Guy Ritchie has been making the same kind of trouble since 1998 and nobody has gone off him yet. Here are six Guy Ritchie movies to stream in Australia right now, plus his two series coming back this month: The Gentlemen on Netflix on 3 September, MobLand on Paramount+ on 18 September.
Six is a mug's errand, and we may as well admit that up front. The record is hit after hit, so six leaves out Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, Operation Fortune, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Aladdin, which took a billion dollars and is still the biggest thing he has done.
Both series land in the middle of the finals
The Gentlemen is back for season two on Thursday 3 September, all eight episodes at once, so nobody has to wait a week between them. Netflix ordered a third season before the second had even aired.
MobLand season two starts Friday 18 September on Paramount+: ten episodes weekly, running through to 20 November, per Paramount's announcement for Australia and New Zealand. Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are all back in it.
So he has the TV for the month, in the weeks the lounge room was already spoken for. AFL finals open in the first week of September, the NRL follow, and the night gets its shape: footy first, something after. His movies are the something after: ninety-odd minutes, no homework, nobody to catch up.
- Never seen either? Start with the 2020 Gentlemen movie on Stan, where the series came from.
- Then The Gentlemen season one on Netflix, eight episodes, before the new lot land.
- Then MobLand season one on Paramount+, the same place season two turns up.
Where are Guy Ritchie's movies streaming in Australia?
Bad news first, and there is no graceful way around it. Across 9Now, 7plus, 10 Play, ABC iview and SBS On Demand, the five free services carry no Guy Ritchie at all. Not one title between them. Stan and Prime Video are doing the heavy lifting, with Netflix and Paramount+ carrying the two series. Six things you can put on tonight without paying for anything twice.
The early stuff is the annoying part. Lock, Stock and Snatch sit behind an add-on channel or another sign-up, and RocknRolla is nowhere. Sherlock Holmes is on Stan if you want the crowd-pleaser. Add-on channels are the trap: they look included right up until they ask for a second bill, so nothing here needs one.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Henry Cavill and a squad of official troublemakers blowing up Nazi supply ships, off the back of a real operation that sounds made up. Same crew-of-chancers trick, much bigger budget, no London postcode. It died in cinemas and then found everybody at home, which figures.
The Gentlemen
Theo James inherits the estate and the enormous weed farm under it. Eight episodes, and Netflix ordered a third season ten days before the second one landed. Watch season one now so you are not the one asking questions on 3 September.
MobLand
Tom Hardy cleaning up messes for a London crime family while Helen Mirren quietly runs everything. Ten episodes, and the biggest global launch Paramount+ has ever had. Season one is on Paramount+ here, same place season two turns up on 18 September.
The Gentlemen
The movie the series came out of. Matthew McConaughey selling up, Hugh Grant narrating like he is being paid per adjective. On Stan, and on Netflix and Prime Video as well, so the house is almost certainly covered. Still the best single night here.
Wrath of Man
Jason Statham, an armoured truck and absolutely no jokes. A remake of the 2004 French film Cash Truck, and the bleakest thing Ritchie has made: the best argument that he can do straight-faced when he wants to. It also put him back with Statham after sixteen years apart.
Revolver
Honourable mention
The one everyone skipped. Statham out of prison, a chess metaphor the film cannot get back out of, and a genuinely strange watch. It is also the film that ended his run with Statham. Go in expecting a mess and you will enjoy it.
The six, up close
Same shape for each of them: what it actually is, then what to watch first and where it sits in Australia.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: the expensive version of the old trick
Ritchie directed and co-wrote this one with Jerry Bruckheimer producing, which tells you the budget was somebody else's problem. It is built on Operation Postmaster, a real 1942 sabotage job against U-boat resupply off Fernando Po, and Henry Cavill fronts a unit that includes Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding and Cary Elwes. It took $29.8 million against a $60 million budget, so it was a flop, and then it did the thing flops do now and found its audience at home. Deserved better than the cinema run it got.
It is 122 minutes on Prime Video, standalone, and the closest thing here to a straight action movie. If the house wants noise and no obligations on a Saturday, this is the one. Pair it with the Gentlemen movie if you want to see the same ensemble instinct played two ways, one for laughs and one for explosions, but that is a nice-to-have rather than homework. Optional, and the best entry point for anyone in the room who has never seen a Ritchie film.
The Gentlemen: the series, and the one with actual homework
Ritchie created this for Netflix and directed the first two episodes. Theo James is Edward Horniman, who inherits a dukedom and the enormous cannabis operation growing under the family estate, with Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito and Ray Winstone around him. Eight episodes, out in March 2024. Netflix ordered a third season on 24 August 2026, ten days before season two even landed, which is either real confidence or nobody in that building watching the numbers. Of the two series carrying his name, this is the one that actually moves like him.
This is the one with a genuine watch order. Take the 2020 film first, on Stan, because the series assumes you know how that world works. Then season one on Netflix. The episodes run about 51 minutes and there are eight of them, so four decent evenings, or one Saturday if nobody in the house has plans. Do it before 3 September and season two lands properly. Skip it and you will still follow the plot, but every returning face will be a stranger. Essential, and the only essential on this page.
