Mad Max: Fury Road
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Winner of 6 Academy Awards in 2016
Haunted by a troubled past, Mad Max believes that the best way to survive is to stay alone. However, he finds himself swept up by a gang traveling through the Wasteland in a military vehicle driven by Imperator Furiosa. They are fleeing the Citadel, where the fearsome Immortan Joe reigns—a man from whom an irreplaceable object has been stolen. Enraged, this warlord sends his men to hunt down the rebels without mercy...
George Miller
George Miller is an Australian filmmaker. In a career spanning four decades, he has received critical and popular success, and is widely known for creating and directing every film in the Mad Max franchise starting in 1979, including two entries which are considered two of the greatest action films of all time. He has earned numerous accolades, including an Academy Award from six nominations in five different categories. His directing career started in Australia with the first three Mad Max films between 1979 and 1985, after which he transitioned to Hollywood with The Witches of Eastwick (1987). His family drama Lorenzo's Oil (1992) earned him his first Academy Award nomination after which he produced and co-wrote Babe (1995) and directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998). He would venture into animation with Happy Feet (2006), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and the sequel Happy Feet Two (2011), before returning to Mad Max with the acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which went on to win six Academy Awards, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).
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