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Herps In Australian Movies


These are movies made in Australia or taking place in Australia with scenes with some of the unique Australian reptiles and amphibians in them, taken from the various lists of Herps in Movies. There are not as many movies on this list as I thought there would be before I made it. Since there are herps in nearly every Australian movie I've seen, so maybe I need to watch more of them.


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Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film.

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Dundee finds a snake at their campsite and kills it while carrying on a conversation, as if it's something he does every day. His companion is disgusted and terrified.
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Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Dundee roasts a large monitor lizard for dinner.
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Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Sue is attacked by a large crocodile when she is filling her canteen. Dundee jumps on it and shoves his huge knife into its head to kill it.
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Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

In New York City Dundee sees a snake charmer's cobra and immediately kills it, because that's how you deal with a snake in the outback.
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Devil Woman

Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

Dundee leaves a large monitor lizard wearing a red bandana in the bed of a man who always wears a red bandana to make the man's companions think that he was turned into a lizard by black magic.

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Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

Dundee wears a crocodile costume and pulls his friend Wally underwater to pretend that Wally was killed by a crocodile.

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Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

Mick Dundee and his mate try to catch a huge crocodile in northern Austalia, but it smashes both of their boats, leaving them stranded.

Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

Mick Dundee teaches his son Mikey how to identify a Goanna turd and not to throw rocks at a lizard unless he plans on eating it.
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)

Mick Dundee takes his son Mikey on a jungle amusement park ride in Hollywood. When a giant animatronic anaconda strikes into their vehicle, Mick stabs it in the head with a giant knife.
Crocodile Dundee
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)

CIA agents mistake Steve and Terri Irwin for spies and they mistake the agents for poachers, as Steve catches, wrestles, and releases a large crocodile that has swallowed the metal device that fell from a satellite that the agents are hunting for.
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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)

The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin handles two of the most venomous snakes in the world, and uses one of the snakes to scare away a secret agent.
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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)

The crocodile hunter Steve Irwin dives into the sand trying to catch a Perentie in the Australian outback.
Lizards in Movies
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

A motorcycle gang crushes a lizard eating flies on a skull.
Lizards in Movies
The Last Wave 1977

Frogs appear to have fallen out of the sky during a heavy rainstorm in Australia.
The Last Wave
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

A two-headed lizard makes a tasty post-apocalyptic snack for Max.
Mad Max Fury Road
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)  

Mad Max grabs a venomous snake that's guarding a gyro helicopter but the snake's owner makes him put it down. Later, the snake's owner flies above Max and throws the snake out of his helicopter to kill some men who are trying to kill Max.
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

An Australian Shingleback Skink is seen in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland.
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Outback (2019)

American tourists lost in the Australian outback encounter deadly snakes.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock  (1975) 

Dragons and skinks are used for local color while some schoolgirls picnic.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

A young Australian girl finds a monitor lizard in a tree and captures it for dinner.

Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rogue (2007)

A boat full of tourists is destroyed by an enormous crocodile, stranding everyone on a tiny island that is slowly disappearing due to rising tidewaters, leaving them at the mercy of the hungry reptile.
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Sirens (1993) 

A large Australian python keeps showing up in the movie. I don't know why.
Sirens
Sirens (1993)

A large lizard sits on a desk at a train station.
Sirena
Tracks (2013)

A  young woman and her camels walk 1,700 miles through an Australian desert teeming with reptiles but we only get to see one lousy snake.
Tracks
Walkabout (1971)  

A boy and a teenage girl lost in the Australian desert encounter lots of wildlife including pythons up in trees.
Walkabout
Walkabout (1971)  

A boy and a teenage girl lost in the Australian desert encounter an Aborigine boy who catches and eats lizards.
Walkabout
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