List of Australian films of 1989
Introduction
1989 TitleDirectorCastGenreNotes ''Action Replay''  Sara Hourez  Shane Feeney-Connor, Rhondda Findleton, Anna Hruby, Stuart Robinson, Nell Schofield, George Spartels  Comedy Feature film   IMDb Afraid to Dance Denny Lawrence  Nique Needles, Rosey Jones, Grigor Taylor, Tina Bursill, Annie Byron, Tom Richards, Marina Finlay  Crime / Romance   IMDb ''Against the Innocent''  Daryl Dellora  Margaret Cameron, Nick Lathouris, Alex Menglet  Short film   IMDb ''The Audition''  Anna Campion  Edith Campion, Jane Campion Short film   IMDb ''Bangkok Hilton''  Ken Cameron  Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliott, Hugo Weaving, Joy Smithers, Norman Kaye, Jerome Ehlers  TV Mini Series   IMDb ''Becca''  Paul Turner  Beth Robert, Dafydd Hywel, Dafydd Emyr, Robin Griffith, Lynette Curran, Jeff Phillips, Gary Sweet, Sheila Florance, Chris Hallam, Jacinta Stapleton, Polly Croke  Drama ABC TV film  ''Bloodmoon''  Alex Mills  Leon Lissek, Christine Amor, Ian Williams, Helen Thomson, Raymond Turner, Hazel Howson, Craig Cronin, Suzie MacKenzie, Chris Uhlmann  Horror / Thriller Feature film   IMDb ''Blowing Hot and Cold''  Marc Gracie  Joe Dolce, Peter Adams, Kate Gorman, Bruce Kane, Mary Coustas, Denise Drysdale, Dennis Coard, John Raaen, Elspeth Ballantyne  Drama Feature film   IMDb ''Bonza''  David Swann  Peter Green, Maureen Edwards, Suzie Dee, Peter Rowsthorn  Short / Comedy film   IMDb The Boys in the Island Geoff Bennett  Yves Stening, Jane Stephens, James Fox, Steve Jacobs, Daniel Pollock, Ben Oxenbould  Adventure / Crime   IMDb Candy Regentag James Ricketson Patsy Stephen, Warwick Moss, Gary Aron Cook  Drama Feature film  IMDb aka Kiss The Night Cappuccino Antony J. Bowman John Clayton, Rowena Wallace, Jeanie Drynan, Barry Quin, Cristina Parker, Ritchie Singer, Simon Matthews, Ernie Dingo  Comedy Feature film  IMDb ''Chances''  Mike Smith  Diane Craig, Marcus Graham, Sandy Gore, Peter Phelps, John Sheerin, Mercia Deane-Johns, Anne Grigg, Mark Kounnas, Natalie McCurry, Leverne McDonnell, Warwick Moss, Christopher Stollery, Michael Caton, Kim Deacon, Caz Lederman, Patrick Ward, Patsy Stephen, Rob Steele, Margaret Umbers, Mouche Phillips  Drama TV film / TV Pilot  ''Closer and Closer Apart''  Steve Middleton  Steve Bastoni, George Harlem, Marie-Louise Walker, Kate Jason, Yvette Bentana, George Kapiniaris, Linda Hartley  Drama Feature film   ''The Corsican Brothers''    Animation IMDb ''Dangerfreaks''  Brian Trenchard-Smith  Nick Tate, Grant Page, Max Aspin Documentary  IMDb ''Dead Calm''  Phillip Noyce  Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar, Joshua Tilden, Michael Long, George Shevtsov  Drama / Thriller Feature film   IMDb ''The Delinquents''  Chris Thomson  Kylie Minogue, Charlie Schlatter, Bruno Lawrence, Todd Boyce, Angela Punch McGregor, Desiree Smith, Lynette Curran, Melissa Jaffer  Drama / Romance Feature film   IMDb ''Devil in the Flesh''  Scott Murray  Katia Caballero, Keith Smith, John Morris, Jill Forster, Odile Le Clezio, Colin Duckworth, Reine Lavoie, Peter Cummins   Drama Feature film   IMDb aka: "Beyond Innocence" ''Echoes of Paradise''  Phillip Noyce  Wendy Hughes, John Lone  Drama IMDb ''Elevation''  Stephen Cummins   Short   IMDb Fever  Craig Lahiff Bill Hunter, Gary Sweet, Mary Regan  Crime / Romance IMDb Glass Chris Kennedy  Alan Lovell, Lisa Peers, Adam Stone, Julie Herbert, Bernard Clisby, Richard Gilbert, Marilyn Thomas, Rowan Jackson, Lucinda Walker-Powell, Felicity Copeland, Natalie McCurry  Thriller Feature film  IMDb ''Houseboat Horror''  Kendal Flanagan  Alan Dale, Christine Jeston, Craig Alexander, Des McKenna, Gavin Wood, Louise Siversen, Peppie D'Or, Steven Whittacker, Julie Thompson, Mark Muggeridge, John Michael Howson  Horror Feature film  IMDb Island Paul Cox  Irene Papas, Eva Sitteová, Anoja Weerasinghe, Norman Kaye, Rousso Petrinolis, Francois Bernard, Michael Psaris, Rene Frangrodakis, Chris Haywood  Drama Feature film  IMDb ''Its a Business Doing Pleasure''  Sharon Connelly   Documentary   IMDb ''Joe Leahy's Neighbours''  Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly   Documentary IMDb Kokoda Crescent Ted Robinson Warren Mitchell, Ruth Cracknell, Bill Kerr, Madge Ryan, Martin Vaughan, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Steven Jacobs, Lisa Rhodes, John Orcsik, Slim de Grey, Patrick Thompson  Drama / War Feature film  IMDb Luigi's Ladies  Judy Morris  Wendy Hughes, Sandy Gore, Anne Tenney, David Rappaport, John