Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Essie Davis

1. Game of Thrones (2011–2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Nine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.

Stars: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey

Votes: 2,290,020

2. One Day (2024)

TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.

Stars: Leo Woodall, Ambika Mod, Amber Grappy, Brendan Quinn

Votes: 43,256

3. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

R | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 631,551 | Gross: $281.49M

4. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

Stars: Lize Johnston, Kevin Keppy, Ben Barnes, Peter Weller

Votes: 56,730

5. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

R | 129 min | Action, Sci-Fi

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 544,266 | Gross: $139.31M

6. The Babadook (2014)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.

Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney

Votes: 247,749 | Gross: $0.92M

7. The White Princess (2017)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance

Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name, the story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII.

Stars: Jodie Comer, Rebecca Benson, Jacob Collins-Levy, Richard Dillane

Votes: 15,634

8. Charlotte's Web (2006)

G | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

Director: Gary Winick | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 46,597 | Gross: $82.99M

9. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History

A female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 1920s, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.

Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings

Votes: 17,748

10. Assassin's Creed (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 209,050 | Gross: $54.65M

11. Faraway Downs (2023)

38 min | Adventure, Drama, History

An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle station in Australia. Following the death of her husband, a baron plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her station.

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo

Votes: 3,044

12. Alien

TV-MA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Filming

A prequel series set three decades before the events of the 1979 film.

Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Sydney Chandler, Essie Davis, Alex Lawther

13. Australia (2008)

PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.

Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo

Votes: 129,830 | Gross: $49.55M

14. Macbeth (I) (2015)

R | 113 min | Drama, History, War

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan, Frank Madigan

Votes: 59,547 | Gross: $1.11M

15. Electric Dreams (2017–2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick.

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi, Richard Madden, Timothy Spall

Votes: 18,811

16. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

PG-13 | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Director: Peter Webber | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt

Votes: 82,731 | Gross: $11.63M

17. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

PG | 97 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Soren, a young owl, is kidnapped by the evil owls of St Aegolious and want to turn him into a soldier. He escapes with some of his friends and warns the mythical guardians about the evil plan.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Emily Barclay

Votes: 87,713 | Gross: $55.68M

18. True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

R | 124 min | Action, Biography, Crime

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang flee from authorities during the 1870s.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Corbett

Votes: 13,209

19. Nitram (2021)

112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on Tasmania in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Sean Keenan, Essie Davis

Votes: 10,406

20. Water Rats (1996–2001)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Beneath its surface exists a playground for the murky underworld, pollution hazards, the remnants of huge drug hauls, and a graveyard of bodies from years of suicides, accidents and murders. That's the world of the WATER RATS.

Stars: Brett Partridge, Peter Bensley, Toni Scanlan, Jay Laga'aia

Votes: 1,155

21. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2024– )

Romance | Post-production

Burma Railway in 1943 and across the Pacific during World War II, charts the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of an Australian doctor and prisoner of war.

Stars: Masa Yamaguchi, Joel Aaron Baker, Luca Timpano Bilbatua, Taki Abe

22. The Last Post (2017)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance

Aden 1965. This is the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East and the women and children who were there with them.

Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Tom Glynn-Carney, Stephen Campbell Moore

Votes: 2,843

23. Isolation (2005)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

Director: Billy O'Brien | Stars: John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris, Marcel Iures

Votes: 8,014

24. Babyteeth (2019)

MA-17 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Milla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.

Director: Shannon Murphy | Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace, Sora Wakaki

Votes: 19,096

25. Play School (1966– )

28 min | Family

Preschoolers are provided with learning opportunities through music, crafts, stories, games and information. The aim is to encourage a child to wonder, think, feel and imagine, striving to reflect a modern, diverse Australian society.

Stars: Benita Collings, John Hamblin, Noni Hazlehurst, Alister Smart

Votes: 366

26. Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears (2020)

TV-14 | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

After freeing a young girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, Phryne Fisher begins to unravel a mystery concerning priceless emeralds, ancient curses and the truth behind the suspicious disappearance of Shirin's forgotten tribe.

Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Rupert Penry-Jones, Miriam Margolyes

Votes: 4,903

27. Mindhorn (2016)

TV-MA | 89 min | Comedy, Thriller

A has-been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be a real person.

Director: Sean Foley | Stars: Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, Essie Davis, Steve Coogan

Votes: 13,725

28. Lambs of God (2019)

54 min | Drama

Lambs of God is a dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.

Stars: Essie Davis, Jessica Barden, Sam Reid, Ann Dowd

Votes: 2,557

29. Burning Man (I) (2011)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Matthew Goode, Rachel Griffiths, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis

Votes: 4,049

30. The Slap (2011)

Not Rated | 44 min | Drama

Traces the shattering repercussions of a single event upon a group of family and friends. Based on Christos Tsiolkas' best-selling novel.

