# List of Australian films of 1980
## 1980

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Arcade | | Lorrae Desmond, Garth Meade, Syd Heylen, Coral Kelly, Peggy Toppano, Anne Semler, Patrick Ward, Olga Tamara, Aileen Britton, Allan Penney, Bill Charlton, Jeremy Kewley, Christine Harris | Drama TV film / TV pilot to 1980 series |
| Bedfellows | Julian Pringle | John Waters, Carol Burns | Drama ABC TV film | Screened as Australian Theatre Festival |
| Bellamy: The Massage Girl Murders | Gary Conway | John Stanton, Tim Elston, James Condon, Sally Conabere, Brian Young, John Krummel, Arna-Maria Winchester, Sean Scully, Adam Garnett, Jeremy Higgins, Tina Darby, Martin Harris, Brian Hinzelwood, Gordon Lishman, Phillip Hinton, Peter Meredith, Kevin Healy, Mandi Climpson, Donald Carter, Charlotte Calder, Lyn Collingwood, Steve Rackman, Faye Donaldson | Crime / Drama / Thriller TV film / TV Pilot to series (1980-1981) |
| Big Toys | Chris Thomson | Diane Cilento, Colin Friels, Kate Fitzpatrick, John Gaden, Max Cullen | Comedy ABC TV film | Screened as Australian Theatre Festival |
| Blood Money | Christopher Fitchett | John Flaus, Chrissie James, Bryan Brown, Sophie Murphy, Peter Curtin, Sue Jones, John Proper, Michael Carman, Peter Stratford | Crime / Drama Short Feature film | IMDb |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Rod Mullinar | Drama Feature film | IMDb, Won ten awards at the AFI awards and won an award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Chain Reaction | Ian Barry | Steve Bisley, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Richard Moir, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Patrick Ward, Ralph Cotterill, Lorna Lesley, Frankie J Holden, Kym Gyngell, | Action / Thriller Feature film | IMDb |
| The Club | Bruce Beresford | Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, John Howard, Harold Hopkins, Alan Cassell, Maurie Fields, Maggie Doyle | Comedy / Drama Feature film | IMDb |
| The Coast Town Kids | Peter Maxwell | John Wood, Frank Gallacher, Alan Hopgood, Peter Felmingham, Robert Korosy, Sally Wilde, Justin Stanford | Drama / Family TV film / TV Pilot | |
| The Comeback | Kit Laughlin | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Action Documentary | IMDb |
| Coralie Lansdowne Says No | Michael Carson | Wendy Hughes, David Waters, Brian Blain, Elaine Mangan, Mary Lou Stewart, Basil Clarke, Robert Coleby | Drama ABC TV film | Screened as Australian Theatre Festival |
| Cornflakes for Tea | John Colquhoun | Howard Kloester, Linda Hartley, Beverley Dunn, Tamblyn Lord, Bunney Brooke, Bruce Kerr, Kerry Armstrong, Candy Raymond, Vince D'Amico, Peggy Nichols, Max Cullen | Family TV film |
| Dead Man's Float | Peter Sharp | Sally Boyden, Greg Rowe, Jacqui Gordon, Rick Ireland, Gus Mercurio, Bill Hunter, Sue Jones, John Heywood, Chris Haywood, Bunney Brooke, Ernie Sigley, Brian Hannan | Crime / Drama / Family TV film | IMDb |
| Departmental | Keith Wilkes | Ray Barrett, Martin Vaughan, Gary Day, Rod Williams | Drama ABC TV film | Screened as Australian Theatre Festival |
| The Department | Brian Bell | Richard Moir, Peter Sumner, Barbara Stephens, John Ewart, Anne Tenney | Drama ABC TV film | Screened as Australian Theatre Festival |
| The Earthling | Peter Collinson | William Holden, Rick Schroder, Jack Thompson, Olivia Hamnett, Alwyn Kurts, Pat Evison, Ray Barrett, Jane Harders, Allan Penney, Tony Barry, Willie Fennell, Ray Meagher | Adventure | IMDb |
| Fatty Finn | Maurice Murphy | Bert Newton, Noni Hazlehurst, Ben Oxenbould, Rebecca Rigg, Lorraine Bayly, Gerard Kennedy, Henri Szeps, Greg Kelly, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Frank Wilson, Ross Higgins, Tony Alvarez, Jeremy Larsson | Comedy / Family Feature film | IMDb |
