Australian films about Islam

List of the best Australian films about Islam according to visitors: Faith, In Like Flynn, The Deep Blue Sea, Emo (The Musical), Of an Age, The Butterfly Tree, Strange Planet, Return to Nim's Island, Evil Angels, Sirens.

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: 6.6
Genredrama
CountryAustralia

An old widower, former WW2 radio operator, perceives flashing bulb as his late wife's messages from Heaven. His love will never die even when the lights are gone.

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: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
Duration01:38

The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, short
CountryAustralia

When Ethan, an Emo kid who hates almost everything, falls in love with Trinity, a good Christian girl with a passion for life and her Lord Jesus Christ, will they be able to live happily ever after?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryAustralia

In the summer of 1999, a 17-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend’s older brother.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama
CountryAustralia
Duration02:18

Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin's mother.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryAustralia
Duration01:36

Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?

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: 6.9
Genredrama, biography
CountryAustralia
Duration02:01

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:38

In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay debate, Estella finds herself drawn to the three beautiful models sitting for the painter's current work, freethinking Sheela, sensual Pru and virginal Giddy.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia

Follows Liv who, when she has a major health crisis, is forced to rethink her 'live fast die young' attitude.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama, music
CountryAustralia
Duration01:56

A young garage band in Sydney, is trying to make it big in Australia.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, western, history
CountryAustralia

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:55

While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia

Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. The story of a murder and a marriage - a film about the things that haunt us.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, military
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:48

On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia
Duration01:25

A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.

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

Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive

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: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
CountryJapan, Australia, China, USA

Humanity final rids themselves of Godzilla, in-prisoning him in an icy tomb at the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

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: 5.6
Genredrama, short
CountryAustralia

A woman and her baby have just moved into a new home. After she calls her mother, guests start to come up the stairs: isn’t this where the housewarming is? When she hesitantly lets them in, it turns out to be the beginning of a nightmare.

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryAustralia, Nepal

In 2008, a band of young Islamic militants from Pakistan lands in Mumbai, their primary target, the iconic Taj Mahal hotel. With Indian forces unable to regain control, for 4 days the guests must battle to survive as the terrorists seek to drive them from hiding. The harrowing events that follow will come to be known as India's 9/11 and one of the most audacious terrorist attacks in history. Yet more than a tale of monsters and men, this is a story of our shared humanity at the dark crossroads to which we have now stumbled. Inspired by true events.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryAustralia, USA, Mexico
Duration01:31

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia

The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.

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: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryAustralia

When 4 American tourists - Sofia, Carl, Belle and Michael - go on a ghost tour, they get much more than they bargained for, when the ghosts of an evil Doctor and his last patient victim trap them in the old abandoned psychiatric ward.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredocumentary
CountryAustralia, USA

Joe Cross took viewers on his journey from overweight and sick to healthy and fit via a 60-day juice fast in the award-winning Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. With Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2, he looks at keeping healthy habits long-term.

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: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryAustralia
Duration00:11

An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genredrama
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, Greece
Duration01:24

In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, biography
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Belgium, USA, Japan, Netherlands

In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom. A tender and inspiring story of a remarkable woman who nurtures the amazing artistic talent of her son who has only one way to succeed and one person to guide him, as he grows into the world renown artist, Isamu Noguchi.

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: 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: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
    Duration02:35

    In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUSA, Australia, China

    Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

    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: 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: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, family, music
    CountryAustralia, Germany
    Duration01:45

    This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:46

    San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.

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