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, female nudity, murder, family relations, cigarette smoking, nudity, police, friendship, bare chested male and friend plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in Australia, UK, USA and other countries.
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melbourne australia movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as melbourne australia: West of Sunshine (2017), Animal Kingdom (2010), Head On (1998), Romper Stomper (1992), Darkfall Resurrection (2013), Relic (2020), The Wog Boy (2000), The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2012), Death of a Soldier (1986), Phar Lap (1983).

List of melbourne australia movies

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West of Sunshine (2017)
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, psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, family conflict, father son relationship, family relations, husband wife conflict, friendship, drug, thief, drug deal, chase, violence, fight ...
Place: melbourne
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 7.2
 60K
Animal Kingdom (2010)
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, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: gangster, interrogation, violence, complex characters, justice, investigation, drug dealer, character study, vengeance, law enforcement, bad mother, power struggle ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania, peru
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 6.6
 5K
Head On (1998)
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, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, glbt, drug abuse, violence, homosexuality, lgbtqi, greek, drug addiction, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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 6.8
 41K
Romper Stomper (1992)
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: disturbing, brutal, harsh, political, cult classic ...
Plot: skinhead, neo nazi, racism, gang, violence, brutality, immigrant, vandalism, strangulation, father daughter relationship, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
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Darkfall Resurrection (2013)
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, suspenseful, touching, psychological ...
Plot: female vampire, love, space wars, planet, fight, goth, galaxy, rocket, survival, immortal, vampire, spacecraft ...
Time: 21st century
Place: melbourne
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 6.0
 30K
Relic (2020)
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, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, scary ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, dementia, missing person, haunted house, grandmother, women, supernatural, mother, granddaughter, anxiety, family relations, old man ...
Time: 2020s
Place: oceania, melbourne
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 5.8
 2K
The Wog Boy (2000)
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, semi serious, not 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, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (2012)
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: tense, disturbing, captivating, detective, crying
Plot: murder, investigation, secret, murder mystery, doctor, murder investigation, sleuth, crime solving, crime investigation, forensics, uncover truth, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: melbourne, australia
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Death of a Soldier (1986)
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, disturbing, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: serial killer, world war two, true crime, killer, murder, soldier, diplomacy, trial, psychopath, army investigation, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: year 1986
Place: australia, melbourne
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 7.2
 2K
Phar Lap (1983)
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, realistic, serious
Plot: horse, racehorse, horse race, biopic, equestrian, attempted murder, great depression, greed, gambling, friendship, friends, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: mexico, latin america, sydney australia, melbourne, australia
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 6.6
 3K
Noise (2007)
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, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, police investigation, policewoman, chaos and mayhem, chaos, suburban life, suburbs, vigilante, paranoia, secret, husband wife relationship ...
Place: australia, melbourne
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 7.1
 3K
Malcolm (1986)
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, offbeat, humorous, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, autism, unemployment, autistic, remote control, genius, bank, gadget, disorder, cons and scams, misfit, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, lisbon portugal, melbourne
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 6.6
 9K
Road Games (1981)
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, psychotronic, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, truck driver, highway, strangulation, hitchhiking, van, mysterious villain, hitchhiker, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
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The Getting of Wisdom (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. The film is about a ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: boarding school, lgbt, piano, lesbian, family relations, friends, power relations, couples, injustice, fall in love, society, prodigy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: australia, melbourne
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What if it Works? (2017)
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, sincere, touching
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, split personality, female artist, couples, old love, love and romance, love, street artist, street art, multiple personality disorder ...
Place: melbourne
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 4.6
 2K
Macbeth (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Macbeth, loyal to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by witches that he will one day take over. Driven by their prophecy, he and his wife plot to kill Duncan, and takes the leadership of the gang for himself. Maintaining his power will require more ...
Style: stylized, clever, serious, psychotronic, mind bending ...
Plot: shakespeare, murder, betrayal, haunted by the past, gang, vengeance, tragic hero, rivalry, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rise and fall, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2006
Place: australia, melbourne
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 7.1
 606
Stingers (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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: suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: undercover, woman with a gun, nypd, undercover cop, justice, police, workplace situations, working undercover, chases and races, heroes, fighting crime, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 515
The Sullivans (1976)
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: captivating, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: world war two, family relations, world war, youth, soldier, middle class, military, wartime life, family in crisis, siblings relations, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: australia, asia
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 7.4
 246
Sunshine (2017)
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, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot: basketball, dream, basketball player, crime investigation, ambition, basketball team, athlete's life, investigation, social issues, lifestyle, basketball coach, ambitious man ...
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Last Man Standing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the odyssey of three men: their quest to get inside the head of the modern woman, and find out where they went wrong.
Style: captivating, humorous, funny, entertaining
Plot: love, dating, love affair, male female relationship, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, guy, friendship, couple relations, young man, friend, relationships ...
Place: australia
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 1K
Barracuda (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Danny Kelly is a talented swimmer attends a prestigious Melbourne private school on a sporting scholarship. Working class, half Greek and half Scottish, he cops his fair share of harassment from the privileged students. Danny yearns to win swimming ...
Style: masterpiece, queer cinema
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, swimming, gay interest, lgbtq, private school, gay lead character, high school, summer, traumatic childhood, gay couple, resistance ...
Time: 90s
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Death in Brunswick (1990)
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, not serious, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dark humor, exodus, waitress, restaurant, greek, nothing goes right, workplace romance, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, disorder ...
Time: 20th century
Place: australia
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The Sex Therapist (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 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, interesting
Plot: sex therapy, psychiatrist, exploitation, erotica, sleaze, sexual blackmail, psychotherapy, gigolo, skydiving, hidden camera, mother superior, car chase ...
Time: 1910s
Place: australia
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Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Life's gone pear-shaped for Jack Irish. He's back to takeaway Chinese for one after his girlfriend Linda abandoned him for a career in Sydney, a flashy Brisvegas type is muscling in on the racetrack action, and his cabinet-making still ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, detective ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, missing person, intrigue, uncover truth, dishonesty, danger, nypd, hidden truth, horse race, violent content, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (2019)
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, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: investigation, female protagonist, murder, private detective, riddles and clues, feminism, heroine, evidence, twists and turns, escapades, post war, whodunit ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: australia
Is relevant ?
 4.3
 171
Innuendo (2017)
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, independent film
Plot: murder, identical twins, chainsaw, religion, male nudity, female nudity, nudity, posing nude, female full frontal nudity
Place: finland
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 29K
Son of a Gun (2014)
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, neo noir, crime thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, heist, robbery, prison life, murder, betrayal, prison escape, gunfight, love story, mafia, criminal heroes, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 7K
Proof (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Style: witty, melancholic, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: blind character, blind man, friendship, obsession, disability, photographer, photograph, photography, blindness, loneliness, character study, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: australia, cannes
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The Devil's Playground (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, crying, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, altar boy, gay, youth, catholic school, lgbt, boy, male objectification, boarding school, atheist, philosophy ...
Time: year 1976, 1950s, 70s, year 1953
Place: australia
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 5.7
 212
Stork (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, slapstick
Plot: exploitation, virgin, boredom, revolutionary, female nudity, wedding, loss of virginity, hippie, polygamy, shower
Place: australia
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