Photo: Young Einstein 1988
Thousands of votes have been cast, and more than 300 Australian features – fiction and documentary – have been named as audience favourites in Adelaide Film Festival’s global poll for the top three Australian films of all time.
Have your favourite films made the list?
There’s only two weeks left to vote as voting closes Monday, 30 July, 2018.
Have your say in helping curate the program for the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival with special screenings of our top voted films featuring in the October event.
“It is exciting and frankly somewhat staggering to see the number and diversity of Australian films that audiences feel are the must see films of all time. They are drawn from all the decades since Australia produced the world’s first feature film in 1906 and represent more than 300 stories of our national identity, of the people and places that have shaped Australia’s view of itself. We have been overwhelmed by the response,” said Amanda Duthie, CEO and Artistic Director of the Adelaide Film Festival.
The #YOUMUSTSEE campaign calls on audiences to celebrate, honour and acknowledge their favourite Australian screen stories and supports the current #MakeitAustralian campaign which throws the light on building a sustainable national screen industry.
ADL Film Fest is already known as a champion of Australian screen works (feature films and documentaries, shorts, VR, moving image and more) and was the first Australian film festival to invest in film production through the groundbreaking ADL Film Fest FUND resulting in over 100 projects to date.
Become a champion too and vote for Australian screen stories #YOUMUSTSEE at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival. Have your say and vote today at www.adelaidefilmfestival.org
Aussie films on the list so far:
2:37 2006
33 Postcards 2011
52 Tuesdays 2013
A Month Of Sundays 2016
A Walkabout Through The Aboriginal Reserves Of Mornington Island, Aurukun, Weipa, Mapoon
Abba. The Movie 1977
Afraid To Dance 1987
After The Apology 2017
Ali’s Wedding 2017
All Men Are Liars 1994
Alvin Purple 1973
An Accidental Soldier 2013
An Angel At My Table 1990
Angel Baby 1995
Animal Kingdom 2010
Australia 2008
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011)
Babakiueria 1986
Babe 1995
Bad Boy Bubby 1993
Bad Eggs 2002
Beautiful Kate 2009
Bedevil 1992
Beneath Clouds 2002
Beneath Hill 60 2009
Better Than Sex 2000
Blackrock 1996
Blessed 2009
Bliss 1984
Bmx Bandits 1983
Boxing Day 2007
Boys In The Trees 2016
Bran Nue Dae 2009
Breaker Morant 1980
Breath 2017
Bright Star 2009
Broken Highway 1993
Candy 2006
Cane Toads – An Unnatural History 1988
Careful He Might Hear You 1983
Cargo 2017
Casting Jonbenet 2017
Cat Sick Blues 2015
Cathy’s Child 1979
Celia 1988
Centrespread 1981
Charlie’s Country 2013
Chasing Asylum 2016
Chopper 2000
Clay 1965
Cosi 1995
Country Life 1993
Crackerjack 2002
Crocodile Dundee 1986
Crocodile Dundee Ii 1988
Dance Me To My Song 1998
Dating The Enemy 1996
Dead Calm 1989
Dead Heart 1996
Death In Brunswick 1990
December Boys 2006
Dingo 1990
Dirty Deeds 2002
Dogs In Space 1986
Doing Time For Patsy Cline 1997
Don’s Party 1976
Dot And Keeto 1985
Dot And The Kangaroo Salute 100 Years Of Hollywood 1995
Down Under 1983
Down Under 2015
Evil Angels 1988
Far East 1981
Ferngully : The Last Rainforest 1991
Flirting 1991
Floating Life 1996
Forbidden Lie$ 2007
Frackman 2015
From Under The Rubble 2017
Gallipoli 1981
Garage Days 2002
Gettin’ Square 2003
Ghosts…Of The Civil Dead 1987
Going Down 1981
Goldstone 2016
Goodbye Paradise 1981
Grandad Rudd 1935
Grendel Grendel Gendel 1981
Gurrumul 2017
Happy Feet 2006
Hard Yakka 2017
Have You Seen The Listers? 2017
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand 2001
Head On 1998
Healing 2014
Hercules Returns 1993
Here I Am 2010
High Tide 1986
Highly Strung 2015
Holding The Man 2015
Home Of The Blizzard 1913
Hotel De Love 1996
Hounds Of Love 2017
Howling Iii : The Marsupials 1987
Idiot Box 1996
In Search Of Anna 1979
Japanese Story 2002
Jasper Jones 2017
Jedda 1954
Jindabyne 2006
Journey Beyond Fear 2018
Kenny 2006
Kokoda 2006
Lake Mungo 2007
Lantana 2000
Last Cab To Darwin 2015
Last Ride 2009
Last Train To Freo 2006
Lion 2016
Little Fish 2005
Lonely Hearts 1982
Long Weekend 1978
Look Both Ways 2005
Looking For Alibrandi 1999
Love And Other Catastrophes 1996
Love Serenade 1996
Lucky Miles 2007
Luigi’s Ladies 1989
Mabo : Life Of An Island Man 2017
Mad Bastards 2010
Mad Dog Morgan 1976
Mad Max : Fury Road 2012
Mad Max 1979
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985
Mad Max Ii 1981
Malcolm 1986
Man Of Flowers 1983
Manganinnie 1980
Mao’s Last Dancer 2009
