The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Canada (March 2021) By Calum Marsh for Complex Canada Calum is an arts and culture writer living in an overpriced apartment in Toronto. It may have a bit of an underdog storyline that’s often used in sports, but there’s a sincerity and a truth behind this story that makes it special. Rotten Tomatoes: 81% As Sandra’s friends and strangers alike pitch in to help rebuild (literally) her life, it’s hard not to get swept up in this touchingly unique story. Best free movies on Amazon Prime: 52 films to stream in October 2020 NFL Genre: Drama, Science Fiction And we’re all better for it. Rotten Tomatoes: 82% Facing displacement from the home his grandfather built as a result of gentrification in his San Francisco neighborhood, Jimmie and his best friend, Mort, set out on a mission to reclaim the house before it is irreversibly changed. Juliette Binoche stars as Dr. Dibs, overseer of a damned space mission that is sending criminals to attempt to extract energy from a black hole. Rotten Tomatoes: 82% The 70 best movies on Hulu right now. Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden Runtime: 116 minutes. Genre: Drama The African Queen is one of director John Huston’s most beloved films, thanks in no small part to the pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn as the leads. Runtime: 111 minutes. But the film is not without humor, black though it may be. Actress Clare Dunne, who co-wrote the film with Shameless U.K. writer Malcolm Campbell, is Sandra, a mother of two in Dublin who, after escaping her abusive husband, finds herself on the cusp of homelessness. Sure, having your packages delivered to your doorstep with lightning-fast speed is probably the primary reason you shelled out the cheddar for your Amazon Prime membership, but getting access to Amazon’s massive library of movie titles and TV with it is a pretty sweet perk, no? Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama Stars: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong Runtime: 93 minutes. Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama Genre: Comedy, Stoner, Coming-of-age Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Stars: Kristen Bell, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Russell Brand, Mila Kunis, Bill Hader Awkwafina stars as Billi Wang, a Chinese-American writer who learns that her grandmother, Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen), is dying from terminal lung cancer in China. Along the way, Cohen, of course, resumes his pranking of Trump-era America, but with his cover mostly blown from the first film, much of the task lands on the brilliant Bakalova, who delivers some bewilderingly-awkward situations and poignant political skewering. But Demme’s career is also full of short films and documentaries about a wide range of bands and musicians, ranging from Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads to UB40, New Order, and Bruce Springsteen. Director: Ian Samuels A corporate thriller of the highest order, Bombshell‘s stacked cast delivers stellar performances across the board. The Elders set out to find those responsible, but the Hastings own the town, and after a setup sees the boys framed for killing the Sherriff and Matt dead in a bloody ambush, the stage is set for some classic six-shooter payback. Set in 1965, Moonrise Kingdom is full of the brilliant whimsy and quirkiness that Anderson is known for and feels very much like the same universe as The Darjeeling Limited and The Royal Tenenbaums. Runtime: 120 minutes. Runtime: 127 minutes. The 56 best movies streaming free for Amazon Prime members (January 2021) Share this article share tweet text email link Nate Scott. Bombshell tracks the real-life scandal set in motion when former Fox and Friends host Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) files a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes, which throws the network into chaos as the minions scramble to take sides. All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. Genre: Psychological Thriller Director: Jim Jarmusch Sad movies on Amazon Prime It’s a Wonderful Life. A guide to the best streaming horror movies free on Amazon Prime Video, including scary films like Suspiria, Gretel & Hansel, Midsommar, The Last House on the Left, and more. While visiting Emily in the hospital, Kumail meets her parents, Terry (Ray Romano) and Beth (Holly Hunter), learning more about them and Emily as he processes his own feelings. Director: Alma Har’el Runtime: 99 minutes. Rotten Tomatoes: 98% Creed II has the difficult task of following the first Creed while also serving as a direct sequel to Rocky IV. For this guide, we set out to list Amazon Prime’s best TV shows to binge-watch, now from all of those titles the service has released since 2013. Runtime: 94 minutes. Genre: Drama Runtime: 98 minutes. Share Share Tweet Email Comment. Coming to America was an instant classic that was praised for its largely Black cast and how it challenged common perceptions of Africa. Sound of Metal doesn’t mess around, getting straight to the intense and terrifying moments that Ruben (Riz Ahmed), a drummer in a heavy metal duo with his girlfriend (the wonderful Olivia Cooke), starts to lose his hearing. Rotten Tomatoes: 93% It spawned a franchise, but this is still the best movie in the trilogy. A classic Christmas movie with an iconic James Stewart performance, It’s a Wonderful Life follows George Bailey (Stewart), a banker in the town of Bedford Falls who is preparing to throw himself off a bridge. Rotten Tomatoes: 82% Director: Claire Denis Stars: Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton From Korean director Park Chan-wook, award-winning director of Oldboy, The Handmaiden is an intense, pulse-pounding crime drama set in the early 1900s during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Genre: Fantasy, Action & Adventure The entire movie takes place over the course of a week, and we see the daily routine of both Paterson and his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 95 minutes. You know the drill: As the reluctant partners work together, they go from hating everything about each other to being slightly less annoyed to finding that they’re alike in many ways to being besties by the end of the film. While working in her dad’s record shop, Sylvie