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1. Neighbours (1985– )
TV-G | 22 min | Drama, Romance
Australian soap opera exploring the lives and relationships of the residents of Ramsay Street in a suburb of Melbourne called Erinsborough.
Stars: Stefan Dennis, Alan Fletcher, Jackie Woodburne, Ryan Moloney
Votes: 6,363
2. Top of the Lake (2013–2017)
TV-MA | 750 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Obsessed with the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl near a freezing lake in New Zealand, a brave detective will find herself up against small-town secrets and a side of herself that was meticulously kept at bay.
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, David Wenham, Peter Mullan, Thomas M. Wright
Votes: 37,743
3. Mary and Max (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.
Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries
Votes: 186,909
4. Offspring (2010–2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of the impossible loves of 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman and her fabulously messy family.
Stars: Asher Keddie, Kat Stewart, Richard Davies, Linda Cropper
Votes: 5,498
5. The Devil's Candy (2015)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A struggling painter's possessed by dark forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas, in this creepy haunted-house tale.
Director: Sean Byrne | Stars: Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kiara Glasco
Votes: 21,886
6. Deadlock (2018)
13+ | Drama
Teens gather for an underground party, but an amateur stunt during the festivities goes awry, changing the lives of five of the teens forever.
Stars: Luca Asta Sardelis, Bijou Gracie Henry, Thomas Weatherall, Amit Pala
Votes: 86
7. Tangle (2009–2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
A story of two generations of two families colliding, connecting, sometimes at cross purposes as they navigate their way around the maze of love, sex, money and politics.
Stars: Justine Clarke, Catherine McClements, Joel Tobeck, Kat Stewart
Votes: 751
8. Choir Girl (2019)
95 min | Drama
Eugene, a lonely photographer, becomes fixated on a young street prostitute, Josephine, in his rundown neighborhood. She becomes his muse and his photographs could be a way out for both of them - yet is Eugene saving Josephine or is he using her?
Director: John Fraser | Stars: Peter Flaherty, Krista Vendy, Jack Campbell, Sarah Timm
Votes: 169
9. The Mule (2014)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After a trip to Thailand, a first-time drug mule finds himself in police custody, with his stomach crammed with narcotics. Now, he has to endure seven sphincter-clenching days to convince them of his innocence. Will nature take its course?
Directors: Tony Mahony, Angus Sampson | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Ewen Leslie
Votes: 6,835
10. A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (2019)
104 min | Horror, Mystery
Rod, radio DJ, hosts a popular horror-themed show packed with tales of terror for eager listeners. When he receives alarming calls from a horrified child things start to feel off.
Directors: Oliver Park, Jason Bognacki, A.J. Briones, Joshua Long, Sergio Morcillo, Adam O'Brien, Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti, Pablo Pastor, Matthew Richards | Stars: Patricia Arizmendi, Adrián Barriopedro, Claudia Beattie, Louisa Bland
Votes: 2,699
11. How to Stay Married (2018–2021)
23 min | Comedy
After fifteen years of marriage, the lives of Greg and Em Butler and their two daughters change when Em returns to work, Greg is made redundant and his brother Brad moves in.
Stars: Peter Helliar, Lisa McCune, Willow Ryan-Fuller, Vivien Turner
Votes: 229
12. The Disappearance of Willie Bingham (2015)
12 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Willie Bingham is the first man to undergo a radical new justice program under the State's revised stance on capital crime.
Director: Matthew Richards | Stars: Kevin Dee, Gregory J. Fryer, Leah Vandenberg, Tim Ferris
Votes: 681
13. The Death and Life of Otto Bloom (2016)
85 min | Drama
The chronicle of the life and great love of Otto Bloom, an extraordinary man who experiences time in reverse - passing backwards through the years only remembering the future.
Director: Cris Jones | Stars: Xavier Samuel, Rachel Ward, Matilda Brown, Rose Riley
Votes: 308
14. Grave Intentions (2021)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
In this anthology of chills, thrills, and kills, a practitioner of the magical arts teaches the basics of her craft. The most important lesson? You must be mindful of your intention. Five ... See full summary »
Directors: Lukas Hassel, Brian Patrick Lim, Gabriel Olson, Matthew Richards, Brian Rish, Jocelyn Rish, Jaime Snyder | Stars: Joy Vandervort-Cobb, Beth Grant, Sharon Lawrence, Catherine Carlen
Votes: 242
15. Beaconsfield (2012 TV Movie)
129 min | Drama
The true story of Brant Webb and Todd Russell, who were trapped nearly a kilometer below the surface.
