List of Australian films of 1988
Introduction
1988 TitleDirectorCastGenreNotes ''Afraid to Dance''  Denny Lawrence  Nique Needles, Rosey Jones, Grigor Taylor, Tina Bursill, Annie Byron, Mervyn Drake, Tom Richards, Steve J. Spears, Bill Young, Allan Penney  Drama Feature film   ''Alterations''  Julian Pringle  Richard Moir, Angela Punch McGregor, Linden Wilkinson, Steven Jacobs, Gillian Jones, Alan David Lee, Karen Linley, Michelle Linley, Tim Drummond, Paul Bertram, Kim Krejus  Drama ABC TV film  ''An Ordinary Woman''  Sue Brooks Denise Scott, Bruce Atkins Short film  IMDb ''As Time Goes By'' Barry Peak  Bruno Lawrence, Nique Needles, Ray Barrett, Marcelle Schmitz, Mitchell Faircloth, Max Gillies, Deborah Force, Christine Keogh, Don Bridges, Ian Shrives, Jane Clifton, Mitch Harrison, Fred Peter, John Barrett, Rex Greeney, Additional Voices: Matthew King  Comedy / Sci-fi Feature film   IMDb ''Backstage''  Jonathan Hardy  Laura Branigan, Michael Aitkens, Noel Ferrier  Drama   IMDb ''Barracuda''  Pino Amenta  Andrew McFarlane, Dennis Miller, Kim Krejus, Shane Briant, Graham Rouse, Cassandra Delaney, Roger Ward, John O'Brien, David Lynch, Angela Kennedy, John Bonney, Patrick Ward, Pat Bishop, Colleen Clifford, Robert Taylor, Joe Bugner  Drama / Thriller TV film ''Belinda'' Pamela Gibbons Deanna Jeffs, Mary Regan, Kaarin Fairfax  Drama IMDb aka: "Midnight Dancer" in the US ''Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces''  Gillian Armstrong  Gillian Armstrong, Kerry Carlson, Diana Doman Documentary   IMDb ''Black Tulip''  Franco Cristofani  Brian Anderson, Phillip Hinton, Paul Johnstone, Juliet Jordan, Keith Scott, Shane Withington  Animation / Adventure   IMDb ''The Boardroom''  Brian Phillis  Vincent Ball, Tony Wager, Colin McEwan, Leslie Wright, Ian Toyne, Shaunna O'Grady, Leith Taylor, Rick Hearder, Kathryn Rowe, Matthew Quartermaine  Comedy TV film  ''Body Works''  David Caesar  Margot Nash Documentary  IMDb aka: "Bodywork" and "Body Work" ''Boulevard of Broken Dreams'' Pino Amenta John Waters, Penelope Stewart, Nicki Paull, Kim Gyngell, Kevin Miles, Ross Thompson, Andrew McFarlane  Drama Feature film  IMDb ''Boundaries of the Heart'' Lex Marinos  Wendy Hughes, John Hargreaves, Norman Kaye, Julie Nihill, Max Cullen, Michael Siberry, John Moore, John Clayton  Drama Feature film  IMDb ''Breaking Loose'' Rod Hay  Peter Phelps, Vince Martin, Abigail, Shane Connor, David Ngoobumjarra, John Clayton, Sandra Lee Paterson, Angela Kennedy, Tom Richards, Gary Waddell  Action / Drama Feature film  IMDb aka: "Summer City II" ''Cane Toads: An Unnatural History''  Mark Lewis  Tip Byrne, H. W. Kerr, Glen Ingram Documentary   IMDb ''Cannibal Tours''  Dennis O'Rourke   Documentary   IMDb ''Celia''  Ann Turner  Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey, William Zappa, Deborra-Lee Furness, Amelia Frid  Drama / Fantasy / Thriller Feature film   IMDb ''Cherith''  Shirley Barrett  Louise Cullen, Zoe Williams, Maggie Dence  Short film  IMDb ''The Clean Machine''  Ken Cameron  Steve Bisley, Peter Kowitz, Grigor Taylor, Sandy Gore, Tim Robertson, Regina Gaigalas, Ed Devereaux, Mervyn Drake, Frank Whitten, Robert Taylor, Marshall Napier  Drama / Thriller