Acclaimed director George Miller has spent a good part of his career making ‘Mad Max‘ movies.
The Australian filmmaker began his career by making ‘Mad Max’ with Mel Gibson, and followed it up with ‘Mad Max 2‘ and ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome‘ before starting to make non-‘Mad Max’ movies like ‘The Witches of Eastwick‘, ‘Babe: Pig in the City‘ and the ‘Happy Feet‘ films.
But in 2015, Miller returned to the franchise that put him on the map with the Oscar-nominated ‘Mad Max: Fury Road‘, which recast the title character with Tom Hardy and introduced Charlize Theron as fan-favorite Furiosa.
Now, Miller returns once again to the ‘Mad Max’ universe with the prequel ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga‘, which also recasts the title character with Anya Taylor-Joy and co-stars Chris Hemsworth.
In honor of the new film, Moviefone is counting down every movie that George Miller has ever directed, including his latest.
Note: For this list, we are only including Miller’s theatrical films as a director, and not his documentary ‘40,000 Years of Dreaming‘, or ‘Babe‘, which he only produced and co-wrote.
Let’s begin!
11. ‘Babe: Pig in the City‘ (1998)
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett’s farm, but after Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
313410. ‘Happy Feet Two‘ (2011)
Mumble (Elijah Wood) the penguin has a problem: his son Erik (Elizabeth Daily), who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria), a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
378929. ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome‘ (1985)
Mad Max (Mel Gibson) becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
10217758. ‘Lorenzo’s Oil‘ (1992)
Augusto (Nick Nolte) and Michaela Odone (Susan Sarandon) are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo (Zack O’Malley Greenburg) is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones’ persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
10213157. ‘Mad Max‘ (1980)
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
227616. ‘The Witches of Eastwick‘ (1987)
Three single women (Susan Sarandon, Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer) in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted – at a cost – when a mysterious and flamboyant man (Jack Nicholson) arrives in their lives.
5305. ‘Mad Max 2‘ (1982)
Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
7MyNIR2VFOUoG0Cs76uF434. ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga‘ (2024)
As the world falls, young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme). The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
FtGrvRM9cIruQe6dnSUJj3 wUFNU5RQ3. ‘Happy Feet‘ (2006)
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin (Elijah Wood) is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
218622. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing‘ (2022)
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
8KNHW7Wc8J48OynD3hUKX61. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road‘ (2015)
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
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