Watch James McAvoy Movies and TV Shows in Australia

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

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring James McAvoy In Order of Popularity

  1. X-Men: Days of Future Past
  2. Inside I'm Dancing
  3. X-Men: First Class
  4. The Last King of Scotland
  5. Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
  6. Split
  7. Watership Down
  8. Arthur Christmas
  9. Penelope
  10. Becoming Jane
  11. Filth
  12. The Conspirator
  13. The Last Station
  14. Strings
  15. Trance
  16. X-Men: Apocalypse
  17. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
  18. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
  19. Atomic Blonde
  20. Wanted
  21. Glass
  22. It Chapter Two
  23. Bright Young Things
  24. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
  25. Together
  26. Welcome to the Punch
  27. My Son
  28. Gnomeo & Juliet
  29. Victor Frankenstein
  30. Dark Phoenix

Stream the top 30 Movies and Shows starring James McAvoy

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past

Rated: PG-13

7.9/10

The X-Men join forces with their younger selves in order to change the past and save mankind's future, as well as their own.

2. Inside I'm Dancing

Rated: R

7.8/10

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

3. X-Men: First Class

Rated: PG-13

7.7/10

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

4. The Last King of Scotland

Rated: R

7.6/10

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

5. Frank Herbert's Children of Dune

Seasons: 1

Rated: MA15+

7.3/10

Frank Herbert's Children of Dune is a three-part miniseries written by John Harrison and directed by Greg Yaitanes, based on Frank Herbert's novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. First broadcast in the United States on March 16, 2003, Children of Dune is the sequel to the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and produced by the Sci Fi Channel. As of 2004, this miniseries and its predecessor were two of the three highest-rated programs ever to be broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel.

6. Split

Rated: PG-13

7.3/10

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

7. Watership Down

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-PG

7.2/10

Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.

8. Arthur Christmas

Rated: PG

7.1/10

Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur. Arthur Claus is Santa’s misfit son who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present half way around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

9. Penelope

Rated: PG

7/10

This Australian-Croatian co-production appropriates Homer's tale of Penelope, which follows a woman's psychological struggle as she waits twenty years for her husband to return from the Trojan War.

10. Becoming Jane

Rated: PG

7.0/10

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

11. Filth

Rated: R

7/10

A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

12. The Conspirator

Rated: PG-13

6.9/10

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

13. The Last Station

Rated: R

6.9/10

A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.

14. Strings

Rated: PG

6.9/10

Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he discovers the truth of his own people - and where he least expects it - he finds true love.

15. Trance

Rated: R

6.9/10

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

16. X-Men: Apocalypse

Rated: PG-13

6.9/10

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

17. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

Rated: R

6.9/10

Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.

18. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

Rated: R

6.8/10

Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.

19. Atomic Blonde

Rated: R

6.7/10

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

20. Wanted

Rated: R

6.7/10

Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father - who Wesley never knew - belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns avenger.

21. Glass

Rated: PG-13

6.6/10

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

22. It Chapter Two

Rated: R

6.5/10

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.

23. Bright Young Things

Rated: R

6.5/10

In the 1930s, a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, their friends seem to self-destruct, one-by-one, in an endless search for newer and faster sensations. Finally, when world events out of their control come crashing around them, they are forced to reassess their lives and what they value most.

24. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

Rated: R

6.3/10

A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

25. Together

Rated: R

6.2/10

A husband and wife re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the COVID-19 lockdown.

26. Welcome to the Punch

Rated: R

6.1/10

When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.

27. My Son

Rated: R

6.0/10

When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.

28. Gnomeo & Juliet

Rated: G

5.9/10

A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?

29. Victor Frankenstein

Rated: PG-13

5.9/10

Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

30. Dark Phoenix

Rated: PG-13

5.7/10

The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.