Best Australian animation movies
A curated collection of popular animation movies from Australia.
Combat Wombat (2020)
Combat Wombat (2020)
Maggie Diggins, a wombat turned Wonder Woman, unintentionally becomes the city's superhero after she begrudgingly saves a rookie superhero sugar glider from certain doom.
Martha the Monster (2017)
Martha the Monster (2017)
Shy teenage monster making new friends in a new place. In a world where humans live alongside monsters, Martha finds herself stuck with a major identity crisis.
The Hunter (2012)
The Hunter (2012)
In this stop motion sand animation, a lone hunter undertakes a search for a missing boy deep in the snow covered mountains. THE HUNTER premiered at SXSW in 2012, has featured in competition at over 50 international festivals and won several awards including the AFI/ AACTA in 2013.
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
Now, we find the rowdy extraterrestrial getting used to life with his new ʻohana. However, a malfunction in the ultimate creation of Dr. Jumba soon emerges, which reinstates his destructive programming and threatens to both ruin his friendship with Lilo and to short him out for good!
The Lost Thing (2010)
The Lost Thing (2010)
A boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to.
Lesbian Space Princess (2025)
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose (2015)
Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose (2015)
A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with great passion about his beloved. The Nightingale goes on a quest to find the red rose the Student needs win his lovers heart, but this comes at a chilling price. Based on the classic fairytale by Oscar Wilde.
Beauty and the Beast (1996)
Beauty and the Beast (1996)
The magical story of a beautiful young girl named Beauty, whose family were at one time wealthy merchants and how through great family misfortune and drama she finds herself living in a palace, with a grotesque beast. During our tale, Beauty is visited by a kind fairy, but only in her dreams. Eventually Beauty breaks the spell which traps the beast and finds true love in the arms of a handsome Prince.
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to bring together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986)
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986)
Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats" (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip), questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the selectors at Saturday's rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Cooch's prize stag from the depths of Blackwater Station, home of the Murphys, their vicious dogs and deadly croco-pigs? All this and more will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen.
The Little Convict (1979)
The Little Convict (1979)
In old New South Wales a new bunch of convicts arrives including the little convict, young Toby Nelson. Consigned to a Government farm they are subjected to the cruelty of Sergeant Billy Langdon and Corporal Weazel Wesley. Toby escapes and flees into the Australian bush where he is saved from death by the aboriginal boy, Wahroonga. Together, with another escapee, the highwayman, Jack Doolan, and Wahroonga’s animal friends, they launch a spectacular mission to rescue the blacksmith, Big George, and Toby’s sister, Polly.
Dumb Ways to Die (2012)
Dumb Ways to Die (2012)
Cheerfully-animated short music video, part of Melbourne's Metro Trains public service campaign that promotes rail safety, depicts various common and less common ways of getting killed as a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek song lists them.
The Magic Pudding (2000)
The Magic Pudding (2000)
Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.
Shit Boat (2020)
Shit Boat (2020)
This official music video for the band ALESTORM was made during the 2020 COVID 19 quarantine from March to June 2020. 30 students currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Design (Animation & Interactive Media) at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia contributed their work from their homes via internet, coordinated by RMIT lecturer Simon Norton. Result = Animated Foul-mouthed Singing Pirates!!
Flyin' Bamboo (2018)
Flyin' Bamboo (2018)
Colgrave rolls out another collection of his crazy, surrealist creatures and this time they are moving to the music.
How the 'Dook Stole Christmas (2014)
How the 'Dook Stole Christmas (2014)
Short Babadook-oriented film.
A Christmas Carol (1982)
A Christmas Carol (1982)
In this timeless Charles Dickens Story, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean, miserly merchant, lacking in any Christmas Spirit, receives ominous warnings from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future as they each take him on strange and magical journeys to show him that even the poor, the crippled and the sick are rich in love and goodwill at Christmas time - an experience that will change Scrooge forever.
Vincent (1987)
Vincent (1987)
A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.
Double King (2017)
Double King (2017)
A king steals crowns from various other rulers.
Troll Bridge (2019)
Troll Bridge (2019)
Set in the phenomenally successful Discworld series, Troll Bridge is about the world's last Barbarian hero (now at the age of 87) embarking on a suicide mission to battle a bridge troll in mortal combat. In a land where the undead have formed an equal rights movement, goblins are on the endangered species list and the evil Cutshade Forest is being logged; the world has truly gone mad for Cohen the Barbarian. Time has moved too fast... Troll Bridge aims to be the largest scale short film in history. Using resources garnered over a decade of dedication, love, sweat and toil, Troll Bridge has already broken records and set benchmarks internationally. Written by SnowGum Films
The Cat Piano (2009)
The Cat Piano (2009)
A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony.
Alice in Wonderland (1988)
Alice in Wonderland (1988)
It's a whimsical romp through Wonderland when Alice falls down the rabbit hole and finds herself in a strange land filled with a fabulous menagerie of curious characters.
The Girl Who Swallowed Bees (2007)
The Girl Who Swallowed Bees (2007)
A charming animated fable with live action. This is a story about a teenage girl (Pia Miranda) who suffers from depression and dreams and sketches ways on how to end her life. She comes across a beehive one day and comes up with a bizarre plan when she decides that if she swallows enough bees they will sting her death.
The Winter (2020)
The Winter (2020)
While dragging a bundle of firewood through a wintery forest a peasant man spots a group of deer and a majestic stag, who, in measured stages, leads the man onward. The Winter is part of a series of four shorts called "The Seasons".
I'm A Witch (2023)
I'm A Witch (2023)
Here's a little film about a witch. I mostly made it for my kid, but you're allowed to watch it too.
Around the World with Dot (1981)
Around the World with Dot (1981)
In this magical film Dot joins up with Santa Claus in order to help her friend the mother kangaroo find her lost baby. The pair take off into the air in Santa’s sleigh led by two kangaroos and travel the world searching for the zoo where the lost kangaroo has been sent.
Happy Feet (2006)
