Australian action movies

List of the best Australian action movies selected by visitors to our site: Upgrade, Rogue, Mad Max: Fury Road, Hotel Mumbai, In the Heart of the Sea, Crocodile Dundee, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 300, Blacklight, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:28

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 he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:39

From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryAustralia, South Africa
Duration02:30

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 able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:51

Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, biography, history
CountryUSA, Australia, Spain
Duration02:10

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.  But that told only half the story.  “Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.  Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:37

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. Dundee proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia
Duration02:08

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, fantasy, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, thriller
CountryChina, Australia, USA

Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Iceland, Australia

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, Australia, Denmark
Duration00:21

Luke Skywalker embarks on a mission to destroy a Imperial base, but is relentlessly chased by a group of fanatic girls who think of him as a celebrity. Meanwhile, Darth Vader engages a rivalry with Darth Maul, in order to prove that he's the best Sith Lord.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, short
CountryAustralia
Duration00:09

A young man tries to make things right again in his relationship after he and his girlfriend get in a fight.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
CountryUSA, Mexico, Australia
Duration02:20

Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia, France, Republic of Ireland
Duration01:21

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:44

Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and family have been imprisoned. When the hostile invaders become alerted to their presence, Ellie and her friends band together to escape -- and strike back against -- this mysterious enemy.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, drama, adventure, family, military
CountryAustralia

This dramatic adventure series tells the story of a group of teenagers who are separated from their families following an invasion of their country, a conflict they never saw coming.

Markimdb: 3.3
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:25

In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler's 25th Reich.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia, Canada
Duration01:30

When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, action, comedy
CountryAustralia
Duration01:38

Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers & experimented on by a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans her escape Barry goes out on the road to find her & teams up with Benny, a fellow survivor - together they must arm themselves and prepare to battle their way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryAustralia

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia

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 rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.

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Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, Australia

The sequel to Captain Marvel (2019).

Markimdb: 3.7
Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, family
CountryUSA, Australia

It's been ten years since the creation of the Great Truce, an elaborate joint-species surveillance system designed and monitored by cats and dogs to keep the peace when conflicts arise. But when a tech-savvy villain hacks into wireless networks to use frequencies only heard by cats and dogs, he manipulates them into conflict and the worldwide battle between cats and dogs is BACK ON. Now, a team of inexperienced and untested agents will have to use their old-school animal instincts to restore order and peace between cats and dogs everywhere.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:28

After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, adventure
CountryAustralia, Canada

A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to Papua in search of gold, along with his best friend Rex, a former Canadian smuggler; Dook, a handy English gentleman; and Charlie, a grumpy old sailor.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia, Singapore
Duration01:33

A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryAustralia
Duration01:34

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, drama, detective
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:38

    Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, western
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:59

    American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, action
    CountryAustralia

    Everything seems uneventful for Dean and Claire, as they head out into beautiful rural Australia for a weekend away. Their biggest problem is what to do about Claire being accepted into an interstate University. The couple come across Knuck and things start to spiral out of control. Heath and Jarred only stoke the fire and both Claire and Dean's greatest fears are made reality.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
    Duration01:30

    See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genreaction, drama, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada, Australia
    Duration01:56

    Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
    CountryCanada, USA, Australia

    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 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, history
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:24

    Abandoned by a shrouded woman on the steps of a peaceful temple, a baby is taken in by the monks who dwell there. Named White, the child grows into a man learning the ways of the temple -cooking, meditation, Kung Fu - under the careful eye of Master Tenzin. Ten years pass and an orphan girl, Sierra, is taken in by the temple. As time passes, a friendship blooms between the young students of Master Tenzin. Years later White and his training brother Jamyang hear a commotion while walking on the Temple grounds. A gang of thieves snuck into the Temple and attacked Master Tenzin, stealing an ancient and powerful secret the monks have protected for centuries, the Chenresig Statue, as well as kidnapping Sierra! As White holds his dying master in his arms, he swears to return both to their rightful place, no matter the cost.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:32

      200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada
      Duration02:21

      European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genreaction, adventure, family
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:59

      When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. Jake's friends and new girl Abbie realize they are not the only ones interested in this strange, mischievous little dinosaur and soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is who is looking for it.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, Australia
      Duration01:42

      Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryAustralia

      The series follows two complete strangers, Lola and Chelsea, who intervene in a fatal carjacking while waiting at a suburban bus stop, and are subsequently thrust into a chase from authorities across Australia with a vehicle filled with cash. The strangers must rely solely on each other while they are on the run.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, India, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany
      Duration02:35

      The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:00

      Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryDenmark, Norway, Australia, USA
      Duration01:40

      An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryAustralia

      Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Australia
      Duration02:19

      Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryIndonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
      Duration01:43

      A retired assassins past catches up with him and his brutality surfaces as he goes on a final killing spree to make things right.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
      CountryFinland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, France, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom
      Duration01:33

        In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, adventure, western
        CountryUSA, Australia
        Duration02:10

        Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA, Australia, China, Hong Kong
        Duration01:28

          A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genreaction, drama, military
          CountryAustralia

          Three British soldiers find themselves stranded in No Man's Land after a failed charge on the German Trenches. Set in France 1916.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, action
          CountryAustralia

          In a zombie-infested Australian wasteland, soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking and capturing survivors for the Surgeon General in hopes of finding a cure.




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