Wake in Fright
1971 · Australia/USA · 114m
Obscurity: knownA masterpiece and an ordeal. The kangaroo hunt is real footage and it is unbearable.
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.
Mad Max
1979 · Australia · 88mObscurity: canonMade for nothing on public roads. You can feel every dollar missing.
Long Weekend
1978 · Australia · 92mObscurity: cultA couple litter, and Australia decides to kill them. Excellent.
Razorback
1984 · Australia · 94mObscurity: cultA giant pig film shot like a perfume ad. Somehow works.
Patrick
1978 · Australia · 96mObscurity: cultA man in a coma does telekinesis. Better than that sentence implies.
Road Games
1981 · Australia · 101mObscurity: cultRear Window in a truck, with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Cars That Ate Paris
1974 · Australia · 87mObscurity: cultPeter Weir's debut. A town that farms car crashes. Very strange.
Turkey Shoot
1982 · Australia · 93mObscurity: obscureThe budget vanished mid-shoot and they kept going. Chaotic, mean, fun.
What the term means: Ozploitation in the glossary.