Aussie film recommendations?

[eti]

Okay so this is off-topic, but I couldn't think of a better place to ask, since a lot of Aussies hang out here, and esp the owner!

I am looking for Aussie culture/bush related films to watch. Recently I have seen:

"Sunday too far away" (Sheep shearing competition, a well made film)
"Rabbit proof fence"
"Walkabout"

I love Aussie culture, am a big fan of Jack Absolom's outback/bush survival videos, and if anyone can recommend any decent Aussie adventure films from say 60s-90s, etc, I would be most grateful.

Thanks.

[aargee]

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection.
The original Mad Max movie.
They're a Weird Mob

That's a bit of an Australian historical cross section.

[JohnnyMalaria]

The Plumber

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079727/

A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.

One of my favourite films.

[eti]

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection.
The original Mad Max movie.
They're a Weird Mob

That's a bit of an Australian historical cross section.

Cheers mate!

[richnormand]

Having worked at a similar installation as a summer student: "The Dish"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[eti]

Having worked at a similar installation as a summer student: "The Dish"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Ah yes, watched it last week, FAB film! thanks!

[Circlotron]

Young Einstein.

Albert Einstein, the son of an apple farmer in Tasmania in the early 1900s, is interested in physics rather than the family business. His father shows him his grandfather's "laboratory", a remote shed where he made beer. His father tells him that they have tried for years to introduce bubbles to beer, saying that the person who can will change the world forever.

After heavy drinking, Einstein postulates the theory of mass–energy equivalence (E=MC2) as a formula to split beer atoms to create bubbles in beer. After spending all night preparing, he splits a beer atom (with hammer and chisel), which causes the shed to explode. After Einstein excitedly shows his parents the formula and a glass of beer with bubbles in it, his father encourages him to head to the Australian mainland and patent the formula. On a train to Sydney, he meets Marie Curie, a Polish-French scientist studying at the University of Sydney, and Preston Preston, the pompous manager of the Sydney Patent Office. Marie is fascinated by Einstein, while Preston is annoyed by him.

In Sydney, Einstein lodges in a whorehouse and finds that the patent office will not accept scientific theories. Einstein leaves and meets Marie at the university, only to upset her professor by erasing his work and writing his own theory. Though he is thrown out, Marie becomes more taken with him. Preston attempts to woo Marie with his upper-class lifestyle. During a performance at a social club, she mentions her interest in Einstein's theory. Jealous, Preston has his clerk call Einstein in to take his formula for safe keeping. Preston turns the formula over to the Bavarian Brothers, a pair of brewmasters who intend to use the formula to get rich.

As Einstein invents rock and roll and the electric violin, he begins a romance with Marie. While at a beach, he demonstrates surfing for her. As they leave, Marie wishes the moment could last forever. Inspired, Einstein comes up with the theory of relativity on the spot, amazing Marie. As they return to the hotel, the clerk tells him that Preston is creating a keg using his formula. When Einstein protests, the Bavarian Brothers claim that Einstein is insane and have him committed. Einstein's electric violin is destroyed, and he is kept isolated. Marie confronts Preston, who says Einstein would have done nothing with his work and he is trying to help everyone.

Marie infiltrates the institution as Einstein's father, confronts Einstein in the shower room, and reveals Preston's plot. When Einstein expresses helplessness, Marie leaves disappointed. Einstein rebuilds his violin into an electric guitar, uses it to short out the security system, and escapes. Upon finding she has returned to France, Einstein sails a small steamboat to France and wins her back by promising to stop Preston. They use the Curie family hot air balloon and head to the Nobel ceremony in Paris that night, attended by many inventors and scientific luminaries.

Charles Darwin announces Preston is the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for his beer bubble discovery. Einstein interrupts Preston's speech and questions if Preston knows what happens when an atom is split. When Darwin realizes that Preston has unknowingly built an atomic bomb, he orders Preston to stop. Preston scoffs at the warning and starts the keg, which starts shaking and building up pressure. Einstein attaches his guitar to the keg to drain it despite Marie's warning that this will kill him. Einstein plays a guitar riff, which causes the keg to lose power. Preston attempts to kill Einstein, but Marie knocks him unconscious. Einstein radiates pure energy, which causes a massive feedback, then an explosion.

