Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Mad Max (1979)Mad Max (1979) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 12, 1979Made for about A$400,000 and shot in and around Melbourne, this is where the whole wasteland began, though it is really a revenge thriller on decaying highways rather than the desert epic people picture. Miller had worked in a hospital emergency room and seen the crash injuries the film depicts,…0
  2. 2Mad Max 2 (1981)Mad Max 2 (1981) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 24, 1981Known in the US as The Road Warrior, this is the film that invented the look every post-apocalypse movie has borrowed since: leather, scavenged cars, a fuel compound under siege in the outback near Broken Hill. Miller drew on Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and you can feel it in…0
  3. 3Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 24, 1983Miller's segment: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" This four-part anthology closes with Miller's remake of the classic episode, with John Lithgow as a terrified airline passenger who sees something on the wing in a storm. It runs only a short stretch of the film, yet it is pure Miller: a confined space,…0
  4. 4Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 29, 1985Miller co-directed this third Max film with George Ogilvie, the first made without his producing partner Byron Kennedy, who died in a helicopter crash in 1983. It is the oddball of the series: Tina Turner rules Bartertown as Aunty Entity, the Thunderdome cage fight is one of the great action set…0
  5. 5The Witches of Eastwick (1987)The Witches of Eastwick (1987) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 12, 1987A Hollywood comedy about the devil seems a long way from the outback, but Miller brings the same physical energy to John Updike's story of three bored small-town women and the charming stranger they conjure. Jack Nicholson plays Daryl Van Horne at full volume, and Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle…0
  6. 6Lorenzo's Oil (1992)Lorenzo's Oil (1992) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 30, 1992This is the film where Miller's medical training matters most. It tells the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, played by Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon, who taught themselves the science of their son Lorenzo's rare disease, adrenoleukodystrophy, when doctors had little to offer. Miller treats…0
  7. 7Babe: Pig in the City (1998)Babe: Pig in the City (1998) 5.9/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 25, 1998Chris Noonan directed Babe, but Miller took the reins for the sequel and made something stranger and braver: a talking-pig movie with a dark, dreamlike city, real peril and a streak of melancholy. It disappointed at the box office and some reviewers warned it was too dark for small children, yet…0
  8. 8Happy Feet (2006)Happy Feet (2006) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 16, 2006Miller won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for this musical about Mumble, an emperor penguin voiced by Elijah Wood who cannot sing but can tap dance. The dances were performed by real dancers through motion capture, with Savion Glover supplying Mumble's feet, which is why the movement feels so…0
  9. 9Happy Feet Two (2011)Happy Feet Two (2011) 5.8/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 17, 2011The weakest-reviewed film here, and worth knowing about mainly for completeness and for one inspired idea: a side story about two tiny krill, voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, who decide to leave the swarm. The main plot about Mumble's son is thinner than the first film, and critics were split.…0
  10. 10Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased May 13, 2015After years in development, Miller came back to the wasteland with what is essentially one long chase, built so it would read as a silent movie. Editor Margaret Sixel has said they cut silently for a long time, without temp music, apart from the dialogue scenes, so every image had to tell the story…0