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Talk to Me(2023)

| 1h 34min | Horror, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 884 votes)

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.

Directed by Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou - With Sophie Wilde, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Zoe Terakes, Joe Bird

The Babadook(2014)

| 1h 34min | Drama, Horror

3.3/5 (with 2,718 votes)

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.

Directed by Jennifer Kent - With Essie Davis, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Benjamin Winspear, Terence Crawford

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Monolith(2024)

1h 34min | Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

A desperate young journalist turns to podcasting to salvage her career, but her rush to make headlines leads her to an alien conspiracy.

Directed by Matt Vesely - With Lily Sullivan

Kangaroo Jack(2003)

| 1h 29min | Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Crime

2.6/5 (with 385 votes)

Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.

Directed by David McNally - With Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Michael Shannon, Christopher Walken, Adam Garcia, ...

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Roadgames(1981)

| 1h 41min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 65 votes)

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

Directed by Richard Franklin - With Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Grant Page, Marion Edward, Alan Hopgood

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994)

| 1h 44min | Drama, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 329 votes)

Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.

Directed by Stephan Elliott - With Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick

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Napoleon(1995)

| 1h 21min | Adventure, Kids & Family

3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.

Directed by Mario Andreacchio - With Jamie Croft, Philip Quast, Stuart Pankin, Casey Siemaszko, Joan Rivers, Anne-Louise Lambert, ...

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove(2010)

| 1h 15min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family

3.1/5 (with 78 votes)

After young Kirra leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the lonely whale Willy--and embarks on a great quest to lead the little guy back to his anxious pod.

Directed by Will Geiger - With Beau Bridges, Bindi Irwin, Matthew Kennedy, Bruce A. Young

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Bad Boy Bubby(1993)

| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 108 votes)

Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.

Directed by Rolf de Heer - With Nicholas Hope

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Storm Boy(2019)

| 1h 39min | Drama, Adventure

3.6/5 (with 55 votes)

Storm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close bond with a pelican, Mr. Percival, his life takes a new and unexpected turn.

Directed by Shawn Seet - With Geoffrey Rush, Jai Courtney, David Gulpilil, Erik Thomson, Finn Little, Trevor Jamieson, ...

Snowtown(2011)

2h | Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 126 votes)

Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.

Directed by Justin Kurzel - With Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris, Craig Coyne

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Beautiful(2009)

| 1h 37min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

2.5/5 (with 21 votes)

After another teenager disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy, the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel, a fourteen-year-old with an obsessive crush, to help her uncover the truth.

Directed by Dean O'Flaherty - With Deborra-Lee Furness, Peta Wilson, Sebastian Gregory, Tahyna Tozzi, Erik Thomson, Asher Keddie, ...

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December Boys(2007)

PG-13

| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 86 votes)

For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.

Directed by Rod Hardy - With Daniel Radcliffe, Lee Cormie, Jack Thompson, Victoria Hill, Teresa Palmer, Sullivan Stapleton, ...

2:37(2006)

| 1h 31min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 59 votes)

At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.

Directed by Murali K. Thalluri - With Teresa Palmer, Charles Baird, Marni Spillane, Clementine Mellor, Xavier Samuel, Gary Sweet, ...

The Shiralee(1988)

3h 8min per episode | Drama

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.

Directed by George Ogilvie - With Bryan Brown, Rebecca Smart, Noni Hazlehurst

The Boys Are Back(2009)

PG-13

| 1h 44min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 81 votes)

When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.

Directed by Scott Hicks - With Clive Owen, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, George MacKay, Emma Lung, George Mackay, ...

Race the Sun(1996)

| 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

2.6/5 (with 27 votes)

A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.

Directed by Charles T. Kanganis - With Halle Berry, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Kevin Tighe, Steve Zahn, Jim Belushi, ...

Alexandra's Project(2003)

| 1h 43min | Mystery, Drama, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 34 votes)

Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all easy access outside cut off and a videotape waiting for him. Playing that tape, he watches a bizarre and grueling recording in which his wife explains her grievance with him, her reasons for disappearing with the children and her revenge for how he treated her in a way he would never forget.