Director: Glendyn Ivin | Stars: Shane Jacobson, Lachy Hulme, Cameron Daddo, Anthony Hayes
Votes: 559
16. Dark Whispers: Volume 1 (2019)
99 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young woman inherits her mother's Book of Dark Whispers only to discover 10 disturbing tales within its pages. Starring Andrea Demetriades, Asher Keddie and Anthony LaPaglia, the Dark ... See full summary »
Directors: Angie Black, Jub Clerc, Lucy Gouldthorpe, Katrina Irawati Graham, Janine Hewitt, Briony Kidd, Isabel Peppard, Marion Pilowsky, Madeleine Purdy, Megan Riakos, Kaitlin Tinker | Stars: Anon, Bree Bain, Roy Barker, John Benson
Votes: 247
17. Molly (2016)
Drama
The story of how, from the early 1970s, Australia's eccentric Ian 'Molly' Meldrum became a loved and respected rock music guru as host of the TV show Countdown.
Stars: Samuel Johnson, T.J. Power, Tom O'Sullivan, Ben Gerrard
Votes: 319
18. Out Of Range (2019)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A father's takes his estranged son on a fishing trip as a way of bonding, but when the car breaks down he realises it's not the only thing that needs fixing.
Director: John Harvey | Stars: Araluen Lee Baxter, Aaron Pedersen
Votes: 16
19. Celestial Avenue (2009)
21 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Kath is looking for love in all the wrong places. In Chinatown in the middle of a less than successful blind date, she overhears the soulful Cantonese singing of Ah Gong. Kath is intrigued. Is there more to Ah Gong than meets the eye?
Directors: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes | Stars: Gabrielle Chan, Mary Cong, Jason Gann, Catherine Moore
Votes: 127
20. Hawke (2010 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
The story of the Life of Former Australian Prime minister Bob Hawke.
Director: Emma Freeman | Stars: Richard Roxburgh, Rachael Blake, Felix Williamson, Asher Keddie
Votes: 248
21. Outland (2012)
Comedy
Outland focuses on a gay science fiction fan club, and the dramas that surround the lives of its members, as they struggle and battle to assimilate with the troubling and very real world around them.
Stars: Christine Anu, Ben Gerrard, Paul Ireland, Adam Richard
Votes: 166
22. Flathead (2024)
89 min | Drama
Late in life, Cass is drawn to his long-forsaken childhood home of Bundaberg, where he finds himself on a spiritual search for redemption.
Director: Jaydon Martin | Stars: Cass Cumerford, Miguel Angel Jitale D'Amico, Hayden Rimmington, Rob Sheean
Votes: 11
23. How Do You Know Chris? (2020)
86 min | Drama
The inherently flawed chameleon Chris Black, 28, throws a party at his inner-city Melbourne apartment for people who have been prominent players in his life. But the guests arrive to a ... See full summary »
Director: Ashley Harris | Stars: Stephen Carracher, Luke Cook, Lynn Gilmartin, Rachel Glenane
Votes: 169
24. Green Light (2019)
71 min | Documentary
In Australia, two men work to provide the last hope of relief for thousands suffering chronic and terminal illnesses.
Director: Ned Donohoe
Votes: 37
25. Exit (VI) (2011)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama
A group of people believe the city is a maze and are obsessively searching for the lost exit.
Director: Marek Polgar | Stars: Kylie Trounson, Michael Finney, Hannah Moore, Drew Tingwell
Votes: 156
26. Inside the Firestorm (2010 TV Movie)
Documentary
The story of Australia's worst peacetime disaster On 7th February 2009, Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster. 'Black Saturday' claimed 173 lives, left more than 7,000 homeless ... See full summary »
Votes: 29
27. Because We Have Each Other (2022)
89 min | Documentary
A story of tenderness and turbulence, fragility and family, loss and love.
Director: Sari Braithwaite
Votes: 34
28. St Francis (2017)
5 min | Comedy
Stars: Richard Davies, Dave Lawson, Alicia Gardiner, Jane Harber
30. The Student
Crime | Announced
Do bad people look like good people, like friends and boyfriends and students, until they have their hands around your throat?
31. Still We Rise (2022 TV Special)
59 min | Documentary
50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into a year of protest and revolutionary change for First Nations people.
Director: John Harvey
32. Strong Women (2021)
Documentary
Stars: Alira Verity, Kerryn Taylor, Mariko Whyte, Leigh Holland Keen
Votes: 9
33. Rabbit (II) (2014)
15 min | Short, Drama
Abandoned by his parents and harboring a grim family secret a damaged young teen is faced with a difficult choice when he brings his foreign girlfriend into the family home.
