Narrowing Guy Ritchie down to six is a hiding to nothing. Here are six Guy Ritchie movies to stream in New Zealand tonight, picked around the two series coming back: The Gentlemen on Netflix on Thursday 3 September, MobLand on Paramount+ on Friday 18 September.
He has been at this since 1998 and the hit rate is the actual problem. Six slots means no The Man from U.N.C.L.E., no RocknRolla, no Operation Fortune, no Aladdin. Some are not streaming here anyway, so availability did some of the cutting. It is the last weekend of winter and the lounge is still cold enough to sit through a few.
Nobody in a Guy Ritchie movie knows what they are doing
That is why these landed here. Every character is out of their depth and none will say so. The card player who cannot count. The dealers certain they are hard. The bloke who knows a bloke who can sort it, and does not. The straight face holds long after it has gone wrong.
It is a familiar way to carry on. Lock, Stock and Snatch sat on the DVD shelf of every student flat in Dunedin and got quoted badly at the pub by people doing the accent. Heroes were never the draw here. A man confidently making it worse, though: we all know one.
September is the month he takes over the TV
The Gentlemen comes back on Thursday 3 September, all eight episodes at once, so there is no weekly wait to argue about.
MobLand season two starts on Friday 18 September on Paramount+, ten episodes weekly to a finale on 20 November, per Paramount's announcement for New Zealand and Australia. Check which app first: season one sits on Prime Video here, not Paramount+, so the flat that binged it opens a different one.
- Cold start: the 2020 Gentlemen movie on Netflix, then the series, then MobLand on Prime Video.
- Thursday 3 September: The Gentlemen season two, Netflix, all eight episodes at once.
- Friday 18 September: MobLand season two, Paramount+, weekly through to 20 November.
Where to stream Guy Ritchie movies in New Zealand
Here is the odd part: the two movies that made him cost nothing here. Lock, Stock is free with ads on ThreeNow, Sherlock Holmes is free the same way on TVNZ+, and both apps have sat on the TV being ignored.
The newest one leads: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, on Prime Video. Everything below streams tonight on something already open on the TV. No rentals. If you cannot press play tonight it does not count, which is why RocknRolla and Wrath of Man are missing.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Henry Cavill and a unit of official misfits blowing up Nazi supply boats, based on a real and genuinely daft wartime operation. Ritchie doing his crew-of-chancers trick with a bigger budget and no London postcode. On Prime Video, and the easiest sell on the list.
The Gentlemen
Theo James inherits a title, an estate and a very large weed operation underneath it. Season one is the ideal warm-up before season two lands on 3 September. Eight episodes on Netflix, and the rare Ritchie thing that improves when it slows down.
MobLand
Tom Hardy fixing problems for a London crime family, with Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren enjoying themselves enormously. Season one is on Prime Video here; season two moves to Paramount+ on 18 September. Ten episodes, and the heaviest thing on this list by a distance.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The one that started it. A card game goes wrong and four mates owe half a million to a man who removes fingers. Free with ads on ThreeNow, so no excuses, and at 103 minutes it is over before the argument about what to watch would have finished.
Snatch
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxer nobody can understand, and a dog that swallows a squeaker. Still the funniest thing he has made, and the fastest: 98 minutes on Prime Video with about four plots running at once and not one of them wasted.
Sherlock Holmes
Honourable mention
Not a gangster in sight, and free with ads on TVNZ+. Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law bickering through Victorian London, with the same editing tricks Ritchie uses on the crime stuff. Honourable mention because it shows what he does with a studio budget.
The six, one at a time
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Prime Video
The 2024 one, 120 minutes, Ritchie and Henry Cavill together again after The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It comes from Damien Lewis's 2014 book Churchill's Secret Warriors and heavily fictionalises Operation Postmaster, a sabotage raid on German shipping off Fernando Po. Ian Fleming was in the circle around that operation and mined it for Bond, which explains the tone. Flicks files it as a wartime action romp and that is the right register. It cost 60 million US dollars and took 29.8. An outright flop, and still the most enjoyable film he has made in a decade.
Nothing to watch first, and that is why it leads. No prior Ritchie, no series, no homework, and 120 minutes on Prime Video on the subscription rather than a rental, which matters because the same page also offers it to rent on two other stores. For a household it is the safe opener: a war caper rather than a crime film, so the person who says they hate gangster movies has nothing to object to. Critics gave it 68 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and audiences 91, the usual sign of a film doing what it promised.
The Gentlemen, Netflix
Eight episodes from 2024, Ritchie creating a series out of his own 2020 film. Theo James plays Eddie Horniman, a former Army captain and United Nations peacekeeping officer who inherits the dukedom, the estate and the weed operation underneath it. Kaya Scodelario is Susie Glass, running her father's syndicate while he sits in prison, and she is the reason the thing works at all. It premiered on 7 March 2024 and sits at 75 percent with critics, 84 with audiences. Netflix renewed it for a third season in August 2026, before season two had aired.
Watch order matters here and it is not the obvious one. The 2020 film, 113 minutes, is on Netflix and Prime Video in New Zealand, with Matthew McConaughey as the marijuana tycoon having his business stolen out from under him, and it is optional: different characters, same world, and the series does not lean on it. Season one is the essential part, eight episodes and roughly eight hours, and it wants doing before Thursday 3 September. Start now and it is two episodes a night for four nights.
