| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Attack Force Z | Tim Burstall | John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood, John Waters, Chun Ku, Sylvia Chang, O Ti, Lung Shuan | Action / Drama / War | IMDb |
| Breakfast in Paris | | | | |
| Café of Love | | | | |
| Centrespread | | | | |
| The Clinic | David Stevens | Chris Haywood, Simon Burke, Gerda Nicolson, Rona McLeod | Drama | IMDb |
| Corpse | | | | |
| Crosstalk | Mark Egerton | Gary Day, Penny Downie, John Ewart | Science fiction | |
| The Dark Room | | | | |
| Dead Easy | | | | |
| Desolation Angels | | | | |
| Duet for Four | | | | |
| Early Frost | | | | |
| An Exercise in Discipline - Peel | | | | |
| Far East | John Duigan | Bryan Brown, Helen Morse, John Bell | Drama | IMDb |
| Fighting Back | | | | |
| Fluteman | | | | |
| Freedom | | | | |
| Ginger Meggs | Jonathan Dawson | Garry McDonald, Ross Higgins, Gwen Plumb, Harold Hopkins, Paul Daniels | | IMDb |
| Greetings from Wollongong | | | | |
| Heatwave | Phillip Noyce | Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, John Meillon | Drama | IMDb |
| Highest Honor | | | | |
| Journey to the End of Night | | | | |
| Kitty and the Bagman | | | | |
| The Little Feller | | | | |
| Lonely Hearts | Paul Cox | Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Julia Blake, Jonathan Hardy | Drama | IMDb |
| Lousy Little Sixpence | | | | |
| The Man from Snowy River | George T. Miller | Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Kirk Douglas, Tommy Dysart, David Bradshaw, Sigrid Thornton, Jack Thompson, Tony Bonner | Drama / Adventure | IMDb, Film remake |
| Monkey Grip | Ken Cameron | Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels, Alice Garner, Candy Raymond | Drama | Screened at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Mystery at Castle House | | | | |
| Next of Kin | Tony Williams | Jacki Kern, John Jarratt, Alex Scott, Gerda Nicolson, Charles McCallum, Bernadette Gibson, Robert Ratti, Tommy Dysart | Horror | |
| Norman Loves Rose[1] | Henri Safran | Carol Kane, Tony Owen, Warren Mitchell, Myra De Groot, David Downer, Barry Otto, Sandy Gore | | |
| Peel | Jane Campion | Tim Pye, Katie Pye | Short film | IMDb |
| The Pirate Movie | Kevin Annakin | Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Garry McDonald | Adventure / Musical | IMDb |
| The Plains of Heaven | Ian Pringle | Richard Moir, Reg Evans | Drama | IMDb |
| Running on Empty (a.k.a. Fast Lane Fever) | John Clark | Deborah Conway, |Max Cullen | Action | |
| Shadows | | | | |
| The Sharkcallers of Kontu | | | | |
| Snow: The Movie | | | | |
| Squizzy Taylor | Kevin James Dobson | David Atkins, Jackie Weaver, Alan Cassell | Drama | |
| Starstruck | Gillian Armstrong | Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan, Margo Lee | Comedy drama | |
| Storm Riders | | | | |
| Sweet Dreamers | | | | |
| Tennis Elbow | | | | |
| Turkey Shoot | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, Noel Ferrier, Lynda Stoner, Roger Ward, Gus Mercurio, John Ley, Steve Rackman, Oriana Panozzo | Science fiction / Action / Exploitation | IMDb |
| Warriors of the Deep | Tony Wheeler | | Documentary drama | IMDb |
| We of the Never Never | Igor Auzins | Angela Punch McGregor | Historical drama | Based on popular Australian autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn, first published in 1908 |
| With Prejudice | | | | |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir | Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier, Bembol Roco, Paul Sonkkila, Ali Nur, Dominador Robridillo, Joel Agona, Mike Emperio, Kuh Ledesma, Cecily Polson | | Entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