TV film   ''Compo'' Nigel Buesst Jeremy Stanford, Bruce Kerr, Christopher Barry, Cliff Neate, Rowan Woods, Peter Hosking, Leo Regan, Darryl Emmerson, Elizabeth Crockett  Comedy Feature film  IMDb ''Crocodile Dundee II''  John Cornell  Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Ernie Dingo, John Meillon, Hector Ubarry, Juan Fernandez, Charles Dutton, Steve Rackman, Gus Mercurio  Action / Adventure / Comedy Feature film   IMDb ''Custody''  Ian Munro  Judith Stratford, Peter Browne, Michael Cudlin, Sheridan Murphy, Susan Leith, Mary Acres, Stuart Fowler, June Musgrave, Lillian Thompson-Austen, Eric Baker  Drama TV film  ''Dadah Is Death''  Jerry London  Julie Christie, Hugo Weaving, John Polson, Victor Banerjee, Sarah Jessica Parker  Drama   IMDb aka: "A Long Way From Home" ''Daisy and Simon'' Stasch Radwanski Jr.  Jan Adele, Sean Scully, Colin McEwan, Shauna O'Grady, Tony Wager, Leith Taylor  Drama Feature film  IMDb ''Day of the Panther'' Brian Trenchard-Smith  Edward John Stazak, John Stanton, James Richards, Rowena Wallace  Action IMDb ''The Dreaming'' Mario Andreacchio  Arthur Dignam, Penny Cook, Gary Sweet, Kristina Nehm, Patrick Frost, John Noble, Leo Taylor, Peter Merril, Deborah Little, Marcella Russo, Kathy Fisher, Laurence Clifford  Horror / Mystery / Thriller Feature film  IMDb ''E'ellermani: The Story of Leo and Leva''  Lorraine Mafi-Williams  Documentary IMDb ''Emerald City''  Michael Jenkins  John Hargreaves, Robyn Nevin, Chris Haywood, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Cracknell, Nicholas Hammond, Michelle Torres, Dennis Miller  Comedy / Drama Feature film   IMDb ''The Everlasting Secret Family''  Michael Thornhill  Arthur Dignam, Mark Lee, Heather Mitchell, Dennis Miller, Paul Goddard, John Meillon, Allan Penney, Beth Child, Anna Volska, John Clayton  Drama / Romance Feature film  IMDb ''Evil Angels'' Fred Schepisi  Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Bruce Myles, Charles Tingwell, Dorothy Alison, Brian James, Dennis Miller, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Maurie Fields, Sandy Gore, Alan Hopgood, Debra Lawrance, Deborra-Lee Furness, Kevin Miles  Biography / Drama Feature film   IMDb, Streep won Best Actress at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival aka: "A Cry in the Dark" ''Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer''  John Duigan  Nicholas Eadie, Anne Tenney, Huw Williams, Steve Jodrell, Jeff Truman, Liz Stuart, Melanie Salomon, Maureen O'Shaughnessy, Mary Regan, Anna Hruby, Robert Taylor, Leone Carmen  Biography / Drama / Romance TV film  ''Georgia''  Ben Lewin  Judy Davis, John Bach, Julia Blake, Marshall Napier, Alex Menglet, Lewis Fiander, Roy Baldwin, Colin Hay  Mystery / Thriller Feature film  IMDb ''Ghosts… of the Civil Dead''  John Hillcoat  David Field, Chris DeRose, Nick Cave, Mike Bishop, Chris de  Rose, Vincent Gil, Bogdan Koca, Kevin Mackey, Ian Mortimer, John Flaus  Drama / Horror Feature film   IMDb ''Grievous Bodily Harm''  Mark Joffe  Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Joy Bell, Chris Stalker, Kim Gyngell, Shane Briant, Caz Lederman, Sandy Gore, John Flaus, Gary Waddell, Kerry Armstrong  Crime / Thriller