Where to watch Cillian Murphy’s best movies and TV shows – a complete streaming guide

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After years of powerful performances, Cillian Murphy has received the award for Best Actor at the 96th Academy Awards for his titular role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. With his name finally engraved on to Hollywood’s most prestigious acting award, you may be wondering where to watch Cillian Murphy’s best movies and TV shows online. If so, we’ve got you covered with a complete streaming guide.

As a frequent collaborator with Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy has been in some of the most popular blockbusters of the last two decades – such as the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk. Aside from this ongoing partnership, Murphy has had a diverse career that includes award-winning independent films and collaborations with top directors such as Ken Loach (The Wind the Shakes the Barley), Sally Potter (The Party) and Danny Boyle (Sunshine, 28 Days Later).

Despite so many impressive performances on the big screen, Cillian Murphy’s best performance is arguably as Tommy Shelby in the popular British crime drama, Peaky Blinders. With the show spanning 6 seasons, Murphy’s Tommy Shelby is one of television’s most iconic characters alongside the likes of Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), Don Draper (Mad Men) and Walter White (Breaking Bad).

Where can I watch Cillian Murphy movies & TV shows?

With this guide you can browse through the best Cillian Murphy movies and TV shows on streaming services in the United States – including all of his most popular performances and streaming details for Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Apple TV+ and many more.

  1. Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders

    2013

    IMDB 8.8 (648k)

    #1

    A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

  2. The Wind That Shakes the Barley

    #2

    In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

  3. 28 Days Later

    28 Days Later

    2002

    IMDB 7.5 (445k)

    #3

    Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

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  4. Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

    2023

    IMDB 8.3 (723k)

    #4

    The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

  5. Sunshine

    Sunshine

    2007

    IMDB 7.2 (267k)

    #5

    Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

  6. Batman Begins

    Batman Begins

    2005

    IMDB 8.2 (1m)

    #6

    Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

  7. The Party

    The Party

    2017

    IMDB 6.6 (18k)

    #7

    Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.

  8. Breakfast on Pluto

    Breakfast on Pluto

    2005

    IMDB 7.2 (24k)

    #8

    In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.

  9. Inception

    Inception

    2010

    IMDB 8.8 (2m)

    #9

    Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

  10. Dunkirk

    Dunkirk

    2017

    IMDB 7.8 (619k)

    #10

    The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

  11. Free Fire

    Free Fire

    2017

    IMDB 6.3 (50k)

    #11

    Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.

  12. Anthropoid

    Anthropoid

    2016

    IMDB 7.2 (54k)

    #12

    In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

  13. A Quiet Place Part II

    A Quiet Place Part II

    2021

    IMDB 7.2 (272k)

    #13

    Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

  14. Red Eye

    Red Eye

    2005

    IMDB 6.5 (139k)

    #14

    A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.

  15. Disco Pigs

    Disco Pigs

    2001

    IMDB 6.5 (5k)

    #15

    Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.

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  16. On the Edge

    On the Edge

    2001

    IMDB 6.9 (4k)

    #16

    A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.

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  17. Anna

    Anna

    2019

    IMDB 6.7 (76k)

    #17

    Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

  18. Intermission

    Intermission

    2003

    IMDB 6.8 (16k)

    #18

    A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

  19. Broken

    Broken

    2012

    IMDB 7.2 (14k)

    #19

    Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

  20. The Delinquent Season

    #20

    In Dublin, two couples (Jim and Danielle; Yvonne and Chris) are seemingly living in marital bliss. However, when Chris's behaviour begins to change, Yvonne seeks solace in the arms of Jim, and before long they are in the midst of an affair. When a life-changing secret is later revealed, all four are forced to re-evaluate their lives, their marriages, and their friendships - but can anything be salvaged from the wreckage?