Best Australian Thriller Movies

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Best Australian Thriller Movies
Best Australian Thriller Movies
TOP Movies: Dead Calm (1989), Wolf Creek (2005), The Invisible Man (2020), Killing Ground (2016), Talk to Me (2022), Evil Dead (2013), Crash (2004), Animal Kingdom (2010), The Loved Ones (2009), Wolf Creek 2 (2013), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Cut Snake (2014), The Nightingale (2018), San Andreas (2015), Passengers (2016), House of Wax (2005), Joker (2019), Jasper Jones (2017), Inhuman Resources (2012), The Pack (2015).

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 6.8
 43K
Dead Calm (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: psychopath, ship, ocean, serial killer, isolation, maniac, yacht, woman in danger, obsession, survival, forced sex, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, pacific ocean
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 6.2
 78K
Wolf Creek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: massacre, torture, psychopath, serial killer, psycho killer, sadistic horror, macabre, backwoods, gory, killer, sadistic killer, road trip ...
Time: year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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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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Killing Ground (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens, toddlers
Plot: camping, rape, backwoods, serial killer, survival horror, violence, dog, doctor, rape and murder, husband wife relationship, wilderness, murder ...
Place: oceania, australia
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 7.1
 134K
Talk to Me (2022)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Style: teen horror, tense, suspenseful, mystical, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural horror, spirit, ghost, possession, supernatural power, addiction, suicide, female friendship, female protagonist, supernatural, paranormal activity, paranormal investigator ...
Place: adelaide south australia, australia, south australia
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 6.5
 196K
Evil Dead (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, demonic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: gory, demon, supernatural, zombie, demonic possession, blood, violence, extreme violence, cabin in the woods, addiction, woods, fear ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.7
 448K
Crash (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style: bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, police, prejudice, racial tension, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, racist, social injustice, redemption, interracial relations, class differences, city life ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, persia, santa monica california ...
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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
 44K
The Loved Ones (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king -- ...
Style: scary, bleak, intense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, torture, prom, kidnapping, female psychopath, psychopath, femme fatale, survival, teenage girl, obsessive love, gory, captivity ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne, united kingdom
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 6.1
 23K
Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
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, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, torture, gory, killing spree, sadistic horror, escape attempt, chase, decapitation, violence, danger, tourist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style: road movie, exciting, visually stunning, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, desert, dystopian future, chase, car chase, distopia, car, dystopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future ...
Place: australia, los angeles
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 5.9
 1K
Cut Snake (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is ...
Style: tense, realistic, neo noir, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ex convict, starting over, haunted by the past, gay couple, dishonesty, lgbt, revenge, police officer, gay, lgbtq, gay club, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: australia
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The Nightingale (2018)
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, adult
Plot: revenge, aborigine, rape, female protagonist, racial prejudice, rape and revenge, vengeance, colonization, murder, brutality, turning the tables, outback ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2019, 1820s
Place: australia, oceania, ireland, tasmania
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 6.1
 255K
San Andreas (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, tsunami, earthquake, father daughter relationship, happy ending, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
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 7.0
 443K
Passengers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style: futuristic, romantic, scenic, dramatic, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, loneliness, trapped in space, love, space station, malfunction, space ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: space western, los angeles, america
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 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
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 8.4
 1.5M
Joker (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental disorder, villain, psycho, psychopath, loneliness, psychological trauma, character change, insanity, social problems, comedian, social decay ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1981, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia
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 6.5
 4K
Jasper Jones (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous ...
Style: exciting, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, boy, racism, small town, friendship, suspicion, suicide, first love, teenage boy, secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 60s, year 1969
Place: australia, adelaide south australia
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Inhuman Resources (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Redd). He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, confined, captivity, held captive, workplace, psychopath, violent content, danger, boss and employee, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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 5.0
 3K
The Pack (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Man’s best friend becomes his worst nightmare when a horde of bloodthirsty wild dogs descends upon a family’s farmhouse in a fang-bearing fight for survival.
Style: exciting, captivating, rough, tense
Plot: dog, killer dog, farmer, animal, australian outback, animal attack, survival, creature, isolation, farmhouse, outback, battles ...
Place: oceania
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 7.0
 144K
Extraction II (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Tasked with extracting a family who is at the mercy of a Georgian gangster, Tyler Rake infiltrates one of the world's deadliest prisons in order to save them. But when the extraction gets hot, and the gangster dies in the heat of battle, his ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: rescue, assassin, mercenary, violent, heroes, combat, army, exploration, survival, blood, revenge, violence ...
Time: 2020s
Place: vienna, armenia, austria, georgia
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 5.0
 11K
Run Rabbit Run (2023)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sarah is a fertility doctor with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter Mia, she must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
Style: atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological thriller, supernatural thriller, spooky ...
Plot: poltergeist, ghost, apparition, secret, reincarnation, supernatural power, phantom, child, mother daughter relationship, doctor, paranormal phenomena, female doctor ...
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 6.4
 135K
Killer Elite (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, hitman, secret service, mentor, conspiracy, hostage, undercover, rescue, espionage, mercenary, secret agent, assassination ...
Time: year 2011, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: middle east, london, australia, iran, europe ...
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 5.8
 21K
The Reef (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, shark, survival, ocean, creature feature, shark attack, killer shark, panic, dangerous animal, diving, killer animal, boat ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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The Royal Hotel (2023)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped ...
Style: sexual, psychological thriller, grotesque
Plot: gender roles, pub, strike, labor, alcoholism, union, tourist, sexual harassment, rural setting, american abroad, isolated community, female friendship ...
Place: south australia, australia
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 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
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 6.8
 245K
The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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 7.5
 205K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, tech noir, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, surgery, microchip, revenge, nanotechnology, cyborgs, technology, super computer, dystopia, distopia ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
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 6.6
 26K
The Stranger (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense, suspense, dramatic ...
Plot: cold case, unsolved crime, police operation, undercover cop, friendship between men, crime boss, unlikely friendships, criminal underworld, bandit, secret, male protagonist, biopic ...
Place: adelaide south australia, south australia, australia
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 5.8
 4K
Partisan (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori. Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: boy, mysterious character, birthday, parents and children, family problems, eccentric family, isolation, religions or cults, youth, commune, promise, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
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