Aborigine movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant aborigine movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, independent film, captivating, atmospheric and disturbing films and TV shows about / with aborigine, australian aboriginal, indigenous, indigenous people, australian outback, journey, singing, murder, death and blood plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in Australia, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as aborigine: The Tracker (2002), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), The Proposition (2005), Jindabyne (2006), The Nightingale (2018), Beneath Clouds (2002), Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), Ten Canoes (2006), High Ground (2020), Charlie's Country (2013).

List of aborigine movies

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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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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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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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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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The Nightingale (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In 1829, Claire, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, controversial, road movie ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: revenge, aborigine, rape, female protagonist, racial prejudice, rape and revenge, vengeance, colonization, murder, brutality, turning the tables, outback ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2019, 1820s
Place: australia, oceania, ireland, tasmania
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Beneath Clouds (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, art house ...
Plot: racism, prison, coming of age, on the road, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, young heroes, opposites attract, aborigine, indigenous people ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, new south wales, sydney australia
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Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Extraordinary images from Werner Herzog. Shot in the Australian Outback the Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us ...
Style: bleak, contemplative, political, realistic, serious ...
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, survival, desert, environment, nature, mining, explorer, human rights, ecology, expedition, union ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: germany, africa, australia, south australia
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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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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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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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 7.6
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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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Sweet Country (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, sincere, captivating, visual ...
Plot: australian aboriginal, slavery, trial, indigenous people, abuse of power, rape, court case, farmer, landowner, injustice, murder, brutality ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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Samson and Delilah (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone the discover that life isn't ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: aborigine, desert, hunger, power of love, teenage love, teenage life, youth, misfit, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time: year 2009
Place: australia, oceania
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The Outlaw Michael Howe (2013)
Genre: History
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 1814. Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial government to breaking point. Driven by a deep sense of loyalty and an unquenchable hatred towards ...
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: aborigine, revolution, insurrection, colonialism, criminal gang, gang, social problems, bandit, relationships, rebellion, convict, decapitation ...
Place: australia, tasmania
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Storm Boy (1976)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, aborigine, bird, youth, boy, australian aboriginal, drifter, animal life, pelican, family relations, friends, society ...
Place: australia, south 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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Burke & Wills (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, stylized ...
Plot: aborigine, desert, camel, australian history, maze, rescue attempt, british empire, outback, journey, sandstorm, countdown, journalist ...
Time: 19th century, year 1985, 1860s, victorian era, 1850s
Place: australia, melbourne, england
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Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
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, romantic, humorous, funny, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, date night
Plot: culture clash, tourist, escapades, fish out of water, jungle, swamp, adventurer, transformation, life philosophy, australian outback, treasure hunt, creativity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, australia, usa, manhattan new york city
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Red Hill (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, husband wife relationship, pregnant wife, horse, unstoppable, murder, violence spree, haunted by the past, hunt down, life is a bitch, society, injustice ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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 6.3
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Cargo (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: zombie, pandemic, post apocalypse, survival, infection, father daughter relationship, boat, infected, baby, aborigine, danger, protection ...
Time: near future, 2010s
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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 6.5
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Yolngu Boy (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
Style: independent film
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, bad father, indigenous people, journey, hunter, alcoholism, burglary, juvenile delinquency, father son reunion, friendship between men, teenager ...
Place: australia
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 6.6
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Radiance (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: With the death of their mother, two sisters (Nona and Cressy) return to their childhood home in Northern Australia where their third sister, Mae, lived looking after their mother. The funeral happens and the three find themselves together in the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: aborigine, indigenous people, woman, female warrior, madness, half sister half sister relationship, inheritance, old age, ashes, insanity, fire, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: australia
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, father son reunion, self discovery, starting over, redemption, parent child relationship, going straight, hopes, introspection, estrangement, parents and children, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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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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 5.4
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Pathfinder (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
Style: harsh, stylized, rough, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: viking, native american, sword fight, native, sword, medieval, gory, master warrior, danger, winter, sword and sorcery, battles ...
Time: middle ages, year 2007, medieval times, 20th century, 9th century
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Mystery Road (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
Style: detective, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: desert, investigation, murder investigation, small town, murder, who done it, police, estrangement, outback, heroes, law enforcement, australian aboriginal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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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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 6.2
 2K
Bran Nue Dae (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished ...
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, captivating, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: getting home, rebelliousness, teenage love, teenage life, self discovery, on the road, clergy, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, hardcase students, hopes, youth ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: australia
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Ned Kelly (1970)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century ...
Style: social, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: manhunt, aborigine, outlaw, rock, hippie, heroes, prison, frontier town, bank robber, society, life is a bitch, folk hero ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: australia, new south wales, ireland
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 6.4
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Ground Zero (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, atomic bomb, investigation, aborigine, australian aboriginal, survival, dead father, nuclear holocaust, politics, murder, conspiracy theory, advertising ...
Time: year 1987, 50s
Place: australia, south australia, melbourne
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