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List of Australian films of 1993 contains a detailed list of films created in Australia in 1993.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | Megan Simpson Huberman | Lauren Jackson, Chris Haywood, | Drama / Sport | |
| Australia: The Great White Shark | Liz Wight | Guy Blackmore | Documentary | |
| Bad Boy Bubby | Rolf de Heer | Nicholas Hope | Comedy / Drama | |
| Bedevil | Tracey Moffatt | Lex Marinos, Tracey Moffatt | Horror | Screened at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival [1] |
| Black River | Kevin Lucas | Russell Page, John Pringle | Short | |
| Blackfellas | James Ricketson | John Moore, David Ngoombujarra, Jaylene Riley, John Hargreaves | Drama | aka: "Day of the Dog" |
| Body Melt | Philip Brophy | Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo | Horror | |
| Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema | Mark Christopher, Stephen Cummins | Comedy / Drama | ||
| Breathing Under Water | Susan Murphy Dermody | Anne-Louise Lambert, Kristoffer Greaves, Maeve Dermody | Drama | |
| Broken Highway | Laurie McInnes | Aden Young, David Field, Bill Hunter | Drama | Entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival [2] |
| Crimestoppers | David Rechtman | Aidan Fennessy, Craig Taylor | Short | |
| Crimetime | Marc Gracie | Marcus Graham, Bruce Venables, Lucy Bell | ||
| The Custodian | John Dingwall | Anthony LaPaglia, Hugo Weaving, Barry Otto | Drama | |
| Dinosaur | Sarah Watt | Animation / Short | ||
| The Door | Josie Keys | Barry Otto | Short / Drama | |
| Eight Ball | Ray Argall | Matthew Fargher, Paul Stevn, Lucy Sheehan | Drama | |
| Encounters | Murray Fahey | Kate Raison, Martin Sacks, Martin Vaughan | Drama | aka: "Voyage into Fear" |
| Everybody's Business | Mal Read | Documentary | ||
| Fatal Past | Clive Fleury, Richard Ryan | Costas Mandylor, Katarzyna Figura, Terence Cooper | Drama / Thriller | |
| Frauds | Stephan Elliott | Phil Collins, Josephine Byrnes, Hugo Weaving | Comedy / Thriller | Entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival [2] |
| Get Away, Get Away | Murray Fahey | Murray Fahey, Annie Davies, Ned Manning | Comedy | |
| Gino | Jackie McKimmie | Nicholas Bufalo, Zoe Carides, Bruno Lawrence | Drama | |
| God's Bones | Samantha Lang | Olivia Pigeot, Brian Vriends, Ritchie Singer | Short | |
| Going Down Under | Adult | |||
| Gross Misconduct | George T. Miller | Jimmy Smits, Naomi Watts, Sarah Chadwick | Thriller / Drama | |
| Hammers Over the Anvil | Ann Turner | Charlotte Rampling, Russell Crowe | Biography / Drama | |
| The Heartbreak Kid | Michael Jenkins | Claudia Karvan, Alex Dimitriades, | Drama | |
| Hercules Returns | David Parker | David Argue, Michael Carman, Bruce Spence | Comedy | |
| The Hero | James Mairata | David Berman, Breanna Bushell, Bruce Denny | Short | |
| The Huntsman | Brent Houghton | David Will No, Nathan Hill, Ola Chan | Short | |
| Justified Action | Rene Nagy Jr. | Don Swayze, Peter Phelps | Drama | |
| Just Desserts | Monica Pellizzari | Nicoletta Boris, Lynette Curran, David Field | Short | |
| Kin chan no Cinema Jack | James Bogle, Kin'ichi Hagimoto | Jôji Abe, Maggie Cheung, Kin'ichi Hagimoto | Comedy | |
| Love in Limbo | David Elfick | Craig Adams, Aden Young, Russell Crowe | Comedy | |
| Map of the Human Heart | Vincent Ward | Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin | Drama | Screened at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival [3] |
| Memories and Dreams | Lynn-Maree Milburn | Alexandra Chapman, Johanna Kimla Ocenaskova, Jeremy Stanford | Short | |
| Mr. Electric | Stuart McDonald | Ernie Dingo, Leverne McDonnell, Daryl Pellizzer | Short | |
| No Worries | David Elfick | Geoff Morrell (actor), Susan Lyons | Drama | |
| The Nostradamus Kid | Bob Ellis | Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto | Drama | |
| One Ten: Two Forty | Brian Bleak | Jeff Booth, Tom Carroll, Ross Clarke-Jones | Documentary | |
| The Piano | Jane Campion | Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin | Drama | Entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival [2] |
| Reckless Kelly | Yahoo Serious | Yahoo Serious, Melora Hardin, Alexei Sayle, Hugo Weaving | Comedy | |
| Sacred Sex | Cynthia Connop | Alan Lowen, Annie Sprinkle | Documentary | |
| Say a Little Prayer | Richard Lowenstein | Sudi de Winter, Fiona Ruttelle, Rebecca Smart, Lynne Murphy, Jill Forster | Drama | |
| Seething Night | Douglas Brook | Michael Carman, Craig Goddard, Steve Hardman | Short | |
| Shotgun Wedding | Paul Harmon | Aden Young, Zoe Carides, John Walton | Crime | |
| Silent Number | Jamie Blanks | John Brumpton, Bronwyn Jones, Jason Mill | Short | |
| The Silver Brumby | John Tatoulis | Russell Crowe, Caroline Goodall | Drama | |
| This Won't Hurt a Bit | Chris Kennedy | Greig Pickhaver, Jacqueline McKenzie, Maggie King | Comedy | |
| The Web: Bandicoot | Sarah Watt | Short animation | ||
| The Web: Falcon | Lucinda Clutterbuck | Short animation | ||
| The Web: Frogs | Sarah Watt, Lucinda Clutterbuck | Short animation | ||
| The Web: Panda | Sarah Watt | Short animation | ||
| The Web: Rattlesnake | Sarah Watt, Lucinda Clutterbuck | Short animation | ||
| The Web: Seal | Sarah Watt | Short animation | ||
| The Web: Shark | Lucinda Clutterbuck | Short animation | ||
| Wide Sargasso Sea | John Duigan | Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York | Drama | |
| You and Me and Uncle Bob | Alister Smart | Brooke Anderson, David Kaff, Martin Vaughan | Comedy | |
| You Can't Push the River | Leslie Oliver | Nollaig O'Flannabhra, Antonio Punturiero, Kathryn Chalker | Drama |
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