Where to watch Locke (2013) in Australia

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You can stream Locke (2013) in Australia on Stan and on Prime Video, where it is included with Amazon Prime. It is not on Netflix, BINGE or Disney+, and no free service has it right now. If you only want it for one night, it rents for $4.99 on Apple TV, Prime Video or Fetch TV.

Where to watch Locke in Australia

Option	Where	Price
Stream (subscription)	Stan	included with any plan
Stream (subscription)	Prime Video	included with Amazon Prime
Rent	Apple TV, Prime Video, Fetch TV	$4.99
Buy	Apple TV, Prime Video	$11.99 (SD), $12.99 (HD)
Buy	Fetch TV	$12.99
Free streaming	none right now

Prices are from JustWatch Australia and our catalogue on 15 November 2026. Stores change rental prices often, so check before you pay.

The cheapest way to watch Locke

• You already have Stan or Amazon Prime: it is included. Search "Locke" in the app.
• You have neither and want it free: new Amazon Prime members get a 30-day free trial, and Prime Video comes with it. Cancel before the trial ends if you do not want to keep paying.
• You only want this film: a $4.99 rental is the cheapest paid option, and at 85 minutes it fits in a 48-hour rental window easily.
• You want a Tom Hardy double bill: Stan also has Warrior and Dunkirk (below), which beats renting two films.

Is Locke on Netflix or free TV?

No. Locke is not on Netflix in Australia, and there is no free streaming option on ABC iview, SBS On Demand, 7plus, 9Now or 10 Play as of 15 November 2026. Stan added it on 4 September 2026, and Prime Video has it in the Prime subscription, so those two are the only places to stream it without paying per film.

What Locke is about

Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is a respected construction manager in Birmingham. The night before he is due to oversee one of the biggest concrete pours in European history, he gets into his car and drives the other way, towards London. Over the next 85 minutes, in close to real time, every part of his life plays out through phone calls on the motorway: his wife and sons waiting at home for the football, his boss, a junior colleague he has to talk through the pour, and a woman in a London hospital who is the reason he is on the road. Nothing explodes and nobody chases him. The tension is entirely in the calls.

Detail
Premiere	Venice Film Festival, 2 September 2013
UK release	18 April 2014
Writer and director	Steven Knight
Producers	Paul Webster, Guy Heeley
Running time	85 minutes
Classification	MA15+ (as listed by JustWatch Australia)
Budget	about US$2 million
Box office	about US$5 million worldwide

Who is in Locke

Tom Hardy is the only actor on screen. The rest of the cast are voices on his car phone:

• Olivia Colman as Bethan, the woman in the London hospital
• Ruth Wilson as Katrina, Ivan's wife
• Andrew Scott as Donal, the junior colleague left in charge of the pour
• Ben Daniels as Gareth, Ivan's boss
• Tom Holland and Bill Milner as Eddie and Sean, Ivan's sons
• Danny Webb as Cassidy and Alice Lowe as Sister Margaret

Tom Holland recorded his part in 2013, two years before he was cast as Spider-Man, which is why the film turns up in a lot of "early Tom Holland" searches.

How Locke was made

Knight shot the whole film over six nights. Hardy drove a BMW X5 that was towed down the M6 motorway on a low trailer for most of the shoot, filmed by three cameras at once, with the takes stopping only to change memory cards. The voice cast performed their calls live from a conference room, so Hardy was reacting to real performances rather than to lines read off a script. The result earned Hardy the Best Actor award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 2014, and it sits at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Knight went on to create Peaky Blinders, which Hardy joined as Alfie Solomons, and the two later created Taboo together. Hardy is also an executive producer on Knight's A Thousand Blows.

What to watch after Locke

From the same writer, or with the same lead, and where each one streams in Australia now:

• Peaky Blinders (2013 to 2022): Steven Knight's Birmingham gangster series, all six seasons on Netflix. Hardy appears from season 2.
• A Thousand Blows (2025): Knight's Victorian boxing drama, on Disney+.
• MobLand (2025): Hardy as a fixer for a London crime family, seasons 1 and 2 on Paramount+. Our guide to MobLand season 2 has the details.
• Havoc (2025): Hardy in Gareth Evans's action film, on Netflix.
• Legend (2015): Hardy plays both Kray twins, on Prime Video.
• Warrior (2011) and Dunkirk (2017): both on Stan, so a Stan subscription covers a full Tom Hardy night with Locke.
• Buried (2010): another one-man, one-location thriller, with Ryan Reynolds in a coffin, also on Stan.

For more of what is on each service, see our Stan guide and Prime Video guide.