Hot Rod Movies - Australian
The Big Steal (1990)
To impress a girl a shy teenaged boy buys a used Jaguar.
Blood Money (1980)
Chris Fitchett, crime film; but at least one scene features cars
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.
Dead-End Drive In (1986)
Brian Trenchard-Smith
FJ HOLDEN (1977)
An uncompromising Australian film set in the 70s. Drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks and Renee Geyer and the screen debut of future star Sigrid Thornton
Running time 100 mins
Freedom (1982)
From the award-winning director of Shine, Scott Hicks, comes this seminal Australian road movie tracing one man's search for speed... and freedom.
Goddess Of 1967, The (2000)
Clara Law
MAD MAX (1979)
When the gangs take over the highways...Remember he's on your side. Classic Australian high octane original starring Mel Gibson.
Running time 89 mins.
George Miller
MAD MAX 2 (1981)
The heroic loner who drives the roads of outback Australia in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defenders of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by The Humungus, notorious for never taking prisoners when they can pulverize them instead. When the battle is joined, the results are savage.
Running time 93 mins.
George Miller
Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The heroic loner who drives the roads of outback Australia in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defenders of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by The Humungus, notorious for never taking prisoners when they can pulverize them instead. When the battle is joined, the results are savage.
Running time 93 mins.
George Miller & George Ogilvie
Metal Skin (1995)
Psycho Joe, a petrol-head from Altona, Melbourne, secures employment at a local Supermarket. Here, he meets the over-sexed Dazey. Joe and Dazey form a friendship based on a mutual interest in old hot cars. Joe also forms a relationship with a Satanic fellow employee. The nihilism of these young characters, coupled with parental disputes, leads to various tragedies.
MIDNITE SPARES (1983)
Action starts when Steve hits the city determined to make it big on the major speedway circuits. He is also looking for his father an old-time speedway driver with whom he has lost contact. He finds his father has disappeared after a run in with a major midnite spares racket, a gang who steal cars in the middle of the night to strip and resell them.
Running time 87 mins.
Running from the Guns (1987)
John Dixon
RUNNING ON EMPTY (1982)
Another Australian Classic... The world of illegal street racing in the 80's. If the central character Fox doesnt accept his latest challenge he could lose his girl, if he does accept, he could lose his life.
Running time 88 mins
ROADGAMES (1981)
Set in the Australian Outback on the lonliest highway on the planet, a free spirited hitch hiker and a lone trucker take on a modern day jack the ripper.
Stars Stacey Keech and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Running time 101 mins.
Shame (1988)
The film Shame, directed by Steve Jodrell is an influential and compelling film about the horror and acceptance of gang rape within a small community. The film begins with the arrival of Asta Cadell (Deborah Lee Furness) a tough, leather clad, witty female lawyer who is forced to stopover in the small country town of Ginaborak whilst waiting for her motorbike parts to arrive.
Running time 97 mins.
STONE SPECIAL EDITION (1974)
Ride with Stone, the undercover cop who joins the Gravediggers MC. The best biker movie ever produced, plus Stone Forever, the 25th anniversary bike run with 30000 bikes, John Laws documentary and movie trailer.
Running time 98 mins.