The best movies on Amazon Prime Video include Fast X, The Passenger, Role Play, Foe, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, About Fate, Saltburn, and more.
One of the reasons we named Amazon Prime Video the most underrated streaming service of 2023 is because Amazon has a deal in place with rival studios like Paramount and Universal that sends some of their recent hits to Prime Video. That’s why Fast X is leaving Peacock and parking at Prime Video for the foreseeable future. Prime Video has also added The Passenger, an underrated horror thriller that hasn’t had much of an audience until now.
Prime Video only has a few more new movies coming in January, but they should keep film lovers happy for the rest of the month. To stay on top of the latest arrivals, check back here every Friday for the best movies on Amazon Prime Video right now.
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Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) couldn’t be happier when Fast X begins, since he’s got his family together and his life in order. What Dom doesn’t have is a clue that Dante Reyes the son of one of Dom’s dead enemies — is out for revenge. When Dante strikes, no one is safe. Dom’s wife, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), their son, Brian Marcos (Leo Abelo Perry), their team, and even their old adversary, Cipher (Charlize Theron), are all open targets.
In short order, Dante destroys the team’s reputation and hurts the people that Dom cares about the most. And Dante is only getting started, as the real suffering hasn’t begun yet.
It’s been said that “a good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you hide a body.” Benson (Kyle Gallner) may have taken that expression a little bit too literally in The Passenger. After witnessing his work buddy, Randolph “Randy” Bradley (Johnny Berchtold), get bullied by their co-workers, Benson snaps and murders everyone but Randy.
Suddenly Randy finds himself riding shotgun with an absolute lunatic, and he truly doesn’t know what Benson will do next. If Randy can’t find a way out, then it might be his body that gets ditched by Benson.
Emma (The Flight Attendant‘s Kaley Cuoco) and Dave Brackett (David Oyelowo) are just about as happy as a couple could be in Prime Video’s Role Play. The Bracketts have two children and a beautiful home in a New Jersey suburb. What they’re lacking is the passion in the bedroom that they used to have before starting a family.
For their anniversary, Dave and Emma take a trip to New York and indulge in some role play. That turns out to be a mistake when Bob Kellerman (Bill Nighy) blows Emma’s cover and exposes her as an international assassin. Now, Emma has to use her skills to protect her family and keep her marriage to Dave intact.
Humanity’s future looks bleak in Prime Video’s Foe, but at least Hen (Saoirse Ronan) and Junior (Paul Mescal) have each other. Or do they? Their bonds of marriage are tested when Junior is selected to be among the lucky few to live and work on OuterMore, the orbiting habitat that may be humanity’s best hope of survival.
However, Hen is not selected for the program, even though a stranger named Terrance (Aaron Pierre) promises Junior that Hen will be well cared for in his absence by a special companion. Yet, as the vetting process drags on, Junior becomes convinced that Terrance will be the one living with his wife while he’s stuck in space.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts rolls back the clock to 1994 and follows a young man, Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos), who is so desperate to provide for his family that he agrees to steal a car. Unfortunately for Noah, the car turns out to be Mirage (Pete Davidson), one of the Autobots hiding on Earth. And while Mirage is eager to make friends with Noah, Autobot leader Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) is not as trusting.
Thanks to a discovery made by museum research intern Elena Wallace (Dominique Fishback), she and Noah are drawn into the Autobots’ war with the Terrorcons, who want to bring the planet-killing Transformer Unicron (Colman Domingo) to Earth. In order to save the world, Noah and Elena will have to help the Autobots find the Maximals and their leader, Optimus Primal (Ron Perlman).
Parallel lives intersect in director Maryus Vaysberg’s romantic comedy About Fate, which was inspired by Emil Braginsky and Eldar Ryazanov’s The Irony of Fate. Margot Hayes (Emma Roberts) and Griffin Reed (Thomas Mann) both want to marry their respective partners, Clementine Pratt (Madelaine Petsch) and Kip (Lewis Tan). But when those plans fall apart, Griffin drunkenly comes home to Margot’s place because it was so easy to mistake for his own.
Instead of being angry at stranger sleeping in her bed, Margot uses their meeting as an opportunity to ask Griffin to pretend to be Kip when she attends the wedding of her sister, Carrie Hayes (Britt Robertson). However, neither Kip nor Clementine are completely out of the picture, and it may take an act of fate to bring Griffin and Margot together as a real couple.
