Australian Crime Movies

List of the best Australian movies about criminals, criminals and lawbreakers, selected by visitors to our site: Hotel Mumbai, Bad Karma, True History of the Kelly Gang, In Like Flynn, Chopper, The Hard Word, The Legend of Ben Hall, A Sunburnt Christmas, 52 Tuesdays, A Place to Call Home.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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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: 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
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: 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: 7.1
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryAustralia
Duration01:34

The true and intense story of Mark 'Chopper' Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:44

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, drama, western, biography, history
CountryAustralia
Duration02:23

Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang, they soon become the most wanted men in Australian history.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy
CountryAustralia

A single mother and her kids are doing it tough on their outback farm - until a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes into their property, and their lives.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryAustralia
Duration01:54

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.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama
CountryAustralia

A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military, history
CountryAustralia
Duration02:02

The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.

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: 6.9
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: 8
Genredrama, biography
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA, India
Duration01:43

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.

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: 5.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:30

    While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia, Germany
    Duration01:23

    Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.

    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.

    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: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia, USA

    Three detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in critical condition. One is guilty of a crime, one will try to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it. How far will these men go to disguise and unravel the truth?

    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: 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: 5.2
    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: 4.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryAustralia

    When a pop-star cousin comes to stay, a family's once normal life changes drastically.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA, United Kingdom

    Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

    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: 6.8
    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: 6
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryAustralia

    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.

    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
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:00

    A policeman is assigned by his superior officer to find and apprehend escaped convict Richard B. Riddick. Riddick was being transported onboard space transport vessel "Hunter-Gratzner", where a bounty hunter who captured him was escorting him to the penal colony "Slam City" and claim the bounty on his head. On its way, the "Hunter-Gratzner" was struck by a meteor shower and crashed on a desert planet. A female bounty hunter hired by the the persuing policeman begins to suspect there is something more behind the "Hunter-Gratzner" incident.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:36

    A young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.

    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: 4.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:27

    A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.

    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.

    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
    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: 4.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:40

    A year after the boys crossed dimensions, discovered magic and battled the restoring demon, they are back home in Bremin and are struggling with everyday teenage life. Felix has high hopes for the four heroes. He wants them to push the limits of their magical ability, working as a team to become masters of the arcane. But although he's unwilling to admit it, the boys have grown apart. The boys, once in perfect magical and elemental alignment, are a tangle of rivalry and distrust. On the verge of separating, the Nowhere Boys are drawn together for one last spell when Felix discovers a magically sealed 'Book of Shadows'. Unwittingly this releases a powerful force of chaos, and the gang is reluctantly drawn into a showdown that threatens their world and all they love...

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:46

      Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last man any traveler to the region ever wants to meet; Mick Taylor (John Jarratt). As the backpackers flee, Mick pursues them on an epic white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland. Only one will remain to be dragged back to his lair to witness the true magnitude of his monstrosity. And if the last man standing is to have any hope of surviving where no one else has survived before, he’ll have to use every ounce of cunning to outwit the man behind the monster and become every bit as ruthless as the monster inside the man.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:30

      In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:21

      Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

      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: 6.8
      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: 8.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryAustralia

      After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.

      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: 6.5
      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: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:30

      In this cunning mystery-horror hybrid, college student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, Ben must find the killer.

      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: 4.4
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure, short
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:57

      Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn't believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the deadliest creature on the desert moon is himself.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryAustralia

      The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration01:37

      A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.




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