Directors & Movies:

George Miller:
Mad Max (The Road Warrior) Series includes:
- Mad Max 1 (Interceptor)
- Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)
- Mad Max 3 (Beyond Thunderdome)
- Mad Max 4 (Fury Road)
- Babe: Pig in the City
(starring a handful of Sydney's goths as extras)
- Dead Calm
- The Witches of Eastwick
- 40,000 Years of Dreaming

Baz Luhrmann
- Moulin Rouge
- Strictly Ballroom
- Romeo & Juliet
- Australia
- The Great Gatsby

Peter Weir:
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Gallipoli
- The Last Wave
- The Year of Living Dangerously
- Dead Poets Society
- Witness
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- The Way Back
- The Truman Show
- The Mosquito Coast
- The Cars that Ate Paris

Jim Sharman (AUS), Director & Screenplay, with Richard O'Brien (NZ/UK), the Author, Composer, Screenplay & Actor (Riff Raff):
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Shock Treatment (1981)

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Gillian Armstrong:
- Oscar & Lucinda
- Death Defying Acts
- Charlotte Gray
- My Brilliant Career
- Mrs Soffel
- High Tide
- Last Days of Chez Nous
- Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst

Alex Proyas
- The Crow
- Dark City
- Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
- I, Robot
- Knowing

Mel Gibson
- The Passion of the Christ
- Apocalypto
- Braveheart
- The Man Without a Face

Spierig brothers
- Undead
- Daybreakers

Sir Peter Jackson (NZ)
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- King Kong
- Bad Taste
- Meet the Feebles
- Heavenly Creatures
- Braindead
- District 9
- The Lovely Bones
- West of Memphis (documentary)
- The Frighteners

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Michael Rymer
- Queen of the Damned
- Angel Baby
- Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries)

John Hillcoat
- Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
- The Road
- The Proposition
- Lawless

Geoffrey Wright
- Romper Stomper
- Macbeth
- Metal Skin -
- Lover Boy -

Rolf de Heer
- Bad Boy Bubby
- Ten Canoes
- The King is Dead
- Alexandra's Project
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories -
- The Quiet Room
- Dr Plonk
- Almost Alien (Alien visitor) -
- The Tracker
- Incident at Raven's Gate
- Dingo

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Stuart Beattie
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Tomorrow, When the War Began
- Collateral
- I, Frankenstein
- Derailed
- The Messengers

Ana Kokkinos -
- Head On -
- The Book of Revelation -
- Blessed
- Only the Brave -
Amongst other works she has directed numerous episodes of the Secret Life of Us.

Gregor Jordan
- Two Hands
- Ned Kelly
- The Informers
- Unthinkable

Jane Campion (NZ)
- The Portrait of a Lady
- The Piano
- An Angel at My Table
- Bright Star
- Holy Smoke
- In the Cut
- Top of the Lake
- Sweetie

Robert Connolly
- The Bank
- The Boys
- Balibo

Russell Mulcahy
- Razorback
- Highlander
- Highlander 2
- Resident Evil: Extinction
- Prayers for Bobby
- Ricochet
- Blue Ice
- The Shadow
- Tale of the Mummy
- Resurrection
- He has directed dozens of well-known music videos

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Richard Lowenstein
- Dogs in Space
- He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
- Autoluminescent (documentary film on the life of Rowland S. Howard of the band The Birthday Party)
- Say a Little Prayer

Richard Roxburgh
- Romulus, My Father

John Duigan
- The Year My Voice Broke
- Sirens
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Romero
- Head in the Clouds

Andrew Niccol (NZ)
- Gattaca
- In Time
- Lord of War
- The Truman Show
- S1mone

Ray Lawrence
- Bliss
- Jindabyne
- Lantana

Rod Hardy
- Thirst
- Robinson Crusoe
- Lies & Lullabies
- December Boys
- He has worked on numerous American TV series including Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files, JAG, Mental, Leverage, The Mentalist, Burn Notice and Dollhouse.