Feature film   IMDb ''Hell's Half Hectare''  Scott Patterson  Johnny Barker, Alan Flower, Richard Kuipers  Short film  IMDb ''In the Aftermath''  Carl Colpaert Tony Markes, Rainbow Dolan, Kenneth McCabe Animation / Drama IMDb ''Incident at Raven's Gate''  Rolf de Heer  Steven Vidler, Celine Griffin, Max Cullen, Terry Camilleri, Ritchie Singer, Vincent Gil, Saturday Rosenberg  Sci-Fi / Thriller Feature film  IMDb aka" "Encounter at Raven's Gate"''Kadaicha'' James Bogle  Zoe Carides, Tom Jennings, Eric Oldfield, Natalie McCurry, Fiona Gauntlett, Deborah Kennedy, Kerry McKay, Bruce Hughes, Sara Dakin, Nicholas Ryan, Sean Scully  Horror / Thriller Feature film  IMDb aka: "Stones of Death" aka Stones Of Death ''Lover Boy'' Geoffrey Wright Noah Taylor, Gillian Jones, Ben Mendelsohn  Drama / Romance Short Feature film  IMDb ''The Man from Snowy River II''  Geoff Burrowes  Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Bryan Marshall, Mark Hembrow, Peter Cummins, Rhys McConnochie, Wyn Roberts, Peter Browne, Cornelia Frances, Alan Hopgood, Tony Barry  Adventure / Drama / Western Feature film   IMDb aka: ''Return to Snowy River'' (US)and ''The Untamed'' (UK) ''Minnamurra''  Ian Barry  Jeff Fahey, Tushka Bergen, Steven Vidler, Richard Moir, Shane Briant, Drew Forsythe, Fred Parslow, Cornelia Frances, Michael Winchester, Owen Weingott, Sandy Gore  Drama Feature film  aka Outback (US) / The Fighting Creed ''Moodeitj Yorgas''  Tracey Moffatt  Documentary / Short IMDb ''The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey''  Vincent Ward  Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish Gough, Marshall Napier, Paul Livingston  Fantasy   IMDb ''Night's High Noon: An Anti-Terrain''  Peter Callas  Short IMDb ''Pandemonium'' Haydn Keenan David Argue, Amanda Dole, Esben Storm  Comedy / Horror IMDb ''Pleasure Domes''  Maggie Fooke  Short IMDb ''Point of Departure''  Kathryn Millard Patrick Frost, Sue Ingleton, Tim Maddocks Documentary / Short IMDb ''Prisoner of Zenda''  Christine Amor, Robert Coleby, Claire Crowther  Animation  IMDb Based on book of same title ''The Pursuit of Happiness'' Martha Ansara  Laura Black, Peter Hardy, Anna Gare  Drama Feature film  IMDb ''Raw Silk''  Greg Dee  David Argue, Nicki Paull, Frank Gallacher, Frankie J. Holden, Colin Hay, Robert Morgan, Ariane Hubay, John Heywood, Suzy Cato  Comedy / Drama TV film / TV Pilot  ''The Riddle of the Stinson''  Chris Noonan  Jack Thompson, Helen O'Connor, Norman Kaye, Richard Roxburgh, Mark Lee, Susan Lyons, Huw Williams, Esben Storm, Len Kaserman, Frank Wilson, Dennis Miller  Biography / Drama TV film   ''Rikky and Pete''  Nadia Tass  Stephen Kearney, Nina Landis, Tetchie Agbayani, Bill Hunter, Dorothy Alison, Bruno Lawrence, Bruce Spence, Glenn Robbins, Alan Hopgood, Lewis Fitz-Gerald  Adventure / Comedy / Drama Feature film   IMDb ''Salt, Saliva, Sperm and Sweat''  Philip Brophy Phil Dean, Jean Kittson, Lyndal Barry Short IMDb ''Sebastian and the Sparrow''  Scott Hicks  Alexander Bainbridge, Jeremy Angerson, Robert Coleby, Elizabeth Alexander, Vincent Gil, Alice Ramsay, John Clayton  Adventure / Family Feature film  IMDb ''Shame''  Steve Jodrell  Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Simone