As the smoke clears, Einstein unharmed. He and Marie kiss as the assembled crowd cheers. He returns to Tasmania with the keg and the Nobel Prize. He tells his family that he will give his formula to the world instead of keeping it for personal gain. Marie questions what will happen if governments use that formula to create atomic weapons. Einstein naively expresses his trust in the governments of the world, announces he has learned a new theory, and then plays a rock and roll song.

[wilfred]

The Plumber

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079727/

A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.

One of my favourite films.

Haven't seen that one. But the definitive Aussie film about plumbers would have to be "Kenny" staring Shane Jacobson. A charming film made on a fairly low budget. Not that many Aussie films manage large budgets.

You can gauge an Aussie films success at home by the quotes that enter the vernacular. Kenny has "it's got a smell that will outlast religon". Not quite up there with "That's not a knife..." but still useful.

[BradC]

The Castle
Crackerjack
Death in Brunswick (even though most of the stars are Kiwi)
The adventures of Barry McKenzie

[Circlotron]

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Barry_McKenzie

Barry 'Bazza' McKenzie (Barry Crocker) travels to England with his aunt Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) to advance his cultural education. Bazza is a young Aussie fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful 'sheilas'. He settles in Earls Court, where his old friend Curly (Paul Bertram) has a flat. He gets drunk, is ripped off, insulted by pretentious Englishmen and exploited by record producers, religious charlatans and a BBC television producer (Peter Cook). He reluctantly leaves England under the orders of his aunt, after exposing himself on television. His final words on the plane home are, "I was just starting to like the Poms!"

[BradC]

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie...

Snap

[SpecialK]

Muriel's Wedding

[Circlotron]

I am looking for Aussie culture/bush related films to watch.

Wake In Fright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_in_Fright
Rough as guts and not my kind of film at all, but might be what you are looking for.

[wilfred]

In no particular order these are some Aussie films I thought were pretty good.

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Gettin' Square  (David Wenham, Faramir from Lord of the Rings, has the funniest lines as a junkie)
Death in Brunswick.
Strictly Ballroom.
Animal Kingdom. (Jackie Weaver was nominated for an Oscar as best actress in a supporting role for this.
Gallipoli. Mel Gibson aka Mad Max stars.
Proof. Early Russell Crowe and Hugo Weaving (Matrix agent Smith, Elrond from Lord of the Rings)
The Dressmaker. Kate Winslet Liam Hemsworth
The Year My Voice Broke
Chopper (Eric "the Hulk" Bana is brilliant)
The Castle (couldn't leave this out, made by the same crew as "The Dish")
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Breaker Morant

And if you want gory schlok-horror then some of Brian Trenchard-Smith's smiths early stuff made when the government was throwing money (as tax credits) at the film industry trying to ride the back of Picnic at Hanging Rocks success. Turkey Shoot for example. Don't get me wrong it's crap.  or BMX Bandits starring Nicole Kidman in her first film role. Not gory but good for a laugh.

[eti]

Never laughed so much as I’m laughing now, watching “They're a weird mob”!

[Alex Eisenhut]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091464/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

[notsob]

Adding to the list

Malcolm
Rikki and Pete

both by Nadia Tass

[Ed.Kloonk]

Wolf Creek.

A truly lovely film for any would be tourist bound for our shores.

[EEVblog]

The Castle
The Dish
Kenny
Crackerjack
The Man from Snowy River
The Man Who Sued God
Chopper
And I'll throw in a curveball - Housos vs. Authority

[TERRA Operative]

Bad Boy Bubbie

Technically The Matrix as it was filmed in Sydney.

[Alex Eisenhut]

Oh hi guys, what's going on in this thread?

[RoGeorge]

Bran Nue Dae (2009)

[station240]

Storm Boy (1976)

[helius]

Wake In Fright.
Rough as guts and not my kind of film at all, but might be what you are looking for.

I loved that one.
Other "rough" ones:
Romper Stomper
Hounds of Love (this had some legal controversy if I recall correctly)

[Alex Eisenhut]

Oh yeah, Jenny Agutter was in this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkabout_(film)