Following on from the male ensemble landscape films came to represent Australian cinema during the 1970s and 80s and the subsequent reaction to them in the 1990s, Australian cinema has gradually branched out during the last fifteen years. A far more diverse cinema that has adopted genre film, albeit often in a social realist format, Australian film can no longer be pigeon holed or easily defined.
This list will present a mixture of genres, aesthetics, themes and budgets, a recent increase in international co-productions has allowed for bigger budgets and better visibility, with 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road becoming one of the most financially successful Australian films of all time. It was too difficult to rank the final ten films, so here they are in order of release
