List of films shot in Queensland

The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Queensland, Australia.

Films

Year Title Locations Ref
1921 The Raiders 8km from Indooroopilly railway station [1]
1921 Retribution Boggo Road Gaol, Queen Street, Brisbane [2][3][4]
1926 Greenhide Walloon Station in the Dawson Valley, Oxford House (Ann St, Brisbane), Indooroopilly [5][6][7]
1926 The Moth of Moonbi Spicers Peak, at Franklyn Vale Cattle Station, Sleeping Assyrian (mountain) in the Rosevale Valley [8][9]
1927 The Kid Stakes Rockhampton [10][11]
1935 Heritage Barambah, Canungra [12]
1938 Typhoon Treasure North Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Green Island [13]
1949 Sons of Matthew Beaudesert [14]
1954 The Back of Beyond Birdsville, Birdsville Track [15]
1954 King of the Coral Sea Thursday Island, Green Island [16]
1969 Age of Consent Brisbane (including Albion Park racecourse), Dunk Island, Purtaboi Island [17][18]
1972 Morning of the Earth Kirra Beach, Coolangatta [19][20]
1976 Eliza Fraser Fraser Island, Mornington Island [21]
1978 The Irishman Charters Towers [22]
1982 Turkey Shoot (Escape 2000 or Blood Camp Thatcher) Cairns [23]
1983 Buddies Emerald [24]
1983 Bush Christmas (Prince and the Great Race) Beaudesert, Rathdowney [25]
1983 Goodbye Paradise Surfers Paradise, Southport, Currumbin, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary [26]
1984 The Settlement Marburg, Samford, Rosewood (St Brigid's Church), Ipswich [8][27]
1986 Crocodile Dundee McKinlay [28]
1986 The Fringe Dwellers Cherbourg, Murgon [29]
1987 Dark Age Cairns [23]
1987 The Odd Angry Shot Canungra (including Land Warfare Centre) [30][31]
1988 Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) Mount Isa [32]
1989 Dead Calm The Whitsundays [23]
1989 The Delinquents Brisbane (including Park Royal Hotel), Maryborough (Customs House Hotel & Excelsior City Band Hall), Bundaberg (Palais Theatre), Warner Brothers Studios [33][34][35][36]
1990 Bloodmoon Brisbane, Redcliffe, Marist College Ashgrove [23]
1990 Blood Oath (Prisoners of the Sun) Village Roadshow Studios [37]
1992 Hurricane Smith Brisbane, Gold Coast, Village Roadshow Studios [38]
1992 Over the Hill Glass House Mountains
1993 Bedevil Charleville, Bribie Island [39]
1993 Fortress Village Roadshow Studios [40]
1993 Reckless Kelly Gold Coast
1993 Sniper Port Douglas, Paronella Park, Kuranda, Drumsara Sugar Plantation [41][42]
1994 Escape from Absolom (No Escape) Cairns (including Barron Falls), Lake Tinaroo (Atherton Tableland), Port Douglas, Mossman, Innisfail
1994 Muriel's Wedding Coolangatta, Elanora, Surfers Paradise Tugun, Tweed Heads, Hamilton Island [43][44]
1994 Street Fighter Village Roadshow Studios [45]
1994 Traps Innisfail, Cassowary Coast, Far North Queensland [46][47]
1996 First Strike (Police Story 4) Gold Coast [48]
1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau Cairns, Bramston Beach, Mossman Gorge [23]
1996 The Phantom Village Roadshow Studios, Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane's Manor Apartment Hotel [49][50]
1997 Mr. Nice Guy Fortitude Valley [48]
1997 Paradise Road Port Douglas, Cairns (Trinity Inlet), Atherton Tableland, Raffles Hotel [51]
1997 The Real Macaw Brisbane (including Brisbane Airport & King George Square), Mount Tamborine, Stradbroke Island
1998 The Thin Red Line Daintree Rainforest, Bramston Beach, Mossman, Cairns, Port Douglas [52][53]
1999 Komodo Cape Moreton, Brisbane, Gold Coast [23]
1999 Paperback Hero Nindigully (including Nindigully Pub), Brisbane (including Morrison Hotel, Woolloongabba) [54]
2000 Pitch Black Village Roadshow Studios, Surfers Paradise [55]
2001 Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles Village Roadshow Studios [56]
2001 Cubbyhouse (Hellion) Gold Coast (including Rainbow Bay) [23]
2001 Driven Gold Coast Indy [45]
2001 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand 2 Taylor St Annerley, Taringa
2002 Blurred Brisbane, Surfers Paradise
2002 Ghost Ship Village Roadshow Studios, Newstead, Moreton Bay [57][58][59][60][61][62]
2002 Scooby-Doo Village Roadshow Studios, Tangalooma (Moreton Island), Tennyson Power Station [43][63]
2003 George of the Jungle 2 Gorge Falls in Tallebudgera Valley, Gold Coast Airport, Conrad Jupiters Hotel & Casino [64][65]
2003 Gettin' Square Southport (including Southport District Court & Australia Fair), 2 Corporate Ct, Bundall, Maryborough Correctional Centre [66][67]
2003 Inspector Gadget 2 Brisbane (including South Bank Parklands, University of Queensland, Queensland Parliament House, William Jolly Bridge, ANZAC Square & Brisbane City Hall) [49]
2003 Paradise Found Port Douglas
2003 Peter Pan Gold Coast (including Village Roadshow Studios) [68]
2003 Swimming Upstream Spring Hill Baths [69]
2003 Undead Woodford [23]
2004 Loop the Loop (Up and Down) Brisbane
2005 The Great Raid Village Roadshow Studios, Bribie Island, Tallebudgera Valley, Tamborine Mountain, North Queensland [70][71]

[72]

2005 House of Wax Village Roadshow Studios [23]
2005 The Proposition Winton [73]
2006 48 Shades Brisbane Boys' College, Kangaroo Point, Story Bridge, Rosalie [74]
2006 Aquamarine Village Roadshow Studios, Tallebudgera Creek, Sea World, Palm Beach, Burleigh Heads, Shorncliffe [75][76]
2006 Kokoda Mount Tamborine [77]
2006 The Marine Village Roadshow Studios, Bond University, Surfers Paradise, Brisbane (including Waterfront Place), Gladstone, Townsville
2006 See No Evil Village Roadshow Studios
2007 All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane Brisbane (including New Farm, Paddington, Kangaroo Point, Brookfield, Toowong, Story Bridge, Royal Exchange Hotel) [78][79]
2007 The Condemned Village Roadshow Studios, Mount Tamborine, Brisbane (including Boggo Road Gaol) [80]
2007 Gone Longreach, Winton
2007 Heyy Babyy Brisbane (including Exchange Hotel), Dreamworld
2007 Unfinished Sky Beaudesert (including Wyambin homestead), Boonah, Fassifern Valley, Brisbane (including Story Bridge) [81][82][83]
2008 Acolytes Glass House Mountains, Redcliffe [23]
2008 Australia Bowen, Darling Downs [84][85]
2008 Fool's Gold Hamilton Island, Port Douglas (including Central Hotel), Lizard Island, Airlie Beach, Hervey Bay, Cairns, Fraser Island, Moreton Bay, Village Roadshow Studios, Brisbane (including Queensland University of Technology, St Mary's Anglican Church, Brisbane City Botanic Gardens) [86][87][88][43][85]
2008 The Horseman Burpengary [23]
2008 Nim's Island Village Roadshow Studios, Gorge Falls in Tallebudgera Valley, Hinchinbrook Island, Bowen, Port Douglas [89][90][91]
2008 The Ruins Village Roadshow Studios, Mount Tamborine, Natural Arch (Springbrook) [23]
2009 Charlie & Boots Emerald (including Emerald Botanic Gardens), Rubyvale, Cape York Peninsula [92]
2009 Daybreakers Village Roadshow Studios, Brisbane (including Riparian Plaza & New Farm), Robina railway station [23]
2009 In Her Skin Brisbane [93]
2009 Subdivision Hervey Bay [94]
2009 Triangle Queensland Maritime Museum (HMAS Diamantina), Raby Bay Marina, Southport Yacht Club, Southport Spit [23]
2010 Beneath Hill 60 Townsville [95]
2010 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Village Roadshow Studios, Cleveland Point, South Stradbroke Island, The Southport School, Doug Jennings Park, Stapylton Quarry [43][96]
2010 Jucy Brisbane (including West End, The Gap, Paddington, New Farm), Ephraim Island, Gold Coast [97]
2010 The Reef Hervey Bay, Bowen, Lady Elliot Island [23]
2010 Savages Crossing Ipswich [23]
2010 The Tree Boonah [98]
2010 Uninhabited Masthead Island, Capricorn Coast [23]
2011 Come and Get Me Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Eudlo Forest [23]
2011 The Killage Sunshine Coast, Ewen Maddock Dam Recreation Centre [23]
2011 The Railway Man Gold Coast hinterland, Village Roadshow Studios, North Ipswich Rail Yards [99][100][101]
2011 Sanctum Village Roadshow Studios, Muggy Beach on Dunk Island, Jacobs Well [23]
2011 Sinbad and the Minotaur Glass House Mountains
2012 Bait 3D Village Roadshow Studios, Coolangatta Beach, ALDI Coolangatta [102]
2012 Daddy’s Little Girl Sunshine Coast [23]
2012 Iron Sky [103]
2012 Mabo Rosewood Hotel [8]
2012 Return to Nim's Island Village Roadshow Studios
2012 Tender
2014 500 Miles Rosewood Hotel, Tallegalla [8]
2014 Charlie's Farm Gympie [23]
2014 The Inbetweeners 2 Southport, Wet'n'Wild
2014 My Mistress Currumbin Valley [104]
2014 Unbroken Village Roadshow Studios, Fort Lytton [85]
2014 Schapelle Tugun, Southport Yacht Club [45]
2015 The Pack Glenorie Station (near Toowoomba) [23]
2015 San Andreas Village Roadshow Studios, The Pines Shopping Centre Elanora, Outback Spectacular carpark, Bond University, Brisbane (including Myer Centre carpark), Tenthill Creek Rd Gatton, Lockyer Valley, Quarry Rd Stapylton, Ipswich [105][106][85]
2015 StalkHer [23][107]
2016 Broke [108]
2016 Kong: Skull Island Village Roadshow Studios, North Stradbroke Island, South Stradbroke Island, Mount Tamborine [43][109]
2016 Lost & Found
2016 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Village Roadshow Studios
2016 The Shallows Mount Tamborine, Village Roadshow Studios [85]
2017 Aquaman Village Roadshow Studios, Main Beach, Coomera, Southport, North Stradbroke Island [110][111][43]
2017 Australia Day Brisbane (including Camp Hill, William Jolly Bridge, Yeerongpilly railway station, Montague Rd in West End, Darra & Rocklea) [112][113]
2017 Jungle Mount Tamborine
2017 Pacific Rim: Uprising Broadbeach, Southport, Surfers Paradise, Bulwer Island, Brisbane (including Eagle Street) [114]
2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Village Roadshow Studios, Cleveland Point, The Spit, Gold Coast, Maudsland, Whitehaven Beach, Haslewood Island, North Stradbroke Island [115][43]
2017 Thor: Ragnarok Mount Tamborine (including Cedar Creek Falls), Village Roadshow Studios, Brisbane (including Mary Street, Albert Street, Margaret Street, Brisbane & Esk Lane) [116][117][118]
2018 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan Village Roadshow Studios
2018 The Film from Lot 15 [119]
2018 Guardians of the Tomb Village Roadshow Studios
2018 Safe Harbour Moreton Bay [85]
2019 Dora and the Lost City of Gold Village Roadshow Studios, Gold Coast, Tamborine Mountain, Tallebudgera Valley, Palm Beach Currumbin State High School, Coomera River, South Brisbane, Old Museum Building, Brisbane, Brisbane Airport [120][121][122]
2019 Occupation: Rainfall Helensvale, Mount Tamborine
2019 Two Heads Creek Cracow [123][124]
2020 6 Festivals Main Beach, Big Pineapple, Lunar Electric Music Festival (Gold Coast) [125]
2020 Love and Monsters (Monster Problems) Coombabah, Mount Cotton, Screen Queensland Studios, Hemmant [126]
2020 Romance on the Menu Shorncliffe, Brisbane [43][85]
2020 Swimming for Gold South Bank Parklands, South Bank Beach, Tallebudgera Creek [43][85]
2021 Christmas on the Farm Brookfield [127][128]
2021 Godzilla vs. Kong Village Roadshow Studios, Tallebudgera Valley, Miami State High School, Roosevelt Lounge, Broadbeach, Chinatown Mall Fortitude Valley, ULTIQA Rothbury Hotel, Masonic Temple, Brisbane, North Ipswich Railway Workshops, Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant [129][130][126]
2021 Perfect Messy Love Moffat Beach [131]
2021 The Possessed Pinnacle Films Studios
2021 This Little Love of Mine Cairns, Palm Cove [132]
2021 You, Me and the Penguins Brisbane (including Screen Queensland Studios, Hemmant), Redcliffe, Gold Coast
2022 Black Site Pinnacle Studios Helensvale, Gold Coast [133]
2022 Elvis Village Roadshow Studios, Burleigh Heads [43]
2022 The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay Snapper Rocks, Mount Tamborine, Pullenvale [134]
2022 Spiderhead Village Roadshow Studios, Gold Coast hinterland (including Hinze Dam & Tallebudgera Valley), Scenic Rim (Darlington), The Whitsundays [135]

[136]

