Iconic movies and TV shows filmed in and around Melbourne
From the beloved Ramsay Street of Neighbours to the dramatic landscapes of Mad Max, Melbourne has served as the backdrop for numerous notable films and TV series, leaving a lasting impression on audiences worldwide.
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After 40 years at the heart of super soap, Neighbours, one of Melbourne’s best internationally known streets is not St Kilda Road or Collins Street, but sleepy Pin Oak Court in the suburb of Vermont South.
For four decades Pin Oak Court has doubled as the fictional Ramsay Street on the iconic series with filming regularly taking place in the court.
But with Neighbours being axed and production wrapping for the final time on Friday (July 11), the cameras have been packed away and the stars have bid farewell to the famous slice of suburbia.
Over the years Pin Oak Court has been a magnet for Neighbours fans from across the globe. Soap lovers, including Adele, trekked out to the quiet court which has hardly changed since the mid-80s to get a happy snap in front of “Dr Karl’s” house or the “Ramsay residence.”
The history of the location will still hold appeal for TV aficionados despite the end of the Neighbours.
Pin Oak Court might be the best known, but there are plenty of other notable locations around Melbourne and regional Victoria that have appeared in films and TV series.
Legendary film Mad Max shot at dozens of locations around Melbourne and owing to the cult status of the movie fans have obsessively noted each of them. Max’s house was located on the Great Ocean Road at Fairhaven and other locations included the moody underground car park at Melbourne University, the Spotswood Pumping Station, Clunes, Seaford beach, St Georges Hospital in Kew, Gisborne train station, Wallan, Laverton, Little River, Craigieburn, Williamstown, Gasworks in Port Melbourne and Claremont St, South Yarra.
Children’s show Round The Twist made the Split Point lighthouse at Airey’s Inlet famous.
Much loved country cop show Blue Heelers filmed regularly around Williamstown. The exterior of a home in Thompson St, Williamstown was used as the front of the fictional Mount Thomas police station.
Richard Lowenstein’s film Dogs in Space is memorable as INXS frontman Michael Hutchence’s feature film debut as the drug-addled singer of a band. The chaotic sharehouse that the film’s messy characters inhabit, is a two storey, double fronted Victorian terrace in Berry Street in Richmond. The house was heritage listed in 1988.
The hit ABC comedy Fisk used Errol Street in North Melbourne as one of its primary settings. The office of fictional lawyers Gruber & Associates was set in the building on Errol Street known as Lithuanian House.
Errol Street also featured in the Apple TV+ series Shantaram which starred Sons Of Anarchy pin-up, Charlie Hunnam.
Pentridge Prison, the Old Melbourne Gaol, the old Magistrates’ Court and old City Watch House were also used as locations in the show. Shacks were erected on the beach in Altona to recreate scenes in Bombay. The CBD’s Windsor Hotel was also featured.
Beloved Australian movie The Castle’s locations included a holiday home at Maintongoon Road, Bonnie Doon and a building at 728 Sydney Road in Brunswick which was the fictional office of the character, Dennis Denuto. External shots of the Kerrigan family’s home were done at 3 Dagonet St, Strathmore and airport footage was shot at Essendon and Melbourne airports.
The fictional domestic paradise in ‘Fountain Lakes’ inhabited by Kath Day-Knight in the hugely successful TV series Kath & Kim was a real home at 4 Lagoon Place, Patterson Lakes. The home was recently sold, knocked down and rebuilt.
The Jack Irish TV series filmed at The Napier Hotel in Fitzroy which doubled as the fictional Prince of Prussia hotel.
Stepping back in time, The Sullivans was set in suburban Melbourne at the fictitious address of 7 Gordon Street, Camberwell. The actual house used in the show was at 7 Milton Street, Canterbury.
In 1997 action man Jackie Chan filmed his movie Mr Nice Guy in Melbourne. Numerous inner city locations are easily identifiable in the finished film including Melbourne Central, Princes Bridge, Melbourne Town Hall and Melbourne’s vintage trams. Chan is seen in a chase scene along Swanston St with a horse and carriage and in a punch-up on Lygon St.
