Melbourne australia movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant melbourne australia movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, tense and captivating films and TV shows about / with death, family relations, murder, husband wife relationship, female nudity, friendship, violence, nude, investigation and coming of age plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in Australia, UK, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as melbourne australia: Head On (1998), West of Sunshine (2017), Animal Kingdom (2010), Romper Stomper (1992), Darkfall Resurrection (2013), Anaganaga Australia Lo (2025), Roadgames (1981), The Sapphires (2012), What if it Works? (2017), Stingers (1998).
Best films
New films
| Melbourne (2014) | 6.4 | |
| The Wrong Girl (2016) | 7.0 | |
| Holding the Man (2015) | 7.5 | |
| The Dressmaker (2015) | 7.0 | |
| Sunshine (2017) | 7.5 |
List of melbourne australia movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style:
independent film, terrifying, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, gay slur, sex, lgbt, sexual attraction, horniness, gay bar, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, masturbation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, family conflict, father son relationship, family relations, husband wife conflict, friendship, drug, drug deal, drug dealing, chase, violence, friend ...
Place:
melbourne
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, visually appealing, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence, organized crime, gangster, mafia, bad mother, investigation, justice, complex characters, vengeance, character study, drug dealer, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, peru, melbourne, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman ...
Style:
sexy, political, brutal, harsh, retro ...
Plot:
skinhead, neo nazi, racism, gang, violent, brutality, sex scene, violence, immigrant, strangulation, vandalism, profanity ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
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Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Anonymous Set in outer space, on the planet Akoh, The elder Zeav Keela tells his last story to a group of students. Recalling his younger years, Zeav and Alexandra are madly in love and plan to elope. Alex's father Jake is a Professor of ...
Style:
gothic, tense, suspense, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female vampire, vampire, rocket, fight, immortal, planet, survival, galaxy, goth, love, space wars, vampire vs vampire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
melbourne
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, India
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
An Indian former Chief Minister receives a high-stakes call from Melbourne, Australia, demanding a ransom of 100 crores in exchange for a top-secret that could jeopardize their political party's future with elections around the corner.
Style:
political thriller, tension, suspense, serious, noir
Plot:
ransom, blackmail, corruption, conspiracy, scandal, power struggle, secrets, betrayal, moral dilemma, investigation, cat and mouse, espionage ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Ronny is a Malaysian student who’s come to Australia to study law. Though smart, driven and competitive, he’s also blunt and barbed, so it’s not long before Ronny is at odds with most people on campus.
Style:
sitcom, satirical, captivating, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, satire, student, university student, college, university, fish out of water, mother son relationship, social satire, college student, slice of life ...
Place:
australia, malaysia, melbourne
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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: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Style:
humorous, sweet, captivating, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
girl group, vietnam war, friendship, biopic, female singer, indigenous people, family relations, lifestyle, desire for fame, musician's life, ambition, goodhearted ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 70s, year 1967, year 2012 ...
Place:
vietnam, australia, oceania, saigon, southeast asia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Adrian, an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, has OCD. Grace, a beautiful street artist, has multiple personality disorder. It's a love story that seems impossible. But what if it works?
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, sincere, offbeat ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dissociative identity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental illness, split personality, street art, female artist, love, love and romance, couples, old love, odd couple, love story ...
Place:
melbourne
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668
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Two down-and-out barflies wind up in over their heads when they steal a briefcase filled with valuable coins.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, undercover cop, woman with a gun, justice, nypd, police, police investigation, chases and races, law enforcement, heroes, partner ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, demonic, dark ...
Plot:
haunted house, dementia, mother daughter relationship, missing person, grandmother, supernatural, women, female warrior, mental disorder, cursed, mother, family relations ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oceania, melbourne
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, not serious, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, unemployment, working class, friends, social differences, love and romance, fighting the system, father son relationship, male female relationship, identity, exodus, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia. Shaun (Kane McNay) is a teenager growing up in a run-down suburb of Melbourne. His father Sam (Brett Swain) is in prison, while his mother Jenny ...
