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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, atmospheric, weird, independent film and harsh films and TV shows about / with culture clash, australian outback, runaway, storytelling, mentor, australian aboriginal, murder, beautiful scenery, betrayal and wilderness plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in Australia, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as australia: Sirens (1994), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Tracks (2013), The Proposition (2005), Australia (2008), Walkabout (1971), Banished (2015), Roadgames (1981), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Jindabyne (2006).
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12K
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, erotic, realistic, semi serious, rom com ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painting, artist, painter, voyeur, seduction, sexuality, husband wife sex, englishman abroad, skinny dipping, sexual awakening, culture clash, female nudity ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 1910s, edwardian era
Place:
australia, london, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 62 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:
human spirit, against the odds, girl heroine, danger, on the run, escapades, female whipping, prisoner, society, injustice, life is a bitch, sailing ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, georgian era
Place:
australia, england, europe
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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:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
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33K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
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:
touching, uplifting, sexy, scenic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
desert, wilderness, solitude, camel, photographer, human spirit, survival, independent woman, dog, explorer, obsessive quest, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, year 1976, year 1973 ...
Place:
australia, africa, new zealand
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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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133K
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:
emotional, scenic, epic, period piece, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
unlikely couple, social differences, opposites attract, desert, fall in love, wilderness, culture clash, couples, love story, prejudice, journey, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2008, year 1939, year 1942 ...
Place:
australia, japan, england, oceania, asia ...
Is relevant?
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: 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, costume drama, historical drama, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
colony, life is a bitch, danger, community, prison, confined, penal colony, moral dilemma, control, governor, brutality, colonialism ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place:
australia, england, oceania, britain, new south wales
Is relevant?
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: 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: 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, emotional ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, fishing, police detective, friendship, aborigine, self discovery, small town, mental illness, complex characters, investigation, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
australia, new south wales, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller, Western
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:
cannibalism, survival, escaped prisoner, penal colony, wilderness, murder, cannibal, fugitives, confined, escapades, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
australia, tasmania
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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: 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
Is relevant?
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, surprise ending, cult classic, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
horse, wild west, wild animal, stallion, wild horse, wilderness, ranch, australian outback, happy ending, horse riding, river, chase ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1982, 20th century ...
Place:
australia, new zealand
Is relevant?
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:
thought provoking, semi autobiographical, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
racism, culture clash, introspection, against the rules, society, elderly, escapades, social misfits, wilderness, indigenous people, self discovery, alienation ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, tasmania
Is relevant?
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:
costume drama, romantic, melancholic, surreal, captivating ...
Plot:
gambling, religion, obsession, wager, inheritance, friendship, fall in love, obsessive quest, love and romance, introspection, church, destiny ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, turn of the century, year 1997 ...
Place:
australia, england, britain, europe, sydney australia ...
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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, parody, serious ...
Plot:
tribe, australian aboriginal, swamp, vengeance, murder, love and romance, couples, heroes, couple relations, aborigine, mistaken identity, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 1930s
Place:
australia, oceania, tokyo
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54K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.
Style:
atmospheric, road movie, rough, serious, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
wilderness, desert, post apocalypse, on the road, dystopian future, revenge, vengeance, brutality, apocalypse, lone hero, small town, tough heroes ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
australia, california
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
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, romantic drama, period piece, costume drama, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
bullying, women, fashion, dressmaker, small town, murder mystery, mother daughter relationship, revenge, memory, illegitimate daughter, accidental death, seamstress ...
Time:
1950s, 1900s, year 1951, 50s
Place:
australia, oceania, milan italy, france, new york ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, captivating, twisted ...
Plot:
missing person, tourist, holiday, uncover truth, marijuana, inspiration, age difference, struggle, mobster, backpacking, pregnant wife, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, cambodia, asia
Is relevant?
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: 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
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in ...
Style:
anamorphic, serious, surreal, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, survival, youth, 10 year old, bare chested male, boy, nature, homeless, homeless man, tragedy, wilderness, orphan ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
guru, sex scene, battle of the sexes, woman urinating, religion, adultery, female nudity, brainwashing, strong sexual content, psychology, tourist, female pubic hair ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
australia, india, delhi, sydney australia, asia ...
Is relevant?
52K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, United Arab Emirates, UK
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, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, zombie, post apocalypse, survival, boat, father daughter relationship, infected, virus, infection, danger, desert, aborigine ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
australia, oceania, south australia
Is relevant?
265K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place:
india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
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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:
tense, thought provoking, factual, witty, intense ...
Plot:
politics, lawyer, courtroom, war, military, murder, court, military life, tragedy, world politics, soldier, colonialism ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, year 1980, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
south africa, australia, africa, south australia, new zealand ...
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