Apple Cider Vinegar, the Netflix hit series inspired by the Belle Gibson cancer con, was filmed at many locations around Melbourne. A few include Happy Valley in Fitzroy, Piccolina in Collingwood, Luther’s Scoops and Mediterranean Wholesalers in Brunswick, The Retreat Hotel in Abbotsford, Peninsula Hot Springs and The Sporting Club Hotel in Brunswick.
War Machine, starring Alan Ritchson and Dennis Quaid, was partially filmed at Laverton’s RAAF Base Williams as well as at Bright and Myrtleford.
The Nicolas Cage superhero film Ghost Rider was shot in Melbourne in the early 2000s. One of the famous scenes sees ‘Ghost Rider’ ride his motorcycle over the top of Southgate’s Evan Walker Bridge while being chased by the police, then drop onto the Yarra River to make his impossible escape.
Action star Liam Neeson was in Victoria in early 2025 filming the action flick The Mongoose. The movie used locations in Castlemaine, Bangholme, the Melbourne CBD, North Melbourne, Kensington, Moorabbin, Little River, and along the Calder Freeway between Malmsbury and Harcourt. It also filmed in Altona, where Neeson’s character was seen driving a car along the Altona Pier and at the Bacchus Marsh Aerodrome.
Neeson has filmed in Victoria quite a bit. Another of his films, Ice Road 2: Vengeance shot in the former gold mining town of Walhalla. The town’s main street was made over to resemble a Nepalese village for the movie.
Kate Winslet charmed her way around Victoria while filming the 2015 movie, The Dressmaker. Starring Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Sarah Snook and Hugo Weaving, the movie shot at Mount Rothwell in the You Yangs, Horsham, Murtoa Williamstown and in Ballarat Street, Yarraville.
The brilliant Robbie Williams biopic Better Man utilised dozens of locations in Melbourne when it filmed in 2022 including three soundstages at the Docklands Studios, Rod Laver Arena, Cruden Farm at Langwarrin, Fawkner Bowls Club, the Intercontinental Melbourne hotel, the Sunbury Asylum, Crown Casino, the Stella Maris Seafarers Centre, the Colonial Hotel, the Alan Eaton Studio in St Kilda, the Columban Mission Centre in Essendon, Melbourne University, the Melbourne Pavilion and the Melbourne Town Hall.
Horror film Winchester, which starred Helen Mirren, filmed in 2018 at the historic mansion Labassa in Caulfield North, Werribee Mansion and Ripponlea Estate.
Heath Ledger brought Hollywood star power to Clunes in 2003 when the film Ned Kelly rolled into town. The main street of the country Victorian town featured heavily with a stand out building being the former State Savings Bank.
Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor was the centre of attention in Maling Rd Canterbury in August 2024 when she filmed apocalyptic storm scenes in the quaint street for the film Beneath The Storm.
The TV mini series The Pacific, which was produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, used a number of locations around Melbourne to recreate scenes from the 1940s when it was filmed in 2008. Flinders Street was shut down for two days for scenes to be shot at the station. Filming also occurred in the You Yangs near Lara, the Ernest Jones Hall at La Trobe University, the Railway Hotel in South Melbourne, Scotch College in Melbourne and Melbourne High School.
Popular film The Dry, starring Eric Bana, used the Wimmera region of Victoria as its backdrop. Filming took place in Beulah, which was renamed Kiewarra in the movie, Minyip and Hopetoun. The former Club Hotel in Minyip was rebadged as the Majestic Hotel when it appeared on screen.
Finally, Mick Molloy’s 2002 feel good comedy Crackerjack put the spotlight on bowls clubs. The movie filmed at the Melbourne Bowling Club in Windsor, Australia’s oldest lawn bowls club, as well as at the Carrum Bowls Club and the Corowa Bowling Club in New South Wales.
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