Australian skateboarding movies

List of the best Australian films about skateboarding according to viewers: Boys in the Trees, Penguin Bloom, Wolf Creek 2, Drift, Bad Karma, Red Dog, Jack Irish, The Tunnel, Dance Academy: The Movie, Glitch.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, short, detective
CountryAustralia

On Halloween 1997, two estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, family, biography
CountryAustralia, USA

When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.

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: 6.3
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:53

    In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.

    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: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, biography
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:32

    Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

    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: 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: 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: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration02:00

    James Hayes is a small town police man who is called to the local cemetery in the middle of the night after six people have inexplicably risen from the dead in perfect health. With no memory of their identities, they are determined to discover who they are and what has happened to them. James recognises one of them and along with local doctor Elishia Glass, struggles to keep the case hidden from his colleagues, his family and the world. The six people are all linked in some way and the search begins for someone who knows the truth about how and why they have returned.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryAustralia

    Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, crime, music
    CountryChina, Australia
    Duration01:37

    Dean Randall has sponsored a young Chinese orphan Mei Mei for many years, when she arrives in Sydney out of the blue to thank him, their lives are changed forever.

    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: 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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
    CountryAustralia

    In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.

    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: 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: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:59

    GOLDSTONE, the award-winning new feature from Australian auteur Ivan Sen (Mystery Road), is a complex and stylish crime thriller that explores themes of racism, human trafficking, police corruption, corporate malfeasance, and the trampling of indigenous people’s rights. On the trail of a missing person, troubled indigenous detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen, Mystery Road) finds himself in the small mining town of Goldstone, where he is arrested for drunk driving by local cop Josh (Alex Russell, CBS’s “S.W.A.T.”). When Jay’s motel room is blasted with gun fire, it becomes clear that something larger is at play. While struggling to overcome their mutual distrust, Jay and Josh uncover a web of crime and corruption, which leads directly to the town’s cold-blooded Mayor (two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook) and its smarmy gold mine director (David Wenham, Lord of the Rings).

    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
    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: 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: 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: 6.8
    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: 4.7
    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: 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: 7.9
    Genredocumentary
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia

    A searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas' intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction.

    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: 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: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryAustralia

    Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

    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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 7
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryAustralia

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

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, documentary
    CountryAustralia, USA

    Cane Toads: The Conquest is a comic yet provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker Mark Lewis.Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, Cane Toads: The Conquest tracks the unstoppable journey of the toad across the continent. Director Mark Lewis (Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, The Natural History of the Chicken) injects his trademark irreverence and humor into the story as he follows a trail of human conflict, bizarre culture and extraordinary close encounters.Filmed with high-resolution 3D technology, Cane Toads is the first Australian digital 3D feature film.  Custom designed equipment allows viewers to get up close and personal with these curious creatures like never before. The unique viewing experience is like being immersed in the world of the toad.

    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: 4
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryAustralia

    An Australian urban legend comes screaming on the Ozploitation scene. It’s said that if you drive down the creepy road of Lemon Tree Passage, and witness a sudden flash of light in the trees, you'll be forever haunted by the tormented spirit of a man killed by thrill speeding teenagers. Wanting to put this old wives’ tale to the test, a car-load of non-believers take the supposedly cursed journey and do indeed see a strange manifestation. But it’s not the one of popular myth - this sudden possession of one of their number involves another altogether more shocking crime. That of a young girl raped and murdered on the same stretch of highway. As one urban legend trumps another, the scared passengers must sort out the facts of both cases before vengeful justice from beyond the grave can be meted out with moody atmosphere, ghostly thrills and supernatural suspense.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryAustralia

    A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.

    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: 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: 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: 6.2
    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: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:36

    A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies. A woman with a dangerous fantasy and her partner's struggle to please her. A man who begins an affair with his own wife without her knowing anything about it. A couple struggling to keep things together after a sexual experiment spins out of control. A woman who can only find pleasure in her husband's pain. A call centre operator caught in the middle of a dirty and chaotic phone call. And the distractingly charming new neighbour who connects them all.

    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: 5.4
    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: 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: 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: 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.




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