| Final Cut | Ross Dimsey | Lou Brown, Jennifer Cluff, David Clendenning, Thaddeus Smith, Narrelle Johnson, Carmen J McCall | Drama / Thriller Feature film | IMDb aka: "Death Games" aka Death Games |
| Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better | Gillian Armstrong | Kerry Carlson, Diana Doman, Josie Petersen | Documentary | IMDb |
| The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris | Richard Wherrett | Peter Carroll, John Clayton, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Judy Morris | Short Film | IMDb |
| Groping | Alex Proyas, Salik Silverstein | Tracey Wadey | Short | IMDb |
| Hard Knocks | Don McLennan | Tracy Mann, John Arnold, Kirsty Grant, Bill Hunter, Kim Rushworth, Max Cullen, Penelope Stewart, Hilton Bonner, Tony Bonner, Tony Barry | Drama Feature film | IMDb |
| Harlequin | Simon Wincer | Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio, Alan Cassell, Mark Spain, John Frawley, Alyson Best | Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller Feature film | IMDb |
| The Kingdom of Nek Chand | Paul Cox | | Documentary Short | IMDb |
| Lucinda Brayford | John Gauci | Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill, Barry Quin | Drama | IMDb |
| Manganinnie | John Honey | Mawuyul Yanthalawuy, Anna Ralph, Phillip Hinton | Drama Feature film | IMDb aka "Darkening Flame" |
| ...Maybe This Time | Chris McGill | Judy Morris, Bill Hunter, Michael Preston, Michele Fawdon, Leonard Teale, Chris Haywood, Rod Mullinar, Ken Shorter, Jill Perryman, Leonard Teale, Lorna Lesley, Celia de Burgh | Drama Feature film | IMDb |
| Mystery Island | Gene W. Scott | Jayson Duncan, Niklas Juhlin, Michael McGlinchey, Melissa Woodhams, Bill Charlton, Ray Marshall, Ray Meagher, Allan Penney, Tom Richards | Drama / Family TV film | IMDb |
| Nightmares | John D. Lamond | Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet, Nina Landis, Max Phipps, Edmund Pegge, Sue Jones, Briony Behets, John Michael Howson, Gary Day, Terry Besanko | Horror / Thriller Feature film | IMDb, aka "Stage Fright" |
| Palm Beach | Albie Thoms | Kenneth Brown, Nat Young, Bryan Brown | Drama | IMDb, shot in 1978 |
| Pianoforte | Antoinette Starkiewicz | | Short | IMDb |
| Psychic Visions of the Future | William Bemister | | Documentary Short | IMDb |
| Raccolta d'inverno | Brian McKenzie | | Short | IMDb |
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| Slippery Slide | Donald Crombie | Simon Burke, Arkie Whiteley, Jon Blake, Gerry Duggan, Martin Harris, Barry Pierce, Craig Doyle, Tim Franklin, Brian Young, Ken Short, Maureen Gay, Noreen Le Mottee, Allen Harvey, Hazel Alger, John Denham, Bernard Pidd | Drama TV film |
| Stepping Out | Chris Noonan | Chris Dobbin, Aldo Gennaro, Romayne Grace | Documentary Short | IMDb |
| Stir | Stephen Wallace | Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Michael Gow, Gary Waddell, Phil Motherwell, Paul Sonkkila, Peter Kowitz, Ray Meagher, Syd Heylen | Prison drama Feature film | IMDb |
| Touch and Go | Peter Maxwell | Wendy Hughes, Chantal Contouri, Carmen Duncan, Jon English, Brian Blain, Jeanie Drynan, Christine Amor, Liddy Clark, John Bluthal, Barbara Stephens, Vince Martin, Beryl Cheers, Roger Ward, Les Foxcroft | Crime /Comedy / Drama Feature film | IMDb |
| Wronsky | Ian Pringle | Ross Thompson, Miranda Brown, Doug Ling, Phil Dagg, John Flaus | Short Feature film | |
| Yap: How Did You Know We'd Like TV? | Dennis O'Rourke | Gabriel Avin, Mike Bermin, Mike Branch | Documentary Short | IMDb |