Staff pick

Essential Ozploitation

8 films · August 2026

Australia spent fifteen years making films about the country trying to kill you. These are the ones that meant it.

1known
Wake in Fright
1971 · Australia/USA · 109m
A masterpiece and an ordeal. The kangaroo hunt is real footage and it is unbearable.
2canon
Mad Max
1979 · Australia · 91m
Made for nothing on public roads. You can feel every dollar missing.
3cult
Long Weekend
1978 · Australia · 95m
A couple litter, and Australia decides to kill them. Excellent.
4cult
Razorback
1984 · Australia · 95m
A giant pig film shot like a perfume ad. Somehow works.
5cult
Patrick
1978 · Australia · 112m
A man in a coma does telekinesis. Better than that sentence implies.
6cult
Road Games
1981 · Australia · 101m
Rear Window in a truck, with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis.
7cult
The Cars That Ate Paris
1974 · Australia · 91m
Peter Weir's debut. A town that farms car crashes. Very strange.
8obscure
Turkey Shoot
1982 · Australia · 93m
The budget vanished mid-shoot and they kept going. Chaotic, mean, fun.