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 suspense, independent film, serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films and TV shows about / with australian outback, violence, survival, death, desert, murder, wilderness, danger, outback and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Adventure genres shot in Australia, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as australian outback: Outback (2019), The Proposition (2005), Walkabout (1971), Quigley Down Under (1990), Wolf Creek (2016), Roadgames (1981), Mystery Road (2018), Strangerland (2015), Cactus (2008), Wake in Fright (1971).
Best films
New films
| High Ground (2020) | 6.6 | |
| The Tourist (2022) | 7.1 | |
| The Royal Hotel (2023) | 5.7 | |
| Before Dawn (2024) | 5.5 | |
| Total Control (2019) | 7.9 |
List of australian outback movies
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, splatter, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, australian outback, scorpion, survival, stranded, animal attack, vacation, paranormal activity, desert, dehydration, lost, delusion ...
Place:
australia, sydney australia, oceania
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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:
harsh, cult classic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
aborigine, rape, brutality, gang, australian outback, vengeance, violence, cowboy, violent, modern western, gory, wilderness ...
Time:
19th century, year 2005, 1800s, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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29K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
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, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, boy, teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA, Australia
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:
entertaining, suspense, harsh, exciting, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, australian outback, genocide, aborigine, culture clash, lone hero, vengeance, vigilantism, friendship, fish out of water, twists and turns, gunfight ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
australia, texas, pacific ocean, wyoming, california ...
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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, anthology, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, australian outback, torture, murder, fear, outback, desert, survival, violence, death, pursuit ...
Place:
oceania
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11K
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, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, highway, strangulation, hitchhiking, mysterious villain, truck driver, van, paranoia, australian outback ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
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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, secrets, missing child, nature, ranch, australian aboriginal, murder mystery, failed relationship, old man, rural setting, police station ...
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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, captivating, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
australian outback, missing child, husband wife relationship, mother daughter conflict, dehydration, restraining order, outback, desert, troubled marriage, nude girl, social relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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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, kidnapped, australian outback, abduction, hostage, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, road trip, death, gambling, wilderness, on the road, escapades ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
australia
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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, terrifying, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drunkenness, mining town, mental disorder, australian outback, sexism, beer, gambling, addiction, kangaroo, alcoholic, gay subtext, male nudity ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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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, terrifying, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, sadistic horror, killing spree, torture, tourist, gory, escape attempt, violence, chase, decapitation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
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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, thought provoking, poignant, factual, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot:
child abuse, aborigine, australian outback, racism, kidnapping, australian aboriginal, children, survival, colonialism, indigenous people, culture clash, desert ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1931, 70s
Place:
australia, tasmania, oceania, new zealand, africa
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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:
noir, neo noir, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
corruption, desert, missing person, australian outback, small town, police, australian aboriginal, outback, indigenous people, danger, exodus, fighting crime ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
australia, oceania
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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:
thought provoking, feel good, humorous, entertaining, sentimental ...
Plot:
journey, desert, immigration, refugee, survival, security, family relations, australian outback, father son relationship, survivor, trapped, migration ...
Place:
australia, iraq, cambodia, indonesia
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic ...
Style:
scary, perverse, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
animal attack, wild boar, australian outback, creature feature, creature, pig, struggle for survival, giant animal, monster, beast, survival, travel ...
Place:
oceania, australia, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. Dundee proves that ...
Style:
feel good, funny, romantic, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
culture clash, escapades, tourist, jungle, adventurer, australian outback, swamp, transformation, treasure hunt, fish out of water, life philosophy, creativity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, australia, usa, pacific ocean, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
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, suspenseful, brutal, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
running for your life, serial killer, characters killed one by one, characters murdered one by one, tractor, farm, urban legend, psychopath, australian outback, murder, house, group of friends ...
Place:
australia
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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, entertaining, not serious, funny, anamorphic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, chase, kangaroo, goofy hero, nothing goes right, desert, escapades, cons and scams, disorder, organized crime, australian outback, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
australia, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, oceania ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, maniac, torture, sadistic horror, psycho killer, macabre, killer, outback, massacre, gory, sadistic killer ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, oceania, texas
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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, emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, legal, trial, prejudice, court, australian outback, religious persecution, injustice, false accusation, investigation, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
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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:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
flood, australian outback, survival, isolation, family secret, flooding, natural disaster, rain, trapped, murderer, insecurity, group of strangers ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Style:
scary, humorous, surprise ending, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, australian outback, full moon, female werewolf, filmmaking, babies and infants, wolf, monster, nudity, lycanthropy, scientist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, lone hero, end of the world, post apocalyptic, desert, mad max, camel, car chase, group of children, australian outback, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
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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, perverse, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, desert, loner, car chase, planet, chase, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, oil ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future, year 1982, near future ...
Place:
australia, oceania, middle east
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
Style:
anamorphic, independent film, grindhouse, cult horror, horror comedy ...
Plot:
animal attack, revenge, killer animal, creature feature, brother brother relationship, death of wife, nightmare, dog, slaughterhouse, hunter, death of child, american abroad ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, oceania, new york, new zealand
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29K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: France, Australia, UK, USA
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, gang, bank robbery, biopic, injustice, criminal heroes, wilderness, lawlessness, resistance, revenge, false accusation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century ...
Place:
australia, oceania, new south wales, ireland, new zealand
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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:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, independent film
Plot:
australian aboriginal, bounty hunter, australian outback, racial slur, family relations, family conflict, aborigine, uncle nephew relationship, teamwork, dysfunctional family, criminal, escapades ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, 1910s, 20th century, year 1919
Place:
australia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
All Aussie Adventures is an Australian mockumentary television series that parodied the travel-adventure genre. Glenn Robbins plays Russell Coight, a survival and wildlife expert who charts his disastrous travels through Australia, spreading ...
Style:
sitcom, captivating, funny, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, australian outback, wildlife, escapades, nature, humour, exodus, wilderness, adventurer, camping, beer, klutz ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
oceania, australia
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Genre: Animation, Drama, 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, semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
kangaroo, australian outback, youth, misfit, escapades, rescue, heroes, young heroes, family relations, disorder, friends, animal life ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..
Style:
natural horror, independent film, psychotronic, wild, f word
Plot:
crocodile, creature feature, animal attack, creature, killer animal, alligator, australian outback, monster, reptiles, hunting, killer crocodile, park ranger ...
Place:
oceania, australia
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