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Not Quite Hollywood (2008)

, 1h43
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Phillip Adams, Christine Amor, Steve Bisley, Glory Annen Clibbery, Jamie Blanks, Graeme Blundell
Roles Self
Rating75%

Not Quite Hollywood documents the revival of Australian cinema during the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and '80s through B-movies including Alvin Purple, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Dead-End Drive In, Long Weekend, Mad Max, The Man from Hong Kong, Patrick, Razorback, Road Games, Stork and Turkey Shoot. From 1971 through to the late 1980s, Australian directors began to take advantage of the newly introduced R-rating which allowed more on-screen nudity, sex and violence for audiences restricted to age 18 and over. "Ozploitation"—writer-director Mark Hartley's own portmanteau of "Australian exploitation"—was a subgenre of the New Wave which accounted for the critically panned "gross-out comedies, sex romps, action and road movies, teen films, westerns, thrillers and horror films" of the era, commonly overlooked in Australia's "official film history". The film addresses three main categories of "Ozploitation" films: sex, horror and action.

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, 1h34
Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin Australie
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Barry Otto, Frank Thring, Carole Skinner, Dagmar Bláhová, Glenda Linscott, Barry Humphries
Roles Werewolf in Park
Rating35%

In this movie, Australian werewolves have evolved separate from the rest of the werewolf population. They are marsupials - the female werewolves give birth to partly developed young which then makes its way to a pouch for further development.

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, 1h34
Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin Australie
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Barry Otto, Frank Thring, Carole Skinner, Dagmar Bláhová, Glenda Linscott, Barry Humphries
Roles Associate Producer
Rating35%

In this movie, Australian werewolves have evolved separate from the rest of the werewolf population. They are marsupials - the female werewolves give birth to partly developed young which then makes its way to a pouch for further development.

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No Escape (1994)

, 1h58
Directed by Martin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films, Films set in the future, Dystopian films
Actors Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Kevin J. O'Connor, Don Henderson
Roles Prosthetic Designer
Rating61%

In the year 2022, the penal system is run entirely by corporations, with prisoners seen as assets. Highly-trained ex-marine John Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer, who in 2011 ordered him to kill scores of innocent men, women and children in Benghazi (Libya). The event haunts Robbins over a decade later.

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Dead Calm (1989)

, 1h36
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Lisa Collins
Roles Prosthetics
Rating67%

Rae Ingram (Kidman), is involved in a car crash which results in the death of her son. Her husband, an Australian Royal Navy officer John Ingram (Neill) suggests that they help deal with their grief by heading out for a vacation alone on their yacht. In the middle of the Pacific, they encounter a drifting boat that seems to be taking on water. A man, Hughie Warriner (Zane), rows over to the Ingrams' boat for help. He claims that his boat is sinking and that his companions have all died of food poisoning.

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, 1h34
Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin Australie
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Barry Otto, Frank Thring, Carole Skinner, Dagmar Bláhová, Glenda Linscott, Barry Humphries
Roles Makeup Designer
Rating35%

In this movie, Australian werewolves have evolved separate from the rest of the werewolf population. They are marsupials - the female werewolves give birth to partly developed young which then makes its way to a pouch for further development.

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Ground Zero (1987)

, 1h49
Directed by Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Burnum Burnum, Bob Maza, Brian James
Roles Prosthetic Makeup Artist
Rating63%

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Razorback (1984)

, 1h35
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Origin Australie
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Natural horror films
Actors Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Judy Morris, Chris Haywood, David Argue
Roles Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rating59%

Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) is babysitting his grandson at his house in the Australian outback when a massive razorback boar attacks him, smashing through his house and dragging away his grandson to devour alive. Jake is accused of murdering the child and while his account of the events are met with high skepticism, he is acquitted due to lack of evidence. The event destroys his credibility and reputation however and he vows revenge on the boar.

