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Whether you’re hoping to catch up on past films or are looking for some quality movies to watch without spending much money, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve pored over IMDB's list of top 100 movies and hunted down which Australian streaming services currently offer them, saving you the hassle of searching through them yourself. In the event a movie isn't available on any Aussie streaming services, we've listed rental and purchase options to ensure you don't miss out.
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| Ranking and list | Title | Genre | Description | IMDB Rating | Where to Stream or Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shawshank Redemption | Crime, Drama | Imprisoned over a number of years, two men become unlikely friends in this Oscar-winning tale. | 9.2 | Netflix |
| 2 | The Godfather | Crime, Drama | The story of “The Godfather / Don Corleone” (Marlon Brando) of an organised crime ring in America as he passes his legacy onto his youngest son (Al Pacino). | 9.2 | Foxtel Now |
| 3 | The Godfather: Part II | Crime, Drama | The sequel to the award-winning original, The Godfather II follows Don Corleone as he journeys from Nevada to Cuba and ascends to his position as head of the family. | 9.1 | Foxtel Now |
| 4 | The Dark Knight | Action, Crime, Drama | An epic part of the Batman series sees Heath Ledger as an incomparable Joker causing chaos across Gotham City. | 9.0 | Netflix |
| 5 | Pulp Fiction | Crime, Drama | Possibly one of Quentin Tarantino's finest films, Pulp Fiction has it all from mob hit men to bandits and that unforgettable dance scene between John Travolta and Uma Thurman. | 8.9 | Netflix |
| 6 | Schindler’s List | Biography, Drama, History | The heartwarmingly true story of Oskar Schindler as he endeavours to hide and save his Jewish factory workers in World War II Poland. | 8.9 | Netflix |
| 7 | 12 Angry Men | Drama | One man sitting on a jury of 12 just might sway the group of men. | 8.9 | Netflix |
| 8 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | Western | Bounty hunters form an alliance against a third in a bid to find buried gold. | 8.9 | Stan |
| 9 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Adventure, Fantasy | The final installment in the fantastical Lord of the Rings trilogy tale brings the World of Men against Sauron’s army. | 8.9 | Stan |
| 10 | Fight Club | Drama | A cult classic that cannot be overlooked. Just remember: what happens in fight club, stays in fight club. Or so the story goes. | 8.9 | Foxtel Now |
| 11 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Adventure, Fantasy | The first in the LOTR trilogy follows the journey of Frodo, a hobbit, and his eight companions of men, wizards, dwarves and elves as they travel to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. | 8.8 | Stan |
| 12 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Luke Skywalker trains to become a Jedi with Master Yoda after the rebels are overpowered. | 8.8 | iTunes |
| 13 | Forrest Gump | Drama, Romance | Interesting lives are nothing compared to Forrest Gump’s, which is riddled with love and some of the world’s most historical moments. | Foxtel Now | |
| 14 | Inception | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi | One of Christopher Nolan’s finest films involving dream-sharing technology to implant (incept) ideas into others minds. | 8.8 | Netflix |
| 15 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Drama | An enthralling tale of patients in a mental institution as they take on the dastardly Head Nurse Ratched. | 8.7 | PlayStation Store |
| 16 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Adventure, Fantasy | In part 2 of the LOTR trilogy Sam and Frodo gain the door of Mordor while the fellowship takes a stand to Sauron’s ally. | 8.7 | Stan |
| 17 | Goodfellas | Biography, Crime, Drama | A group of men work their way through the mob hierarchy. | 8.7 | Microsoft Store |
| 18 | The Matrix | Action, Sci-Fi | In a futuristic world, one man (Neo) quickly realises the truth about our existence - and the role he must play to save us. There is life outside The Matrix. | 8.7 | Stan |
| 19 | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Luke Skywalker attempts to save Princess Leia from Darth Vader while protecting the universe from The Empire. | 8.7 | iTunes |
| 20 | Seven Samurai | Drama | Seven unemployed samurai are recruited to defend a village under attack. | 8.7 | Dendy Direct |
| 21 | City of God | Crime, Drama | After growing up in a rough Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood, two boys lives lead in very different directions. | 8.7 | Netflix |
| 22 | Se7en | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Two detectives search for a killer who chooses his victims by the seven deadly sins. | 8.7 | Foxtel Now |
