Filming Location Matching "Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Mortal Kombat (2021)
R | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Completed
MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
Director: Simon McQuoid | Stars: Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Hiroyuki Sanada
2. Pitch Black (2000)
14A | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel, Keith David
Votes: 226,196 | Gross: $39.24M
3. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
14A | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
Directors: George Miller, George Ogilvie | Stars: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn
Votes: 127,731 | Gross: $36.20M
4. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 46,792 | Gross: $11.22M
5. Red Planet (2000)
PG | 106 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Director: Antony Hoffman | Stars: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt
Votes: 55,575 | Gross: $18.00M
6. The Amazing Race (2001– )
60 min | Adventure, Family, Game-Show
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
Stars: Phil Keoghan, Joyce Agu, Uchenna Agu, Jet McCoy
Votes: 13,476
7. Kangaroo Jack (2003)
PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Director: David McNally | Stars: Anthony Anderson, Jerry O'Connell, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken
Votes: 29,912 | Gross: $66.93M
8. Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child (2016)
99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all.
Director: Shane Abbess | Stars: Kellan Lutz, Daniel MacPherson, Isabel Lucas, Luke Ford
Votes: 7,622
9. Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991)
R | 158 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin
Votes: 9,231 | Gross: $0.75M
10. The Blood of Heroes (1989)
90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
In a future where most of mankind and technology is wiped out, six people travel from place to place playing a brutal form of football with a dog skull. They hope one day to play in the league in a city.
Director: David Webb Peoples | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo, Anna Katarina
Votes: 6,415 | Gross: $0.88M
11. Outback Opal Hunters (2018– )
Documentary
The series follows crews of fearless opal miners on their mission to unearth a fortune in some of Australia's harshest and remote landscapes.
Stars: James Caruana, Noah McDonough, Jaymin Sullivan, Alan Hobden
Votes: 97
12. Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (1984)
100 min | Drama
A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett
Votes: 2,119
13. Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
100 min | Drama
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
Director: Kurt Martin | Stars: Aaron Jeffery, Jessica Napier, Karina Banno, David Field
Votes: 113
14. Arrowhead (2016)
95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A tech is sprung from prison by a revolutionary leader who promises him an opportunity to save his father from a scheduled execution if he completes a data-stealing mission. But it goes awry, stranding him on a strange alien moon.
Director: Jesse O'Brien | Stars: Dan Mor, Aleisha Rose, Shaun Micallef, Mark Redpath
Votes: 2,047
15. Ground Zero (1987)
109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for... See full summary »
Directors: Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Stars: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate
Votes: 454 | Gross: $0.20M
16. Siam Sunset (1999)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife. He decides to getaway ... See full summary »
Director: John Polson | Stars: Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack, Ian Bliss, Roy Billing
Votes: 1,061
17. Opal Dream (2006)
PG | 85 min | Drama, Family
A young girl's relationship with her imaginary friends resonates throughout her town in the Australian Outback.
Director: Peter Cattaneo | Stars: Sapphire Blossom, Christian Byers, Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie
Votes: 934 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Burke & Wills (1985)
140 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Fargher
Votes: 226
19. Stark (1993– )
158 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the near future, the greenhouse effect has plunged the world into recession, and the unscrupulous Stark Corporation is making as much money as it can from the crisis.
Stars: Colin Friels, Ben Elton, Derrick O'Connor, Jacqueline McKenzie
Votes: 180
20. The Ghan: Australia's Greatest Train Journey (2018 TV Special)
180 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
The Ghan is an innovative three-hour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive, visually stunning journey on Australia's most iconic passenger train. In Australia's first 'Slow TV' ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Kay
Votes: 26
21. The Fire in the Stone (1984 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama, Family
When his precious cache of opals is stolen, 14-year-old Ernie, who lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of inland Australia, sets out with a friend ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Conway | Stars: Alan Cassell, Paul Smith, Ray Meagher, Linda Hartley
Votes: 43
22. The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome' (1985 Video)
52 min | Documentary
Follows the cast and crew of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome filming in the heat and dust of central Australia
Director: Mark Lamprell | Stars: Tina Turner, Angry Anderson, Mel Gibson, Terry Hayes
Votes: 14
23. The Bus from Blooperville (2005 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Bill Hunter, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving
24. World Safari II: The Final Adventure (1984)
128 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Alby Mangels | Stars: Viktor Breglec, Michelle Els, Judy Green, Alby Mangels
Votes: 14
25. The Osiris Child: A Bigger World (2017 Video)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Fantasy
Stars: Shane Abbess, Brian Cachia, Matthew Graham, Rachel Griffiths
26. Olivia Down Under (1988 TV Movie)
60 min | Music
An entertaining hour in the company of the delightful Olivia Newton-John performing songs from her album _The Rumour_ against a backdrop of spectacular Australian scenery.
