# Australian New Wave — Weir, Miller, Armstrong, Campion

> The Australian film revival of the 1970s and 1980s produced some of the most visually distinctive cinema of the era. Peter Weir made Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave before Hollywood called. George Miller went from a $400K budget on Mad Max to reinventing action cinema. Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, Fred Schepisi. Jane Campion crossed from New Zealand into the same orbit. Later: Baz Luhrmann, David Michôd, Jennifer Kent, Justin Kurzel. The landscape itself is a character — heat, emptiness, red dirt, wrong turns. Australian-produced films scored 6.5 or above.

Source: <https://nextmovie4u.com/canon/australian-new-wave/>

## 30 films in this list

- **[Dominion](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/dominion-2018/)** (2018) — ★ 8.5 · 89 votes · atmospheric
- **[Hacksaw Ridge](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/hacksaw-ridge-2016/)** (2016) — ★ 8.2 · 14,793 votes · devastating, slow-burn
- **[Memoir of a Snail](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/memoir-of-a-snail-2024/)** (2024) — ★ 8.0 · 766 votes · devastating, cozy
- **[Mary and Max](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/mary-and-max-2009/)** (2009) — ★ 7.9 · 2,239 votes · cozy, cult, devastating
- **[Holding the Man](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/holding-the-man-2015/)** (2015) — ★ 7.7 · 459 votes · devastating
- **[Waltz with Bashir](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/waltz-with-bashir-2008/)** (2008) — ★ 7.7 · 1,044 votes · fever-dream, foreign-gem, devastating
- **[Mad Max: Fury Road](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/mad-max-fury-road-2015/)** (2015) — ★ 7.6 · 24,008 votes · neon-soaked, mindfuck
- **[Better Man](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/better-man-2024/)** (2024) — ★ 7.6 · 831 votes · slow-burn, devastating
- **[Threads](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/threads-1985/)** (1985) — ★ 7.6 · 401 votes · autumnal, devastating, cult
- **[Hotel Mumbai](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/hotel-mumbai-2019/)** (2019) — ★ 7.5 · 1,738 votes · devastating, dread
- **[Moulin Rouge!](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/moulin-rouge-2001/)** (2001) — ★ 7.5 · 4,829 votes · devastating, cult, cozy
- **[Control](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/control-2007/)** (2007) — ★ 7.5 · 931 votes · cult, devastating
- **[Upgrade](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/upgrade-2018/)** (2018) — ★ 7.5 · 4,976 votes · neon-soaked, dread, mindfuck
- **[Elvis](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/elvis-2022/)** (2022) — ★ 7.5 · 3,864 votes · slow-burn, devastating
- **[The Lego Movie](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-lego-movie-2014/)** (2014) — ★ 7.4 · 8,429 votes · cozy, autumnal, atmospheric
- **[Predestination](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/predestination-2014/)** (2014) — ★ 7.4 · 7,054 votes · neon-soaked, dread, mindfuck
- **[Harvie Krumpet](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/harvie-krumpet-2003/)** (2003) — ★ 7.4 · 197 votes · cozy, cult, devastating
- **[Mad Max 2](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/mad-max-2-1981/)** (1981) — ★ 7.4 · 4,153 votes · cult, neon-soaked, dread
- **[The Piano](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-piano-1993/)** (1993) — ★ 7.4 · 1,643 votes · dread, weird, cult
- **[Shine](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/shine-1996/)** (1996) — ★ 7.4 · 708 votes · cult, devastating
- **[The Great Gatsby](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-great-gatsby-2013/)** (2013) — ★ 7.4 · 12,924 votes · slow-burn, devastating, cozy
- **[Saving Mr. Banks](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/saving-mr-banks-2013/)** (2013) — ★ 7.3 · 3,486 votes · devastating
- **[Dark City](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/dark-city-1998/)** (1998) — ★ 7.3 · 3,176 votes · dread, neon-soaked, cult
- **[Red Dog](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/red-dog-2011/)** (2011) — ★ 7.3 · 426 votes · devastating, cozy
- **[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-adventures-of-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-1994/)** (1994) — ★ 7.3 · 913 votes · weird, cozy, cult
- **[Wake in Fright](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/wake-in-fright-1971/)** (1971) — ★ 7.3 · 333 votes · cult, devastating, dread
- **[War Machine](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/war-machine-2026/)** (2026) — ★ 7.3 · 1,625 votes · dread, mindfuck
- **[The Lego Batman Movie](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/the-lego-batman-movie-2017/)** (2017) — ★ 7.2 · 5,383 votes · cozy, late-night
- **[Ride Like a Girl](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/ride-like-a-girl-2019/)** (2019) — ★ 7.2 · 164 votes · devastating
- **[Picnic at Hanging Rock](https://nextmovie4u.com/movie/picnic-at-hanging-rock-1975/)** (1975) — ★ 7.2 · 881 votes · atmospheric, slow-burn, cult

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