| 23 | The Usual Suspects | Crime, Drama, Thriller | The survivor of a multi-million dollar heist that ends in a massacre convinces the feds of the existence of a mythic crime lord proving that “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” | 8.6 | Foxtel Now |
| 24 | The Silence of the Lambs | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Clarice Starling, an FBI cadet, enlists the aid of the cannibalistic killer Hannibal to track down a killer who’s flaying his victims. | 8.6 | Foxtel Now |
| 25 | It’s a Wonderful Life | Drama, Family, Fantasy | Possibly the most classic Christmas movie: an angel shows a frustrated businessman what life would have been like without him. | 8.6 | Netflix |
| 26 | Interstellar | Adventure, Sci-Fi | As the human race is threatened by a deadly Dust Bowl, space explorers must search for an alternate planet to save humanity. | 8.6 | Foxtel Now |
| 27 | Léon | Crime, Drama, Thriller | A 12-year-old Matalie Portman (in her first Oscar winning role) is taken by an assassin (Jean Reno) and they form an unusual relationship. | 8.6 | Stan |
| 28 | Life is Beautiful | Comedy, Drama, Romance | In a Holocaust concentration camp, a Jewish man protects his son from the harsh reality by using humour and imagination. | 8.6 | Netflix |
| 29 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Western | A fundamental film in any Clint Eastwood collection as he joins forces with a desperado to protect a woman from an assassin. | 8.6 | Microsoft Store |
| 30 | Casablanca | Drama, Romance, War | Penning the quote “Here’s looking at you, kid,” Casablanca is the romantic tale of two Americans in unoccupied Africa during World War II. | 8.6 | Foxtel Now |
| 31 | American History X | Crime, Drama | In modern-day America, a reformed neo-Nazi (Ed Norton) protects his brother (Ed Furlong) from following his footsteps. | 8.6 | Netflix |
| 32 | Saving Private Ryan | Action, Drama, War | Determined to bring at least one son home, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) embarks on a mission to retrieve a lost paratrooper (Matt Damon) from behind enemy lines. | 8.6 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 33 | Spirited Away | Animation, Adventure, Family | Studio Gibli’s magic returns with the tale of 10-year-old girl who enters a world ruled by witches, spirits and gods where humans become beasts. | 8.6 | Amazon DVD |
| 34 | City Lights | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Charlie Chaplin (a.k.a. the tramp) falls in love with a flower girl and tries to help her with her medical expenses. | 8.6 | SBS On Demand |
| 35 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Action, Adventure | Adventurer Indiana Jones helps the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant | 8.6 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 36 | Psycho | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Alfred Hitchcock’s thrilling tale of a secretary on the run who checks into a remote motel run by a questionable young man. | 8.6 | Netflix |
| 37 | Rear Window | Mystery, Thriller | After injuring his leg, a man (Jimmy Stewart) peeping through his neighbour’s windows becomes convinced a murder has been committed. | 8.6 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 38 | Untouchable (a.k.a. The Intouchables) | Biography, Comedy, Drama | A beautiful memoir of an aristocratic quadriplegic who hires a man from a rough community to become his carer only to form an unlikely bond that will last a lifetime. | 8.6 | Netflix |
| 39 | Modern Times | Comedy, Drama | Struggling in the modern industrial society, a tramp (Charlie Chaplin) is helped by a homeless young woman. | 8.6 | SBS On Demand |
| 40 | Whiplash | Drama, Music | An instructor at a music conservatory will stop at nothing to see a student’s potential when a young drummer enrolls. | 8.6 | Netflix |
| 41 | The Green Mile | Crime, Drama, Fantasy | Stephen King’s brand of fantasy/horror leans closer toward fantasy when a man on death row convicted of child murder and rape reveals his unique gift. | 8.5 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 42 | Terminator 2: Judgement Day | Action, Sci-Fi | He will be back. The Terminator returns to protect John Connor (the future leader of the rebels against the machines) after a more advanced cyborg is sent to terminate him. | 8.5 | Microsoft Store |
| 43 | The Pianist | Biography, Drama, War | A Jewish pianist struggles as the Warsaw ghetto is destroyed in World War II. | 8.5 | Netflix |
| 44 | Memento | Mystery, Thriller | Struggling with short-term memory loss, Leonard (Guy Pearce) creates a system to help him solve his wife’s murder. | 8.5 | OzGameShop |
| 45 | Mad Mad: Fury Road | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | In a post-apocalyptic world, two rebels try to restore order. | 8.5 | Netflix |
| 46 | The Departed | Crime, Drama, Thriller | While infiltrating a South Boston Irish gang, an undercover cop and mole in the police try to identify each other. | 8.5 | Foxtel Now |
| 47 | Apocalypse Now | Drama, War | A captain is sent on a mission to Cambodia during the Vietnam war to kill a colonel who has set himself up with a local tribe. | 8.5 | Foxtel Now |