Stars: Jonathan LaPaglia, Sophie Okonedo, Melissa George, Alex Dimitriades

Votes: 2,871

31. Murder Call (1997–2000)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

Centers on homicide detective odd couple, Tessa Vance, and her partner Steve Hayden. Shot in Sydney, Australia, the show was known for portraying gripping crime drama, while displaying the grittier side of urban Sydney.

Stars: Lucy Bell, Peter Mochrie, Geoff Morrell, Glenda Linscott

Votes: 487

32. Code 46 (2003)

R | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa

Votes: 21,139 | Gross: $0.20M

33. Funny or Die Presents... (2007– )

TV-MA | Comedy

A series of comedy sketches brought to you by the people at "Funny or Die."

Stars: Steve Tom, Rob Huebel, Christine Scott Bennett, Callie Cameron

Votes: 1,283

34. Enter the Matrix (2003 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The game's story picks up just before The Matrix Reloaded and runs parallel to that of the film. Bend the rules of the Matrix with martial arts, pilot the fastest hovercraft in the fleet, or just fight with lots of guns.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Mary Alice, Christine Anu, Steve Bastoni, Don Battee

Votes: 4,129

35. Sweeney Todd (2006 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.

Director: David Moore | Stars: Ray Winstone, Essie Davis, David Warner, Tom Hardy

Votes: 3,375

36. The Justice of Bunny King (2021)

101 min | Drama

A triumph over adversity tale about women fighting their way back from the bottom of society.

Director: Gaysorn Thavat | Stars: Essie Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Lively Nili, Bridie Sisson

Votes: 735

37. Exposure (2024– )

156 min | Thriller | Completed

Follows photographer Jacs Gould who, following the death of her best friend, returns to her hometown to discover the hidden secrets of their relationship and the truth behind her tragedy.

Stars: Alice Englert, Thomas Weatherall, Mia Artemis, Sean Keenan

38. Halifax f.p. (1994–2001)

Crime

Jane Halifax is a freelance forensic psychiatrist (f.p.) a psychological super-sleuth immersed in a mire of crime and punishment: Jane is an expert of the human mind.

Stars: Rebecca Gibney, Robyn Nevin, Susanne Chapman, Louise Siversen

Votes: 250

39. Blackrock (1997)

103 min | Drama, Thriller

When a young schoolgirl is raped and murdered, the mateship between a group of surfers is tested as the truth is slowly revealed.

Director: Steven Vidler | Stars: Laurence Breuls, Linda Cropper, Simon Lyndon, Chris Haywood

Votes: 1,177

40. Young Lions (2002)

TV-14 | Drama, Crime

Australian police show about two male and two female detective senior constables who solve crimes and deal with personal issues.

Stars: Alex Dimitriades, Anna Lise Phillips, Katherine Slattery, Penny Cook

Votes: 168

41. True Story with Hamish & Andy (2017–2018)

Comedy

Hamish & Andy sit down with everyday Australians who recount hilarious true stories that happened to them, with the events in the stories being recreated by Australian actors in filmed dramatisations.

Stars: Hamish Blake, Andy Lee, Rod Mullinar, Ryan Shelton

Votes: 211

42. Cloudstreet (2011)

342 min | Drama

The lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963.

Stars: Kerry Fox, Geoff Morrell, Stephen Curry, Essie Davis

Votes: 575

43. Lilian's Story (1996)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama

For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve ... See full summary »

Director: Jerzy Domaradzki | Stars: Ruth Cracknell, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, John Flaus

Votes: 318 | Gross: $0.00M

44. The Wedding Party (2010)

97 min | Comedy, Drama

When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.

Director: Amanda Jane | Stars: Josh Lawson, Isabel Lucas, Steve Bisley, Rhonda Burchmore

Votes: 564

45. Sunday Brunch (2012– )

180 min | Talk-Show

Add a Plot

Stars: Tim Lovejoy, Simon Rimmer, Rebecca Seal, Ian Burrell

Votes: 229

46. Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

A coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl trying to fit into both a posh private school and an ordinary public school.

Director: Cathy Randall | Stars: Danielle Catanzariti, Cassandra Jinman, Talia Monaghan, Yen Yen Stender

Votes: 1,516 | Gross: $0.01M

47. South Solitary (2010)

Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Romance

Set in 1928, Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island with her uncle, the new head keeper.

Director: Shirley Barrett | Stars: Miranda Otto, Marton Csokas, Essie Davis, Rohan Nichol

Votes: 490

48. Kings in Grass Castles (1998)

200 min | Drama

The life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century.

Stars: Essie Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephen Dillane, Susan Lynch

Votes: 140

49. The Custodian (1993)

R | 109 min | Drama, Romance

A police detective decides to expose the pervasive corruption that permeates his department.

Director: John Dingwall | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Hugo Weaving, Barry Otto, Kelly Dingwall

Votes: 374

50. The Ripper (1997 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Thriller

In 1888, in London, a prostitute is slaughtered on the street. The Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Jim Hansen is in charge of the investigation and realizes that the killer is a person with ... See full summary »

Director: Janet Meyers | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Gabrielle Anwar, Samuel West, Michael York

Votes: 640