135 Films & TV Shows Set In Australia During The 20th Century
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Nitram
🇦🇺 Australia The 1990sMartin. — Nitram lives with his mother and father in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen. However when that relationship meets a tragic end, and Nitram's loneliness and anger grow, he begins a slow descent that leads to disaster.
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High Ground
Northern Territory The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sAustralia's untold history — 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 secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
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The Dirt
California Washington New South Wales The 1980s The 1990s The 1970s The 1960sTheir Music Made Them Famous, Their Lives Made Them Infamous — The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.
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Ride Like a Girl
Victoria The 1990s The 2010sNever give up — The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
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Storm Boy
South Australia The 20th CenturyLet your heart soar — 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.
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Swinging Safari
🇦🇺 Australia The 1970sStaying alive was harder than you think. — 1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
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Sweet Country
🇦🇺 Australia The 1920sJustice itself is put on trial — It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
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Ladies in Black
New South Wales The 1960s The 1950sAdapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
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Breath
Western Australia The 1970sA pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
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Jasper Jones
Western Australia The 1960sCharlie Bucktin is a bookish boy of 14. His life changes forever when Jasper Jones, the city's multiracial outsider, shows him the body of young Laura Wishart one night. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer.
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Top Knot Detective
🇦🇺 Australia 🇯🇵 Japan The 1990sThe greatest 90's Japanese samurai series you've never heard of — In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan “Ronin Suiri Tentai” (meaning roughly “Deductive Reasoning Ronin”), it was soon known in the West as “Top Knot Detective.” The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all.
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The Light Between Oceans
Western Australia The 1920s The 1910s The 1940sLove demands everything — A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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Now You See Me 2
🇨🇳 China England New York New Jersey 🇲🇴 Macao Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales The 2010s The 1980sYou haven't seen anything yet. — One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
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Lion
🇮🇳 India Victoria Tasmania The 1980s The 2000s The 2010sThe search begins — A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Spirit of the Game
🇦🇺 Australia The 1950sIn the lead up to the 1956 Olympic games, a group of missionaries are tasked with helping the fledgling Australian basketball team compete in their first ever Olympics, and in doing so, unite a nation still coming to grips after the war.
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Red Dog: True Blue
Western Australia The 1960s The 2010sEvery legend has a beginning. — When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog that will change his life forever.
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Joe Cinque's Consolation
Australian Capital Territory The 1990sWhat is the price of love? — In late 1997, Anu Singh, an attractive law student in Canberra, made plans to kill her boyfriend Joe Cinque after throwing a series of macabre farewell dinner parties. The dinner guests, most of them university students, had heard various rumours about her plan, but nobody warned Joe. Joe's death and the subsequent trial drew the attention of the whole country, as the broader community struggled to come terms with how a life could fall through so many hands.
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Minions
Florida New York 🇮🇳 India 🇦🇺 Australia The 1960sBefore Gru, they had a history of bad bosses — Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
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The Dressmaker
🇦🇺 Australia The 1950s The 1920sRevenge is back in fashion — In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
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Mountains May Depart
🇨🇳 China 🇦🇺 Australia The 1990s The 2010s The 2020sThe life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
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Holding the Man
Victoria The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sA love story for everyone — Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the rugby team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it - the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
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Girl Asleep
🇦🇺 Australia The 1970sFifteen is going to turn a corner. It has to. — The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself.
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The Mule
🇹🇭 Thailand Victoria The 1980sIt's what's inside that counts. — In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
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The Water Diviner
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇦🇺 Australia The 1910sTo honour a promise. To find his sons. To make his peace. — In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
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Drift
Western Australia The 1970sTwo Brothers. One Dream. No Rules. — In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.
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