Directed by Bruce Beresford • 1978 • Australia
Starring Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux
Directed with lean, mean efficiency by Bruce Beresford, this gritty crime thriller centers on an armored-car company that has become the target of repeated heists. As company leadership begins enforcing new measures in order to tighten security, they fail to realize that the biggest threat lies within their own ranks. Though it failed at the box office on its release, MONEY MAKERS has gone on to take its place as an Ozploitation cult classic thanks to its propulsive energy and slam-bang action.
Directed by Peter Weir • 1979 • Australia
A mysterious tradesman (Ivar Kants) shows up unbidden at the home of an academic couple (Judy Morris, Robert Colby) and proceeds over the next few days to disassemble their bathroom and related fixtures. The wife seems particularly disturbed by the man's...
Directed by George Miller • 1979 • Australia
Starring Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Filled with eye-popping stunts and charged with adrenaline, George Miller’s action classic MAD MAX proved wildly influential in its vision of a ruthless postapocalyptic future. Terrorizing innocent ...
Directed by Gillian Armstrong • 1979 • Australia
Starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill
For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin’s novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the co...