Buchanan, Gillian Jones, Peter Aanensen, Margaret Ford, David Franklin, Bill McClusky, Alison Taylor, Phil Dean, Stig Wemyss,   Drama / Thriller Feature film  IMDb ''Shut-In''  Cam Eason Robert Chuter, Deborah Force, Effie James  Short film  IMDb ''Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em'' Ray Boseley  Rob Howard, Nique Needles, Polly Croke,      Comedy Feature film   IMDb ''Spook''  David Anthony Hall Tim Elston, Joanne Samuel, Daniel Hill, Amanda Hill, Roger Carroll, Patricia Perry, Peter Kowitz, Ray Wiseman, Donald Walters, Tom Richards  Drama / Thriller Feature film  IMDb ''Takeover''  Robert Marchant  Barry Otto, Anne Tenney, Paul Chubb, Wayne Cull, Alexander Kemp, Julie du Rieu, Sean Scully, Justin Gaffney, Bruce Kerr  Comedy TV film  ''To Make a Killing'' Karl Zwicky Tamblyn Lord, Craig Pearce, Tiffiny Dowe Drama   IMDb aka: "Vicious!" and "Wild Boys" ''Tudawali''  Steve Jodrell  Ernie Dingo, Frank Wilson, Jedda Cole, Peter Fisher, Charles Tingwell, Syd Plummer, Bill McCluskey  Biography / Drama TV film ''Strike of the Panther'' Brian Trenchard-Smith Edward John Stazak, John Stanton, Rowena Wallace, Jim Richards, Zale Daniel, Paris Jefferson  Action / Drama TV film  IMDb ''The Tale of Ruby Rose'' Roger Scholes  Melita Jurisic, Chris Haywood, Rod Zuanic, Martyn Sanderson, Sheila Florance, Sheila Kennelly, John McKelvey, Wilkie Collins, Nell Dobson, Terry Garcia  Drama / Horror / Thriller Feature film   IMDb ''The 13th Floor'' Chris Roache Lisa Hensley, Miranda Otto, Tim McKenzie, Jeff Truman, Vic Rooney, Tony Blackett, Georgie Parker, Paul Hunt, Kylie Clare, Allen Leong, Michael Caton  Horror / Thriller Feature film  IMDb ''Two Brothers Running''  Ted Robinson  Tom Conti, Elizabeth Alexander, Ritchie Singer, Asher Keddie, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Gregg, Martin Lewis, Rachel Levita, Mark Zandle, Dorothy Alison  Comedy Feature film  IMDb ''Under the Gun'' James Sbardellati Sam J. Jones, Vanessa Williams, John Russell Action   IMDb ''Vicious''  Karl Zwicky  Tamblyn Lord, Craig Pearce, Tiffany Dowe, Ralph Cotterill, Kelly Dingwall, Joanna Lockwood, John Godden, Gerard Maguire, Frank McNamara, John Clayton  Horror / Thriller Feature film  aka To Make A Killing ''Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train''  Bob Ellis  Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye, John Clayton, Rod Zuanic, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Peter Whitford, Chris Haywood, Steven J. Spears, Grant Tilly, Peter Carmody, John Flaus  Drama / Romance Feature film   IMDb ''Whiteforce'' Eddie Romero  Sam J. Jones, Kimberley Pistone, Tim Hughes, Raoul Aragonn, Jimmy Fabregas, Vic Diaz, Rubin Rustia, Ken Metcalfe, Mike Monty, Tsing Tong Tsai  Action / Drama Feature film   IMDb ''Young Einstein''  Yahoo Serious  Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard, Lulu Pinkus, Pee Wee Wilson, Su Cruickshank, Esben Storm, Roger Ward, David Ngoombujarra, Georgie Parker  Comedy Feature film   IMDb
See also * 1988 in Australia* 1988 in Australian television
External links *  Australian film at the Internet Movie Database
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