Walkabout (1971)
Adventure | Drama
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra, Peter Carver
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Storm Boy (1976)
Drama | Family
Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
Starring: Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil, Judy Dick
Director: Henri Safran
Cargo (2017)
Drama | Thriller
After an epidemic spreads all over Australia, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter.
Starring: Martin Freeman, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter, Caren Pistorius, Kris McQuade, Natasha Wanganeen, Bruce R. Carter, Simone Landers, David Gulpilil
Director: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke
Goldstone (2016)
Crime | Thriller
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons enquiry. What seems like a simple light duties investigation opens a web of crime and corruption. Jay must pull his life together and bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone.
Starring: Aaron Pedersen, David Wenham, David Gulpilil, Kate Beahan, Jacki Weaver
Director: Ivan Sen
Charlie's Country (2013)
Drama
Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Starring: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford
Director: Rolf de Heer
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
Starring: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil, Mark Blum, Reginald VelJohnson
Director: Peter Faiman
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Adventure | Drama | History
In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Starring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Jason Clarke, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Phillip Noyce
The Last Wave (1977)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of war, slowly realized his own involvement with the aborigines…and their prophecies.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
Director: Peter Weir
Australia (2008)
Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
Set in Australia on the brink of World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley, an English Aristocrat (Kidman), travels to the faraway continent where she has inherited a cattle ranch, owned by her late husband. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn local known as The Drover (Jackman) to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor. When tragedy strikes and Lady Sarah becomes unofficial guardian to a "half-caste" boy, the unlikely couple must come to terms with a prejudiced society, dishonorable business associates and the impending arrival of the Japanese.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil
Director: Baz Luhrmann
