Best movies on Netflix (Australie) : our Top 20

2022 · Baz Luhrmann

Spanning Elvis Presley's rise from small-town performer to global icon, the film examines how his fraught, often transactional partnership with the elusive Colonel Tom Parker shaped his career choices, personal life, and the costs of fame.

With Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and David Wenham

2009 · Christopher Smith

A celebrated supermodel pair accept an invitation aboard an extravagant cruise for the ultra-wealthy, overseen by a dangerously unstable, hard-drinking captain. What begins as a picture-perfect escape collapses into catastrophe, leaving the remaining guests marooned on a deserted island where social masks fall away and a brutal struggle for power and survival takes over.

With Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Emma Lung, Rachael Carpani, Michael Dorman, Joshua McIvor and Henry Nixon

2011 · Leon Ford

Cecilia inherits a fortune when her violent former partner supposedly takes his own life, but she becomes convinced the death is a setup. As a string of unlikely events spirals into fatal incidents, she fights to expose the truth and prove she’s being pursued by an unseen predator.

With Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Patrick Brammall, Toby Schmitz, Marshall Napier, Heather Mitchell and David Webb

2023 · Sarah Spillane

Tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson embarks on a bid to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe alone—without stops or outside assistance. Labeled by many as bound to fail, she relies on the guidance of her coach and mentor Ben Bryant and the unwavering support of her parents as she faces some of the world’s most treacherous seas over a 210-day solo voyage.

With Teagan Croft, Cliff Curtis, Alyla Browne, Josh Lawson, Anna Paquin, Bridget Webb and Vivien Turner

2023 · Wendy Rogers

Peter, driven by the desperate hope of reuniting with the sister he lost years ago, wanders into a bustling market and is stopped by a cryptic fortune-teller. When he asks whether his sister is still alive, she gives him no simple answer—only a riddle: he must track down a strange elephant and the elusive magician who can summon it. Thrust into a quest that demands he face three daunting, seemingly impossible trials, Peter sets out on a journey that will test everything he believes and, in the end, transform his town in ways no one could have expected.

With Noah Jupe, Mandy Patinkin, Brian Tyree Henry, Natasia Demetriou, Sian Clifford, Benedict Wong and Miranda Richardson

2026 · Patrick Hughes

During the final, brutal exercise of Army Ranger training, a combat engineer is forced to take command of his squad and lead them into battle against a towering, otherworldly war machine.

With Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Blake Richardson and Keiynan Lonsdale

2010 · Troy Nixey

The Daily Show host riffs on the comic pitfalls of assigning names to nations, how traffic lights seem to grant New Yorkers a bizarre sense of invincibility, and the strange reasons you might want to avoid drinking in Scotland.

With Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson, Alan Dale, Emelia Burns and Nicholas Bell

2015 · Kim Farrant

During a long-distance trip, two strangers fall into easy conversation — but both conceal double lives and dangerous secrets that could undo them. As their façades begin to crack, a vast, nationwide law‑enforcement dragnet tightens around them.

With Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving, Lisa Flanagan, Megan Alston, Maddison Brown and Meyne Wyatt

2001 · Gary Fleder

When his daughter is kidnapped, a shaken psychiatrist is told the ransom condition: he must reach a young woman with severe PTSD who alone knows a crucial six-digit code. Racing against the clock, he must pry open her scarred memories—and his own ethical boundaries—to recover the number and save his child.

With Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Guy Torry, Jennifer Esposito, Famke Janssen and Oliver Platt

1999 · Stephan Elliott

An acclaimed journalist exposes a motel proprietor who secretly watched his guests for decades, but the explosive exposé rapidly spirals into a controversy that engulfs everyone involved.

With Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin, k.d. lang, Geneviève Bujold, Jason Priestley and Kaitlin Brown

2026 · Tommy Wirkola

A devastating Category 5 hurricane tears through a coastal town, and the rushing surge that follows leaves ruin and chaos behind — along with an even deadlier menace: packs of ravenous sharks swept inland by the flood.

With Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, Djimon Hounsou, Gemma Dart, Alyla Browne, Amy Mathews and Elijah Ungvary

2003 · David McNally

Longtime friends — a New York hairstylist and an aspiring musician — get entangled with organized crime and are forced to ferry $50,000 to Australia, but their plan unravels when a mischievous wild kangaroo makes off with the cash.

With Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas and Dyan Cannon