Movies and TV shows set in australia

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in australia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, independent film, disturbing and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with australian outback, husband wife relationship, australian aboriginal, blood, family relations, wilderness, survival, death, aborigine and murder plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres shot in Australia, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as australia: The Man from Snowy River (1982), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Banished (2015), Wolf Creek 2 (2013), The Proposition (2005), Jindabyne (2006), Australia (2008), Walkabout (1971), Tracks (2013), Oscar and Lucinda (1997).

List of movies set in australia

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The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: life is a bitch, human spirit, against the odds, girl heroine, escapades, on the run, danger, society, prisoner, injustice, survival, female whipping ...
Time: 18th century, 1780s, georgian era
Place: australia, england, europe
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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin ...
Style: sentimental, cult classic, surprise ending, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: horse, wild west, wild horse, ranch, stallion, wilderness, river, coming of age, chase, happy ending, australian outback, treasure hunt ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, year 1982, 1800s ...
Place: australia
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Style: touching, emotional, poignant, factual, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: child abuse, aborigine, australian outback, racism, kidnapping, children, australian aboriginal, culture clash, survival, indigenous people, women, colonialism ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1931
Place: australia, oceania
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 7.4
 4K
Banished (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. ...
Style: serious, historical drama, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: colony, life is a bitch, danger, community, prison, confined, moral dilemma, control, governor, brutality, penal colony, colonialism ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place: australia, england, oceania, new south wales
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 6.1
 23K
Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, torture, gory, killing spree, sadistic horror, escape attempt, chase, decapitation, violence, danger, tourist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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The Proposition (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot: aborigine, brutality, rape, cowboy, psychopath, outlaw, wilderness, gory, modern western, violence, bounty hunter, savagery ...
Time: 19th century, year 2005, 1800s, victorian era, 1880s
Place: australia, oceania
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 6.3
 7K
Jindabyne (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, serious, intense ...
Plot: fishing, murder, serial killer, friendship, aborigine, self discovery, police detective, small town, complex characters, mental illness, investigation, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006
Place: australia, new south wales
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 6.6
 129K
Australia (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving ...
Style: scenic, emotional, epic, period piece, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: fall in love, unlikely couple, social differences, couples, opposites attract, desert, culture clash, wilderness, prejudice, journey, world war two, love story ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2008, 19th century, 50s ...
Place: australia, japan, england, asia, oceania ...
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 7.6
 27K
Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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 7.1
 32K
Tracks (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style: uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wilderness, desert, solitude, camel, survival, travel, human spirit, photographer, explorer, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, 70s, year 1976 ...
Place: australia
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Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly ...
Style: romantic, surreal, melancholic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: gambling, obsession, religion, friendship, wager, inheritance, fall in love, introspection, obsessive quest, love and romance, love, destiny ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1997, 1800s
Place: australia, england, britain, europe, sydney australia
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Charlie's Country (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's ...
Style: semi autobiographical, realistic, thought provoking, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: racism, culture clash, introspection, society, against the rules, elderly, social misfits, escapades, wilderness, indigenous people, self discovery, alienation ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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Van Diemen's Land (2009)
Genre: Biography, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared ...
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: survival, cannibalism, wilderness, penal colony, escaped prisoner, cannibal, murder, fugitives, rivalry, confined, life is a bitch, escapades ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: australia, tasmania
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 6.4
 28K
Ned Kelly (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: Australia, UK, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from ...
Style: romantic, captivating, factual, sincere, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: folk hero, biopic, injustice, gang, bank robbery, wilderness, resistance, lawlessness, revenge, false accusation, life is a bitch, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: australia, oceania, new south wales
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 5.9
 11K
Sirens (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay ...
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sex comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: painting, artist, painter, seduction, sexuality, culture clash, voyeur, erotica, sexual awakening, self discovery, polyamory, liberal ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 1910s, edwardian era
Place: australia
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 7.8
 14K
Breaker Morant (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the ...
Style: political, tense, factual, witty, intense ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, politics, legal, war, military, murder, court, military life, tragedy, world politics, soldier ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, year 1980, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: south africa, africa, australia, south australia
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style: scenic, atmospheric, surreal, stylized, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, unsolved mystery, coming of age, adolescence, sexuality, boarding school life, private school, folk horror, wilderness, surrealism ...
Time: 1900s, year 1900, victorian era, near future, edwardian era ...
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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 6.9
 5K
Ten Canoes (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an ...
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, realistic, serious, witty ...
Plot: tribe, australian aboriginal, swamp, vengeance, indigenous people, murder, love and romance, couples, forbidden love, heroes, couple relations, expedition ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: australia, oceania
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McLeod's Daughters (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television series that began airing on the Nine Network on 8 August 2001. This Logie award winning drama series follows the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod as they embark on a mission: to run ...
Style: realistic, witty, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, feminism, family relations, couple relations, workplace, family business, sister sister relationship, family problems, estrangement, wilderness, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: australia, south australia
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 4.5
 34K
Kangaroo Jack (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician, get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, not serious, anamorphic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, chase, kangaroo, escapades, goofy hero, cons and scams, disorder, organized crime, desert, fish out of water, animal, gangster ...
Time: year 2003, year 2002, 21st century
Place: australia, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, oceania
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 7.0
 65K
The Dressmaker (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Style: romantic, period piece, melancholic, satirical, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, bullying, women, dressmaker, small town, mother daughter relationship, seamstress, memory, illegitimate daughter, accidental death, murder mystery, false accusation of murder ...
Time: 1950s, 1900s, year 1951
Place: australia, oceania, france, new york, milan italy ...
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 7.2
 48K
Candy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, romantic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, addiction, junkie, drug addict, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, obsession, drug, love story, love, mental illness ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style: road movie, feel good, melancholic, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gay, road trip, desert, on the road, transgender, drag queen, gay slur, transvestism, gender bending, homosexuality, bus ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, south australia
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Return to Snowy River (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison (Sigrid Thornton), Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, independent film
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: horse, treasure hunt, love and romance, chase, wilderness, treasure hunter, peace, prairie, ranch, rancher, horse riding, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, 80s, 1890s
Place: australia
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 7.3
 3K
The Tracker (2002)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, fanatic, outback, racism, murder, australian outback, expedition, injustice, vigilantism, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania
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 6.6
 9K
Road Games (1981)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Style: slasher, road movie, suspense, psychotronic, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, truck driver, highway, strangulation, hitchhiking, van, mysterious villain, hitchhiker, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
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 5.3
 2K
Coffin Rock (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens
Plot: pregnancy, stalking, obsession, danger, infidelity, couples, small town, husband wife relationship, suspicion, stalker, age-gap relationship, house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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 7.2
 60K
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: gangster, interrogation, violence, complex characters, justice, investigation, drug dealer, character study, vengeance, law enforcement, bad mother, power struggle ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania, peru
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 7.6
 56K
Shine (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Style: inspirational, emotional, feel good, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: music, classical music, piano, biopic, pianist, prodigy, schizophrenia, child prodigy, psychology, father son relationship, mental illness, genius ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, 70s
Place: australia, middle east, oceania, london, south australia
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, island, husband wife relationship, adoption, trying to get pregnant, miscarriage, missing child, mother love, isolation, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place: australia
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