Plot:
drug use, shopping mall, bad father, single mother, truancy, family relations, dancing, drinking, dancer, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy ...
Place:
melbourne
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, detective, crying
Plot:
investigation, murder, secret, murder mystery, doctor, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, sleuth, forensics, crime solving, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
melbourne, australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
Plot:
serial killer, world war two, true crime, soldier, killing spree, killer, death sentence, murder, sergeant, colonel, diplomacy, trial ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
australia, melbourne
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
Style:
anamorphic, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot:
horse, racehorse, horse riding, horse race, biopic, attempted murder, great depression, greed, gambling, friendship, friends, rivalry ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
mexico, latin america, sydney australia, melbourne, australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
murder, policewoman, law enforcement, police investigation, chaos, chaos and mayhem, suburbs, suburban life, vigilante, secret, paranoia, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
australia, melbourne
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. Malcolm, with Franks help, turns to a life of crime. Malcolm ...
Style:
surreal, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, independent film ...
Plot:
autism, heist, unemployment, autistic, gadget, remote control, genius, bank, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, lisbon portugal, melbourne
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A newly married couple receive an unexpected visit from an old friend who has ulterior motives to end their relationship.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, intense, twist ending, grim
Plot:
psychological manipulation, deception, betrayal, manipulation, marital crisis, jealousy, intimate, domestic drama, frustration, character study, revenge motive, intruder ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the tangled lives of two generations of two families. Tangle is filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009. It is written by Fiona ...
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
family relations, family problems, eccentric family, family life, troubled marriage, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, parents and children, marital problem, lifestyle, politician, generation ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, middle class, family drama, family relations, resilience, daily life, military service, sacrifice, community, patriotism, nostalgia, social change ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
australia, melbourne, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
This drama mini-series follows a group of friends from the South Sudanese community living in Sunshine, a suburb in the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. The young men get entangled in a crime as they are hoping to make it as professional ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tension ...
Plot:
ambition, dream, community, social problems, sport team, athlete's life, high school basketball, social issues, athlete and trainer, basketball player, ambitious man, basketball coach ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A reserved man in need of a job, Carl Fitzgerald finds employment at a Greek restaurant. Upon meeting waitress Sophie, Carl begins dating the attractive woman. Though it seems things are improving for Carl, an unexpected situation leads to the death ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
death, dark humor, exodus, greek, waitress, restaurant, violent content, parents and children, love and romance, nothing goes right, friends, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
australia, california, ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
Plot:
shakespeare, sexual assault, fornication, law, drug dealer, fall in love, death penalty, methamphetamine, dying man, death sentence, extreme violence, aspiring musician ...
Place:
australia, vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Style:
sex comedy, slapstick, slapstick comedy, double entendre, interesting
Plot:
sex therapy, sexual blackmail, gigolo, psychiatrist, exploitation, female pubic hair, male nudity, mother superior, hidden camera, skydiving, psychotherapy, courtroom ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, danger, nypd, hidden truth, sports gambling, customer, police corruption, activist, gunfight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
TV show
Story:
In swinging 60’s Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class private ...
Style:
detective, realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, amateur sleuth, female protagonist, murder, private detective, riddles and clues, feminism, heroine, twists and turns, evidence, escapades, whodunit ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
australia, melbourne
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Finland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tuuli grows up in an oppressively religious and abusive family in Finland. To escape from the shadow of her angelic twin sister she travels to Melbourne, Australia. Curious of sexuality, she becomes a nude model for art classes. Her innocent surface ...
Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, tense, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
identity crisis, nudity, abuse, escape, delusion, outsider, sexual awakening, obsession, slow burn, violence, small town, murder ...
Place:
australia, finland, melbourne
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, suspenseful, noir, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, heist, love story, murder, betrayal, gunfight, abuse, mafia, criminal heroes, teaching the ways of the world, gangster, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne
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