Amazon’s streaming service offers a wide variety of content, but it’s not very easy to find anything on their interface. It can be challenging to determine what’s accessible when you want to view a movie because they also enjoy wildly switching around their selection. This is the kind of digital maze that necessitates a manual. That’s our role here! The greatest movies available right now on Prime Video both recent releases and beloved classics—will be highlighted on this often updated list, which is available for free to all Amazon Prime members. From our selection of the week to everything else, there is genuinely something for everyone here.

10 OUTSTANDING HOLLYWOOD MOVIES AVAILABLE ON AMAZON PRIME

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1. Trunk: Locked In (2023)

To her horror, Malina finds that she is losing more than just her memories as she awakens disoriented in the trunk of a speeding automobile. She fights a valiant battle for survival with only her cell phone as a means of communication with the outside world. The thriller is the fourth internal production produced in German available on Amazon Prime Video. The majority of the action happens within a trunk. It is therefore a one-location movie.

2. Balt (2012)

Directed by Kimble Rendall in 2012, Bait 3D is a 3D horror catastrophe movie based on a screenplay by John Kim and Russell Mulcahy. It included Dan Wyllie, Cariba Heine, Alex Russell, Lincoln Lewis, Alice Parkinson, Xavier Samuel, Phoebe Tonkin, Julian McMahon, and Sharni Vinson. The movie revolves around a group of individuals who attempt to flee a grocery store that was flooded by an unusual tsunami while great white sharks are pursuing them. In Australia, the movie was released on September 20, 2012.

3. The Good Neighbor (2011)

Stephan Rick is the director of the 2011 German drama/thriller film The Good Neighbor (Unter Nachbarn). It was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival, the Hof International Film Festival, and made its competitive film festival debut at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival.

With Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Robert Graetz, Luke Kleintank as David Ahrens, Eloise Smyth as Vanessa Rafael, Bruce Davison as Grant, and Ieva Florence as Janine Rafael, Rick helmed an English-language version of his own movie in 2022 under the same title.

4. Upgraded (2024)

Carlson Young is the director of the 2024 American romantic comedy Upgraded, which stars Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Thomas Kretschmann, Grégory Montel, Lena Olin, and Marisa Tomei.

On February 9, 2024, the film a contemporary rendition of the beloved story Cinderella—was made available on Amazon Prime Video.

5. Anyone But You (2023)

2023 will see the release of Anyone but You, an American romantic comedy film directed by Will Gluck and co-written by Ilana Wolpert. Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are the main actors, and it is loosely based on William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Hadley Robinson, Michelle Hurd, Dermot Mulroney, Darren Barnet, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Griffiths are among the supporting cast members.

On December 11, 2023, Anyone but You made its theatrical debut at AMC Lincoln Square Theater. On December 22, 2023, Sony Pictures Releasing released the film in theaters nationwide. The movie made $212 million worldwide and garnered mixed reviews from critics.

6. Lovelace (2013)

The 2013 American historical drama film Lovelace is based on the life of porn actress Linda Lovelace, who starred in the seminal 1972 film Deep Throat, which launched the Golden Age of Porn. Lovelace chronicles her life from 21 to 32 years old.

The screenplay was written by Andy Bellin and directed by the Oscar-winning team of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. The cast includes Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody, James Franco, Chloë Sevigny, and Juno Temple.

On January 22, 2013, Lovelace made its international premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. On August 9, 2013, a limited release in the United States took place.

7. Nefarious (2023)

Based on Steve Deace’s 2016 novel A Nefarious Plot, Nefarious is an independent horror film released in 2023 in the United States and written and directed by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon. Starring with Jordan Belfi is a psychiatrist tasked with figuring out whether Sean Patrick Flanery, a death row inmate, is lying about having demonic possession. The movie was made available on April 14, 2023.

8. Flightplan (2005)

Robert Schwentke directed the mystery psychological thriller Flightplan in 2005, based on a screenplay by Billy Ray and Peter A. Dowling. Jodie Foster plays Kyle Pratt, an American aircraft engineer who recently lost her husband and lives in Berlin. She takes a plane back to the United States with her kid and her husband’s corpse. During the flight, she loses her daughter, and she has to fight to find her while still maintaining her sanity. In addition, Matt Bomer makes his cinematic debut alongside Erika Christensen, Greta Scacchi, Kate Beahan, Peter Sarsgaard, and Sean Bean.

Touchstone Pictures distributed the movie, which debuted in theaters throughout the world on September 23, 2005. Reviews were mixed, with critics praising the film’s thriller aspects, cast performances (especially Foster’s), and director but criticizing the narrative. A $55 million budget was met with almost $223 million in international box office earnings. It was also a huge commercial success, earning two nominations for the 32nd Saturn Awards: Best Action or Adventure Film and Best Actress (for Foster).

9. Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022)

George Miller is the director and producer of the fantasy romantic drama film Three Thousand Years of Longing, which comes out in 2022. The 1994 short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A. S. Byatt served as the inspiration for this Miller and Augusta Gore work, which centers on an imprisoned djinn (Idris Elba) who is freed from a bottle by a professor (Tilda Swinton) and begins telling her tales from his tens of thousands of years of existence. Both Rena Mitchell, a relative of producer Doug Mitchell, and Miller’s mother Angela are honored in the film.

On May 20, 2022, the movie made its world premiere at the 75th Cannes Film Festival outside of competition. It was met with a six-minute standing ovation. August 26, 2022, saw its theatrical debut in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (via United Artists Releasing); on September 1, 2022, Roadshow Entertainment distributed it in Australia. Critics gave it mostly favorable reviews, praising the film’s performances and images, but it was a box office flop, making $20.3 million on a $60 million budget.

10. American Fiction (2023)

In his first feature film directing role, Cord Jefferson wrote and directed the comedy-drama American Fiction in 2023. It is based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, which tells the story of a dissatisfied professor-novelist who writes a bizarre satire of stereotypical “Black” books, only for the liberal elite to mistake it for legitimate literature and publish it to both great sales and critical acclaim. Starring are Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown.

On September 8, 2023, it made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it took home the People’s Choice Award. On December 15, 2023, Amazon MGM Studios released it in restricted theaters; on December 22, 2023, it was expanded.

It brought in $22.5 million and had favorable reviews. The American Film Institute ranked it among the top 10 movies of 2023, and it has won other awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay at the 77th British Academy Film Awards. At the 96th Academy Awards, the movie was nominated for five awards, including Best Picture, for which Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay.