Watch Octavia Spencer Movies and TV Shows in Australia

If you're looking to stream shows or movies starring Octavia Spencer in Australia then here is the definitive list. We show you which streaming providers currently have each of Octavia Spencer's most popular movies and shows available in their catalogue. List updated in October 2025.

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring Octavia Spencer In Order of Popularity

  1. The Help
  2. Red Band Society
  3. Hidden Figures
  4. Gifted
  5. Onward
  6. Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
  7. The Shape of Water
  8. Truth Be Told
  9. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
  10. The Shack
  11. The Free World
  12. Encounter
  13. Allegiant
  14. Ma
  15. A Kid Like Jake
  16. Roald Dahl's The Witches
  17. Spirited
  18. Thunder Force

Stream the top 18 Movies and Shows starring Octavia Spencer

1. The Help

Rated: PG-13

8.1/10

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

2. Red Band Society

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-14

7.9/10

Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness everyday. Charlie , in a coma for several months, attending meanwhile helplessly bustle around him. He sees nothing , but he hears everything ...

3. Hidden Figures

Rated: PG

7.8/10

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

4. Gifted

Rated: PG-13

7.6/10

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

5. Onward

Rated: PG

7.4/10

Teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley embark on a magical quest to spend one more day with their late father. But when dear mum finds out her sons are missing, she teams up with the legendary manticore to bring her beloved boys back home.

6. Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-MA

7.3/10

This limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.

7. The Shape of Water

Rated: R

7.3/10

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

8. Truth Be Told

Seasons: 3

Rated: MA15+

7.1/10

Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts with Poppy Parnell, who risks everything—including her life—to pursue truth and justice.

9. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Rated: M

6.5/10

Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.

10. The Shack

Rated: PG-13

6.3/10

After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.

11. The Free World

Rated: M

6.1/10

Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.

12. Encounter

Rated: MA15+

5.9/10

A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

13. Allegiant

Rated: PG-13

5.7/10

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

14. Ma

Rated: R

5.6/10

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

15. A Kid Like Jake

Rated: M

5.6/10

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.

16. Roald Dahl's The Witches

Rated: M

5.4/10

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

17. Spirited

Rated: PG

5/10

Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.

18. Thunder Force

Rated: M

4.5/10

In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.