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 November 2024.

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. Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
  5. Gifted
  6. Fruitvale Station
  7. Onward
  8. Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
  9. The Shape of Water
  10. Truth Be Told
  11. Blues for Willadean
  12. Spirited
  13. Black or White
  14. Luce
  15. The Great Gilly Hopkins
  16. The Shack
  17. The Free World
  18. Allegiant
  19. A Kid Like Jake
  20. Ma
  21. Roald Dahl's The Witches
  22. Thunder Force

Stream the top 22 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. Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Rated:

7.7/10

The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television’s greatest stories in celebration of his 100th birthday.

5. 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.

6. Fruitvale Station

Rated: R

7.5/10

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Truth Be Told

Seasons: 3

Rated: TV-MA

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.

11. Blues for Willadean

Rated: N/A

6.7/10

The film adaptation of Del Shores' hit play. Under the thumb of her abusive husband, post-middle age Willadean feels life has passed her by until she makes some unlikely friends. Del Shores adapts this uplifting story from his play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife."

12. Spirited

Rated: PG

6.6/10

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.

13. Black or White

Rated: PG-13

6.6/10

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

14. Luce

Rated: R

6.6/10

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

15. The Great Gilly Hopkins

Rated: PG

6.5/10

Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...

16. 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.

17. The Free World

Rated: R

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.

18. 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.

19. A Kid Like Jake

Rated: R

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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Thunder Force

Rated: PG-13

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.