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Australian and New Zealand films of 2023

69 films recorded for 2023; 35 have a full page. Sorted by release date where known.

35 films18 series
Drama · 8Horror · 6Adventure · 6Documentary · 6Fantasy · 3Thriller · 3

Films

TitleDirectorGenreMinAwards
Run Rabbit Run Daina Reid Drama, Horror 100
Shayda Noora Niasari Drama 117 1
True Spirit Sarah Spillane Drama, Adventure 109
Emesis Blue — Psychological horror fiction 108
Late Night with the Devil Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes Horror, Found footage 92 1
Evil Dead Rise Lee Cronin Horror, Speculative fiction 96
The Magician's Elephant Animated film Wendy Rogers Fantasy, Adventure 103
John Farnham: Finding the Voice — Documentary 95
Sunflower Gabriel Carrubba Drama 84
Mercy Road John Curran, Huw Higginson Thriller 86
The Convert Lee Tamahori — —
Uproar Hamish Bennett, Paul Middleditch Drama 110
ABBA: The Movie - Fan Event Lasse Hallström Concert, Docufiction —
Love Is in the Air Adrian Powers Romantic comedy 88
Scarygirl Animated film Ricard Cussó, Tania Vincent Fantasy, Action —
The Speedway Murders — Documentary, True crime —
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles Sally Aitken Documentary 104
Baby Shark's Big Movie! Animated film — Comedy, Adventure 78
Anyone but You Will Gluck Romantic comedy 103
Bad Behaviour Alice Englert Black comedy —
Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism Nick Kozakis Horror 92
Housekeeping for Beginners Goran Stolevski Drama 107 1
Joika James Napier Robertson Drama 110
Limbo Ivan Sen Crime drama 109
Red, White & Brass — Comedy —
Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival — Documentary 91
Stylebender Zoe McIntosh Documentary —
T Blockers Alice Maio Mackay Horror 74
The Last Daughter Brenda Matthews Documentary 90
The New Boy Warwick Thornton Drama 116
The Portable Door Jeffrey Walker Fantasy, Comedy 116
The Rooster Mark Leonard Winter Comedy drama 101
The Royal Hotel Kitty Green Thriller —
The Secret Kingdom Matt Drummond Adventure 98
You'll Never Find Me — Horror, Thriller 96

TV series premiered in 2023

SeriesFromToNetworkEpisodes
Koala Man Animated series 2023 Hulu 8
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee 2023 Three 16
Bad Behaviour 2023 Stan 4
Class of '07 2023 Amazon Prime Video 8
Alone Australia 2023 SBS 35
Wellmania 2023 — 8
Totally Completely Fine 20232023 Stan 6
Deadloch 2023 Amazon Prime Video 14
The Clearing 20232023 Disney+ 8
Rush 2023 Nine Network —
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Miniseries 20232023 Amazon Prime Video 7
The Amazing Digital Circus Web series 20232026 YouTube 9
Darradong Local Council 20232023 — 8
Erotic Stories 2023 — 8
After the Party 20232023 TVNZ 6
NCIS: Sydney 2023 Network 10 38
The Artful Dodger 2023 Star 16
Black Snow 20232023 Stan 6