Australian Lightning Movies

List of the best Australian films about lightning according to viewers: The Man from Snowy River, LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace, Cleverman, Dead Sunrise, Rabbit, The Railway Man, INXS : Never Tear Us Apart, Back to the Outback, Wish You Were Here, Evil Angels.

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: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, western
CountryAustralia
Duration01:42

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA, Australia, Denmark
Duration00:22

Master Yoda must go retrieve secret battle plans. However, when a class of younglings join the mission - things become a little more complicated.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama
CountryAustralia, New Zealand, USA
Duration02:18

In the near future, creatures from ancient Aboriginal mythology endowed with extraordinary physical traits have emerged and must coexist with humans. Known as 'Hairypeople' they battle for survival in a world that wants to exploit and destroy them. One young man – The Cleverman – struggles with his own power and the responsibility to unite this divided world, but he must first overcome a deep estrangement from his older brother.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, adventure
CountryAustralia

When the sun rises on an unsuspecting group of friends on a bushland road trip, so does the horror. They have stumbled upon an abandoned facility, yet there are children on the grounds, showing signs of reanimated life. And these children are hungry...

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, detective
CountryAustralia

A year after her identical twin's disappearance, Maude Ashton is still haunted by visions of her sister's violent abduction. Convinced she is still alive, Maude follows the clues to a derelict caravan park.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:56

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryAustralia

The uncensored story of one of Australia's most successful bands, INXS. A story of mateship, a story of success and excess, talent and sheer bloody will, set to a pulsating soundtrack including all of INXSs greatest hits.

Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryAustralia, USA

Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, detective
CountryAustralia
Duration01:33

Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?

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: 7.4
Genrethriller, detective
CountryAustralia
Duration01:00

Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:30

A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can slip in and cause havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryAustralia

A man uses an imaginary umbrella to protect himself against against life; until he is convinced to use a real umbrella.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, family, music
CountryUSA, Australia

Tommy was born and raised on a rocky, drought-ridden sheep station in the middle of the Australian Outback.

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: 7.6
Genredocumentary
CountryAustralia, Nepal

In 2013, the world's media reported on a shocking mountain-high brawl as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. Director Jennifer Peedom and her team set out to uncover the cause of this altercation, intending to film the 2014 climbing season from the Sherpa's point-of-view. Instead, they captured Everest's greatest tragedy, when a huge block of ice crashed down onto the climbing route...

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Australia
Duration01:32

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryAustralia

Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, sport
CountryAustralia

Inspired by true events, the story begins with Japanese rugby officials dwelling on a humiliating anniversary, a 145-17 defeat by the New Zealand All Blacks in the 1995 World Cup. Officials question their decision to appoint Eddie Jones, to coach their national team for the 2015 World Cup. Jones plans to defy convention in order to put a stop to Japan being the laughing stock of world rugby.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, action, drama
CountryAustralia
Duration01:32

Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
Duration01:40

Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia, United Arab Emirates

Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLIfe expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

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: 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: 5.6
Genrefamily, sport
CountryAustralia

16-year-old Kelly quits an elite gymnastics program and moves to Australia. To help out a new friend and show up an old rival she re-enters competitive gymnastics, she'll have to find a way to move forward while making amends with her past.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:28

A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryIndia, Australia
Duration01:55

Maya is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three children, Aleya, Ankush, and Anjali. Who thinks nothing much then the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, Aman. Maya has ensured that everything runs smoothly in her house, under her watch, and that they continue to remain a happy family unit. However, when Aman introduces his girlfriend, Shreya a career oriented woman, who has a lot to learn about children's, to the family, the situation immediately takes an unexpected turn. When an incident changes their lives drastically, bringing the two women under the same roof, they find themselves putting to test an unusual situation; can two mothers make a home?

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreadventure, cartoon
CountryGermany, Australia

When Maya, a headstrong little bee, and her best friend Willi, rescue an ant princess they find themselves in the middle of an epic bug battle that will take them to strange new worlds and test their friendship to its limits.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia, France
Duration01:46

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantasy
CountryAustralia

Paul Carpenter is an intern at a mysterious London firm with unconventional employers, including a CEO who wants to disrupt the ancient magical world with modern corporate practices.

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: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
Duration01:56

    Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, military
    CountryNew Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Australia
    Duration02:13

    As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village. In 1991, a war over a copper mine in the South Pacific tore the island of Bougainville apart. The reclusive “Popeye” (Hugh Laurie) offers the children in fourteen-year-old Matilda’s tiny village an escape with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. But on an island at war, fiction can have dangerous consequences.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryAustralia, USA, United Kingdom

    Millie is a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend behind to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer…in the Scottish Highlands! She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan’s students who is also training for the upcoming “Singer of Renown” contest. What begins as a brutal competition between Millie and Max slowly turns into something more…

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryAustralia

    Hannah Gadsby returns for her second special and digs deep into the complexities of popularity, identity, and her most unusual dog park encounter.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, military
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:39

    A small group of town residents have to band together after a devastating ground invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers, and work together for a chance to strike back.

    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: 6.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryAustralia

    Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredocumentary
    CountryAustralia

    A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.”

    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.

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