A guide to what’s on the Ozflicks website This is a guide to the 50 pages on the Ozflicks website, which have been added over the last seven years. They fall under the following categories: Australian films by Decade These pages fall into three types: Comprehensive lists of all Australians films in each decade from…
Australian films of the 1970s
40s films –50s films – 60s films – 80s films – 90s films – 2000s films – 2010 FILMS In the decade of the 1960s, only eight locally produced Australian films were released, and none were very successful. By contrast, the decade of the 1970s saw nearly 150 Australian-produced films released, and many of them were…
Ozflicks Guide to the Top 50 Australian Films
These are my top 50 Oz film recommendations (based on the 600 I have seen). I like drama and comedy (rather than, say, action, thriller or horror), and if you do too, you may enjoy some of these films. All these films are rated from 4-5 stars (out of five). Notes: The films are in…
Twelve Days of Australian Christmas Films
Until the last few years, Australian Christmas films were as rare as hen’s teeth, but there seems to have been an almost biblical flood of ACFs (Aussie Chrissie Flicks) released in the last few years (is it climate change?). So now there are enough to make a list of the best. Most are comedies, some…
The Best and Worst Australian Films – The Critics View (an update)
This is an update my 2020 page on critics’ ratings of Australian films, and it’s very long, based as it is on over 8,000 ratings of over 1,400 Oz films. But, as promised in my title, I’ll cut to the chase and give you the top results of my survey, before pointing out what this…
25 Australian Film Recommendations – Part 7 (301-325)
Welcome to the seventh in my series of Australian (Oz) film recommendations. (For my previous 300 recommendations, see here.) I recently watched my 650th Australian film (!) (see List) and have some good new Aussie films to recommend, as well as some older ones I have caught up on or have been saving up. The films are…
50 New Australian Film Actors of the 2000s
Welcome back, after an extended hiatus, to my series on the film careers of certain Australian actresses and actors. This page looks at 50 of the best Australian actors who made their first feature film in the 2000s*. (It only looks at male actors, since we previously looked at the best new Australian film actresses…
The Top 15 Australian ‘Recent Memory’ Drama Films
‘Looking back on the 60s & 70s’ ‘Recent Memory Drama’ is a strange sub-genre, which I have had to create to cover a number of films which fell down the cracks between period drama and contemporary drama. These films were set too close to the present to fit into my (obviously random) cut-off date of…
The Top 60 Australian Contemporary Drama Films of the 2000s – Ranked
This is the fourth in my series about the best Australian drama films (see here). As I explained earlier, the term ‘contemporary drama films’ is used to distinguish these films from ‘period drama films’. My definition of contemporary drama films is based largely on what they are not: they are NOT period drama films, NOR…
The Top 32 Australian Contemporary Drama Films of the 1990s – Ranked
This is the third in my series about the best Australian drama films (after The Top 40 Australian Period Films – ranked and The Top 22 Australian Contemporary Drama Films of the 1970s & 1980s). As I explained last time, “contemporary drama films” is not a commonly used genre, but I am using it to…
50 Australian Film Recommendations – Part 6 (251-300)
Welcome to the sixth in my series of Australian (Oz) film recommendations. (For my previous 250 recommendations, see here, here, here, here and here.) I recently watched my 600th Australian film (!) (see List) and have some good new Aussie films to recommend, as well as some older ones I have caught up on or have been saving up. The…
The Top 22 Australian Contemporary Drama Films of the 1970s & 1980s – Ranked
“Contemporary drama films” is not a commonly used genre, but I am using it to distinguish these films from ‘period dramas’ (which I covered earlier). My definition is based largely on what contemporary drama films are not: they are NOT period drama films, NOR are they comedies, action films, crime-dramas or horror films. They are…
The Top 40 Australian Period Films – ranked
Period films – films set in a particular period of the past – have been around since the advent of cinema, as film-makers set their films in earlier eras to look at either actual historical events, or the exotic ways of life (of dress, of technology, of speaking, of thinking and of relating) that prevailed…
The Top 100 Australian Comedy Films (Ranked)
Comedy is one of the most popular film genres, and this page looks at the 100 Aussie comedies that I have picked as our best, and ranked from #1 down to #100. About 20% of all Australian films have been comedies of one sort or another, meaning that over 500 Aussie comedies have rolled off…
The Top 15 Australian Crime-Comedy Films – Ranked 15 to 1
Crime is bad, violent, scary, and dangerous, and people often get injured or killed during crimes. So can a film about crime also be funny? A crime film can be funny if one or more of the following conditions apply: Some of the films below are centred on criminals (smart ones, stupid ones, nasty ones,…
The Top 30 Australian Romantic Comedies – Ranked
So it’s Valentine’s Day and time for a rom-com, both here ‘Down Under’, and there ‘Up Over’. The romantic-comedy, or rom-com, is one of the world’s most popular film genres, but has Australia made any good rom-coms? We know Australia makes lots of comedies, but most people would be hard-pressed to think of many Aussie…
Australian Period Films of the 2000s
Welcome to the third part of our series on Australian period films. Previously I looked at Oz period films (and period TV series) from the 1970s and 1980s, when period films were very much in vogue. The production of period films slowed the end by the 1980s, either because Australians were tired of these depictions…
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