Saltburn is a movie that’s designed to catch you off guard, even if you’re paying attention. So keep your eyes on Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), the Oxford University college student who befriends his wealthy classmate, Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). When Oliver receives word about his father’s death, Felix invites him to stay at his family’s estate at Saltburn for the summer.
Felix’s immediate family, including his parents, Lady Elspeth Catton (Rosamund Pike) and Sir James Catton (Richard E. Grant), as well as Felix’s sister, Venetia Catton (Alison Oliver), are very welcoming towards Oliver. However, Felix’s cousin, Farleigh Start (Gran Turismo‘s Archie Madekwe), is immediately suspicious about Oliver’s motives. It will be a long summer at Saltburn, and Oliver will have to go out of his way to earn his place there.
Stardust is a charming fable from The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman and director Matthew Vaughn that features Claire Danes as a fallen star named Yvaine. After Yvaine is accidentally knocked from the heavens, she assumes human form before being captured by Tristan Thorn (Charlie Cox), a young man desperate to impress his would-be lover, Victoria Forester (Sienna Miller).
Instead of bringing Yvaine home, Tristan falls in love with her, and they both come under the protection of the flamboyant sky pirate, Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro). Tristan and Yvaine will need all the help they can get as a coven of witches led by Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) plan to kill Yvaine and feast on her heart in the name of eternal youth.
When it comes to Wes Anderson movies, you can always bet that they will be emotionally moving and deeply weird. Asteroid City is no exception, and it seems to take place in a world all of its own. Jason Schwartzman stars as a newly widowed father, Augie Steenbeck, who has brought his children to the annual Junior Stargazer convention. Despite the fact that Augie is still mourning his late wife, he is immediately drawn to Midge Campbell (Scarlett Johansson), an actress who brought her daughter, Dinah (Grace Edwards) to the event.
Dinah also strikes up a relationship with Augie’s son, Woodrow (Jake Ryan), and it’s not the only romance brewing in town. But there’s something incredible happening at this year’s Junior Stargazer event, and it may change the world forever.
Dune: Part Two star Florence Pugh sheds all aspects of her MCU Black Widow role as a broken young woman in A Good Person. Zach Braff wrote and directed the film, which casts Pugh as Allison, a woman who was once engaged to her high school boyfriend, Nathan (Chinaza Uche). But shortly after her engagement, Allison causes a car accident that claims the lives of Nathan’s sister, Molly (Nichelle Hines), and her husband, Jesse (Toby Onwumere).
One year later, Allison is attempting to kick her addiction to painkillers when she reunites with Nathan and Molly’s father, Daniel (Morgan Freeman). As Daniel attempts to forgive Allison, they reenter each other’s lives and she tries to make amends with Ryan (Celeste O’Connor), the daughter that Molly and Jesse left behind.
Move over, superheroes. There’s only been one multiversal adventure to win Best Picture at the Oscars, and it wasn’t Spider-Man: No Way Home. Instead, it was Everything Everywhere All At Once, which also collected three major acting Oscars and Best Director for the Daniels.
Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Quan Wang, an aging laundromat owner who has a tense relationship with her husband, Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan), and their daughter, Joy Wang (Stephanie Hsu). However, Evelyn’s life is turned upside down when she learns that the multiverse is real, and only she can save it from a dire threat.
In the late 1990s, few NFL players were more exciting to watch than Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders. On the field, Sanders moved with uncommon speed and agility, and he was well on his way toward the all-time NFL rushing record when he abruptly retired from the game and never played another down.
Bye Bye Barry is based on Sanders’ book of the same name, and it offers his account of why he left behind an incredibly lucrative career. Several other NFL luminaries also weigh in on Sanders’ legacy, but the film is at its most enticing when Sanders himself speaks about what he was going through at that key moment in his life.
In the entertainment industry, Tyler Perry is a polarizing figure. But few have found greater success than Perry has as a writer, director, and producer of films and TV shows. That’s in addition to Perry’s love for playing his signature character, an elderly Black woman named Madea.
Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story is a chronicle of Perry’s rise from nothing to become an icon of Black cinema. Although it is a bit weird that the documentary is co-directed by Perry’s ex-girlfriend, Gelila Bekele. So the film doesn’t even pretend to be unbiased in its approach to Perry himself. Regardless, this is a movie largely for Perry’s sizable fan base, and he’s already proven that it would be a mistake to bet against him in any Hollywood endeavor.
Christopher Nolan made his name in Hollywood with Memento, a brilliantly twisted story that is told out of order.
