Every George Miller Movie, Ranked
Director George Miller at the photo call for Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Copyright: © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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!
1998’s ‘Babe: Pig in the City’. Photo: Universal Pictures.
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.
2011’s ‘Happy Feet Two’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
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.
“Every step counts.”
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1 hr 40 minNov 18th, 2011
Tina Turner in 1985’s ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.’
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.
“Hold out for Mad Max. This is his greatest adventure.”
62
1 hr 47 minJul 8th, 1985
(L to R) Susan Sarandon, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Nick Nolte in ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’. Photo: Universal Pictures.
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.
“Some people make their own miracles.”
71
2 hr 15 minDec 30th, 1992
Mel Gibson in ‘Mad Max’. Photo: Roadshow Film Distributors.
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.
Jack Nicholson in ‘The Witches of Eastwick’. Photo: Warner Bros.
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.
“Three beautiful women. One lucky devil.”
65
1 hr 58 minJun 12th, 1987
Mel Gibson in ‘Mad Max 2’. Photo: Roadshow Film Distributors.
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.
“When all that’s left is one last chance, pray that he’s still out there…somewhere!”
74
1 hr 36 minSep 19th, 2008
Chris Hemsworth in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Jasin Boland. Copyright: © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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.
“Fury is born.”
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through… Read the Plot
2006’s ‘Happy Feet’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
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!
(L to R) Tilda Swinton stars as Alithea Binnie and Idris Elba as The Djinn in director George Miller’s film ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing.’ A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film.Photo credit: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc. © 2022 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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.
Charlize Theron in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
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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