CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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MOVIE1979 1h 33m AUS

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION

If you loved Mad Max, try these.

The Road Warrior poster 01

Movie / 1981 / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction

The Road Warrior

Why this pick

Miller expands Mad Max’s stripped-back road violence into a harsher, more mythic wasteland, while retaining the feral vehicles, dry Australian landscapes, and relentless forward momentum.

The Rover poster 02

Movie / 2014 / Crime / Drama

The Rover

Why this pick

Its sun-blasted Australian collapse, scarce dialogue, and grim pursuit channel the first Mad Max’s intimate sense of a society quietly coming apart.

Vanishing Point poster 03

Movie / 1971 / Action / Drama

Vanishing Point

Why this pick

A lone driver, a powerful car, empty highways, and escalating pursuit create the same lean, fatalistic automotive energy that fed Mad Max.

The Driver poster 04

Movie / 1978 / Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

The Driver

Why this pick

This cool, sparse nocturnal chase film shares Mad Max’s economical storytelling, near-wordless antihero, and reverence for driving as character and conflict.

Duel poster 05

Movie / 1971 / Action / Thriller

Duel

Why this pick

A simple road encounter becomes escalating mechanical dread, delivering tense highway suspense and a hostile, isolating landscape without overexplaining anything.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.

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01 / THE STORY

The maximum force of the future.

Mad Max is set in a dystopian near-future society suffering from a prolonged fuel shortage. Civil order is rapidly deteriorating and lawless gangs rampage across the desolate landscape, in defiance of the crumbling police force, the Main Force Patrol (MFP).

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

Max

Joanne Samuel

Jessie

Hugh Keays-Byrne

Hugh Keays-Byrne

Toecutter

Steve Bisley

Jim Goose

Tim Burns

Tim Burns

Johnny the Boy

Roger Ward

Fifi

Lisa Aldenhoven

Nurse

David Bracks

Mudguts