| 48 | Gladiator | Action, Drama | Betrayed by his family, a Roman general becomes a gladiator in Rome to seek revenge. | 8.5 | Foxtel Now |
| 49 | Sunset Boulevard | Drama, Film-Noir | A screenplay is written by a hack for a former, now-obscure silent film star seeking to reboot her career. | 8.5 | Foxtel Now |
| 50 | Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Comedy, War | A war room full of generals and politicians try and stop a nuclear war triggered by an insane general. | 8.5 | Microsoft Store |
| 51 | Back to the Future | Adventure, Comedy, Romance | After accidentally being sent back in time, a young man (Marty McFly) begins to alter the future and must get things back to normal in order to still exist. | 8.5 | Netflix |
| 52 | Alien | Horror, Sci-Fi | A space vessel receives a distress call from a distant planet, where they end up with an unexpected additional passenger. | 8.5 | Microsoft Store |
| 53 | The Prestige | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Two magicians compete against each other to become the ultimate illusionist. | 8.5 | Netflix |
| 54 | The Lion King | Animation, Adventure, Drama | After a lion cub’s father dies, thinking the death was his fault, the young lion abandons his home and meets a cast of characters along his way. | 8.5 | Foxtel Now |
| 55 | The Lives of Others | Drama, Thriller | In 1980s East Berlin, a police agent doing surveillance finds himself being increasingly interested in the lives he’s observing. | 8.5 | OzGameShop |
| 56 | The Great Dictator | Comedy, Drama, War | Charlie Chaplin’s loose commentary on Hitler; a dictator tries to expand his territory while a barber tries to avoid the regime. | 8.5 | Amazon DVD |
| 57 | Cinema Paradiso | Comedy, Drama | A filmmaker recollects his life and remembers his deep love with the movies and his projectionist friend. | 8.5 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 58 | The Shining | Horror | One of Stephen’s King’s more chilling novels, after a family visits an isolate hotel during winter an evil spirit emerges to possess the father figure. “Here’s… Johnny!” | 8.5 | Microsoft Store |
| 59 | Django Unchained | Western | A German bounty hunter and an ex-slave set out to rescue the former slave’s wife from a Mississippi plantation owner. | 8.5 | Microsoft Store |
| 60 | Paths of Glory | Drama, War | Superior officers make an example of soldiers who refuse to take on an impossible attack. | 8.5 | Stan |
| 61 | The Dark Knight Rises | Action, Thriller | The Dark Knight returns from exile to save Gotham City from a terrorist with the help of catwoman. | 8.5 | Netflix |
| 62 | American Beauty | Drama, Romance | A middle-aged, sexually frustrated man (Kevin Spacey) becomes infatuated by his daughter’s best friend. | 8.4 | Foxtel Now |
| 63 | WALL-E | Animation, Adventure, Family | Disney’s WALL-E is a garbage-collecting robot who goes on a space adventure that determines the fate of humankind. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 64 | Grave of Fireflies | Animation, Drama, War | A sister and brother fight starvation and disease in Japan in World War II after they are rendered orphans. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 65 | Aliens | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | The sequel to the 1979 film finds the empty planet now colonised, but contact has now been lost. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 66 | North by Northwest | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | A group of spies mistake a New York advertising executive for a government agent and begin to pursue him. | 8.4 | Microsoft Store |
| 67 | Citizen Kane | Drama, Mystery | Reporters scramble after the death of a publishing tycoon in Orson Welles’ most infamous film. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 68 | Vertigo | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | As a detective investigates his friend’s wife he soon becomes obsessed with her. Another Hitchcock fave starring Jimmy Stewart. | 8.5 | Microsoft Store |
| 69 | Old Boy | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | A man imprisoned for 15 years is released and is given just five days to find his captor. | 8.4 | Amazon Prime |
| 70 | Princess Mononoke | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy | Trying to cure her curse, Ashitaka finds himself within a war between forest gods and miners. | 8.4 | Amazon DVD |
| 71 | Das Boot | Adventure, Drama, War | A look into the world of a German World War II U-boat. | 8.4 | Netflix |
| 72 | M | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Criminals help the police capture a child-murderer in Germany. | 8.4 | Amazon DVD |
| 73 | Amélie | Comedy, Romance | The quirky story of an innocent and naive girl discovering love and helping those around her in Paris. | 8.4 | Foxtel Now |
