Best Australian Romantic Comedies
Best Australian Romantic Comedy Films (see also https://ozflicks.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/the-top-30-australian-romantic-comedies-ranked-30-to-1/ )
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- DirectorP.J. HoganStarsToni ColletteRachel GriffithsBill HunterA young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
- DirectorEmma-Kate CroghanStarsFrances O'ConnorAlice GarnerMatt DayA day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.
- DirectorJonathan TeplitzkyStarsDavid WenhamSusie PorterKris McQuadeAfter a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsPaul MercurioTara MoriceBill HunterA maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
- DirectorPeter FaimanStarsPaul HoganLinda KozlowskiJohn MeillonAmerican reporter Sue Charlton travels to the Australian outback to meet eccentric poacher Mick "Crocodile" Dundee and invites him to New York City, where he comes face-to-face with the complexities of modern life. Can this bushman adapt?
- DirectorMegan Simpson HubermanStarsClaudia KarvanGuy PearceMatt DayA couple wakes up one morning to discover that they have switched bodies.
- DirectorStavros KazantzidisStarsHugo WeavingNatalia NovikovaDavid WenhamHarvey, a neurotic private investigator and wannabe crime writer, gets asked to marry his best friend's mistress.
- DirectorAntony J. BowmanStarsClaudia KarvanHugh JackmanAngie MillikenAn Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?
- DirectorCherie NowlanStarsRichard RoxburghCate BlanchettFrances O'ConnorThe romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
- DirectorShirley BarrettStarsMiranda OttoRebecca FrithGeorge ShevtsovIn Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the station; he's mid-40s, detached, thrice divorced, hatchet faced. But both sisters next door find him attractive: awkward Dimity, only 20, who works in a Chinese restaurant with few patrons, and perky Vicki-Ann, a hairdresser with a hope chest who invents a happy future with Sherry based on little but his arrival. First Dimity then Vicki-Ann spend the night with Ken, one concluding he's her boy friend, the other her fiance. Then Dimity begins to smell something fishy.
- DirectorPeter TemplemanStarsRyan KwantenSarah SnookRyan CorrA young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.
- DirectorJeff BalsmeyerStarsRhys IfansMiranda OttoJustine ClarkeAn Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons.
- DirectorKate WoodsStarsGreta ScacchiAnthony LaPagliaElena CottaAt seventeen Josie Alibrandi is about to enter her final year as a scholarship student at an exclusive Catholic College. It's the year her life is turned upside down and changed forever.
- DirectorPaul CoxStarsWendy HughesNorman KayeJon FinlaysonIn this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker.
- DirectorJeffrey WalkerStarsOsamah SamiDon HanyHelana SawiresAfter telling a white lie which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive, musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, even though he's madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
- DirectorBrad HaywardStarsSara BrowneAstrid GrantNic BishopA young woman Min loses her job, her boyfriend and her flat on the same day, throwing her life into chaos. Fortunately her best friend Jaz, comes to her rescue and finds her a new flat with a seemingly nice male student, as well as a new job. A boyfriend takes much longer though, and the two girls discuss life, love and sex throughout the film, as they try to make ends meet in inner-city Sydney in the mid-90s.
- DirectorRaymond LongfordStarsArthur TauchertLottie LyellGilbert EmeryA down-at-heal ex-convict undergoes an epiphany as he experiences the love of a good woman for the first time.
- DirectorMonica ZanettiStarsMarta DusseldorpZoe TerakesSophie Hawkshaw17 year old Ellie is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate, Abbie, to the formal. Luckily her Aunt Tara, a lesbian who died in the 80's has shown up as a "Fairy Godmother" to dish out advice, whether Ellie wants it or not.
- DirectorGeoff BurtonKevin DowlingStarsJack ThompsonRussell CroweJohn PolsonA widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."
- DirectorWayne BlairStarsBrooklyn DoomadgeeHelena JohnsonDan CollinsLauren and Ned, in love and engaged, have just ten days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents, and pull off their dream wedding.
- DirectorJohn PolsonStarsLinus RoacheDanielle CormackIan BlissA British man with a peculiar curse goes on a low-rent bus tour in Australia.
- DirectorJosh LawsonStarsRafe SpallZahra NewmanRonny ChiengTeddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he's jumping forward to the next year of his life.
- DirectorEmma-Kate CroghanStarsClaudia KarvanNaomi WattsAlice Garner3 girls in Sydney share an apartment and friendship. The movie follows them as well as 3 guys for a year from New Year's Eve 1998. They'll meet each other before the year ends.
- DirectorNeil TriffettStarsBenson Jack AnthonyJordan HareRahart AdamsEthan, a sullen high-school student whose life is defined by what he hates, finds love with a blindly optimistic Christian girl Trinity, much to the annoyance of his angst-filled band mates and her evangelistic brethren.
- DirectorSteven VidlerStarsSam ReidRadha MitchellRJ MitteAn isolated guy with cerebral palsy is railroaded into helping an unassertive comedienne, and finds love and acceptance through stand up comedy.