The 12 Best Movies on Amazon You Won’t Want to Miss

Make your next movie night the best one yet with these failsafe picks from Amazon Prime’s vast catalogue of ripper flicks. Whether you want to be moved, terrified, charmed or challenged, we’ve got modern classics and new releases that’ll have you on the edge of your couch. These are the best movies on Amazon right now.

Best Movies on Amazon: Comedy

Yesterday

Music, friendship and history collide in thischarming comedy infused with a touch of magic. After a mysterious blackout,main man Jack discovers that he is the only person on earth who remembers TheBeatles. The down-on-his luck musician senses an opportunity and beginsreleasing the legendary quartet’s songs as his own, winning immense fame andfortune. Faced with losing his old life and the one person who believed in himfrom the start, he must decide if all he needs is love after all.  

Mr & Mrs Smith

It’s the flick that gave us Brangelina,Hollywood’s #1 golden couple of the 00s – Mr & Mrs Smith is a glitzyaction comedy about a husband and wife struggling to keep their marriage aliveuntil they realise they’re both working as assassins. The twist? Their nextassignments require them to kill each other. With full on action and tongue incheek humour, the film is taken to further heights by the co-stars’ palpablechemistry.

Pitch Perfect

Playing the raucously funny Fat Amy, our veryown Rebel Wilson was the breakout star in this vivacious comedy about anall-girl college acapella group. The Barden Bellas are on the road tochampionship redemption following the previous year’s loss to their all-malearchrivals. They recruit freshman Beca, an aspiring music producer who startsupdating their repertoire with contemporary hits and mashups. As they fighttheir way to this year’s championship, there’ll be plenty of drama, beef andtoe-tapping songs along the way.

Best Movies on Amazon: Drama

Green Book

Academy Award for Best Picture winner Green Book tells the story of anunlikely friendship forged in a bygone era. In 1962, world class AfricanAmerican pianist Dr Don Shirley is about to embark on a concert tour of thecountry’s deep south. Needing a driver and protection, he recruits Tony, atough talking Italian American bouncer from the Bronx. Despite theirdifferences, the pair slowly grow respect and affection for each other as theynavigate racism and danger in an era of segregation.

Midsommar

This beautifully shot yet deeply unsettling‘folk horror’ follows an American couple who travel to a friend’s hometown in rural Sweden for its fabled midsummer festival. Florence Pugh plays a troubledyoung woman who is looking to heal at an idyllic retreat before bizarre andincreasingly violent events reveal that they are in the hands of a pagan cult –and they want to make her their new queen. 

Beautiful Boy

This heartrending drama stars Steve Carrell ina very different role to the comedic characters he usually plays. Beautiful Boy features Carrell as adesperate father trying everything to save his vulnerable son Nic (played by abroody Timothée Chalamet) from the grips of a destructive meth addiction. Thepair’s deep and loving bond is tested to its very limits by Nic’s descent intodarkness.

Best Movies on Amazon: Romance

Atonement

The enduring impact of a single mistake isexplored in this romantic tragedy that will stay with you for a long time. Inthe lead roles are Keira Knightley and James McAvoy (at the height of theirfame), playing with wrenching tenderness an ill fated coupletorn apart by a false accusation. The promise of new love turns intoimmeasurable pain, set against the backdrop of World War II.

Long Shot

Recent release Long Shot sees the unlikely beauty and beast pairing of SethRogan’s free-spirited journalist Fred Flarsky and Charlize Theron’ssophisticated politician Charlotte Field. Following a chance encounter, Fredrealises Charlotte is his former babysitter and childhood crush, and when shedecides to run for presidency, she impulsively hires him as her speechwriter.Abundant odd couple chemistry and sharp dialogue make this a modern rom-comworth watching.

Music and Lyrics

Romantic comedy veterans Hugh Grant and DrewBarrymore join forces in this sweet, easygoing flick. Grant stars as Alex, awashed up ‘80s pop artist seeking to revive his music career when he discoversthat Sophie, the woman watering his plants, has a remarkable talent for lyricwriting. As they work together on the song that will save him sparks fly, butthe pressures of success versus artistic integrity threaten to test their newbond.

Best Movies on Amazon: Documentary

One Child Nation

This sobering exposé of the fallout fromChina’s one-child policy is a must-watch for anyone who wants to betterunderstand the world’s most populous nation. From 1979 to 2015, the Chinesepeople were subject to history’s largest government-controlled experiment in aneffort to curb their population, but the ripple effects are more brutal thananyone could have imagined, from forced abortions and sterilisation, to theabandonment and murder of baby girls.

Diego Maradona

Whether or not you’re a soccer fan, this docoon the tumultuous Napolitan years of Diego Maradona’s career, one of history’sbiggest sports stars, is a can’t-look-away wild ride. At the same time he waswinning championships for his club and taking Argentina to glory on the WorldCup stage, the volatile player was charting his own fall through a whirlwind ofdrug addiction, mafia ties and womanising. This real life story is one youcouldn’t make up if you tried.

Generation Wealth

More relevant than ever, Lauren Greenfield’sincisive examination of materialism, celeb culture and social status reflectson the obsession, by some, to be wealthy at any cost. She interviews people fromLA and Moscow, to Dubai and China in an effort to explain the troubling consequencesof the global boom and bust economy, with plenty of bling porn along the way.

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