "Controversial film wins award" W.L.Wenger, Arizona Daily Wildcat, Tucson, 16.10.1986 : 3 |
| At Uluru | Corinne Cantrill | IMDb | ||
| Blue Fin | ||||
| The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Fred Schepisi | Tom E. Lewis, Angela Punch McGregor | Drama | 3 wins & 10 nominations |
| The Getting of Wisdom | ||||
| Hospitals Don't Burn Down | ||||
| In Search of Anna | ||||
| The Irishman | ||||
| The Island of Nevawuz | ||||
| Jenny | ||||
| The Last Tasmanian | ||||
| Letter to a Friend | ||||
| Letters from Poland | ||||
| Little Boy Lost | ||||
| Long Weekend | ||||
| Money Movers | ||||
| Mouth to Mouth | ||||
| Newsfront | ||||
| The Night, the Prowler | ||||
| Patrick | ||||
| Size 10 | ||||
| Solo | ||||
| Stunt Rock | ||||
| Temperament Unsuited | ||||
| Third Person Plural | ||||
| Weekend of Shadows | Tom Jeffrey | Crime / Drama | IMDb | |
| 1979 | ||||
| Alison's Birthday | Ian Coughlan | Horror | IMDb | |
| All in the Same Boat | Short | IMDb | ||
| Apostasy | Zbigniew Friedrich | Drama | IMDb | |
| As a Matter of Fact | ? | Short documentary | IMDb | |
| Buckeye and Pinto | ||||
| Cathy's Child | ||||
| Dawn! | ||||
| Dimboola | ||||
| Evictions | ||||
| Exits | ||||
| Felicity | ||||
| Ileksen | ||||
| The Journalist | ||||
| Just Out of Reach | ||||
| The King of the Two Day Wonder | ||||
| Kostas | ||||
| The Last of the Knucklemen | ||||
| The Little Convict | ||||
| Mad Max | George Miller | Mel Gibson | Action / Adventure | |
| Mallacoota Stampede | ||||
| Morris Loves Jack | ||||
| Mutiny on the Western Front | ||||
| My Brilliant Career | (See My Brilliant Career) | |||
| Now and Then | ||||
| Now You're Taking | ||||
| The Odd Angry Shot | ||||
| Palm Beach | ||||
| Prophecies of Nostradamus | ||||
| Pussy Pumps Up | ||||
| Puttin' on the Ritz | ||||
| Snapshot | ||||
| Thirst | ||||
| This Woman Is Not a Car | ||||
| Tim | ||||
| Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters | ||||
| Yesterday's Hero | Neil Leifer | Drama | IMDb | |
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