Australian outback movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant australian outback movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspense, disturbing, independent film and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with australian outback, desert, murder, death, australian aboriginal, violence, survival, danger, cigarette smoking and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in Australia, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as australian outback: Cactus (2008), Mystery Road (2018), Charlie's Farm (2014), Outback (2019), Strangerland (2015), Road Games (1981), Wolf Creek (2016), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Walkabout (1971), Lucky Miles (2007).

List of australian outback movies

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 5.7
 585
Cactus (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly, embarks on a journey into the Australian Outback towards the place where his hostage is due for delivery. As time and distance roll by, the ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological, road movie ...
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, australian outback, abduction, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, road trip, on the road, wilderness, escapades, gambling, danger, death ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: australia
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 7.5
 5K
Mystery Road (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Soon, Jay's investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
Style: exciting, colorful, scenic, detective, breathtaking
Plot: australian outback, police detective, ranch, secrets, nature, missing child, murder mystery, australian aboriginal, rural setting, failed relationship, father daughter relationship, police officer ...
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Charlie's Farm (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In an effort to do something different, four friends head into Australia's outback to explore Charlie's Farm, the site where a violent family met their end at the hands of an angry mob. Despite all warnings, they persist in their ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, brutal, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: running for your life, serial killer, characters killed one by one, farm, tractor, urban legend, australian outback, psychopath, murder, house, group of friends, road trip ...
Place: australia
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 5.0
 2K
Outback (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: American high school sweethearts, Wade and Lisa, travel to Australia to experience nature at its finest. As their relationship strains, they head inland to Uluru, navigating remote dirt roads with an unreliable GPS. Soon, they find themselves ...
Plot: struggle for survival, scorpion, stranded, vacation, dehydration, delusion, lost, snake, couples, journey, survival, animal attack ...
Place: australia, sydney australia, oceania
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 5.2
 10K
Strangerland (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: missing child, australian outback, family in crisis, husband wife relationship, outback, troubled marriage, restraining order, dehydration, social relations, family problems, mother daughter conflict, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 21st 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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 7.1
 6K
Wolf Creek (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series which centers on different characters being targeted by crazed serial killer Mick Taylor in the Australian outback.
Style: slasher, psychological, tense, suspense, anthology ...
Plot: serial killer, maniac, outback, survival, torture, australian outback, murder, fear, pursuit, death, danger, violence ...
Place: oceania
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A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. After investigations ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, tense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, prejudice, legal, court, investigation, injustice, false accusation, australian outback, murder, lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: australia, sydney australia
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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
 748
Lucky Miles (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to ...
Style: entertaining, sentimental, humorous, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot: journey, desert, immigration, refugee, survival, security, family relations, australian outback, father son relationship, trapped, survivor, migration ...
Place: australia, indonesia, iraq, cambodia
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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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 6.6
 6K
Goldstone (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: GOLDSTONE, the award-winning new feature from Australian auteur Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), is a complex and stylish crime thriller that explores themes of racism, human trafficking, police corruption, corporate malfeasance, and the trampling of ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, rough, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: corruption, missing person, desert, australian outback, small town, police, australian aboriginal, indigenous people, danger, exodus, rivalry, murder ...
Place: australia, oceania
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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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 7.6
 14K
Wake in Fright (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into ...
Style: independent film, disturbing, art house, christmas horror, controversial ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mining town, christmas, drunkenness, sex, animal cruelty, gay subtext, teacher, beer, male nudity, kangaroo, gambling, australian outback ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: australia, oceania
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 6.5
 2K
High Ground (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, bounty hunter, australian outback, racial slur, uncle nephew relationship, aborigine, family conflict, family relations, wildlife, saving a life, dysfunctional family, teamwork ...
Time: 1930s, year 1919, 20th century, 1910s, year 1931
Place: australia
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Quigley Down Under (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia, USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, exciting, harsh, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: genocide, vengeance, cowboy, australian outback, vigilantism, friendship, culture clash, fish out of water, gunfight, against the odds, modern west, modern western ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: australia, texas, wyoming, pacific ocean
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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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 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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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: road movie, exciting, visually stunning, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, desert, dystopian future, chase, car chase, distopia, car, dystopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future ...
Place: australia, los angeles
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Max Rockatansky 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 ...
Style: apocalyptic, road movie, futuristic, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, desert, truck, car chase, dystopia, loner, lone hero, chase, post apocalyptic, oil, survival ...
Time: future, year 1982, distant future, 20th century, near future ...
Place: australia, oceania, middle east
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Savages Crossing (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, suspense
Plot: flooding, natural disaster, family secret, flood, australian outback, murderer, survival, isolation, insecurity, group of strangers
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 7.1
 26K
The Tourist (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 693 min.
TV show
Story: When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
Style: thrilling, suspense, dramatic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: australian outback, amnesia, outback, truck, british man, past, dark past, organized crime, vacation, holiday, car, life ...
Place: australia
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The Dustwalker (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An alien spaceship crash-lands in an isolated town in the middle of the Australian desert, releasing an insidious parasite that attacks the brain of all creatures including humans, making them disorientated, unnaturally strong and violent. Sargeant ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, tense ...
Plot: zombie, australian outback, epidemic, death of child, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, dystopian future, danger, apocalypse, camaraderie, insanity, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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There's Something in The Pillaga (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The Pilliga Yowie, - or 'Jingra' - has haunted the Australian outback for centuries, stalking a remote part of New South Wales, where men seldom dare tread, content to keep to itself... until now. Blokish truck driver Jay and his cameraman ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, humorous, scary, bleak ...
Plot: found footage, bigfoot, sasquatch, monster, mythical creature, australian outback, creature feature, supernatural power, forest, evil, killings, fear ...
Time: 21st century
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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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Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Australia, Israel
Duration: 71 min.
Story: An Australian settler girl gets lost in the outback, but she is befriended by a kangaroo who gives her a ride in her pouch as they search for the girl's home. Aiding the pair are musically gifted koalas, platypuses, and kookaburras in this ...
Style: anime, feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: australian outback, kangaroo, friendship, rescue, heroes, young heroes, youth, misfit, escapades, wilderness, disorder, family relations ...
Place: australia
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Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
Style: humorous, entertaining, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: kidnapping, american abroad, desert, opposites attract, nothing goes right, farce, goofy hero, friends, on the road, fish out of water, adolescence vs adulthood, australian outback ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: australia, new york, sydney australia, manhattan new york city
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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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Japanese Story (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Against the background of an Australian desert landscape, so much space and so few people, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the ...
Style: emotional, stylized, captivating, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: culture clash, love story, desert, journey, interracial relations, interracial romance, road trip, love affair, opposites attract, unlikely couple, couples, wilderness ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
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 7.3
 10K
Wolf Like Me (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Gary is an emotional wreck and struggles to provide for his daughter since the death of his wife. Mary has a secret she can't bring herself to share with anyone. The universe brought these two together for a reason.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, funny, laugh out loud ...
Plot: werewolf, secret, death of wife, australian outback, unlikely couple, unlikely friendships, dark past, puzzle, satire, confronting the past, secret past, haunted by the past ...
Place: australia
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