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Nate and Hayes (1983)

, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Jenny Seagrove, Max Phipps, Grant Tilly, Bruce Allpress
Roles Makeup Supervisor
Rating61%

The film tells the story of missionary Nathaniel "Nate" Williamsen (O'Keefe), taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie (Seagrove). Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes (Jones), who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease (Max Phipps), "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her. The plot is essentially a set-up for a rousing series of Indiana Jones style action set pieces, including a sequence on a suspension bridge which greatly resembles the climax of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, though Nate and Hayes was released a year earlier.

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Turkey Shoot (1982)

, 1h33
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Roger Ward, Lynda Stoner
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating58%

In the totalitarian near future, "social deviants" are sent to prison camps for re-education and behaviour modification. The new arrivals at Camp 47 are Chris Walters (Olivia Hussey), a shopkeeper accused of helping a rebel; Rita Daniels (Lynda Stoner), a suspected sex worker; and Paul Anders (Steve Railsback), a dissident who has escaped from several other camps. After suffering brutal treatment at the hands of Camp Master Charles Thatcher (Michael Craig) and his chief enforcer, Ritter (Roger Ward), the prisoners accept a deadly deal. They will be human prey in a "turkey shoot", which Thatcher has organised for Secretary Mallory (Noel Ferrier), and VIPs Jennifer (Carmen Duncan) and Tito (Michael Petrovich). If they can evade the heavily armed guests in the surrounding jungle until sundown, Chris, Rita and Paul will be set free. As the "turkey shoot" progresses, the tables are turned, and the prisoners become the hunters, culminating in a free-for-all slaughter terminated by a government napalm airstrike.

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Mad Max 2 (1981)

, 1h35
Directed by George Miller
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Western
Themes Environmental films, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Chase films, Disaster films
Actors Mel Gibson, Michael Preston, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Emil Minty
Roles Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rating75%

Five years after avenging his wife and child, with supplies of petroleum having become nearly exhausted following a major energy crisis and a global war, ex-Main Force Patrol officer "Mad" Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) roams the now depopulated and desolate desert in his scarred, black supercharged V-8 Pursuit Special, scavenging for food, water, and fuel. His only companions are an Australian Cattle Dog and a rare functioning firearm–a sawed-off shotgun–for which ammunition is very scarce.

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Body Melt (1994)

, 1h21
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Cyberpunk films
Actors Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Vincent Gil, Matthew Newton, Lesley Baker
Roles Makeup Effects
Rating53%

The film is about the residents of the small town of Pebbles Court who are the unknowing test subjects for a new variety of "Vimuville" dietary supplement pills that arrive for free in their mailboxes. The pills are designed to produce the ultimate healthy human, but have unexpected side effects including hallucinations and mutations. Despite the attempts made to warn the townsfolk from a previous test subject, who is now undergoing rapid cellular decay, he arrives too late, and crashes his car and is killed by tentacles growing out of his throat. The pills are consumed by the residents, and produce liquefying flesh, elongated tongues, exploding stomachs, exploding penises, imploding heads, monstrous births, tentacles growing out of the face, living mucus, sentient placentas, and other gruesome mutations. Ultimately more and more of the residents of the Pebbles Court mutate or die horrific deaths, until almost every character has been dispatched.

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, 1h34
Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin Australie
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Barry Otto, Frank Thring, Carole Skinner, Dagmar Bláhová, Glenda Linscott, Barry Humphries
Roles Makeup Effects
Rating35%

In this movie, Australian werewolves have evolved separate from the rest of the werewolf population. They are marsupials - the female werewolves give birth to partly developed young which then makes its way to a pouch for further development.

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Razorback (1984)

, 1h35
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Origin Australie
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Natural horror films
Actors Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Judy Morris, Chris Haywood, David Argue
Roles Makeup Effects
Rating59%

Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) is babysitting his grandson at his house in the Australian outback when a massive razorback boar attacks him, smashing through his house and dragging away his grandson to devour alive. Jake is accused of murdering the child and while his account of the events are met with high skepticism, he is acquitted due to lack of evidence. The event destroys his credibility and reputation however and he vows revenge on the boar.

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