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Stephen Elliot
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Welcome to Woop Woop
- Eye of the Beholder
- Frauds

Rowan Woods
- The Boys
- Little Fish
- He has also directed episodes of television series including Farscape, Fireflies, Police Rescue, and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Craig Monahan
- The Interview
- Peaches

Sean Byrne
- The Loved Ones

Mark Joffe
- Cosi
- The Man Who Sued God
- Grievous Bodily Harm

Phillip Noyce
- Rabbit Proof Fence
- Sliver

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Cate Shortland
- Somersault

Alister Grierson
- Sanctum
- Kokoda

Sandy Harbutt
- Stone

David Mich
- Animal Kingdom
- The Rover

Kriv Stenders
- The Illustrated Family Doctor
(Soundtrack by the band Severed Heads)
- Lucky Country

John Ruane
- Death in Brunswick
- Dead Letter Office -
- That Eye, the Sky

Bruce Beresford
- Breaker Morant
- Puberty Blues
- King David
- The Fringe Dwellers
- The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
- Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
- Money Movers

Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Dead End Drive-in
- Turkey Shoot (also known as Escape 2000 and Blood Camp Thatcher)
- Arctic Blast
- Out of the Body

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Justin Kurzel
- Snowtown

Richard Franklin
- Fantasm
- Patrick
- Road Games

Fred Schepis
- Evil Angels: A Cry in the Dark
- The Devil's Playground
- The Russia House
- The Eye of the Storm
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
- Iceman
- Barbarosa

William/Ted Kotcheff (Canadian)
- directed the 1971 Australian thriller: Wake in Fright (Outback)
- also directed Rambo: First Blood

Peter Duncan
- Passion
- Children of the Revolution

David Nerlich & Andrew Traucki
- Black Water

Greg McLean
- Wolf Creek
- Red Hill
- Rogue

Jonathan King (NZ)
- Black Sheep
- The Tattooist
- Under the Mountain

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Bill Bennet
- Spider & Rose -
- Uninhabited
- Cut
- A Street to Die
- In a Savage Land -
- Backlash
- Kiss or Kill

James Wan
- Saw (franchise)
- Dead Silence (also known as Shhhh... and Silence)
- Death Sentence
- Insidious
- The Conjuring (aka. The Warren Files)

Colin Eggleston
- Fantasm Comes Again
- The Long Weekend
- Sky Pirates
- Innocent Prey -
- Body Business -
- Cassandra -
- Outback Vampires (aka. The Wicked) - review

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John D Lamond
- Nightmares
- Felicity
- Australia After Dark

David Caesar
- Dirty Deeds
- Mullet
- Idiot Box
- He has also worked on many TV series including Fireflies, Dangerous, Water Rats.

Andrew Dominik (NZ)
- Chopper
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Killing Them Softly

Alan White
- Risk
- Broken
- Erskineville Kings

Nick Parsons
- Dead Heart

Carl Schultz
- Careful, He Might Hear You
- The Seventh Sign
- To Walk with Lions
- Goodbye Paradise

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Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan
- Cactus

Scott Hicks
- Shine
- Call Me Mr Brown -
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- Hearts in Atlantis

Vincent Ward (NZ)
- The Navigator
- Vigil
- Map of the Human Heart
- What Dreams May Come

Joel Anderson
- Lake Mungo

Lee Tamahori (NZ)
- Once Were Warriors - then went to Hollywood to make movies like:
- Die Another Day (007)
- Next

Jonathan auf der Heide
- Van Diemen's Land

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Geoff Murphy (NZ)
- The Quiet Earth
- Goodbye Pork Pie
- Spooked
- Utu

Tony Williams
- Next of Kin

Greg Page (NZ)
- The Locals

Timo Vuorensola (Finland)
- Iron Sky (credited as a Finnish-German-Australian comic science fiction action film)

Chris Noonan
- The Third Witch
- Babe
- (Assistant Director on) The Cars that Ate Paris
- Miss Potter

Phillip Brophy
- Body Melt

Tim Burstall
- Alvin Purple
- Kangaroo (based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence)
- 2000 weeks
- End Play
- Petersen

Paul Cox
- Man of Flowers
- The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
- Molokai: The Story of Father Damien -
- Innocence -

Gil Brealey
- Annie's Coming Out

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Philippe Mora
- The Howling 3
- The Howling 2
- Joseph's Gift
- Communion
- Mad Dog Morgan
- Beast within
- Death of a Soldier

Michael Pattinson
- Ground Zero (co-directed by Bruce Myles)
- Street Hero

Simon Wincer
- The Lighthorsemen
- D.A.R.Y.L.
- The Young Black Stallion
- Phar Lap
- Harlequin (aka. Dark Forces)

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Further References:

• Wikipedia: Films shot in Australia (includes: Matrix trilogy, Mission Impossible 2, Jaws, Star Wars 2 & 3, X-men Origins, Walking with Dinosaurs...)
• Wikipedia: List of Australian films
• Wikpedia: Cinema of New Zealand
• SoundOnSight: Greatest Horror Movies Ever Made: Part 3: Greatest Australian / New Zealand Horror Films
• Wikipedia: Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
• Google books: Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010 by Peter Shelley
• Cinema of Unease - Sam Neil's history of NZ cinema up to 1996.

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