The Royal Hotel is a 2023 Australian psychological thriller film directed by Kitty Green, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar Redding.

After running out of money while partying in Sydney, they take up an employment agency's offer to work as bartenders at the Royal Hotel, a pub in a remote outback mining town.

Hanna and Liv's first shift is handling the raucous farewell party for their predecessors, English tourists Jules and Cassie.

Hanna is disturbed by the casual sexism, misogynistic jokes, and inappropriate behaviour displayed by the pub patrons, who are mostly men, although Liv brushes it off as a culture shock.

That night at the girls' upstairs living quarters, while Liv is asleep, Hanna rebuffs Matty's sexual advances, before ordering him to leave.

Over the next few nights, Hanna continues to endure harassment and microaggressions by the pub patrons, while Liv is embraced by the regulars for her easygoing attitude.

Liv begins to slack off at work and joins the regulars in drinking, striking up a friendship with local miner Teeth.

[5][6][7] Production comes from See-Saw Films through producers Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Liz Watts along with Scarlett Pictures' Kath Shelper.

[11] While the upstairs living area of the building was used for filming, scenes of the bar on the ground floor were shot on a separate stage.

The website's consensus reads: "A chilling immersion into a place and time fraught with constant danger, The Royal Hotel reunites Kitty Green and Julia Garner to electrifying effect.

"[18] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 77 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Green continues to establish herself as an insightful chronicler of the minor yet devastating terrors of violent masculinity that many women endure everywhere they go.