Movies and TV shows set in oceania
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in oceania ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, weird, captivating and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with family relations, brutality, friendship, culture clash, nude, pornography, violence, storytelling, runaway and danger plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres shot in Australia, USA, New Zealand and other countries.
oceania
TOP 10 movies tagged as oceania: Sky Pirates (1986), The Nightingale (2018), Walkabout (1971), The Piano (1993), Rapa Nui (1994), Hey Dad..! (1987), Bodyline (1984), Secret Men's Business (1999), Wet and Wild Summer (1993), Sample People (2000).
Best films
List of movies set in oceania
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
space and aliens, time travel, airplane, world war two, treasure hunt, good versus evil, chase, survival, heroes, escapades, rivalry, pirate ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
oceania, indiana, philadelphia, australia, pacific ocean
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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
Plot:
revenge, aborigine, female protagonist, rape, racial prejudice, rape and revenge, vengeance, murder, brutality, turning the tables, outback, colonization ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era, 1820s
Place:
australia, ireland, tasmania, oceania
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26K
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, thought provoking, atmospheric, surreal, meditative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desert, survival, suicide, culture clash, teenage girl, wilderness, rite of passage, children, brother sister relationship, australian outback, language barrier ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia, adelaide south australia
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91K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sexy, sexual, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
piano, love triangle, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, desire, love and romance, love affair, human nature, couple relations, arranged marriage, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 18th century
Place:
new zealand, oceania, scotland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
Style:
melancholic, captivating, sentimental, sexy, satirical ...
Plot:
island, rivalry, catastrophe, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, state affairs, family feud, parents and children, isolation, jungle, survival ...
Time:
18th century, 17th century
Place:
latin america, chile, polynesia, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, epic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, heroic mission, leadership, naval battle, sailboat, friendship, military, royal navy ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, edwardian era, georgian era
Place:
england, france, brazil, europe, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Hey Dad..! was an Australian sitcom produced by Gary Reilly Productions, originally airing from 1987 to 1994 on the Seven Network.
Style:
sitcom
Plot:
grownups, family relations, child, suburbs, gluttony, rebelliousness, teenager, tolerance, sarcasm, father daughter relationship, advice, brother sister relationship ...
Place:
oceania, sydney australia
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801
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story:
Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) ...
Plot:
cricket the game, bowling
Time:
1930s
Place:
australia, england, oceania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Secret Men's Business explores the relationships and issues of 4 school-friends reunited after the death of a beloved school teacher. During a weekend of sun, surf, girls, wives and late night reminiscing, the friends begin to deal with certain ...
Plot:
funeral, drowning, beach house, male nudity, male objectification, homoeroticism, friendship between men, naked man, nude, flirting, infidelity, confrontation ...
Place:
oceania
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the ...
Style:
sex comedy
Plot:
nudism, nude beach, lifeguard, beach, friendship between men, friendship, manipulative woman, unemployment, party, surfer, bossy woman, poisoning ...
Place:
los angeles, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sample People is an upbeat dramatic thriller that follows four groups of Sydney-siders as they seek escape routes over one sweltering weekend. 'Len the dreamer' who stutters shyly just wants the gorgeous DJ Lush Puppy. Sem is a funky ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sexy, sexual, multicultural
Plot:
nightclub, lifestyle, nightlife, cons and scams, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, betrayal, drug dealer, rave, drug crime, city life, store ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, oceania
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A lawless poacher wants to capture a majestic and rare golden eagle, so he kidnaps the boy who knows where to find the bird. Not to worry -- the Rescue Aid Society's top agents, heroic mice Miss Bianca and Bernard, fly to Australia to save the ...
Style:
sweet, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
disney, talking animals, friendship, poacher, good versus evil, rescue, honest, unlikely friendships, australian outback, adventurer, heroic mission, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
australia, oceania, new york, hawaii
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
Style:
natural horror, campy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
killer animal, pig, creature feature, animal attack, redneck, exploitation, wild animal, cave, hunter, monster, animals, farm ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, new york, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, suspense, psychopath, investigation, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, oceania
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, visually appealing, allegory, splatter ...