MobLand: the least Ritchie-ish thing with his name on it
Ronan Bennett created this, not Ritchie, who directed early episodes alongside Anthony Byrne. Tom Hardy plays Harry Da Souza, the fixer keeping the Harrigan family upright against the Stevensons, with Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine and Joanne Froggatt. Ten episodes from March 2025, and it became the biggest global series launch Paramount+ has had, at 2.2 million viewers. The register is heavier than the movies: fewer gags, more menace, Mirren doing quiet damage in every scene she gets.
Season one is on Paramount+ here, and on Binge as well, which is worth knowing before anyone signs up for a second thing. Ten episodes at about 47 minutes is close to eight hours, so start it now if you want to be current for season two on 18 September, when Johnny Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond join. Essential if you intend to watch the new run, pointless if you do not, because it is a serial rather than a case a week.
The Gentlemen: the 2020 movie that restarted everything
This is the comeback, and the template every later thing on this list borrows from. Matthew McConaughey is an American selling off his English cannabis empire, Hugh Grant narrates it as a blackmailing private eye, and Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Colin Farrell, Jeremy Strong and Henry Golding fill out the rest. It ran 113 minutes and took $115.2 million against a $22 million budget, which is the kind of number that gets a Netflix series commissioned. Farrell walks off with it in about four scenes.
Standalone, so no catch-up at all, and 113 minutes is a school night rather than a project. In Australia it sits on Stan, Netflix and Prime Video at once, so whatever the house pays for, this one is almost certainly already there. If you are doing the whole Gentlemen run properly, this goes first, then the series. If you are just after one good night with somebody who does not want a commitment, it is still the pick of the six. Optional, then, but the easiest yes on the page.
Wrath of Man: the one with no jokes in it
A remake of the 2004 French film Cash Truck, with Jason Statham as H, a cash-truck driver in Los Angeles whose competence during a robbery raises questions nobody wanted asked. Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Hartnett and Scott Eastwood are around him. It took $104 million on a $40 million budget and sits at 67 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, which undersells it. The real fact worth having: this put Ritchie and Statham back together for the first time since Revolver, a sixteen-year gap.
No catch-up, no continuity, no returning anybody. It is 119 minutes on Stan and it is the only thing on this list that is genuinely grim, so read the room before you put it on. The pairing worth making is this one with Revolver: the film that broke the Ritchie and Statham partnership, and the film that fixed it, sixteen years apart. Optional, but if somebody in the house claims he only makes one kind of movie, this is the argument.
Revolver: the failure worth watching anyway
Statham plays a con man out of prison and into a feud, and then the film disappears inside a chess metaphor that nobody involved seems able to steer. It was savaged, and the savaging was fair enough. What makes it interesting twenty years on is what it cost: this is the one that ended the Statham partnership until Wrath of Man, and the start of the stretch where he had to go and get a proper job directing Sherlock Holmes. Ambition failing in public, at 111 minutes.
Standalone, and the honourable mention rather than a pick for good reason. It is on Prime Video, and on Netflix here as well. Nothing to watch first, though it lands better if you already know the run it interrupted, so save it until after Wrath of Man. Strictly optional: this is the one for the person in the house who likes an interesting failure more than a safe win. Everyone else should put the Gentlemen movie on instead.
Why every British crime movie copied Guy Ritchie
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels cost about £800,000 and took $28.4 million worldwide, per The Numbers. Snatch did $83.6 million off $10 million two years later, per Box Office Mojo. The BFI's verdict is that he brought the British gangster movie back from the dead and that most of what copied him was unwatchable. Both halves are true.
The tricks went first: freeze-frames, names stamped on screen as each bloke walks in, a voiceover talking over itself, three crews falling into one plot. It built careers out of nothing: Jason Statham's first film role came off a street market stall, and Vinnie Jones was a footballer with no acting behind him, per MentalFloss and FilmInk. Brad Pitt was already cast on Snatch when the accent would not sit, and per SlashFilm they settled on the unintelligible version the night before shooting. One for the spotters: Ritchie turns up in exactly two of his own films, reading a newspaper in Snatch and running the inn in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, both uncredited, per IMDb.
Then it fell over. Swept Away took five Razzies in 2002, Worst Director included, and Rotten Tomatoes landed on incoherent misfire for Revolver. So he went and got a proper job: Sherlock Holmes did $524 million in 2009, Aladdin cleared $1.054 billion in 2019, per Box Office Mojo. The biggest thing on his record is a Disney musical. He does not appear to mind.
What holds it all together is that everybody in these films is pretending to be across it. The hard men are out of their depth. The plan is going wrong the entire time while somebody explains, at length and with total confidence, why it is not. That gap is the joke, and we are unusually good at spotting it from the couch. Twice now he has taken it to television: his own Gentlemen adapted for Netflix, and Ronan Bennett's MobLand for Paramount+, where he directed the opener himself.
Sorting it out before the first bounce
Six titles across four apps is how a Tuesday night in Geelong turns into a solid half-hour of scrolling and an early night. The best movie apps for couples piece covers why swiping together beats taking turns, and what to watch tonight in Australia is the shorter read.
Agree on the shape of the night before anyone opens anything. Wrath of Man and the Gentlemen movie are both his and nothing like each other: one is grim and quiet, the other is having a lovely time with itself. Pick the mood and the rest sorts itself out.
Swipe the six separately, see what you both said yes to, put it on. Two minutes, no debate, nobody sitting through someone else's pick with folded arms. That is the honest list of Guy Ritchie movies to stream in Australia right now, rentals excluded. MatchWatch is free to use. Available in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the United States.