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What to watch on HBO Max right now: the movies Australians are streaming most, out of 559 we track, updated October 2026.
Most popular movies on HBO Max this week
Ranked by JustWatch popularity in Australia over the last 7 days.
1
Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous-a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.
- Director
- Paul Feig
- Cast
- Isabelle Fuhrman, Tommy Dewey, Julie Benz, Mina Sundwall, Tessa Mossey
- Duration
- 131mins
2
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
- Director
- Griffin Dunne
- Cast
- Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest
- Duration
- 104 min
3
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard-with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths-and about the villain who's to blame.
- Cast
- Morio Kazama
4
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
- Director
- Zach Cregger
- Cast
- Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong
- Duration
- 129mins
5
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
- Director
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast
- Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård
- Duration
- 149mins
6
Keller Dover faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki, arrests the driver, but a lack of evidence forces Loki to release his only suspect. Dover, knowing that his daughter's life is at stake, decides that he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
- Director
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast
- Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello
- Duration
- 153 min
7
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast
- Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
- Duration
- 146 min
8
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
- Director
- Alex Gibney
- Cast
- Alex Gibney, Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani, Errol Morris, Dan Ariely
- Duration
- 119mins
9
When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall
- Duration
- 170mins
10
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
- Director
- Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
- Cast
- Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
- Duration
- 136 min
11
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast
- Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson
- Duration
- 130 min
12
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
- Director
- Ross Katz
- Cast
- Kevin Bacon, Tom Aldredge, Nicholas Art, Blanche Baker
- Duration
- 77 min
13
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast
- Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck, Michael Caine
- Duration
- 169 min
14
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Cast
- Alan Howard, Noel Appleby, Sean Astin, Sala Baker
- Duration
- 178 min
15
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
- Director
- Coralie Fargeat
- Cast
- Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, Hugo Diego Garcia
- Duration
- 141mins
16
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Cast
- James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet
- Duration
- 117mins
17
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Cast
- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton, Jackie Sawiris
- Duration
- 159 min
18
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
- Director
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast
- Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler
- Duration
- 167mins
19
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
- Director
- Mel Stuart
- Cast
- Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
- Duration
- 100 min
20
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".
- Director
- Mike Flanagan
- Cast
- Ewan McGregor, Kyliegh Curran, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis, Zahn McClarnon
- Duration
- 145mins
21
Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.
- Director
- James Gunn
- Cast
- David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Isabela Merced, Anthony Carrigan, Nicholas Hoult
- Duration
- 145mins
22
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
- Director
- Frank Darabont
- Cast
- Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
- Duration
- 142 min
23
In a dystopian, alternate-America ruled by a totalitarian regime, 50 teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
- Director
- Francis Lawrence
- Cast
- Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Penny Dreadful, Michael C. Hall, Katherine Waterston
- Duration
- 108mins
24
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast
- Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
- Duration
- 152 min
25
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
- Director
- Steve McQueen
- Cast
- Michael Fassbender, Lucy Walters, Mari-Ange Ramirez, James Badge Dale
- Duration
- 101 min
26
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
- Director
- Andy Muschietti
- Cast
- Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard
- Duration
- 135 min
27
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
- Director
- Jon M. Chu
- Cast
- Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan
- Duration
- 120 min
28
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
- Director
- John Crowley
- Cast
- Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, Grace Delaney, Lee Braithwaite, Aoife Hinds
- Duration
- 108mins
29
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Cast
- Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Joe Turkel
- Duration
- 137mins
30
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet-both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
- Director
- Nora Ephron
- Cast
- Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey
- Duration
- 119 min
31
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
- Duration
- 149mins
32
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
- Director
- Jennifer Kent
- Cast
- Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Charlie Jampijinpa Brown
- Duration
- 136 min
33
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
- Director
- Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
- Cast
- Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
- Duration
- 102 min
34
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, the film follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding. When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women - led by Police Officer Gladys Moss - begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.
- Director
- Thea Sharrock
- Cast
- Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones
- Duration
- 100mins
35
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.
- Director
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast
- Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Griffiths, Pam Ferris, Fiona Shaw
- Duration
- 142 min
36
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
- Director
- Matt Reeves
- Cast
- Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright
- Duration
- 176 min
37
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
- Director
- Mike Flanagan
- Cast
- Tom Hanks, Mark Hamill, Naomi Watts, Tony Hale, David Krumholtz
- Duration
- 110mins
38
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own.
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Cast
- Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Annie McEnroe, Maurice Page
- Duration
- 92 min
39
TBC
- Cast
- Unknown
40
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
- Director
- Chris Columbus
- Cast
- Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Griffiths
- Duration
- 161 min
41
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
- Director
- Michael Chaves
- Cast
- Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Evans, Megan Ashley Brown, John Noble
- Duration
- 135mins
42
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Cast
- Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter
- Duration
- 115 min
43
A town-where everyone seems to be named Johnson-stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lemar sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
- Director
- Mel Brooks
- Cast
- Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
- Duration
- 93 min
44
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Cast
- Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger
- Duration
- 185 min
45
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Cast
- George Clooney, Cecelia Ann Birt, Paul L. Nolan, Carol Florence
- Duration
- 116 min
46
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
- Director
- P.J. Hogan
- Cast
- Sophie Lee, Roz Hammond, Toni Collette, Belinda Jarrett
- Duration
- 106 min
47
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
- Director
- Andy Muschietti
- Cast
- Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa
- Duration
- 169 min
48
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy capitalist.
- Director
- Aziz Ansari
- Cast
- Jessica Chastain, Janelle Monáe, Diane Wiest, Jeremy Irons, Jared Harris
- Duration
- 98mins
49
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
- Director
- Mick Jackson
- Cast
- Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara
- Duration
- 107 min
50
Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong.
- Director
- Liz Garbus
- Cast
- Jesse Temple, Brad Katinas, Diane Schuler, Jay Schuler
- Duration
- 101 min
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