Watch Ricky Gervais Movies and TV Shows in Australia

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

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring Ricky Gervais In Order of Popularity

  1. The Office
  2. After Life
  3. The Ricky Gervais Show
  4. An Idiot Abroad
  5. Extras
  6. Derek
  7. Ricky Gervais: Humanity
  8. Ricky Gervais: SuperNature
  9. Life's Too Short
  10. Cemetery Junction
  11. Ghost Town
  12. Muppets Most Wanted
  13. David Brent: Life on the Road
  14. The Invention of Lying
  15. Special Correspondents
  16. Escape from Planet Earth
  17. Jamie's Fowl Dinners
  18. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
  19. Valiant

Stream the top 19 Movies and Shows starring Ricky Gervais

1. The Office

Seasons: 2

Rated: M

8.5/10

Documentary-style sitcom set in the offices of a Slough paper merchant.

2. After Life

Seasons: 3

Rated: TV-MA

8.4/10

Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

3. The Ricky Gervais Show

Seasons: 3

Rated: TV-MA

8.4/10

The Ricky Gervais Show is an American cartoon series produced for and broadcast by HBO and Channel 4. The series is an animated version of the popular British audio podcasts and audiobooks of the same name, which feature Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, along with colleague and friend Karl Pilkington, talking about various subjects behind the microphone. The TV show consists of past audio recordings of these unscripted "pointless conversations," with animation drawn in a style similar to classic era Hanna-Barbera cartoons, presenting jokes and situations in a literal context. The animated Ricky Gervais Show has aired 39 episodes across three seasons since it premiered in 2010. There were some plans for a possible fourth season which would have used newly recorded audio, but this was shelved in June 2012. Series 3 of The Ricky Gervais Show premiered on 20 April 2012 on HBO, and on 8 May 2012 on E4.

4. An Idiot Abroad

Seasons: 3

Rated: TV-14

8.3/10

An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1 and Science, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress.

5. Extras

Seasons: 2

Rated: TV-MA

8.3/10

Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-set only serves to reinforce his belief that the big time is just a job or two away.

6. Derek

Seasons: 2

Rated: TV-MA

8.1/10

Derek is a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.

7. Ricky Gervais: Humanity

Rated: TV-MA

7.9/10

The Emmy-winning comic takes the stage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to share his scathing thoughts on ageing, becoming spoiled, having kids, and other topics.

8. Ricky Gervais: SuperNature

Seasons:

Rated: MA15+

7.8/10

The comic gives his take on the rules of comedy, spoiling his cats and the wonders of nature.

9. Life's Too Short

Seasons: 1

Rated: MA15+

6.8/10

Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant from an idea by Warwick Davis, and is as described by Gervais, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf".

10. Cemetery Junction

Rated: R

6.8/10

In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

11. Ghost Town

Rated: M

6.7/10

A spirited romantic comedy, Ghost Town is the story of Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a cranky Manhattan dentist who develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. But, when a smooth-talking ghost (Greg Kinnear) traps Bertram into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen (Tea Leoni), they are entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

12. Muppets Most Wanted

Rated: PG

6.4/10

While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

13. David Brent: Life on the Road

Rated: N/A

6.3/10

A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, "The Office" as he now fancies himself a rockstar on the road.

14. The Invention of Lying

Rated: PG-13

6.3/10

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

15. Special Correspondents

Rated: TV-MA

5.9/10

A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.

16. Escape from Planet Earth

Rated: PG

5.8/10

Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

17. Jamie's Fowl Dinners

Rated: N/A

5.8/10

Jamie Oliver dramatically demonstrates the reality of how chickens live and die to provide food for humans. He raises difficult questions about animal welfare and what consumers are prepared to pay for quality food.

18. Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

Rated: PG

5.7/10

A hard-on-his-luck hound finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.

19. Valiant

Rated: G

5.5/10

Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.