Watch Paul Newman Movies and TV Shows in Australia

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

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring Paul Newman In Order of Popularity

  1. The Sting
  2. Cool Hand Luke
  3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  4. The Hustler
  5. The Last Movie Stars
  6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  7. Hud
  8. The Verdict
  9. Somebody Up There Likes Me
  10. The Young Philadelphians
  11. The Long, Hot Summer
  12. Slap Shot
  13. Empire Falls
  14. Cars
  15. Sweet Bird of Youth
  16. The Color of Money
  17. The Towering Inferno
  18. The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
  19. Wolfgang
  20. Absence of Malice
  21. What a Way to Go!
  22. Sometimes a Great Notion
  23. The Prize
  24. Exodus
  25. From the Terrace
  26. Torn Curtain
  27. The Drowning Pool
  28. Fat Man and Little Boy
  29. Until They Sail
  30. Blaze

Stream the top 30 Movies and Shows starring Paul Newman

1. The Sting

Rated: PG

8.3/10

Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

2. Cool Hand Luke

Rated: GP

8.1/10

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Rated: PG

8.0/10

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all.

4. The Hustler

Rated: Not Rated

8.0/10

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

5. The Last Movie Stars

Seasons: 1

Rated:

8/10

A celebration of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s iconic careers and decades-long partnership. Director Ethan Hawke brings life and color to this definitive history of their love, lives, and philanthropy.

6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Rated: Not Rated

7.9/10

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

7. Hud

Rated: Not Rated

7.8/10

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

8. The Verdict

Rated: R

7.7/10

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

9. Somebody Up There Likes Me

Rated: PG

7.5/10

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

10. The Young Philadelphians

Rated: PG

7.4/10

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.

11. The Long, Hot Summer

Rated: Not Rated

7.3/10

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

12. Slap Shot

Rated: R

7.3/10

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

13. Empire Falls

Seasons: 1

Rated: TV-14

7.2/10

The humorous, poignant story of a declining New England town and its inhabitants, whose lives are deeply rooted in and influenced by the Knox River and its vacant mills, their class differences, and ghosts of the past.

14. Cars

Rated: G

7.2/10

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.

15. Sweet Bird of Youth

Rated: Approved

7.2/10

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

16. The Color of Money

Rated: R

7.0/10

Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.

17. The Towering Inferno

Rated: PG

7.0/10

At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

18. The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

Rated: N/A

7/10

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic western about the lives of two of America's most famous outlaws. Director George Roy Hill narrates this film, talking about some of the experience, both good and bad, of bringing the film to life.

19. Wolfgang

Rated: TV-PG

6.9/10

An intimate portrait of the life and work of the original "celebrity chef" Wolfgang Puck.

20. Absence of Malice

Rated: PG

6.9/10

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.

21. What a Way to Go!

Rated: Approved

6.9/10

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

22. Sometimes a Great Notion

Rated: M

6.9/10

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.

23. The Prize

Rated: Approved

6.8/10

A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig (Paul Newman), a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman (Edward G. Robinson) has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone (Elke Sommer) in a Cold War kidnapping plot.

24. Exodus

Rated: Approved

6.7/10

Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

25. From the Terrace

Rated: Passed

6.7/10

Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.

26. Torn Curtain

Rated: PG

6.6/10

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

27. The Drowning Pool

Rated: PG

6.5/10

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

28. Fat Man and Little Boy

Rated: PG-13

6.5/10

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

29. Until They Sail

Rated: PG

6.5/10

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

30. Blaze

Rated: R

6.5/10

Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.