Director: Matthew Richards | Stars: Nicholas Denton, Emily Wheaton, Trent Heath, Arielle Thomas
Votes: 66
34. The Forgotten Australians (2010)
60 min | Documentary
Documentary detailing the suffering of children placed into Australia's care institutions between the 1930's and 1980's.
Director: Nicola Woolmington | Star: Judy Davis
35. Paper Trails (2017)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Anne Deveson was a magnificent woman: the first female talk-back broadcaster in Australia, she was also a writer, activist, mental health advocate, and mother. When director Sari ... See full summary »
Director: Sari Braithwaite | Star: Anne Deveson
36. Off Country (2021– )
95 min | Documentary
Follows the lives of seven Indigenous students as they leave home to spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar.
Star: Zoe Walters
Votes: 24
37. Bound by Blue (2014)
Drama
Three lost and downward spiraling Melbournians are proposed and offer by a being from another world; to take one final night to confront the city that has beaten them down, before escaping their lives forever.
Director: David Hawkins | Stars: Richard Davies, Jenny Lovell, Frank Magree, Debbie Zukerman
38. Water (VI) (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama
Water is life. And without it, life does not exist.
Director: John Harvey | Stars: Deborah Brown, Aaron Pedersen
39. A Brilliant Genocide (2016)
82 min | Documentary, History, War
'A Brilliant Genocide' is an expose of how an African dictator has been able to commit mass murder and still get a regular audience at The White House and 10 Downing Street.
Director: Ebony Butler
Votes: 10
40. Katele (Mudskipper) (2023)
12 min | Short, Drama
Martha, an Indigenous woman, works tirelessly in a laundromat, until the monotonous routine is interrupted by a mysterious visitor who reminds her of the life she left behind.
Director: John Harvey | Stars: Waangenga Blanco, Elmi Kris, Tony Nixon
Votes: 13
41. The Unmissables (2019)
Documentary
Three artists confront the challenge of creating a work of public portraiture to reignite the search for those who have disappeared.
42. The Ones Left Behind
Comedy, Drama | Announced
After discovering at her funeral that his wife cheated on him, a recently widowed man embarks on a road trip with his estranged geriatric father and precocious adolescent daughter to scatter his wife's ashes at the Twelve Apostles.
Director: Ashley White
43. One Night Stand (2013)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A one night stand goes pear shaped when young woman, Anna, accepts a lift home from her new suitor, Paul. Suddenly her hangover just got a whole lot worse.
Director: Nicky Arnall | Stars: Melissa Bergland, Andrew S. Gilbert, Chris Ryan
Votes: 6
44. The Goddam Election! with John Safran (2016 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
Director: Nick McInerney | Stars: John Safran, Rosalie Crestani, Neil Erikson, Yvonne Gentle
45. Journey Beyond Fear (2018)
99 min | Documentary
A feature documentary told through the eyes of a teenage girl and her refugee family in pursuit of resettlement. This emotional roller coaster takes us from despair to joy through hope, humor and love - shattering prevailing stereotypes.
Director: Robyn Hughan
46. Kitten (2022)
15 min | Short, Comedy
Directors: Sean T. Barnes, Ela Furdas | Stars: Lois Rose Armstrong, Clancy Walker
47. Pillars (2017)
17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
When tragedy strikes a small coastal town, those effected must decide to either pick up the pieces and confront their own misgivings or allow the cycle to continue.
Director: Ryan A. Murphy | Stars: Eva Seymour, Nicholas Denton, Kaarin Fairfax, Neil Pigot
Votes: 27
48. Bookman (2011)
10 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A young girl who loves reading is bullied on a train. When her book is torn to shreds a stranger takes pity on her and gives her a book. It's about a spy who works in a second-hand ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Bryan | Stars: William Emmons, Charlotte Usher
49. Sand Mountain (2010)
34 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
On a solo journey to through the American south to meet reclusive musician Cast King, photographer Kathryn McCool attempts to find the America she had, as a youth, re-created and ... See full summary »
Director: Kathryn McCool
50. Kutcha's Koorioke (2019– )
Music
Hop in the car and cruise the streets of Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne) with acclaimed Mutti Mutti Songman Kutcha Edwards and a deadly cast of indigenous performers from around Australia, ... See full summary »
Stars: Kutcha Edwards, Jack Charles, Shiralee Hood, Elaine Crombie