5 Stellar Prime Video Movies to Watch This Week

If you happen to’re an Amazon Prime subscriber and have not actually gotten your use out of its large Prime Video library of exhibits and films, you then actually ought to begin trying out what the streaming service has to supply.

Each month Prime Video refreshes its listing of choices, with motion pictures coming and going, which is why I am right here to supply some ideas for motion pictures I’ve watched and loved on Prime, and that I believe you’ll, too.

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Depraved

The smash-hit adaptation of the smash-hit Broadway musical of the identical identify is now streaming in all its glory on Prime Video. Wicked was nominated for 10 Oscars, and whereas it solely took dwelling {hardware} for 2 of these, the musical movie was extensively praised for its performances, costumes, and spectacular design.

You in all probability know the story already, however Depraved covers the origins of Glinda the Good Witch (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), higher often known as the Depraved Witch of the West (finally), as they attend Shiz College in pre-Wizard Oz. With sweeping musical and dance numbers, an insane forged together with Jeff Goldblum, Peter Dinklage, and Bowen Yang, amongst others, Depraved is a enjoyable, visible spectacle you may need to watch together with your children.

Prime Video’s Depraved provides some cool particular options, too, together with a sing-along model you should buy, and bonus content material you’ll be able to take a look at through X-Ray.

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The Huge of Night time

It is all the time refreshing to seek out an extraterrestrial movie that also manages to create pressure and thrills with story and character as a substitute of gobsmacking particular results and folks being vaporized (extra on that in a bit). 2020’s Amazon Authentic movie The Huge of Night time achieved simply that.

A self-financed indie gem, The Vast of Night, takes us to Fifties New Mexico the place a radio DJ and a switchboard operator uncover a deep UFO conspiracy of their small city after they uncover some unexplained sound indicators that may not be of this world. If you happen to’re into Shut Encounters of the Third Type or outdated episodes of The Twilight Zone, you may love the grainy interval manufacturing and sluggish burn of this Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant honoree.

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Pulp Fiction

I used to be a younger and naive 20-year-old dork when Pulp Fiction hit theaters in 1994. And after I left the theater, I used to be a person … is what I will inform my children after they’re sufficiently old to lastly see it. All kidding apart, Quentin Tarantino’s indie masterpiece not solely modified the face of filmmaking, but it surely (and 1992’s Reservoir Canine) kicked off one of the vital profitable careers in Hollywood, and jettisoned so lots of its forged to new heights.

If you have not seen it, Pulp Fiction is the interconnected tales of a number of gamers in Los Angeles’ underworld, together with hitmen Jules and Vincent (Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta), their gangster boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) and his spouse Mis (Uma Thurman), an ageing boxer with a playing drawback (Bruce Willis), and a pair of smalltime crooks (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) who decide the flawed diner to rob.

Darkish, gritty, violent, surprising, endlessly referenced, and infinitely quotable with a few of the finest dialog of any movie, ever. If you have not seen this movie but, go get your self a Massive Kahuna burger and get to it.

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The 40-12 months-Previous Virgin

Earlier than Steve Carell was a family identify for his comedic and dramatic movie and TV work, he was honing his improv chops at Chicago’s Second Metropolis. It was there that the sketch that The 40-Year-Old Virgin would later be based mostly on was born. With the assistance of Judd Apatow, it was their script (and Apatow’s directing) that gave us this, now 20-year-old, piece of comedy gold.

It is the endearing story of Andy (Carell), a mild-mannered worker of a neighborhood electronics retailer the place he lets slip to his numskull bro co-workers (performed by Seth Rogen, Romany Melo, and Paul Rudd) that he’s, certainly, a 40-year-old virgin. The hilarity is basically gleaned from the horrible recommendation the boys give Andy on the way to get laid, resulting in some idiotic grooming (“Kelly Clarkson!”) and freaky bed room antics, when all Andy desires to do is be with Trish (Catherine Keener), an older girl who Andy falls for.

There’s additionally a Director’s Cut of The 40-Year-Old Virgin accessible to stream on Prime Video, too.

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Battle of the Worlds

Whereas the web is making an attempt to neglect the 0% Rotten Tomatoes score this movie’s recently-released 2025 rendition simply snagged, let’s simply flip our gaze to simply how good the 2005 model of War of the Worlds was.

One in all, if not the most effective, recreations of H.G. Wells’s basic alien invasion sci-fi movie stars Tom Cruise as an every-day Jersey man named Ray, who’s simply making an attempt to maintain his children (performed by Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin) from getting vaporized by the towering, three-legged aliens. They have been dormant underground all around the planet, and have lastly activated, blanketing the world to carry concerning the extermination of humankind.

Battle of the Worlds’ particular results have been nice for the time, and so they nonetheless maintain up at present, however among the finest components of the movie is Tim Robbins flip because the creepy Harlan Ogilvy, whose paranoia makes him activate humanity.

That Amazon Prime Video is a jungle (see what I did there?), and if you do not know which vines to swing on you could possibly end up misplaced and with nothing good to look at. I will cease with the ridiculous puns now, simply take a look at this roundup of strong motion pictures, now.