Directed by Rolf de Heer - With Gary Sweet, Helen Buday

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The Survivor(1981)

1h 38min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in touch with the supernatural, can help the pilot unravel the mystery surrounding the doomed plane.

Directed by David Hemmings - With Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten, Angela Punch McGregor, Peter Sumner, Lorna Lesley, ...

100 Bloody Acres(2012)

| 1h 31min | Comedy, Horror

2.9/5 (with 58 votes)

Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.

Directed by Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes - With Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan

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Kiss or Kill(1997)

| 1h 36min | Crime, Drama

1.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.

Directed by Bill Bennett - With Frances O'Connor, Matt Day

The Time Guardian(1987)

| 1h 27min | Science Fiction

2.4/5 (with 13 votes)

In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the City, a huge protected construction with the ability to travel in both space and time. The City travels back to our time to save humanity...

Directed by Brian Hannant - With Tom Burlinson, Nikki Coghill, Carrie Fisher, Dean Stockwell, Tim Robertson, Jim Holt, ...

Never Too Late(2020)

1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

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. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve, so they band together to devise a plan to escape their new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed. In fact, they can’t even remember what they were—and that’s half the problem.

With James Cromwell, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing, Jacki Weaver, Dennis Waterman

Selkie(2000)

1h 28min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy

Teenager Jamie moves with his mother, sister and grandfather to an island off the South Australian coast where mum has a job running a marine research station. To his discomfort, Jamie discovers he`s a "selkie" - half human, half seal - that explains the webbing on his hands and also why he changes completely into a seal as soon as he hits water.

Directed by Donald Crombie

Grim Pickings(2024-)

Drama, Mystery

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Grim Pickings is a 1989 Australian mini series shot in the Adelaide Hills about a family who makes its annual pilgrimmage to an elderly aunt's orchard to help with the apple harvest.

With Lorraine Bayly

Australian Rules(2002)

1h 35min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Friends Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are on the same football team in their coastal Australian town. But to local racists, they're a world apart: Gary is white and Dumby is an Aborigine. This becomes an issue when one of the team's Aboriginal players becomes involved in a crime. In response, Dumby is demoted even though he's the star player, and Gary is given his place. Will Gary have the courage to speak out before tragedy results?

Directed by Paul Goldman - With Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll, Lisa Flanagan, Kevin Harrington

The Plumber(1979)

1h 17min | Thriller, Drama, Horror, TV Movie, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

At first simply grating, the presence of a hard-edged, macho plumber who damages more than he repairs and returns day after day soon turns menacing for the intellectual wife of a distracted doctor.

Directed by Peter Weir - With Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Robert Coleby, Candy Raymond, Henri Szeps

Storm Boy(1977)

1h 28min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

Directed by Henri Safran - With Greg Rowe, David Gulpilil

Look Both Ways(2005)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

During one unusually hot weekend, four friends struggle after hearing some life-changing news.

Directed by Sarah Watt - With William McInnes, Justine Clarke, Anthony Hayes

52 Tuesdays(2014)

1h 54min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.

Directed by Sophie Hyde - With Tilda Cobham-Hervey

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Movies Set in South Australia

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Talk to Me(2023)

The Babadook(2014)

Monolith(2024)

Kangaroo Jack(2003)

Roadgames(1981)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994)

Napoleon(1995)

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove(2010)

Bad Boy Bubby(1993)

Storm Boy(2019)

Snowtown(2011)

Beautiful(2009)

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December Boys(2007)

2:37(2006)

The Shiralee(1988)

The Boys Are Back(2009)

Race the Sun(1996)

Alexandra's Project(2003)

The Survivor(1981)

100 Bloody Acres(2012)

Kiss or Kill(1997)

The Time Guardian(1987)

Never Too Late(2020)

Selkie(2000)

Grim Pickings(2024-)

Australian Rules(2002)

The Plumber(1979)

Storm Boy(1977)

Look Both Ways(2005)

52 Tuesdays(2014)

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