Best Australian Movies of 2020

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Best Australian Movies of 2020
Best Australian Movies of 2020
TOP Movies: High Ground (2020), Rams (2020), The Invisible Man (2020), Escape From Pretoria (2020), Possessor (2020), Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020), Bloody Hell (2020), My First Summer (2020), Penguin Bloom (2020), Moon Rock for Monday (2020), Love and Monsters (2020), The Furnace (2020), Monsters of Man (2020), 2067 (2020), Go Karts (2020), The Dry (2020), Occupation: Rainfall (2020), A Sunburnt Christmas (2020), Wrath Of Souls (2020), Ammonite (2020).

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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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 6.5
 4K
Rams (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley - so the brothers must work ...
Plot: virus, outback, veterinarian, farm, siblings, farmer, brother brother relationship, sheep, rural setting, alcoholism, bare chested male, shootout ...
Time: future
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The Invisible Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Currently unknown.
Style: scary, suspense, surprise ending, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, stalking, stalker, sadist, home invasion, domestic abuse, invisibility, homicidal maniac, domestic violence, murder, violence against women, suicide ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future
Place: california, san francisco, bay area
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Escape From Pretoria (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison…
Style: political, suspense, tense, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, apartheid, prison, political activism, escape, political prisoner, prison break, human spirit, human rights, freedom, political activist, politics ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa, australia, south australia ...
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 6.5
 45K
Possessor (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style: tech noir, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, sociopath, murder, brutality, corporation, hallucination, mind control, virtual reality, sadism, technology, assassination attempt, suicide by cop ...
Time: 2020s, near future
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Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Hannah Gadsby returns for her second special and digs deep into the complexities of popularity, identity, and her most unusual dog park encounter.
Style: entertaining, satirical, captivating, funny, semi serious ...
Plot: comedian, stand up comedian, humour, female comedian, joke, social satire, satire, irony, social issues, public speaking, autist, feminist ...
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 6.6
 10K
Bloody Hell (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.
Style: horror comedy, suspense, disturbing, mystical, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cannibalism, ogre, ex convict, survival horror, secret, trap, struggle for survival, heist, mysticism, supernatural horror, family secret, trapped ...
Time: 2020s
Place: oceania, finland
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My First Summer (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 16-year-old Claudia has grown up in isolation from the outside world. Stranded on a remote property after her mother's death, she is shocked when Grace, a spirited local teen, appears in the garden like a mirage, a breath of fresh, sugary air. ...
Style: romantic, light, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, teenage sexuality, lesbianism, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, lesbian love, teenage girl, gays and lesbians, social isolation, friendship, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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 6.8
 12K
Penguin Bloom (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, sincere, captivating, powerful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: handicapped, disability, pet bird, dreaming, family problems, family life, tragic event, family tragedy, physical disability, lifestyle change, wheelchair bound, parents and children ...
Place: thailand
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Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
Style: psychological, captivating, sentimental, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: boy meets girl, friendship, boy, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, fall in love, runaway, love, love and romance, escapades, teenager ...
Time: year 1999
Place: sydney australia, oceania
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Love and Monsters (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, who is now 80 ...
Style: entertaining, fairy tale, suspense, apocalyptic, horror comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen fantasy, adult
Plot: monster, post apocalypse, creature, apocalypse, overcoming fear, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mutant, giant monster, jungle, fight, loneliness, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2020s
Place: california
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 6.4
 4K
The Furnace (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gold, life is a bitch, gold rush, adaptation, life, friendship, politics, corruption, survival, camel, australian outback, bullet wound ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: australia
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Monsters of Man (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, ...
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, psychotronic, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot: androids and robots, killer robot, man versus machine, artificial intelligence, human versus robot, experiment gone awry, robot vs. robot, corporation, computer cracker, danger, survival, guerilla warfare ...
Time: 2020s, near future
Place: new york, southeast asia, washington d.c., cambodia, brooklyn new york city ...
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The theatrical movie spin-off of the ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries will follow Essie Davis’ private detective as she embarks on a global adventure to find missing treasure, solve murders and break aviation records... After freeing a ...
Style: captivating, intellectual, detective, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: riddles and clues, treasure hunt, female detective, imprisonment, talented, private detective, mind game, artifact, young girl, tomb, twists and turns, escapades ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929, year 1918
Place: london, jerusalem, australia, palestine, scotland yard ...