| 74 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | The final episode in the original trilogy of Star Wars films sees the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star. | 8.4 | Microsoft Store |
| 75 | Once Upon a Time in America | Crime, Drama | Returning to New York’s Lower East Side after 30 years, a former gangster must confront his old life. | 8.4 | Foxtel Now |
| 76 | Toy Story 3 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 15 years after the first Toy Story, Andy is growing up and his beloved toys are being cast aside. But after accidentally being sent to daycare where toys are ruled by a purple teddy bear, they must battle to escape and return home to their owner. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 77 | Reservoir Dogs | Crime, Drama | Thieves start to wonder if one of their own is a police informant after a jewel heist goes terribly wrong. (For all those fans out there, cue music: Stuck in the Middle with You). | 8.4 | Microsoft Store |
| 78 | Witness for the Prosecution | Crime, Drama, Mystery | A man suspected of murdering an elderly friend employs an aging barrister as his attorney. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 79 | Braveheart | Action, Biography, Drama | Scotsman William Wallace leads a revolt against the English. | 8.4 | Netflix |
| 80 | A Clockwork Orange | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi | In the near future, a jailed young man volunteers for an experimental therapy to help solve society’s criminal problem. | 8.4 | Microsoft Store |
| 81 | Double Indemnity | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | A man is talked into a murder/fraud scheme. | 8.4 | Microsoft Store |
| 82 | Taxi Driver | Crime, Drama | After fighting in the Vietnam War, a mentally unstable veteran finds work as a night-time taxi driver in New York City but gets more than he planned for after he meets campaign worker, Betsy. | 8.4 | Stan |
| 83 | Requiem for a Dream | Drama | Four drug-addicted people’s “realities” fall apart as they become further addicts. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 84 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Drama | A lawyer in the South defends a black man against a rape charge in the Depression-era South. | 8.4 | Netflix |
| 85 | Lawrence of Arabia | Adventure, Biography, Drama | The epic adventure of a controversial British military man during wartime service. | 8.4 | Netflix |
| 86 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | After breaking up, a couple undergoes a treatment to remove all memories of each other from their lives. But does it work? | 8.4 | Stan |
| 87 | Full Metal Jacket | Drama, War | The effects of the Vietnam war are seen by a US marine during boot camp training in Hue. | 8.4 | Netflix |
| 8 | Bicycle Thieves | Drama | After a bike that’s vital for a man’s job is stolen and he and his son go in search of it. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 89 | The Sting | Comedy, Crime, Drama | A young con artist tries to win a fortune from a criminal banker. | 8.4 | Foxtel Now |
| 90 | Singin’ in the Rain | Comedy, Musical, Romance | The cast and production company of a silent film studio transition into talking pictures. | 8.4 | Foxtel Now |
| 91 | Amadeus | Biography, Drama, Music | The life story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart told by Antonio Salieri, his rival who was later contained in an insane asylum. | 8.4 | iTunes |
| 92 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | If there’s one Monty Python flick to tickle your ears and your funny bones, it’s The Holy Grail. King Arthur and his knights take a hilarious quest for the grail. | 8.3 | Amazon DVD |
| 93 | Snatch | Comedy, Crime | An unconventional blend of jewellers, promoters, bookmakers and gangsters fight for a priceless stolen diamond. | 8.3 | Netflix |
| 94 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Mystery, Sci-Fi | After finding a mysterious object on the Moon, with the help of an intelligent computer, a quest is set to discover what the object is and how it got there. | 8.3 | Microsoft Store |
| 95 | Rashomon | Crime, Drama, Mystery | A horrible crime and its aftermath is recalled from various viewpoints. | 8.3 | Amazon Prime |
| 96 | For a Few More Dollars | Western | Two bounty hunters join forces to track down an outlaw. | 8.3 | Netflix |
| 97 | All About Eve | Drama | A woman finds her way into the company of a stage actress and her circle of friends. | 8.3 | Foxtel Now |
| 98 | L.A. Confidential | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Three very different policemen investigate multiple murders in 1950s Los Angeles. | 8.3 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 99 | The Kid | Comedy, Drama, Family | The Tramp (Chaplin) takes an abandoned child under his wing. | 8.3 | SBS On Demand |
| 100 | The Apartment | Comedy, Drama, Romance | In hopes of moving up at work, a man (Jack Lemmon) agrees to allow executives to use his apartment for their extramarital affairs. | 8.3 | Foxtel Now |
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