meets Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a talented up-and-coming jazz saxophonist with big dreams of his own. Genre: Comedy Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy Runtime: 93 minutes. Stars: Samuel L. Jackson Director: Richard Linklater The Amazon Studios film is the directorial debut of Andrew Patterson and has earned high praise from critics and streaming audiences alike for its suspenseful, low-budget spin on the genre. Based on a book with the same name, How to Train Your Dragon follows a young Viking boy named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) as he realizes that dragons can be partners to humanity instead of their deadly enemies. Copyright © 2018 Fandango. But Creed II does an excellent job of making the formula work yet again. It’s a film that has withstood the test of time, and it still holds up decades after its initial release. Genre: Action, Fantasy James Baldwin was one of the most influential writers of the late 20th century, penning numerous essays and acclaimed novels addressing issues of race at a time when racial friction seemed to be boiling over in America. Director: Eugene Ashe Runtime: 130 minutes. Runtime: 103 minutes. Director: Jason Woliner More than just an early installment of the MCU, The Avengers was a game-changer for the entire superhero genre. Rating: PG Rating: R Rating: R Director: Drew Goddard Director: Lulu Wang Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Runtime: 100 minutes. One of the most unexpectedly unique horror films of the last decade, Drew Goddard’s The Cabin the Woods took the typical story of a group of teenagers tormented by sinister forces while staying in a remote cabin in an entirely new direction. Director: Peter Cataneo When Mary Beth kills a man who tried to harm her, Priscilla decides that blood is thicker than water and she helps her sister cover up the evidence. Their failure draws the ire of CIA Director Erica Sloane (Angela Bassett), who deploys the assassin August Walker (Henry Cavill) to follow Hunt’s trail. Genre: Romance, Comedy, Young Adult Rotten Tomatoes: 78% Stars: Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Pegi Young Director: Jonathan Demme Rotten Tomatoes: 98% Not to be missed. We’ll do the heavy lifting. Genre: Horror Genre: Drama The buddy cop genre owes much to 48 Hrs., the 1980s action-comedy that paved the way for everything from Lethal Weapon to Miami Vice to Bad Boys to Hobbs & Shaw and beyond. Fox) is accidentally sent racing back to 1955 in a time-machine DeLorean invented by the wily Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins Stars: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter Rating: R Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robie, John Lithgow The film follows two women — a young Japanese lady on a secluded estate, and the Korean woman who is hired as her new handmaiden. When the mission goes sideways, the cores fall into the hands of a terrorist group, forcing the IMF to hunt its members down. Rotten Tomatoes: 94% Runtime: 89 minutes. Runtime: 122 minutes. In this dreamy period melodrama by Eugene Ashe, Thompson plays Sylvie, an aspiring television producer in late ’50s-early ’60s New York. It’s a promise that weighs heavily on Billi, but her connection with her beloved grandmother is beautiful and touching. Pugh and her brother (played by Jack Lowden) try out for the WWE and, when only one of them makes the cut, Pugh is forced to face the world of professional wrestling alone. Thumbnail: Courtesy Everett Collection.) Director: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy Runtime: 118 minutes. Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino Rating: PG We update this list weekly, removing the expired titles and adding new ones as they’re released. With a little help from the local sheriff (James Marsden) and his wife, Maddie (Tika Sumpter), the group works to take down Dr. Robotnik and save the world. Nicole Kidman stars as Satine, the marquee performer at the nightclub, who falls in love with young writer Christian (Ewan McGregor). The best thrillers on Amazon Prime right now By Michael Bizzaco and Nick Perry April 1, 2021 4:00PM PST Thriller flicks are a dime a dozen, and they’re the gift that keeps on giving. Rating: R Director: Pawel Pawlikowski We list the 100 best films on the streaming service. He’s a literal ball of lightning-fast energy who finds himself on earth being hunted by the villainous Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey), who wants to harness that energy to power his evil robots. Dripping with ’70s style, loud wardrobe choices, boat-sized cars, and a groovy Motown soundtrack, I’m Your Woman is a great way to time-warp out of your daily grind. Rating: R Genre: Comedy, Kids, Action, Video Game Director: Ang Lee Pattinson and Dafoe’s confrontations and performances are riveting, but it’s the movie’s surprises that will keep viewers talking long after the film comes to an end. Can we all just agree that Tessa Thompson is great in just about everything she’s in? The third film in the new, new reboot of the Star Trek motion picture franchise, and the first not helmed by J.J. Abrams (he had since switched focus to the Star Wars films), Star Trek Beyond is considered by some to be the best of the bunch. Rotten Tomatoes: 98% Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Rating: R Director: Darius Marder Shia LaBeouf’s debut script is directed by Alma Har’el and follows the life of child actor Otis Lort as he rises through young success to self-destructive Hollywood star. While there are certainly many R-rated and even NC-17 rated movies on Amazon Prime, you won’t find films that are classified as porn, because frankly, the MPAA hasn’t created a category for a film to be labeled as one. There are plenty of great classic films available as part of your Amazon Prime subscription, but this list is compiled of movies featured on The A.V. Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Runtime: 114 minutes. Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore One Night in Miami is a fictionalized ponderance of a real-life meeting that happened in Miami Beach in 1964 in which famous friends Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), who earlier that night just beat Sonny Liston for the world championship, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben -