Movies Filmed in Coober Pedy
Fire in the Stone
Released 1984 Starring Alan Cassell, Paul Smith & Ray Meagher From a book by Colin Thiele, by the SA Film Company. When his precious cache of opals is stolen, 14 year-old Ernie, who lives in the opal fields of Australia, sets out with a friend determined to find the thief. |
Where the Green Ants Dream
Released 1984 - By the German Director Werner Herzog Set in the Australian desert, it tells the story of a feud between a mining company and the native Indigenous people. |
Ground Zero
Released 1984 Starring Colin Friels, Jack Thompson and Burnum Burnum An Australian drama/thriller about a cinematographer who, prompted by curiosity about some old film footage taken by his father, embarks on a quest to find out the truth about British nuclear tests at Maralinga, code name 'X200'. |
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Released 1985 Starring Mel Gibson, Tina Turner & Bruce Spence Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children |
Salute of the Jugger (The Blood of Heroes - US title)
Released 1989 Starring Rutger Haver, Delroy Lindo & Joan Chen A Mad Max-esque post apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a brutal, futuristic game resemblinb football. |
Stark
Released 1993 TV Mini Film. Book by Ben Elton Starring Colin Friels, Ben Elton & Jacqueline McKenzie Australian Billionaire, Sly Morgan is invited to join the Stark Conspiracy, a group of the world's richest people who plan to save themselves from the Earth's impending environmental doom |
Until the End of the World
Released 1991 Starring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin & Pietro Falcone Set in 1999, a woman has a car accident with some bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law. On the run from the bank robbers and the CIA, they span the globe, ending up in Australia. |
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Released 1994 Starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce Two drag queens and a transexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus 'Priscilla' |
Siam Sunset
Released 1999 Starring Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack & Ian Bliss A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him, has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife. He decides to getaway from it all by taking a trip to Australia. |
The Drovers Boy
Ted Egan Song made into a film that was never released. |
Pitch Black
Released 2000 Starring Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser & Keith David A group of marooned space travellers struggle for survival on a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world. |
Red Planet
Released 2000 Starring Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Benjamin Bratt & Terrence Stamp. Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry. |
Kangaroo Jack
Released 2003 Starring Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson & Estella Warren Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia. Things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo. |
Opal Dream
Released 2006 Starring Sapphire Boyce, Christian Byers, Vince Colosimo & Jacqueline McKenzie A young girl's relationship with her imaginary friends reasonates throughout her town in the Australia Outback. |
SFV1 The Osiris Child
Releasing 2017 Starring Daniel McPherson, Isabelle Lucas and Kellan Lutz Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all. |
