Best award winning movies with a social taboo from Australia

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a social taboo from Australia! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a social taboo from Australia, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Babyteeth (2020)

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

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2020-06-15 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Eliza Scanlen, Ben Mendelsohn

Rating

rating icon 6.847
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    falling in love
  2. Ranked #2 for
    excellent cinematography
  3. Ranked #2 for
    outlook on life

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2 Nitram (2021)

Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.

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2021-09-30 | Mystery / Thriller

Cast

Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis

Rating

rating icon 6.931
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    heinous crime
  2. Ranked #1 for
    gratuitous violence
  3. Ranked #1 for
    confronting

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3 How to Please a Woman (2022)

When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

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2022-05-19 | Romance / Comedy

Cast

Sally Phillips, Hayley McElhinney

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    breath of fresh air
  2. Ranked #1 for
    greatly enjoyable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    fresh breeze

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4 The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2022)

In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada wounded on her property. As an unlikely bond begins to form between them he reveals secrets about her true identity. Realizing Molly’s husband is actually missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff starts being suspicious and sends his constable to investigate.

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2022-05-05 | Drama / Western

Cast

Leah Purcell, Rob Collins

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    talent behind cameras
  2. Ranked #1 for
    requiring a second watch
  3. Ranked #1 for
    less effective

Trailer

The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson trailer
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5 Blaze (2022)

After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.

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2022-08-25 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Julia Savage, Simon Baker

Rating

rating icon 5.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    fantasy sequence
  2. Ranked #1 for
    glittery imagery
  3. Ranked #2 for
    candy colors

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6 Relic (2020)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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2020-07-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    climactic ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slowly building up
  3. Ranked #1 for
    deathly

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7 Last Cab to Darwin (2015)

Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.

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2015-08-06 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #87 for
    weak link in cast
  2. Ranked #152 for
    stoic
  3. Ranked #205 for
    brusque

Trailer

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8 Beautiful Kate (2009)

Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.

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2009-08-06 | Drama

Cast

Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths

Rating

rating icon 5.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #98 for
    like The Last Picture Show
  2. Ranked #122 for
    with epiphany moments
  3. Ranked #130 for
    coquettish acting

Trailer

Beautiful Kate trailer
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9 Sissy (2022)

Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream, until she runs into her ex-childhood best friend and is invited away on her bachelorette weekend. Suddenly, Sissy finds herself stuck in a remote cabin with her school bully... and a taste for revenge.

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2022-11-03 | Horror / Comedy

Cast

Aisha Dee, Hannah Barlow

Rating

rating icon 5.986
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    uncool character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    slightly uncomfortable
  3. Ranked #2 for
    punching bag

Trailer

Sissy trailer
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10 Japanese Story (2003)

Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.

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2003-08-30 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #262 for
    great soundtrack
  2. Ranked #277 for
    eventually falling in love
  3. Ranked #284 for
    prosaic

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