MobLand, Prime Video
Ten episodes from 2025, created by Ronan Bennett for Paramount+, Ritchie directing the opener, and Bennett and Jez Butterworth credited between them with writing all ten. Tom Hardy is Harry Da Souza, the fixer between two warring London families, with Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren as the Harrigans. It premiered on 30 March 2025 and ranked second for viewership on Paramount+ during its premiere run. It also carries the only inverted score here, 77 percent from critics against 67 from audiences, which usually means a show doing something its audience did not expect.
Season one is on Prime Video here, ten episodes, call it ten hours, and get it done before Friday 18 September. Season two starts on Paramount+, a different app, so the flat that binged season one will be opening something new. Essential, not optional: episode one has Harry called in to make a problem disappear, and the nine after it are the bill for that. One thing worth knowing before you invest ten hours. Deadline reported in May that Hardy was leaving after season two, and later reporting said he had not been fired and a third season was under discussion.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, ThreeNow
The 1998 debut, 103 minutes. A card sharp loses 500,000 pounds in a rigged game of three-card brag and four mates set about getting it back from people considerably harder than they are. The ensemble is the whole trick: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran and Steven Mackintosh as the four, Vinnie Jones collecting debts, and Jason Statham in his first film role. Sting turns up as JD, persuaded into it by Ritchie's earlier short film. Critics have it at 75 percent, audiences at 93, and the second number is the accurate one here.
No catch-up needed, but there is an order: this one before Snatch. It is free with ads on ThreeNow, which JustWatch New Zealand confirms alongside Lionsgate+ on Prime, so the price is nothing and 103 minutes. Worth knowing that Flicks does not index ThreeNow at all, so the free option only surfaces if you go looking on JustWatch. Essential if you have never seen it, and worth a rewatch if you last saw it on a scratched DVD. Watching it first is what makes Snatch land, because the same trick arrives with more money behind it.
Snatch, Prime Video
The 2000 follow-up, 98 minutes, and the one where the machine gets properly assembled: a stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing racket, Alan Ford as a man who feeds people to pigs, Brad Pitt as an Irish Traveller nobody can understand. Statham, Vinnie Jones, Stephen Graham, Dennis Farina and Benicio del Toro fill out the rest, and it took 83.6 million US dollars. The counterweight: Roger Ebert gave it two stars out of four and argued the Travellers were the most interesting thing in it, and that the real ancestors were American, Dick Tracy and Damon Runyon rather than anything British.
Lock, Stock first if you have the evening, though it is not required, and Snatch is the better film of the two. It is on Prime Video on the subscription, 98 minutes, so the double bill runs about three and a half hours across two apps for nothing extra, one free with ads and one the flat already pays for. Audiences put it at 93 percent, the same as Lock, Stock, with critics at 74. Optional as catch-up, but for a household it is the reliable one: short, funny inside five minutes, and nobody has to be briefed before it starts.
Sherlock Holmes, TVNZ+
The 2009 pivot, 130 minutes, the moment he stopped being a British crime director and became a studio one. Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law bicker through a Victorian London of fog and slow motion, and it took 524 million US dollars worldwide. Downey won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a musical or comedy. The fights are over-edited to the point of silliness, and the double act is good enough that it barely matters. Critics sit at 69 percent and audiences at 77, which is the mildest split anywhere on this list.
No Ritchie homework required, and there is a sequel lined up behind it. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, from 2011, runs 129 minutes and is also free with ads on TVNZ+, so the pair is four and a bit hours for nothing on an app that came with the TV. The sequel drops to 60 percent with critics while audiences hold at 77, so take them in the obvious order and let the expectations slide as you go. For a household with teenagers, this is the one nobody argues about.
How Guy Ritchie went from £800,000 to a billion
Lock, Stock cost about £800,000 and took $28.4 million worldwide, per The Numbers. The BFI credits it with reviving the British gangster genre, then notes that most of what copied it was unwatchable. One good idea, and a decade of people borrowing the freeze-frames.
The casting is the part worth knowing. Jason Statham got his first film role off a street market stall. Vinnie Jones was a footballer with no acting behind him, per MentalFloss and FilmInk. The unintelligible Pitt delivery everyone quotes was agreed the night before shooting, per SlashFilm.
Then he had a shocker: five Razzies for Swept Away in 2002, Worst Director among them, and a Rotten Tomatoes consensus on Revolver of incoherent misfire. He rebuilt as a studio director, and Aladdin cleared $1.054 billion in 2019, his biggest by a distance, per Box Office Mojo.
Spotting game: he has put himself in two of his own movies, the newspaper reader in Snatch and the inn owner in King Arthur, both uncredited, per IMDb.
And now the TV. The Gentlemen movie became the Netflix series, and MobLand was created by Ronan Bennett with Ritchie directing the opener.
Six titles, four apps, one standoff
Six Ritchie titles across four apps is how a night ends up back on Shortland Street with nobody admitting they gave up. The best movie apps for couples rundown covers why swiping together beats taking turns, and if the problem is tonight, what to watch tonight in New Zealand is the short version.
Most of the standoff is nobody saying which one they want. A 1998 crime comedy and a wartime commando raid are not the same evening.
Swipe the six separately and put on whatever you both said yes to. That is the set of Guy Ritchie movies to stream in New Zealand right now, rentals excluded, with the first series back on Thursday 3 September. MatchWatch is free to use. Available in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the United States.