Best TV shows on Netflix (Australie) : our Top 20

2025 · Samantha Strauss · 1 season

Two young wellness entrepreneurs ride a wave of hope, selling natural cures for life-threatening diseases and building a devoted following — only to see their personal worlds fracture as truths and falsehoods tangle. As their platform grows, so do the stakes: one woman is driven by genuine conviction, the other by ambition and calculation, and together they alternate between sincere belief and deliberate deception. Their rise becomes a high-stakes unraveling of relationships, reputations, and the line between compassion and fraud.

With Kaitlyn Dever, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Aisha Dee, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Ashley Zukerman and Mark Coles Smith

2019 · Glen Dolman · 1 season

Twelve months after a catastrophic flood took five residents from a peaceful rural town, a mysterious new plant emerges—its uncanny ability to reverse age promises to return the lost to youthful life, upending the community and blurring the line between miracle and menace.

With Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown, Genevieve Morris, Tom Budge, Terry Norris, Anne Charleston and Jacki Weaver

2015 · Tony Ayres, Louise Fox · 3 seasons

A weary police detective and a compassionate doctor are pulled into a deeply emotional mystery when seven members of their town, all previously declared dead, suddenly reappear in seemingly perfect health. As secrets, old grief and public hysteria collide, the pair must untangle scientific impossibility from human pain to discover why they returned—and what price the truth will demand.

With Patrick Brammall, Emma Booth, Sean Keenan, Hannah Monson, Aaron L. McGrath, Rodger Corser and John Leary

2020 · 1 season

When the young au pair next door vanishes from their upscale suburb, Cecilie launches her own investigation — and in chasing the truth she uncovers hidden alliances, betrayals, and long-buried lies that tear apart the polished life she and her neighbors have pretended to lead.

With Laura Carmichael, Jessica De Gouw, Ryan Corr, Todd Lasance, Michael Dorman, Cariba Heine and Miranda Frangou

2006 · Jonathan M. Shiff · 3 seasons

Three teenage friends try to navigate school, family and first loves while hiding a startling secret: any contact with water triggers a sudden transformation, causing them to sprout massive tails and become mermaids. Forced to balance ordinary adolescent dramas with the dangers and freedoms of their new identities, they must learn how to control their powers and keep their secret safe.

With Phoebe Tonkin, Cariba Heine, Angus McLaren, Burgess Abernethy, Claire Holt, Indiana Evans and Luke Mitchell

2016 · 2 seasons

Under Canberra’s tranquil exterior, as tensions between China and the United States escalate, veteran political correspondent Harriet Dunkley unearths a hidden labyrinth of interwoven conspiracies across the capital — a revelation that jeopardizes innocent lives and puts her own in peril.

With Anna Torv, Aleks Mikic, Justin Smith, Marcus Graham, Sacha Horler, Jacki Weaver and Dan Wyllie

2020 · Broden Kelly, Mark Bonanno, Zachary Ruane · 1 season

Aunty Donna unleash a whirlwind of surreal sketches, quirky songs and outlandish characters, transforming bizarre ideas into a relentless, off-kilter comedy experience.

With Broden Kelly, Mark Bonanno, Zachary Ruane, Tipper Newton, Rekha Shankar, Ben Russell and Michelle Brasier

2018 · Tracey Robertson, Nathan Mayfield, Leigh McGrath, Stephen M. Irwin · 1 season

Freshly released from prison, Cal McTeer returns to Orphelin Bay and starts unravelling a decades-old, multi-generational cover-up that binds local murders, drug trade and the unsettling presence of the Sirens to the town’s most powerful families. As she digs deeper, long-buried secrets and dangerous alliances threaten to drag the whole community into the open.

With Charlotte Best, Marco Pigossi, Elsa Pataky, Aaron Jakubenko, Mattias Inwood, Dalip Sondhi and Richard Davies

2019 · Karina Holden, Cian O'Clery · 2 seasons

A candid docuseries that follows autistic adults as they search for romantic connections, navigate the evolving landscape of modern dating, and explore how they forge meaningful, lasting relationships.

With Brooke Satchwell, Kassandra Nieass, Jodi Rogers, Ronan Soussa and Michael Theo

2018 · Greg Haddrick, Felicity Packard · 1 season

At Pine Gap, one of the planet’s most secretive joint intelligence centers, a group of skilled Australian and American analysts pool their expertise to detect threats and preserve global stability — but competing loyalties, clashing methods and personal tensions constantly test their uneasy collaboration.

With Parker Sawyers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Steve Toussaint, Tess Haubrich, Stephen Curry, Lewis Fitz-Gerald and Mark Leonard Winter

2016 · Alison Bell, Sarah Scheller · 2 seasons

Audrey is determined not to let motherhood become her whole identity. What seems simple in theory is endlessly complicated in practice: her husband is wrapped up in his career, her mother is preoccupied with herself, and her best friend drifts through life—together they constantly pull her away from the life she wants.