Director: Brian Grant | Stars: Olivia Newton-John, Cameron English, Chloe Lattanzi, Matt Lattanzi
Votes: 50
27. Too Long in the Bush: Len Beadell Looks Back (2007 Video)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Director: Phil Sexton | Stars: Len Beadell, Anne Beadell, Ron Buckley, Clive Drinkwater
28. The Old Man and the Inland Sea (2005 Video)
22 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Star: Norman Hayes Jagamarra
29. The Osiris Child: The Monster Within (2017 Video)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Fantasy
Stars: Shane Abbess, Luke Ford, Matthew Graham, Paul Katte
30. Fragments of Terror (1985)
91 min | Thriller
Directors: Raymond K. Bartram, Craig Lahiff, Roland Sims | Stars: Renfrey Ansell, Glen Elston, Geraldine Smedley, Rod Mullinar
31. From Bulldust to Bitumen (1987 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Tim Sullivan | Star: Don Barker
32. Escape: World Safari III (1988)
109 min | Documentary
Director: Alby Mangels | Stars: Alby Mangels, Michelle Els, Lucinda Dunn, Rick Snel
Votes: 10
33. The Birth of a Queen: Directing a Drag Classic (2005 Video)
28 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Directors: Irving Ong, Irving Ong | Stars: Stephan Elliott, Tim Chappel, Al Clark, Lizzy Gardiner
34. Dingo (1983 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Director: Ilse Hofmann | Stars: Angelika Bender, Christoph M. Ohrt, Eric Oldfield, Katrin Schaake
36. Stranded with Cash Peters (2005– )
22 min | Adventure
Stars: Lady Chablis, Cash Peters
Votes: 13
37. Opal Dream: Behind the Scenes (2007 Video)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Family
Stars: Sapphire Blossom, Christian Byers, Peter Cattaneo, Vince Colosimo
39. Coober Pedy (1981)
50 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Director: Leigh Tilson | Stars: Machinegun Joe, Simon Lewis, Peter Rabbit, Ed Rodriguez
40. Sheep, Dog & Wolf: Glare (2014 Video)
4 min | Short, Music
Directors: Jordan Dodson, Sean Wallace | Star: Daniel McBride
42. Rise Like the Phoenix (The Story of A68-1) (1985 TV Special)
40 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Director: Jim Adolph | Stars: Brenton Whittle, John Ashton, Len Beadell, Ross Goldsworthy
44. South Australia: ocean to outback (2003 Video)
28 min | Documentary, Short, History
Stars: Julian Pulvermacher, Julia Blake, Bryan Brown, Alan Cassell
45. Tidbits from the Set (2005 Video)
3 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Al Clark, Stephan Elliott, Michael Hamlyn, Guy Pearce
46. The Osiris Child: Living Off World (2017 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short, Fantasy
Stars: Sidonie Abbene, Shane Abbess, Luke Ford, Rachel Griffiths
47. The Osiris Child: The Sound of Tomorrow (2017 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Fantasy
Stars: Sidonie Abbene, Shane Abbess, Brian Cachia, Kellan Lutz
48. The Making of 'Pitch Black' (2000 Video)
5 min | Documentary, Short
This Making-of promotional piece that features behind-the-scenes shots and interview snippets about the film.
Stars: David Twohy, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David
Votes: 6
49. Stark: An Interview with Ben Elton (2007 Video)
14 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Ben Elton, Colin Friels, Deborra-Lee Furness, Bill Hunter
50. The Fading Moon (2011 Video)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Stephen Turner | Stars: Marjorie Tripp, Terry Webb