Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Movies and TV Shows in Australia

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

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring Benedict Cumberbatch In Order of Popularity

  1. Sherlock
  2. South Pacific
  3. Super/Natural
  4. Spider-Man: No Way Home
  5. Patrick Melrose
  6. The Imitation Game
  7. Stuart: A Life Backwards
  8. Parade's End
  9. Doctor Strange
  10. Amazing Grace
  11. Hawking
  12. Girlfriend in a Coma
  13. Dunkirk
  14. To the Ends of the Earth
  15. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  16. Black Mass
  17. The Tiger Who Came to Tea
  18. The Power of the Dog
  19. WWI's Tunnels of Death The Big Dig
  20. Naples '44
  21. Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
  22. The Current War
  23. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
  24. The Grinch
  25. Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
  26. Walk With Me
  27. The Child in Time
  28. Wreckers
  29. The Courier
  30. WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig

Stream the top 30 Movies and Shows starring Benedict Cumberbatch

1. Sherlock

Seasons: 4

Rated: TV-14

9.1/10

Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson's adventures in 21st-century London. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary reimagining of the popular detective.

2. South Pacific

Seasons: 1

Rated: N/A

8.7/10

South Pacific is a British nature documentary series from the BBC Natural History Unit, which began airing on BBC Two on 10 May 2009. The six-part series surveys the natural history of the islands of the South Pacific region, including many of the coral atolls and New Zealand. It was filmed entirely in high-definition. South Pacific was co-produced by the Discovery Channel and the series producer was Huw Cordey. It is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. Filming took place over 18 months in a variety of remote locations around the Pacific including: Anuta, Banks Islands, French Frigate Shoals, Papua New Guinea, Palmyra, Kingman Reef, Tuvalu, Palau, Caroline Islands, Tuamotus and Tanna Island in Vanuatu. On 6 May 2009, BBC Worldwide released a short clip of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom surfing in slow motion, high-definition footage as a preview of the series, attracting extremely positive reactions on the video sharing website YouTube. The series was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 15 June 2009. At the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. The series was released by Discovery International in the USA under the title Wild Pacific, with narration provided by Mike Rowe.

3. Super/Natural

Seasons: 1

Rated: PG

8.6/10

Utilizing the latest scientific innovations and leading-edge filmmaking technology, this documentary reveals the secret powers and super-senses of the world’s most extraordinary animals, and invites viewers to see and hear beyond normal human perception to experience the natural world as a specific species does — from seeing flowers in bee-vision to eavesdropping on a conversation between elephant seals to soaring the length of a football field with glow-in-the-dark squirrels.

4. Spider-Man: No Way Home

Rated: PG-13

8.2/10

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

5. Patrick Melrose

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-MA

8/10

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

6. The Imitation Game

Rated: PG-13

8.0/10

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

7. Stuart: A Life Backwards

Rated: TV-MA

7.7/10

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

8. Parade's End

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-MA

7.5/10

The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.

9. Doctor Strange

Rated: PG-13

7.5/10

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

10. Amazing Grace

Rated: PG

7.4/10

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.

11. Hawking

Rated: TV-G

7.4/10

The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is intrigued by Stephen's talk of stars and the Universe. But she realises that there is something very wrong when Stephen suddenly finds that he is unable to stand up.

12. Girlfriend in a Coma

Rated: Not Rated

7.3/10

With Italy going to the polls, Bill Emmott, former editor of 'The Economist' and a man with a special passion for Italy and Italians, asks where the country has gone wrong.

13. Dunkirk

Seasons: 1

Rated: M

7.2/10

Major factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation, after the World War II Battle of Dunkirk in May and June 1940.

14. To the Ends of the Earth

Seasons: 1

Rated: N/A

7.2/10

From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.

15. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Rated: M

6.9/10

Join visionary director Sam Raimi and the cast of the film as they recount their experiences bringing Marvel’s darkest story to life. From world-building to universe-building, hear first hand accounts from the cast and crew on what it took to design, create and make each universe unique and believable.

16. Black Mass

Rated: R

6.9/10

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

17. The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Rated: N/A

6.9/10

On a rainy day, a mother and daughter forego a trip to the park to bake pastries and partake in a two-person tea party when an unexpected guest menacingly invites himself into the house and ransacks the food and drink in the house.

18. The Power of the Dog

Rated: R

6.8/10

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

19. WWI's Tunnels of Death The Big Dig

Seasons: 1

Rated: M

6.7/10

Two-part documentary following World War I's biggest archaeological dig, taking place at Messines in Belgium, uncovering some of the best-preserved trenches, bunkers and tunnels ever discovered on the Western Front and revealing the realities of trench warfare, a Christmas football match and poison gas.

20. Naples '44

Rated: Not Rated

6.7/10

A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged masterpiece about a war-torn city and its unforgettable humanity.

21. Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Rated:

6.6/10

Join our hosts JB Smoove and Martin Starr for a celebration of 20 years of Spider-Man™ movies! From the original Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb’s “amazing” movies to the latest trio from Director Jon Watts, we will take viewers through the stars, the stunts and action, the villains and heroes and an homage to Stan Lee, along with a few surprises. Find your favourite Spider-Man pajamas and prepare to swing through the past two decades of Spider-Man at the movies!

22. The Current War

Rated: PG-13

6.5/10

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

23. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

Rated: PG-13

6.5/10

A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

24. The Grinch

Rated: PG

6.4/10

Ailing after the loss of his brother in WWII, Detective Salvadore Richards struggles to solve the case of an abducted girl. He enlists the help of a renegade Private Investigator, Tommy Malone. The deeper they go, they find the case, and those involved aren't all what they seem.

25. Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet

Rated: N/A

6.4/10

Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at His Feet follows the footballer from his beginnings in Portugal, breakthrough start with Manchester United and current career at Real Madrid.

26. Walk With Me

Rated: N/A

6.3/10

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Walk With Me is a cinematic journey into the world of a monastic community who practice the art of mindfulness with Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.

27. The Child in Time

Rated: Not Rated

6.1/10

A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.

28. Wreckers

Rated: TV-MA

5.8/10

A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.

29. The Courier

Rated: PG-13

4.9/10

This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

30. WWI's Tunnels of Death: The Big Dig

Seasons:

Rated: N/A

/10

Messines is among World War One's most iconic and dramatic battlefields and the setting for what is still the world's deadliest non-nuclear explosion, in which 600 tons of explosives took the lives of 10,000 men. Archaeologists have opened up a vast 1.5-mile trench straight through the battlefield on a scale of military excavation that comes up only once in a decade. Unearthing the fighting trenches, unexploded bombs and grenades and even the bodies of the men and horses who fought and died there, this extraordinary dig reveals a first hand insight into this pivotal battle of World War One.