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 4.9
 12K
2067 (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: time travel, climate change, changing the past or future, deforestation, parallel world, discovery, research, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, dystopian future, save the world ...
Time: future, near future
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 5.9
 4K
Go Karts (2020)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jack is a charismatic larrikin who has just discovered the one thing he's really good at — go-kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race car driver with a secret past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn ...
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: championship, car, teenager, police officer, friendship, rivalry, mentor, fall in love, parents and children, race, happy ending, racing ...
Time: 2020s
Place: australia
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 6.9
 32K
The Dry (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, police, small town, suicide attempt, violence, family relations, male female relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
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Occupation: Rainfall (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: alien encounter, apocalypse, female warrior, good versus evil, invasion, violence, danger, death, destruction, fictional war, chase, fear ...
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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A Sunburnt Christmas (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A single mother and her kids are doing it tough on their outback farm - until a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes into their property, and their lives.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: christmas, family relations, lifestyle change, desert, farm, escaped prisoner, satire, family problems, christmas romance, criminal, toyota, overalls ...
Place: australia
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 4.2
 12K
Wrath Of Souls (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A neighborhood is plagued by mysterious tragedies when a young man becomes the conduit for an unknown spirit, the "Aiyai," which lures victims to their chilling fates.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, escapades, supernatural ability, characters in danger, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, heroes, killings, monster, murder, revenge ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: australia
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 6.5
 23K
Ammonite (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Style: psychological, intellectual, realistic, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbianism, lesbian couple, female scientist, older woman younger woman sex, female protagonist, scientist ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, 2020s, ancient times ...
Place: london
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 6.1
 2K
I Met a Girl (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An impulsive musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross- country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to try ...
Style: romantic, inspirational, light, sincere
Plot: musician, road trip, inspiration, in love, odor, love and romance, dream girl, secret identity, homeless, schizophrenia, bare chested male, train ...
Place: sydney australia
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Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara ...
Style: sexy, humorous, melancholic, psychological, touching ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, love, lesbian love, lgbt teen, self discovery, mother daughter relationship, family secret, coming of age, high school crush, lesbianism, lesbian interest ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: australia
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 6.0
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Never Too Late (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. ...
Style: entertaining, semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating
Plot: senior citizen, retirement home, vietnam veteran, retirement, elderly, old man, retired, attempted escape, escape plan, escapades, elderly man, mission ...
Place: adelaide south australia
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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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LEGO Monkie Kid: A Hero Is Born (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Monkey King comes to life as a young boy named MK, obsessed with the legends of old, discovers Monkey King's magical staff. After witnessing Red Son and Princess Iron Fan release the Demon Bull King from his prison under the mountain, MK ...
Style: humorous, captivating, semi serious, satirical, ironic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: lego, monkey king, monkey, legends and myths, animal, anthropomorphic animal, young heroes, magic, ape man, teamwork, satire, magical creature ...
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Swimming for Gold (2020)
Genre: Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young elite swimmer Claire is sent to Australia to coach a boys swimming team, where she must overcome an old rival and a secret fear to save the swimming camp from closing.
Style: light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: swimming, competition, friendship, contests and competitions, rivalry, coach, teenage angst, athlete's life, coping, sport team, world championship wrestling, direction and purpose ...
Place: oceania
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Black Water: Abyss (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions ...
Style: rough, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: survival, animal attack, crocodile, cave, survival horror, adventurer, dangerous animal, hunting, underwater, stranded, wilderness, beast ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Romance on the Menu (2020)
Genre: Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: New York restaurateur Caroline inherits a café in Lemon Myrtle Cove, Australia. While there, she starts falling for the place and its people, particularly Simon, the café’s charming local chef.
Style: emotional, romantic, psychological, touching, talky
Plot: cafe, cooking, seaside town, inheritance, workplace romance, male female relationship, love, mother daughter relationship, surprise visitor, overheard conversation, love and romance, couples ...
Place: australia, new york
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sonic and the gang must team up to fight Dr. Eggman.
Style: funny, exciting, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, date night, family outing
Plot: hedgehog, on the run, superhero, friendship, road trip, military, friend, super speed, bar fight, chase, anthropomorphic animal, evil man ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: san francisco, california, france, usa, egypt ...
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