Movies Like Outback

If you liked Outback (2020), a thriller and western movie directed by Mike Green, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Wolf Creek (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
2
Apex (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller
A grieving woman pushing her limits on a solo adventure in the Australian wild is ensnared in a twisted game with a cunning killer who thinks she's prey.
3
Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site's…
4
High Ground (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and western
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a…
5
Rogue (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the…
6
True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also western and thriller
Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits…
7
127 Hours (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
8
Goldstone (2016)
★ 6/10Also thriller
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths an intricate web of crime, corruption, human trafficking, and…
9
The Forever Purge (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their…
10
Cargo (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
11
Wake in Fright (1971)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
12
Leave the World Behind (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
13
We Bury the Dead (2026)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
After a catastrophic military disaster reanimates the dead, Ava searches for her missing husband amidst an increasingly hostile world.
14
Razorback (1984)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
15
These Final Hours (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
With the end of the world only hours away, self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing…
16
Desierto (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal…
17
Mad Max 2 (1981)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller
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…
18
The Grey (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
19
Wrong Turn (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by…
20
The Revenant (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also western
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.