Australian aboriginal movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant australian aboriginal movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing and touching films and TV shows about / with australian aboriginal, society, family relations, indigenous, death, aborigine, female nudity, murder, indigenous people and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in Australia, UK, Vanuatu and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as australian aboriginal: The Tracker (2002), Tanna (2015), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), The Dreaming (1988), High Ground (2020), We of the Never Never (1982), Sweet Country (2017), The Secret River (2015), Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), Yolngu Boy (2001).

List of australian aboriginal movies

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 7.3
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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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 6.9
 5K
Tanna (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Vanuatu
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, realistic, psychological, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pacific island, tradition, native tribe, tribe, volcano, forced marriage, conflict, warrior, love, tragic love, forbidden love, lovers ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: africa, oceania, pacific ocean
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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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 5.1
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The Dreaming (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A place where ancient mysteries survive... and nightmares are real. A burial ground is unearthed. A Girl dies. An ancient curse lives on. And then there are the dreams... Dreams or nightmares?... Nightmares or premonitions? A young doctor becomes ...
Style: independent film, detective
Plot: nightmare, dream, supernatural, australian aboriginal, rain, blonde, flashback, hospital, priest, father daughter relationship, telephone call, falling from height ...
Place: south australia
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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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We of the Never Never (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: australian aboriginal, aborigine, countryside, strong female lead, sexism, bride and groom, australian outback, killing an animal, feminist, animal cruelty, racism, strong female presence ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 1900s
Place: australia, melbourne
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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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The Secret River (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
Style: stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: love affair, social differences, society, misfit, love and romance, australian aboriginal, colony, convict, lgbt, lgbtq, australian history, river ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: 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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 6.5
 378
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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 4.4
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The Flood (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms into redemption and reconciliation.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, exciting, dramatic
Plot: colonialism, revenge, australian aboriginal, vengeance, loss of daughter, death of daughter, daughter, murder of daughter, husband, loss of husband, death of husband, loss ...
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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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Redfern Now (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Six extraordinary stories one unmissable series. Redfern Now is the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: slice of life, australian aboriginal, lifestyle, family problems, tragic event, society, multiple storylines, city life, changing lives, family life, social problems, aborigine ...
Place: australia, indiana
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 6.7
 8K
Somersault (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, teenager, mother daughter relationship, self discovery, teenage life, unfaithfulness, runaway, love and romance, youth, dysfunctional family, visceral, solitude ...
Time: year 2004
Place: australia, new south wales
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 6.4
 302K
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the ...
Style: bad ending, futuristic, suspense, enigmatic, dark ...
Plot: alien, creature, space travel, outer space, extraterrestrial, robot, alien life-form, androids, monster, human versus alien, space exploration, survival ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: space western
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 6.6
 8K
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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The Gods of Wheat Street (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: Head of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. Can he let go of his past in time to save the future?
Style: touching, semi serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: family life, haunted by the past, single parent, family tradition, dysfunctional family, society, family problems, family in crisis, hopes, family reunited, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: australia
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 6.9
 2K
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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The Drover's Wife (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: family relations, parent child relationship, female warrior, dysfunctional family, farmer, family farm, society, farmhouse, husband wife relationship, farm, eccentric family, female protagonist ...
Time: victorian era
Place: australia
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The Cars That Eat People (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur ...
Style: surreal, horror comedy, cult classic, psychotronic, road movie ...
Plot: car, carsploitation, redneck, small town, crash, automobile, hospital, murder, tourist, monster car, dystopia, community ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: australia
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 6.5
 6K
Long Weekend (1978)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
Style: slasher, scary, natural horror, atmospheric, depressing ...
Plot: camping, killing an animal, topless woman, animal attack, wilderness, expedition, creature feature, supernatural, beach, camp, storm, forest ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania
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 6.8
 220K
Mad Max (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Style: road movie, futuristic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, stylized ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, chase, dystopia, vengeance, post apocalypse, revenge, biker, car chase, dystopic future, chaos, car, violence spree ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, year 1979, distant future ...
Place: australia, oceania
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Dogs in Space (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-be's who survive on a ...
Style: independent film, art house, psychotronic, dark, serious ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, drug addiction, club, australian aboriginal, alienation, subculture, drug abuse, punk, punk rock, friendship, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1978
Place: australia, melbourne
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The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Coming-of age feature, set in a New South Wales country town in the 1960s, about a 15 year-old boy. It follows his loves and how he copes with life's problems such as death and departure.
Style: sad, independent film, social, retro, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, small town, first love, childhood, friendship, love triangle, love, pregnant teenager, relationships, forbidden love, bittersweet, discrimination ...
Time: 60s, year 1987, 20th century, year 1962
Place: australia, new south wales
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 7.1
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Flirting (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, high school, bullying, male nudity, love, teenage life, male pubic hair, teenage love, character study ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1965
Place: australia, uganda, paris france, kenya, africa
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 6.1
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Metal Skin (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Psycho Joe babysits his brain-damaged father without a friend in the world, living in squalor in the suburbs of Melbourne. Joe loves one thing: Fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who ...
Style: art house, serious, realistic, bleak, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, car, teen angst, obsession, mental illness, drag racing, unrequited love, auto mechanic, store, teenage life, working class, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne
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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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Love Serenade (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ken Sherry, a radio personality from Brisbane, moves to the small country town of Sun Ray to take over the local radio station as a retreat from city life and his past.He moves next door to love-starved sisters Vicki-Ann and Dimity Hurley. They are ...
Style: talky, satirical, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: radio dj, loneliness, eccentricity, transformation, disorder, small town life, love triangle, womanizer, small town, sister sister relationship, food, character study ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: australia
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 7.2
 578
The Straits (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: smuggling, family business, criminal heroes, parents and children, family relations, exotic island, dark humor, siblings relations, profanity, rivalry, gang war, family feud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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 6.5
 106
Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
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