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List of Australian films of 1996 contains a detailed list of films created in Australia in the year 1996.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baniyala: The Yirrkala Film Project | Ian Dunlop | Wokuthi Marawali, Mootapuie | Documentary | Filmed at Baniyala, NT |
| Billal | Tom Zubrycki | Documentary | ||
| The Birds Do a Magnificent Tune | Chris Windmill | Short | ||
| Bits & Pieces | Simon Klaebe | Jeremy Callaghan, Drayton Morley | Short | |
| Black Man Down | Bill McCrow | Andrew Booth, Karen Crone, David Hudson | Short | |
| Black Sun | Amanda Jane | Bernard Curry, Raelee Hill, Brigid Kelly | Short | |
| Body Corporate | Stephen Cummins | Short | ||
| Boy-Girl, Boy-Girl | Stephen Cummins, Ira Sachs, Sara Whiteley | Short | ||
| Brilliant Lies | Richard Franklin | Gia Carides, Anthony LaPaglia, Zoe Carides | Drama | |
| Cabbie of the Year | Michael Connolly | Steve Adams, Steve Adams, Chris Haywood | Short | |
| Call Me Sal | Arianna Bosi | Sally Cooper, Jennifer Jarman-Walker, Geoffrey Rush | Short | |
| Children of the Revolution | Peter Duncan | Judy Davis, Sam Neill, F. Murray Abraham | Comedy / Drama | |
| Cinema Cinema | Maani Petgar | Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ulu Grosbard (uncredited), Jennifer Jason Leigh (uncredited) | Documentary | |
| Cliché | Steve Le Marquand | Steve Le Marquand, Paul Lum | Short | |
| Come as You Are | Emma-Kate Croghan, Brad McGann | John Bal, Bridget Haire, Ron Walker | Short | |
| Così | Mark Joffe | Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette | Comedy / Drama | |
| The Cuckoo | Gerald Thompson | Short | ||
| Dating the Enemy | Megan Simpson Huberman | Guy Pearce, Claudia Karvan, Matt Day, Lisa Hensley, Pippa Grandison | Comedy / Fantasy | |
| Dead Heart | Nick Parsons | Bryan Brown, Ernie Dingo, Angie Milliken | Drama / Mystery | |
| Down Rusty Down | John Curran | Tex Perkins, Noah Taylor, Bob Ellis | Short | |
| Faggots Are for Burning | Barry McKay | Short | ||
| Film Noir | Michael Liu | Giles Morton, Peter Rush, Simon Westaway | Short | |
| Fistful of Flies | Monica Pellizzari | Dina Panozzo, John Lucantonio, Anna Volska | Drama | |
| Floating Life | Clara Law | Annette Shun Wah, Annie Yip | Drama | |
| Flying Over Mother | Michael James Rowland | Ben McIvor, Jennifer Cloher, Luke Quinton | Short | |
| Freestyle | David Lowe | Mary-Lou Stewart, Roy Billing, Monique Spanbrook | Short | |
| Happy Little Vegemites: Unauthorized | Colin Mowbray | James McKenna | Short | |
| Hotel de Love | Craig Rosenberg | Aden Young, Saffron Burrows | Comedy | |
| Idiot Box | David Caesar | Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims | Drama | |
| Indulgence | Glenn Fraser | Angela Maier, Cameron McAuliffe, Kristi Street | Short | |
| The Inner Sanctuary | Chris Clarke | Brett Climo, Gerard Kennedy, Samuel Johnson | Drama | |
| It Never Rains | Brad McGann | Kane McNay | Short | |
| L'Araignée | Brad Hayward | Short | ||
| The Legend of Fred Paterson | Jonathan Dawson | Harold Hopkins | Documentary | |
| Let Me Die, Again | Leone Knight | Short | ||
| Life | Lawrence Johnston | John Brumpton, David Tredinnick, Kevin Hopkins | Drama | |
| Little White Lies | Pauline Chan | Mimi Rogers, Andrew McFarlane, Temuera Morrison | Crime / Thriller | |
| Loaded | Kieran Darcy-Smith, Nash Edgerton | Kieran Darcy-Smith, Joel Edgerton, Nash Edgerton | Short | |
| Love and Other Catastrophes | Emma-Kate Croghan | Frances O'Connor Alice Garner Radha Mitchell Matthew Dyktynski Matt Day | Comedy / Romance | |