Walton, Serge Lazareff, Ray Meagher, Max Cullen, Joe Spano, Maggie Dence, Genevieve Lemon, Robert Mammone  Comedy Feature film  IMDb ''Malpractice''  Bill Bennett  Caz Lederman, Bob Baines, Ian Gilmour, Pat Thomson, Charles Little, Janet Stanley, Dorothy Alison  Docu-drama TV film  IMDb, Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival ''Minnamurra''  Ian Barry  Jeff Fahey, Tushka Bergen  Drama  IMDb aka: "Wrangler", "Outback" or "The Fighting Creed" ''Mortgage''  Bill Bennett  Brian Vriends, Doris Younane, Bruce Venables, Andrew S. Gilbert, Paul Coolahan, Ken Radley, Elizabeth Maywald, Ben Oxenbould, Bob Ellis  Docu-drama TV film  ''Mull''  Don McLennan  Nadine Garner, Bill Hunter, Sue Jones, Craig Morrison, Bradley Kilpatrick, Kymara Stowers, June Roxas, Dominic Sweeney, Nick Giannopoulos, Mary Coustas  Drama Feature film  IMDb Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy  Tracey Moffatt  Marcia Langton, Agnes Hardwick, Jimmy Little  Short IMDb ''Night Out'' Lawrence Johnston  Colin Batrouney, David Bonney  Drama  IMDb, Screened at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival ''Nullarbor Dreaming''   Nick Tate, Ernie Dingo, Ron Allum  Documentary  IMDb Out of the Body  Brian Trenchard-Smith  Mark Hembrow, Tessa Humphries, Shane Briant, Linda Newton, Margi Gerard, Tim Campbell, John Clayton, Helen O'Connor, Mary Regan, Carrie Zivetz, John Ley  Horror / Thriller Feature film  IMDb ''Phone Sex Girls: Australia''  John T. Bone  Deidre Holland, Kelly Blue, Alice Springs  Adult IMDb ''The Prisoner of St. Petersburg'' Ian Pringle  Noah Taylor, Solveig Dommartin, Rene Schonenberger, Dennis Staunton, Olivier Picot, Katja Teichmann   Drama Feature film  IMDb, Screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival ''The Punisher''  Mark Goldblatt  Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Miyori, Bryan Marshall, Nancy Everhard, Barry Otto, Brian Rooney, Zoshka Mizak, Kenji Yamaki, Brooke 'Mikey' Anderson, Todd Boyce   Action / Crime / Thriller Feature film   IMDb ''Return Home''  Ray Argall  Frankie J Holden, Dennis Coard, Mickie Camilleri, Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Rains, Gypsy Lockwood, Ryan Rawlings, Alan Fletcher  Drama Feature film   ''Rescue''  Peter Fisk  Gary Sweet, Sonia Todd, Kerry Armstrong, Tim McKenzie, Doug Scroope, John Clayton, Marshall Napier  Action / Drama ABC TV film  ABC TV film / ABC TV Pilot ''Salute of the Jugger''  David Webb Peoples  Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D’Onofrio, Max Fairchild Action / Sci-Fi  IMDb aka: "The Blood of Heroes" ''Sex Rules''  Pip Karmel  Kirsty McGregor, Angelica Klages, Brendan Duhigg Short IMDb The Siege of Firebase Gloria  Brian Trenchard-Smith  Wings Hauser, R. Lee Ermey, Robert Arevalo, Mark Neely, Albert Popwell, Gary Hershberger, Clyde R Jones, Margi Gerard, Richard Kuhlman, John Calvin  Action / War Feature film  IMDb Sons of Steel Gary L. Keady  Rob Hartley, Roz Wason, Jeff Duff, Dasha Bláhová, Mark Hembrow, Elizabeth Richmond, Ralph Cotterill, Wayne Snell   Comedy / Musical Feature film   IMDb ''The Space Between the Door and the Floor''  Pauline Chan  John Allen  Short film  IMDb Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds Alex Proyas  Michael Lake, Melissa Davis, Norman Boyd  Adventure / Sci-Fi Feature film  IMDb A Sting in the Tale  Eugene Schlusser  Diane Craig, Gary Day, Don Barker, John Noble, Lynne Williams, Tony Mack, Bob Newman, Patrick Edgeworth, Lyn Semmler, Edwin Hodgeman  Comedy Feature film  IMDb SweetieJane Campion  Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Jon Darling, Dorothy Barry, Michael Lake, Andre Pataczek, Jean Hadgraft, Paul Livingston  Drama Feature film   IMDb, Entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival ''Teenage Babylon''  Graeme Wood  Juliette Armstrong, Caryn Clark, Brigette Gale  Short film  IMDb Tender Hooks Mary Callaghan Jo Kennedy, Nique Needles, Anna Phillips, Robert Menzies, Ian Mortimer, Toni Scanlan, Gary Aron Cook, Simon Westaway, Kim Deacon, John Polson  Drama Feature film  IMDb ''Tripe''  Greg Woodland Steven Houston, Sally McKenzie, John Meillon  Short film  IMDb ''What the Moon Saw''  Pino Amenta  Andrew Sheperd, Pat Evison, Mark Hennessy, Max Phipps, Danielle Spencer, Kim Gyngell, Jan Friedl, Kurt Ludescher, Adrian Wright, Ross Thompson, Gary Sweet  Adventure / Family Feature film
See also * 1989 in Australia* 1989 in Australian television
References
External links *  Australian film at the Internet Movie Database