Discover the best of Oceanian cinema, film, and television

Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Oceania. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

The cinema of Oceania

Oceanian cinema is a tale told against the world's most breathtaking landscapes, a creative powerhouse defined by the distinct cinematic flavours of Australia and New Zealand. It's a film culture known for its epic scale, its wonderfully dry humour, and its deep connection to the land. The Australian film industry exploded onto the world stage with the "New Wave" of the 70s and 80s, unleashing the post-apocalyptic fury of Mad Max and the haunting mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock. But Australia's creative spirit also has a brilliantly irreverent side, giving us iconic comedies like The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and gritty, unforgettable crime dramas. Across the Tasman Sea, New Zealand transformed itself into a fantasy filmmaking epicentre with Peter Jackson’s monumental The Lord of the Rings trilogy, showcasing a level of technical and artistic wizardry that stunned the globe. More recently, the quirky, heartfelt genius of directors like Taika Waititi and Jane Campion has championed a distinctly Kiwi voice, blending comedy and pathos to international acclaim. What truly sets the region’s cinema apart is its growing and powerful focus on indigenous storytelling, giving a global platform to Māori and First Nations voices in films and series that are raw, beautiful, and utterly essential. It is a cinema of vast horizons and even bigger heart.

Best Oceanian series

  • Poster for NCIS: Sydney

    NCIS: Sydney 2023

    The brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.

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  • Poster for The Artful Dodger

    The Artful Dodger 2023

    It's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.

    Disney+
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  • Poster for Deadloch

    Deadloch 2023

    Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.

    Prime Video
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  • Poster for Heartbreak High

    Heartbreak High 2022

    A fresh look at Hartley High over 20 years on. With her new friends - outsiders Quinni and Darren - Amerie must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.

    Netflix
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  • Poster for The Amazing Digital Circus

    The Amazing Digital Circus 2023

    A woman finds herself trapped in a virtual circus where she and five other humans are subject to the whims of a wacky AI ringmaster. In this digital purgatory they must face frightening NPCs and cope with their own personal traumas.

    YouTube
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  • Poster for MasterChef Australia

    MasterChef Australia 2009

    MasterChef Australia is a Logie Award-winning Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Shine Australia and screens on Network Ten.

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Best Oceanian movies

  • Poster for War Machine

    War Machine 2026

    On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.

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  • Poster for Bring Her Back

    Bring Her Back 2025

    Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.

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  • Poster for Ice Road: Vengeance

    Ice Road: Vengeance 2025

    Big rig ice road driver Mike McCann travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest. While on a packed tour bus traversing the deadly 12,000 ft. terrain of the infamous Road to the Sky, McCann and his mountain guide encounter a group of mercenaries and must fight to save themselves, the busload of innocent travelers, and the local villagers’ homeland.

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  • Poster for Primitive War

    Primitive War 2025

    During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

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  • Poster for The Age of Disclosure

    The Age of Disclosure 2025

    Director Dan Farah got 34 senior members of the U.S. Government, military, and intelligence community to come on camera. He says they reveal an 80 year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin. The film explores the profound impact the situation has on the future of humanity, while providing a look behind-the-scenes with those at the forefront of the bi-partisan disclosure effort.

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  • Poster for Beast of War

    Beast of War 2025

    When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.

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