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Australia is a continent-sized island where most people live on the coast and the centre is dry desert. Its start as a penal colony in 1788, followed by gold rushes in the 1850s, drew migrants from far away and left fiction about newcomers tested by heat and distance. That pressure runs through entries such as Lion and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Open Australia on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Australia

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Browse 380 books, 710 movies, 19 TV shows and 35 games set in Australia.

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

Pixar
movie

Nemo an adventurous young clownfish is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home…

Setting: Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaTime Period: 2003
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Warner Bros. Pictures-Kennedy Miller Mitchell-Domain Entertainment
movie

As the world fell young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel…

Setting: AustraliaTime Period: Sci-Fi: Post-apocalyptic Future
Lion

Lion

The Weinstein Company-See-Saw Films-Screen Australia-Aquarius Films-Sunstar Entertainment
movie

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…

Setting: India; AustraliaTime Period: 1980s & 2010s
The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy

87North Productions-Entertainment 360-Universal Pictures
movie

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.

Setting: Sydney, AustraliaTime Period: 2024
Mary and Max

Mary and Max

Melodrama Pictures
movie

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary a lonely eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne and Max a forty-four-year old severely obese man living in New York.

Setting: Melbourne, Australia; New York USATime Period: 1970s-2000s
Mad Max 2

Mad Max 2

Warner Bros. Pictures-Kennedy Miller Productions
movie

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot…

Setting: Australian Outback, AustraliaTime Period: Post-apocalyptic
Back to the Outback

Back to the Outback

Weed Road Pictures-Reel FX Creative Studios
movie

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…

Setting: AustraliaTime Period: 2021
I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

BBC Film-Why Not Productions-Wild Bunch-Les Films du Fleuve-BFI-Sixteen Films
movie

A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Setting: Newcastle, UKTime Period: 2016
The Babadook

The Babadook

South Australian Film Corporation-Screen Australia-Entertainment One-Smoking Gun Productions-Causeway Films
movie

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.

Setting: AustraliaTime Period: 2014
Pacific Rim: Uprising

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Legendary Pictures-Double Dare You Productions
movie

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human…

Setting: Sci-Fi: Tokyo, Japan; Sci-Fi: Sydney, Australia; Sci-Fi: Siberia, RussiaTime Period: Sci-Fi: 2035

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