From “The Brothers Bloom” and “Charade” to “Manhunter,” here are seven hidden gem movies streaming on Amazon Prime Video right now.
Like Netflix and HBO Max, Amazon’s Prime Video has a film and TV library that is vast and deeper than most of its subscribers may realize. Hidden beneath its most easily accessible recommendations are underrated, oft-forgotten movies that you likely have never seen before. These films run the complete genre gamut, which means that, regardless of whether you are in the mood for a light-hearted Hollywood adventure or a darker thriller, you can always find exactly the kind of movie you’re looking for on the platform.
With all that in mind, here are seven great hidden gem movies that are streaming on Prime Video right now.
Rightly regarded as one of cinema’s greatest films, director Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” is a jovially constructed noir about betrayal, justice and loss. Written by Graham Greene, it follows an American writer (Joseph Cotten) who arrives in postwar, Allied-occupied Vienna to accept a job offer from his mercurial friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), only to discover that Harry has died.
Stuck in Vienna with no immediate job prospects, Cotten’s Holly Martins quickly finds himself both growing closer to his dead friend’s girlfriend, Anna (Alida Valli), and caught up in the police investigation into Harry’s death. Twisty and uncompromising, “The Third Man” keeps you on your toes from its inconspicuous beginning all the way to its iconic, pitch-perfect final image.
Rian Johnson has only directed six films to this point, and yet “The Brothers Bloom” has somehow flown consistently under the radar. Johnson’s sophomore feature, his follow-up to “Brick,” is a conman comedy about storytelling and learning to find hope even in a world full of lies. It follows Bloom (Adrien Brody), a jaded, lifelong conman who is pulled into one last, “perfect” con to help his brother Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) rob a wealthy, eccentric heiress (Rachel Weisz).
Brimming with Jacques Tati-esque sight gags and enough adventurous whimsy to make your heart flutter, “The Brothers Bloom” is a deeply underrated film. The good news is that, thanks to Prime Video, you can still easily give it the two hours of your time that it deserves.