With Alison Bell, Duncan Fellows, Sacha Horler, Leon Ford, Lucy Durack, Celeste Barber and Leah Vandenberg

2006 · Stephen King · 1 season

Seven interlinked episodes from writer-director Joko Anwar weave eerie, science-fiction-tinged mysteries in which uncanny phenomena blur the line between the supernatural and the technological, twisting perception with each mind-bending tale.

With Greta Scacchi, Richard Thomas, Robert Mammone, William Hurt, Kristian Schmid, William H. Macy and Tony Rickards

2013 · Jonathan M. Shiff · 3 seasons

Three young mermaids—Sirena, Nixie and Lyla—belong to a pod that guards the mystical Moon Pool in the waters around Mako Island. One fateful full-moon night, the girls neglect their duty and a sixteen-year-old human named Zac slips into the pool, becoming linked to its magic and emerging with a fishlike tail and remarkable powers. As punishment, the pod is driven away from Mako and the trio are cast out, their place in the community stripped from them. To win back their status they must somehow take on human legs, go ashore and reclaim Zac’s connection to the Moon Pool—or face exile forever.

With Chai Hansen, Amy Ruffle, Allie Bertram, Isabel Durant, Gemma Forsyth, Lucy Fry and Ivy Latimer

2022 · Vanessa Gazy · 1 season

Three wealthy thrill-seekers—Nellie, Max and Janosch—slip into an illicit, high-end party hidden beneath Munich Central Station, chasing the next rush. When a sudden fire ignites, panic engulfs the crowd and Max disappears in the chaos. Nellie and Janosch race into the underworld to find their boyfriend and instead stumble upon a sprawling, secretive population living beneath the city—the so-called "invisibles"—whose existence upends everything the two knew about privilege, survival and the cost of curiosity.

With Michelle Monaghan, Matt Bomer, Daniel Sunjata, Ali Stroker, Karen Robinson, Rosanny Zayas and Michael O'Neill

2015 · Abraham Joffe · 3 seasons

Every striking image hides a story waiting to be told. Blending adventure, visual storytelling and the natural world, Tales By Light follows photographers from Australia and around the globe as they push the boundaries of their craft to capture moments that reveal deeper truths.

With Angela Scott, Eric Cheng, Jim Abernethy, Stephen Dupont, Darren Jew, Richard I'Anson and Justin Brim

2019 · Justine Flynn · 1 season

Twelve-year-old identical twins Dru and Kal uncover a covert government program using electronic devices to monitor and influence young people across Australia, and must race to expose the scheme and shield their peers from its reach.

With Vrund Rao, Ved Rao, Abigail Adriano, Miah Madden, Annabel Wolfe and Jesse Rowles

2016 · Josh Wakely · 3 seasons

Jay, Kumi, Crick, Buzz and Walter are a tight-knit group of friends who transform a lush, overgrown suburban backyard into the vast stage for their curious adventures, discovering new lessons and wonders as if it were the whole world. Each episode blends hopeful, uplifting storytelling with melodies — featuring Beatles songs reinterpreted by guest artists such as Daniel Johns, Robbie Williams and Pink — to create warm, music-filled tales about friendship and growth.

With Lili Beaudoin, Charles Demers, Ashleigh Ball, Rebecca Husain, Erin Mathews, Peter Kelamis and Michael Caton

2020 · Olivier Dumont · 2 seasons

Ixbee, Pixbee and Squee, three interstellar reporters, arrive on the beautiful yet peculiar world of Earth to file stories about its inhabitants. Charged with interpreting human rituals, pastimes and obsessions, they probe everyday life with equal parts wonder and confusion. Their on-the-ground investigations turn small habits into big mysteries, resulting in humorous, heartfelt dispatches that reveal as much about the aliens as about the humans they study.

With Rob Tinkler, Julie Lemieux, John Cleland, Kyle Dooley and Rupert Degas

2020 · Jordan Papadopoulos · 2 seasons

On Magnetic Island, young koala carer Izzy Bee and her family mobilize to rescue injured and orphaned native animals, nurse these cuddly creatures back to health, and see them safely returned to their natural Australian habitats.

With Izzy Bee, Ali Bee and Tim Bee

2022 · Sam Meikle, Rachel Clements, Isaac Elliott · 1 season

Six young motocross riders band together to form a team, determined to reach the national championships—or crash trying. As they push their limits against fierce rivals, injuries and personal pressures, they come to understand that the deepest victory may be the lasting friendships they build along the way.

With Darcy Tadich, Tatiana Goode, Sam Winspear-Schillings, Tjiirdm McGuire, Sebastian Tang and Charlotte Maggi