| Love Serenade | Shirley Barrett | Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith | Comedy | Screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival |
| Lust and Revenge | Paul Cox | Nicholas Hope, Gosia Dobrowolska, Claudia Karvan | Comedy / Drama | |
| Margaret Star: A Fall from Grace | Annabelle Murphy | Short | ||
| The Mini-skirted Dynamo | Rivka Hartman | Dora Bialestock, Rivka Hartman, Ian McFadyen | Documentary | |
| Mr. Reliable | Nadia Tass | Colin Friels, Jacqueline McKenzie, Ken Radley | Comedy | aka: "My Entire Life" |
| My Forgotten Man | Frank Howson | Guy Pearce, Steven Berkoff, Claudia Karvan | Biography | aka: "Flynn" |
| My Second Car | Stuart McDonald | Ernie Gray, Kevin Harrington, Tony Rickards | Short | |
| Natural Justice: Heat | Scott Hartford-Davis | Steve BastoniDavid DaviesPeter Finlay | Drama | |
| Not Fourteen Again | Gillian Armstrong | Kerry Carlson, Diana Doman, Josie Petersen | Documentary | |
| Offspring | Richard Ryan | Chantal Contouri, Robert Mammone, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick | Drama / Thriller | |
| Once | Clea Frost | Short | ||
| Pact [1] | Short | |||
| Page 73 | Jeff Darling | Cathy Campbell, Rel Hunt, Joshua Rosenthal | Short | |
| Parklands | Kathryn Millard | Cate Blanchett, Tony Martin | Drama | |
| The Phantom | Simon Wincer | Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Catherine Zeta-Jones | Action / Afventure | |
| The Quiet Room | Rolf de Heer | Celine O'Leary, Chloe Ferguson, Paul Blackwell | Drama | Entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival |
| Rats in the Ranks | Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly | Larry Hand | Documentary | |
| River Street | Tony Mahood | Aden Young, Bill Hunter, Essie Davis | Comedy / Drama | |
| Savageries | Marcella Paolacci | Karen Colston, Hayley Prior, Annie Wilson | Short | |
| Shine | Scott Hicks | Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine | Biography / Drama | |
| Shooting the Breeze | Christina Andreef | Andrea Moor, Anthony Lawrence | Short | |
| Spirits of the Carnival | Gregory Read | John Gaden | Documentary | |
| Susie Is a Fish | Carla Drago | Documentary | ||
| Tease | Hayley Cloake | Cazerine Barry, John Howard | Short | |
| A Thin Life | Frank Howson | Tommy Dysart | Comedy | |
| This Film Is a Dog | Jonathan Ogilvie | Quinn Hud, Phoenix Arizona, Peter Johnson | Short | |
| To Have and to Hold | John Hillcoat | Tchéky Karyo, Rachel Griffiths, Steve Jacobs | Mystery / Thriller | |
| Tragic But True | Malcolm Burt | Short | ||
| Turning April | Geoff Bennett | Tushka Bergen, Aaron Blabey, Kenneth Welsh | Drama | |
| Two Bob Mermaid | Darlene Johnson | Carrie Prosser, Tessa Leahy, Jie Pitman | Short | |
| Uncle | Adam Elliot | William McInnes, John Flaus | Short | |
| Urban Fairytale | Michelle Mahrer | Arlo Duff, Angela Idealism, Bernd Naber | Short | |
| What I Have Written | John Hughes | Martin Jacobs, Gillian Jones | Drama | Entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Whipping Boy | Di Drew | Sigrid Thornton, Temuera Morrison, Tammy Macintosh | Thriller / Drama / Crime | |
| Wild Australia: The Edge | John Weiley | Hugo Weaving, Mark Baker, Hayley Pero | Short | |
| The Winner | Alex Cox | Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent D'Onofrio, Richard Edson | Comedy / Crime | |
| Zone 39 | John Tatoulis | Peter Phelps, Carolyn Bock, William Zappa | Sci-Fi |
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