Watch Laurence Olivier Movies and TV Shows in Australia

If you're looking to stream shows or movies starring Laurence Olivier in Australia then here is the definitive list. We show you which streaming providers currently have each of Laurence Olivier's most popular movies and shows available in their catalogue. List updated in April 2024.

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring Laurence Olivier In Order of Popularity

  1. The World at War
  2. Spartacus
  3. Hamlet
  4. Wuthering Heights
  5. Richard III
  6. Marathon Man
  7. A Little Romance
  8. Pride and Prejudice
  9. 49th Parallel
  10. Carrie
  11. Bunny Lake Is Missing
  12. A Queen Is Crowned
  13. The Shoes of the Fisherman
  14. The Boys from Brazil
  15. Henry V
  16. The Bounty
  17. Khartoum
  18. Dracula
  19. Sleuth
  20. The Prince and the Showgirl
  21. Rebecca
  22. The Jigsaw Man
  23. The Devil's Disciple

Stream the top 23 Movies and Shows starring Laurence Olivier

1. The World at War

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-PG

9.2/10

A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.

2. Spartacus

Rated: PG-13

7.9/10

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

3. Hamlet

Rated: G

7.6/10

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

4. Wuthering Heights

Rated: Not Rated

7.5/10

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

5. Richard III

Rated:

7.4/10

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.

6. Marathon Man

Rated: R

7.4/10

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

7. A Little Romance

Rated: PG

7.4/10

A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.

8. Pride and Prejudice

Rated: Approved

7.4/10

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

9. 49th Parallel

Rated: Not Rated

7.3/10

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.

10. Carrie

Rated: M

7.3/10

Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.

11. Bunny Lake Is Missing

Rated: Not Rated

7.3/10

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

12. A Queen Is Crowned

Rated: G

7/10

A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.

13. The Shoes of the Fisherman

Rated: G

7.0/10

All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.

14. The Boys from Brazil

Rated: R

7.0/10

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

15. Henry V

Rated: G

7/10

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

16. The Bounty

Rated: PG

7.0/10

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

17. Khartoum

Rated: Approved

6.8/10

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

18. Dracula

Rated: M

6.5/10

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

19. Sleuth

Rated: PG

6.4/10

On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

20. The Prince and the Showgirl

Rated: PG

6.4/10

A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

21. Rebecca

Rated: Approved

6/10

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

22. The Jigsaw Man

Rated: PG

5.1/10

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

23. The Devil's Disciple

Rated: Approved

/10

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.