The Marriage Of Figaro 2009
Mary And Max 2009
Mental 2012
Metal Skin 1994
Money Movers 1979
Monkey Grip 1982
Moulin Rouge! 2001
Mrs. Carey’s Concert 2011
Muriel’s Wedding 1994
My Brilliant Career 1979
My First Wife 1984
My Tehran For Sale 2009
My Year Without Sex 2009
Mystery Road 2013
Ned 2003
Ned Kelly 2003
Newsfront 1978
Next Door To The Velinskys 2011
Next Of Kin 1981
Noise 2006
Not Quite Hollywood 2008
Oddball 2015
On Our Selection 1932
On The Beach (2000 Version)
On The Beach 1959
On The Waves Of The Adriatic 1991
One Night The Moon 2001
Oscar And Lucinda 1997
Otherlife 2017
Paper Planes 2014
Paradise Road 1997
Phar Lap 1983
Picnic At Hanging Rock 1975
Predestination 2014
Proof 1990
Puberty Blues 1981
Pure Shit 1975
Rabbit 2017
Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002
Radiance 1997
Rats In The Ranks 1995
Razzle Dazzle 2006
Red Dog : True Blue 2016
Red Dog 2011
Return Home 1989
Road To Nhill 1996
Roadgames 1981
Romper Stomper 1991
Romulus, My Father 2007
Sacrifice Zone
Samson And Delilah 2009
Satellite Boy 2012
Secret Men’s Business 1999
Serenades 2001
Shame 1986
Sherpa 2015
Shine 1995
Shirley Thompson Versus The Aliens 1972
Siam Sunset 1999
Sirens 1993
Sky Pirates 1985
Smiley 1956
Snowtown 2011
Soft Fruit 1999
Somersault 2004
Sons Of Matthew 1949
South Solitary 2010
Speed Racer 2008
Spider And Rose 1994
Spirits Of The Air, Gremlins Of The Clouds 1989
Starstruck 1982
Stone 1973
Storm Boy 1976
Strictly Ballroom 1991
Struck By Lightning 1990
Summerfield 1977
Sunday Too Far Away 1975
Sunshine Sally 1922
Sweet Country 2017
Sweetie 1989
Take Away 2003
Ten Canoes 2006
The 13th House 2003
The 7th Hunt 2009
The Abc Of Love And Sex : Australia Style 1977
The Adorable Outcast 1927
The Adventures Of Algy 1925
The Adventures Of Barry Mckenzie 1972
The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert 1993
The Babadook 2014
The Back Of Beyond : [1954] 1954
The Bentley Effect 2016
The Bentley Effect 2018
The Big Steal 1990
The Black Balloon 2007
The Boy From Oz 1995
The Boys 1997
The Boys Are Back 2009
The Camel Boy 1983
The Cars That Ate Paris 1974
The Castanet Club 1990
The Castle 1997
The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith 1977
The Cheaters 1929
The Club 1980
The Daughter 2016
The Devil’s Playground 1976
The Dish 2000
The Dressmaker 2015
The Far Paradise 1928
The Fj Holden 1977
The Fourth Wish 1976
The Great Gatsby 2013
The Heartbreak Kid 1992
The Home Song Stories 2007
The Hunter 2011
The Illustrated Family Doctor 2005
The Infinite Man 2014
The Interview 1998
The Last Of The Knucklemen 1979
The Last Wave 1977
The Legend Of Ben Hall 2016
The Little Death 2014
The Loved Ones 2009
The Magician 2005
The Man From Hong Kong 1975
The Man From Snowy River 1982
The Man Who Sued God 2001
The Matrix 1999
The Matrix Reloaded 2003
The Miscreants Of Taliwood 2009
The Overlanders 1946
The Piano 1993
The Plumber 1978
The Proposition 2005
The Quiet Room 1997
The Rage In Placid Lake 2003
The Removalists 1975
The Rocket 2013
The Rover 2014
The Sapphires 2012
The Sentimental Bloke 1919
The Square 2008
The Sum Of Us 1994
The Sundowners 1960
The Survivor 1979
The Tracker 2002
The Well 1997
The Year My Voice Broke 1987
The Year Of Living Dangerously 1982
These Final Hours 2014
They’re A Weird Mob 1966
Three Dollars 2005
Thunderbolt 1910
Tim 1979
Tomorrow, When The War Began 2010
Toomelah 2011
Tracks 2014
Turkey Shoot 1982
Turnaround 1983
Two Hands 1998
Undead 2003
Under The Lighthouse Dancing 1997
Vacant Possession 1994
Van Diemen’s Land 2009
Waiting 1991
Wake In Fright 1971
Walkabout 1971
We Don’t Need A Map 2017
We Of The Never Never 1982
Weekend Of Shadows 1978
Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy 2017
Winter Of Our Dreams 1981
Wish You Were Here 2012
Wolf Creek 2 2014
Wolf Creek 2005
Wrong Side Of The Road [Restored] 1981
Wrong Side Of The Road 1981
Wyrmwood 2010
Yolngu Boy 2001
You And Your Stupid Mate 2004
Young Einstein 1988
Have your say and vote today at www.adelaidefilmfestival.org
Note: Votes can only be for Australian feature films and documentaries. Australian feature films dating back to 1906 are eligible. Only one vote per person. Voting is open nationwide. The Australian films #YOUMUSTSEE will be announced in August and screened at the Adelaide Film Festival in October. The list of films has been put together by the Adelaide Film Festival with the help of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).
#YOUMUSTSEE is an Adelaide Film Festival campaign with the support of Arts South Australia, Screen Australia, Screen Producers Australia, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, AFI/AACTA and GU Filmhouse.
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