2022 Thirteen Lives Yatala, Mudgeeraba, Numinbah Valley, Carrara, Griffith University Logan Campus, Brisbane Domestic Airport [137]
2022 Ticket To Paradise Village Roadshow Studios, Miami Beach, North Burleigh Hill, Griffith University Southport, Home of the Arts, Tamborine Mountain (Curtis Falls), Tangalooma, The Whitsundays (Manta Ray Bay, Qualia on Hamilton Island, Palm Bay Resort on Long Island), Brisbane City Hall, Centenary Pool Complex, Rainforest Gardens (Mount Cotton), Queen's Wharf construction site [49][138]
2022 We Are Still Here
2023 13 Summers Hervey Bay [94]
2023 Land of Bad Gold Coast hinterland
2023 Love is in the Air The Whitsundays, Airlie Beach, Whitsunday Coast Airport [43]
2023 The Portable Door Pinnacle Films Studios, Brisbane Central Station, Queen Street Mall, Treasury Brisbane, Old Museum Building, Brisbane, Brisbane’s Bank of New South Wales, Miami Beach, Natural Arch at Springbrook National Park [43][139]
2023 True Spirit Village Roadshow Studios, Oxenford, Surfers Paradise [111][85]
2024 Audrey
2024 Eden Village Roadshow Studios [140]
2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Village Roadshow Studios
2024 How to Make Gravy Village Roadshow Studios, Gold Coast
2024 In the Room Where He Waits Brisbane
2024 The Red Southern Queensland, Central Queensland (including Cracow) [123][124]
2024 You, Always Far North Queensland, Screen Queensland Studios Cairns [141]
2025 Anaconda Tallebudgera Valley, Tamborine Mountain, Springbrook National Park [142]
2025 Beast of War Village Roadshow Studios [111]
2025 Dangerous Animals Gold Coast, [111]
2025 The Edge Glass House Mountains, University of the Sunshine Coast [143]
2025 Primitive War
2025 Spit Gold Coast, Brisbane, Toowoomba, World Camp Quarantine Facility [144][145]
2026 Balls Up Village Roadshow Studios, Tamborine Mountain, Robina Stadium, Brisbane City Hall, Fortitude Valley [146][147]
2026 The Bluff Tamborine Mountain, North Stradbroke Island [148]
2026 Fing! Screen Queensland Studios, Hemmant, Thomas Dixon Centre [149]
2026 The Get Out Village Roadshow Studios
2026 Mortal Kombat II Village Roadshow Studios, Pinnacle Films Studios, Tamborine Mountain, Hope Island [150]
2026 Posthumous Brisbane, Pinnacle Films Studios (Gold Coast) [151]
2026 Runner Marine Parade Labrador, Carrara, New Farm Park [152][153]
2026 Spa Weekend Gold Coast [154]
2026 Allen Screen Queensland Studios, Hemmant, Brisbane, Gold Coast [155]
TBA Godzilla x Kong: Supernova Brisbane, Village Roadshow Studios [156][157]
TBA Honeymoon with Harry Teneriffe, Chelmer, The Whitsundays, Rainbow Bay Surf Lifesaving Club [158][159][160]
TBA Jump Gold Coast, Tamborine Mountain [161]
TBA The Mark Gold Coast [162]
TBA Subversion Village Roadshow Studios, Brisbane River, Rivergate Marina (Murarrie) [163]
TBA Voltron Village Roadshow Studios [163]

See also

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  • Collins, Felicity, and Theresa Davis. Australian Cinema After Mabo. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Dawson, Jonathan, and Bruce Molloy, eds. Queensland Images in Film and Television. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990.
  • Dermody, Susan and Elizabeth Jacka, eds. The Screening of Australia, Volume 1: Anatomy of a Film Industry. Sydney: Currency Press, 1987.
  • — — — . The Screening of Australia, Volume 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema. Sydney: Currency Press, 1988.
  • Moran, Albert and Tom O’Regan, eds. An Australian Film Reader (Australian Screen Series). Sydney: Currency Press, 1985.
  • Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Film in Australia: An Introduction Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Murray, Scott, ed. Australian Film: 1978 – 1994. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-553777-7
  • Pike, Andrew and Ross Cooper. Australian Film: 1900 – 1977. revised ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-550784-3
  • McFarland, Brian, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian Film. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-553797-1
  • Moran, Albert. Projecting Australia: government film since 1945. Sydney: Currency Press, 1991. ISBN 0-86819-292-9.
  • Moran, Albert and Errol Vieth. Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5459-7
  • O'Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996.
  • Reade, Eric. Australian Silent Films: A Pictorial History of Silent Films from 1896 to 1926. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1970.
  • — — — . History and Heartburn : The Saga of Australian Film 1896–1978. New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 1981.
  • Ryan, Mark, David (2009),'Whither Culture? Australian Horror Films and the Limitations of Cultural Policy', Media International Australia: Incorporating Culture and Policy, no. 133, pp. 43–55.
  • Stratton, David. The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry. Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 1990. 465p. ISBN 0-7329-0250-9
  • Verhoeven, Deb. Sheep and the Australian Cinema. Melbourne : MUP, 2006. ISBN 0-522-85239-4
  • — — — ed. Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-876310-00-6