Watch Fred Astaire Movies and TV Shows in Australia

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

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring Fred Astaire In Order of Popularity

  1. Top Hat
  2. Swing Time
  3. Sid & Judy
  4. The Band Wagon
  5. The Gay Divorcee
  6. Imagine
  7. Holiday Inn
  8. Easter Parade
  9. Broadway Melody of 1940
  10. That's Entertainment, Part II
  11. You Were Never Lovelier
  12. On the Beach
  13. The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town
  14. Funny Face
  15. The Barkleys of Broadway
  16. Roberta
  17. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
  18. Daddy Long Legs
  19. Royal Wedding
  20. You'll Never Get Rich
  21. Ghost Story
  22. Finian's Rainbow
  23. The Belle of New York
  24. Second Chorus
  25. The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
  26. Audrey Hepburn Remembered
  27. That's Entertainment!

Stream the top 27 Movies and Shows starring Fred Astaire

1. Top Hat

Rated: Not Rated

7.7/10

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

2. Swing Time

Rated: Not Rated

7.5/10

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.

3. Sid & Judy

Rated: TV-14

7.5/10

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.

4. The Band Wagon

Rated: Passed

7.4/10

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

5. The Gay Divorcee

Rated: Approved

7.4/10

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

6. Imagine

Rated:

7.3/10

A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John's historic 'Imagine' album and Yoko's 'Fly'.

7. Holiday Inn

Rated: Passed

7.3/10

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

8. Easter Parade

Rated: Approved

7.3/10

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege, Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.

9. Broadway Melody of 1940

Rated: Passed

7.3/10

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

10. That's Entertainment, Part II

Rated: G

7.3/10

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

11. You Were Never Lovelier

Rated: Passed

7.2/10

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

12. On the Beach

Rated: Approved

7.1/10

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

13. The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town

Rated: TV-G

7/10

The Mailman decides to stop another deluge of letters by answering questions about the Easter Bunny: Sunny, a baby rabbit found and adopted by Kidville (a town of only kids--even a kid mailman). And when Sunny goes delivering eggs to the nearby town (which he has to dye to fool Gadzooks, the mean bear on the mountain), he discovers that there are no kids in the town, and that the rightful (kid) ruler is being suppressed by his aunt. But the young king likes Sunny's dyed eggs and jelly beans. So Kidsville, with the help of an old train engine, makes a few plans (and a decoy chocolate rabbit) to distribute them.

14. Funny Face

Rated: Not Rated

7.0/10

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

15. The Barkleys of Broadway

Rated: Passed

7.0/10

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

16. Roberta

Rated: Passed

7/10

Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.

17. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Rated: Approved

6.9/10

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

18. Daddy Long Legs

Rated: Approved

6.7/10

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.

19. Royal Wedding

Rated: Not Rated

6.7/10

Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.

20. You'll Never Get Rich

Rated: Approved

6.7/10

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

21. Ghost Story

Rated: R

6.3/10

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

22. Finian's Rainbow

Rated: G

6.1/10

A leprechaun follows an Irishman who stole his pot of gold to the American South.

23. The Belle of New York

Rated: G

6.1/10

In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.

24. Second Chorus

Rated: Passed

5.7/10

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

25. The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

Rated: Unrated

5.6/10

Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way.

26. Audrey Hepburn Remembered

Rated: N/A

/10

Audrey Hepburn was one of movies best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant sophistication, and an enduring aura of youthful innocence. As Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, she spoke for the world's suffering children and families, earning an affection and admiration that only increased with news of her untimely death. From the star herself we learn of her career, and the family and friendships that were her priority. Directors Billy Wilder, Blake Edwards and Stanley Donen, composer Henry Mancini, actors Gregory Peck, Mel Ferrer, George Peppard and Roger Moore, fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy and others, join Rob Wolders and Sean Ferrer to help complete this loving portrait. With clips from Roman Holiday, Sabrina, War And Peace, Funny Face, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Charade, My Fair Lady, Two For the Road, Robin And Marian and more.

27. That's Entertainment!

Rated: G

/10

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.