Highest-Rated Movies about 'Australian Outback'

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Walkabout (1971), Mad Max 2 (1981), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Red Dog (2011), The Proposition (2005), Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Australian Outback movies.

#16. The Earthling (1980)

Storyline: Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive ...—Willy Vanhaelen <willy.vanhaelen@advalvas.be>

Plot Keywords: tragic event, unlikely friendship, climbing, cliff, hunting, mentor, kangaroo ...

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#17. Quigley Down Under (1990)

Storyline: Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Quigley takes exception to this and leaves. The rancher tries to kill him for refusing, and Quigley escapes into the brush with a woman he rescued from some of the rancher's men, and are helped by aborigines. Quigley returns the help, before going on to destroy all his enemies.

Plot Keywords: long range rifle, australian aborigine, australian outback, martial arts, sawed off shotgun, arms dealer, target practice ...

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#18. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

Storyline: Cody, a 9-year-old boy from Mugwomp Flats responds to a distress call about a trapped giant Golden Eagle called Marahute. Freeing her, he gains a close friendship with the bird. However, Cody is soon abducted by the murderous poacher, Percival McLeach, who is after that bird which is of a highly endangered species and therefore an extremely profitable quarry. In a panic, a mouse Cody freed from one of McLeach's traps sends a desperate call for help to the Rescue Aid Society in New York City who assigns their top agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, to the task. With transportation provided by the goofy albatross, Wilbur, the agents arrive in Australia and link up with the RAS' local field operative, Jake the Kangaroo Rat. Together, the trio must race against time to find Cody, stop McLeach, and save Marahute.

Plot Keywords: poacher, australia, rope, falling into water, single mother, romantic rivalry, presumed dead ...

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#19. Sweet Country (2017)

Storyline: Sweet Country is set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory. It is the story of a young boy called Philomac, who witnesses Sam, an Aboriginal stockman kill station owner Harry Marsh in self defense. Sam and his pregnant wife Lizzie go on the run and a posse pursues them across the outback.

Plot Keywords: outpost, farm, period film, cowboy, station, law, farmer ...

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#21. Australia (2008)

Storyline: In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Plot Keywords: prejudice, year 1942, year 1939, drink, running, fishing, fish ...

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#22. The Overlanders (1946)

Storyline: It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: australia, cattle drive, river crossing, laughter, crocodile, scotsman, looking out a window ...

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#23. Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Storyline: Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is an Australian crocodile hunter who lives in the Australian outback and runs a safari business with his trusted friend and mentor Walter Reilly. After surviving a crocodile attack, a New York journalist named Sue arrives to interview Mick about how he survived and learns more about the crocodile hunter. After saving Sue from a crocodile, Sue invites Mick to visit New York City, since Mick has never been to a city. Mick finds the culture and life in New York City a lot different than his home and he finds himself falling in love with Sue.

Plot Keywords: female reporter, suicide attempt, cocktail party, party, limousine, blockbuster, newspaper ...

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#24. Sunstruck (1972)

Storyline: Stanley Evans is a Welsh teacher who heads to Austalia after an unsuccessful romance. Yearning for the good old days when he was a choral director in Wales, Secombe organizes his Aussie students into a children's choir. Along the way, Secombe finds lasting happiness with down-to-earth local woman.—Ørnås

Plot Keywords: schoolteacher, choir, australian outback, australia, school, naivety, small town ...

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#25. Ned Kelly (2003)

Storyline: Though recognized for heroism as a lad, Ned Kelly can not escape the stigma of being the eldest of a brood sired by a known criminal. In days when an arrest equaled guilt and a conviction, his unfair imprisonment for horse thievery puts him steadfast, in the eyes of Victorian police, on the wrong side of things for life. With a sister unable to dissuade the unwanted advances of Constable Fitzpatrick, Ned, his brother Dan, and friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart soon find themselves labeled "an outlaw gang" by the less-than-honorable constable. It's a designation they're apt to live up to after Ned's mother is unfairly arrested and sentenced to three years hard labor. In retaliation, the Kelly Gang strikes out against the oppressive Victorian government, with ultimately tragic results and passage into Australian folklore.

Plot Keywords: mother son relationship, english, father son relationship, female frontal nudity, female nudity, fire, flash forward ...

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#26. Ground Zero (1987)

Storyline: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: car crash, secret service agent, prime minister, politics, nuclear explosion, newsreel footage, mysterious man ...

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#27. Dead Heart (1996)

Storyline: In the desert village of Wala Wala, a jailed Aboriginal is found dead in local lawman Ray Lorkin's police lock-up. In an attempt to reconcile Aboriginal traditions vs. Australian law, Lorkin allows Mannga, the father of the dead prisoner, a "pay back" to restore order. But conflict heightens when the local school teacher's wife's passionate affair with her husband's Aboriginal teacher's aide leads to sacrilege and murder.—Tim Propert <tpropert@iprimus.com.au>

Plot Keywords: male frontal nudity, hanging, husband wife relationship, hut, infidelity, jail, love ...

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#28. Red Dog: True Blue (2016)

Storyline: A father takes his two young sons to see Red Dog. After the movie he describes to his oldest son how Red Dog is based on the story of a dog he had as a boy - Blue. From this we see the period in the man's childhood when Blue was his dog, their trials and tribulations living on a farm in a remote part of Western Australia.—grantss

Plot Keywords: lost dog, pickup truck, lizard, record player, cook, umbrella, ping pong ...

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#29. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Storyline: Left for dead in the unforgiving deserts of post-nuclear Australia, after defeating Lord Humungus' barbarian horde of bikers in Mad Max 2 (1981), the former officer of the tough Main Force Patrol, Max Rockatansky, happens upon Bartertown: the remote market-town outpost in the middle of the dry Wasteland, and the realm of the autocratic Queen Aunty Entity. There, a lethal challenge awaits Max, who, in return for his freedom and provisions, must engage in a bloody match to the death with the grotesque symbiotic being, the Master/Blaster. However, an unforeseen complication after the brutal fight in the stronghold's combat arena, The Thunderdome, will banish, once more, Max into the vast wilderness, only to discover the peaceful haven of The Lost Tribe: a community of marooned children who survive on their own, waiting for the arrival of the legendary Captain Walker. Is "Mad" Max, indeed, their saviour? Can he overthrow Bartertown's ruthless tyrant?

Plot Keywords: post apocalypse, australian outback, record player, record album, toy, action hero, saying goodbye ...

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#30. Wolf Creek (2005)

Storyline: Three backpackers travel into the Australian Outback only to find themselves stranded at Wolf Creek crater. Once there, they are encountered by a bushman, Mick Taylor, who offers them a ride back to his place. Little do the three know that their adventure into the Outback would be a complete nightmare after the backpackers find a way to escape.

Plot Keywords: bound and gagged, first part, broken down car, waking up, human monster, villain not really dead cliche, cruelty ...

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