Plot:
prison, murder, psychopath, dysfunctional family, redemption, australian, violence, suburbs, catastrophe, brothers, adaptation, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, california, sydney australia, oceania, tokyo
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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, captivating, serious, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
aborigine, desert, hunger, power of love, teenage love, teenage life, fall in love, love and romance, misfit, youth, life is a bitch, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead ...
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot:
missionary, infidelity, state affairs, culture clash, fish out of water, religion, redemption, interracial relations, family relations, religions or cults, mother son relationship, christian ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1830s, 1810s, 1820s
Place:
hawaii, usa, connecticut, new hampshire, yale university ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A man with a bazooka helps defend air-freighters Donna and Taryn against drug smugglers and a snake.
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, erotica, drug dealing, working undercover, heist, snake, espionage, rivalry, law enforcement, special agents, woman in danger, drug dealer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help ...
Style:
scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, found footage, drowning, investigation, uncover truth, teenage life, paranormal activity, family life, supernatural ability, loss of daughter, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa, oceania
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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, semi serious, not serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
friendship, unemployment, working class, friends, social differences, fighting the system, love and romance, father son relationship, male female relationship, identity, social misfits, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, melbourne australia, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club and prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise ...
Style:
light, witty, semi serious, humorous, depressing ...
Plot:
sarcasm, greed, crime gone awry, culture clash, poker, ambition, rivalry, mind game, workplace intrigue, workplace romance, scam, australian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, new jersey, england, california, oceania ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, family relations, love triangle, love affair, parents and children, couples, dishonesty, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, boston, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network.
According to the ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, light, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
investigation, beach, private detective, partners, buddies, helicopter, lifestyle, private investigator, anonymity, police, heroes, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant ...
Style:
captivating, tense, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, police detective, law enforcement, multiple suspects, partners against crime, fighting crime, workplace, irish, investigation, police protagonist, police officer, honor ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
We Can Be Heroes is a mockumentary TV series created and performed by comedian Chris Lilley. It follows the story of five unique Australians, who have each made a large achievement and been nominated by friends and family for the Australian of the ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, sitcom, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, social misfits, follow your dream, ambition, everyday life, scientist, misfit, society, desire for fame, youth, hopes, dimwit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania
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Genre: 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, emotional, factual, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot:
child abuse, aborigine, racism, kidnapping, australian outback, children, australian aboriginal, culture clash, survival, women, justice, desert ...
Time:
1930s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, africa, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
New Zealand milk farmer Rob gives his lover Lucinda a ring. Trying to spark up her relationship with Rob, she takes her friend Drosophila's advice and starts to try and make Rob angry. But she tends to go too far. Admiring her ring while ...
Style:
witty, stylized, tricky, humorous, surreal ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
magic, couple relations, countryside, absurd humor, farmer, old woman, love, dog, surrealism, nude, brainwashing, vengeance ...
Time:
future, 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place:
australia, new zealand, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
When three normal teenage girls stumble upon a ancient cave they undergo a transformation that will change their lives forever. H20 - Just Add Water, sees three very different girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist - they're ...
Style:
exciting, light, enigmatic, captivating, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
mermaid, supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, teenage life, friends, love and romance, friendship between girls, hidden identity, island, best friends, miraculous event ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oceania, australia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
The Chaser's War on Everything was an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation television station ABC1. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, cynical, not serious, clever ...
Plot:
satire, comedian, society, social problems, media, politician, mishap, friends, dark humor, disorder, prank, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, which ran from 12 July 2005 to 9 November 2010 on TV3. The series followed the lives of the career criminal West family after the matriarch, Cheryl, decided the family should go ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, sexy
Plot:
lawyer, dysfunctional family, criminal, family life, going straight, convict, criminal heroes, right and wrong, doubts and hesitations, manipulation, porn, exploitation ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
new zealand, oceania
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