Australian Chimpanzee Movies

List of the best Australian films about chimpanzees according to viewers: The Dressmaker, Sweet Country, Outback, The Dragon Pearl, The 25th Reich, Swerve, These Final Hours, Storm Surfers 3D, The Light Between Oceans, John Doe: Vigilante.

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

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia
Duration02:23

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, western, crime, history
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:51

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrethriller
    CountryAustralia

    American high school sweethearts, Wade and Lisa, travel to Australia to experience nature at its finest. As their relationship strains, they head inland to Uluru, navigating remote dirt roads with an unreliable GPS. Soon, they find themselves stranded and ill- prepared and, with only each other to rely on, the two are driven to extremes in order to stay alive in the harsh and unforgiving Outback.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:33

    When teenagers JOSH (Louis Corbett) and LING (Li Lin Jin) join their respective parents, CHRIS (Sam Neill) and Dr LI (Wang Ji) on an archaeological dig in China they encounter something trapped beneath a temple beyond their wildest imagination. A real live Chinese dragon. Two thousand years earlier, to defend his kingdom, the dragon lent an emperor his all powerful pearl. Instead of being returned, the pearl was buried with the emperor beneath his palace, and helpless without its source of power the dragon has remained entombed ever since.

    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: 5.4
    Genrethriller
    CountryAustralia

    Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:27

    What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreadventure, documentary
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:35

    This pulse-racing real-life adventure follows two of Australia's greatest surf legends on their quest to hunt down and ride the Pacific's biggest and most dangerous waves. With 3D cameras installed on their boards, Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll defy middle age by pushing the limits of what they — and cinema technology — can do. (TIFF)

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, New Zealand, USA, India, Australia
    Duration02:40

    A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:33

    When John Doe is convicted of being a vigilante serial killer, a vigilante group named 'Speak for the Dead' emerges in support of John's cause—elevating the debate about justice versus vengeance.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryAustralia, Canada
    Duration01:33

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
    Duration01:32

    A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left is a severed finger. In order to find a new lead, Nelson travels to New York City to inform widowed magazine reporter Rebecca Scott that her long dead husband, Miles, had only recently been murdered to see if she had heard from him in recent years. Perplexed, Scott joins Agent Nelson in the wealthy enclave of Australia’s Gold Coast to find out what really happened. The two soon discover Miles may have been part of an elaborate “Ponzi scheme” to bilk investors, and a vengeful billionaire, out of millions of dollars. As more layers of Miles’ secret life are exposed, can the two stay ahead of the mysterious attackers who will stop at nothing to halt their investigation?

    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: 4
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
    CountryAustralia

    In the Australian Outback, two brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing they fear they are being stalked by someone or something from their worst nightmares - But is it just - A story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real?

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryAustralia

    Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryAustralia, USA

    In 1825, 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 who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror
    CountryAustralia

    Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryAustralia

    When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia

    An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:41

    Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:53

    Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:37

    A heartbroken young man decides to walk 4000km up the coast of Western Australia naked, for charity, with the secret goal of making his ex-girlfriend jealous.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, Australia
    Duration01:49

    Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genredrama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:32

    Prostitute. Hooker. Sex Worker. Whore. Candid and seductive, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her. Sometimes provocative and confronting, sometimes tender, poignant and sexy, Black & White & Sex takes you behind the scenes and into Angies very special world. There's a question here for every man and an answer for every woman. Anyone who pays is welcome - but leave your expectations at the door sex is never black and white. Written by Angie Winter

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreadventure, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia

    After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryAustralia, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:37

    A comedy about a groom and his three best men who travel to the Australian outback for a wedding.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, western, history
    CountryAustralia

    To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

    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: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryAustralia

    The story of Helen Reddy, who, in 1966, landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change.

    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: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, family
    CountryAustralia

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefamily, sport
    CountryAustralia

    Jack is a charismatic larrikin who has just discovered the one thing he's really good at — go-kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race car driver with a secret past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his recklessness if he is to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including the ruthless champion Dean, and win the National title.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, western, crime, biography
    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, France

    Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels—an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Nurtured by the notorious bushranger, Harry Power and fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:44

    Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Australia

    Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.

    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: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:30

    Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:39

    A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia

    Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where they begin to uncover mounting evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, "suicides" and disappearances throughout the 80s and 90s. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori's fascination with the case soon turns to fixation. When more ritualistic murders occur with the same bizarre signature, Tori and Nick will need to put their relationships, their careers and their lives on the line to finally reveal the truth.

    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: 4.5
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:27

    Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is a new man determined to lead an honest life. Drake is a charming psycho intent on vengeance. Sometimes, old friends can carry some extreme baggage. And for one of them, coming to terms with the past is going to be murder. Vanessa Gray and Andy McPhee co-star in this taut action/drama about good intentions, dark secrets and the harsh consequences of BAD KARMA.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:43

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany

    South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryAustralia

    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 alone sets off a terrifying chain of events that will push them to their limits – and beyond.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:29

    In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:49

    Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia

    Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryAustralia

    In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.

    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: 5.1
    Genreadventure, family, cartoon
    CountryAustralia, USA

    Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.




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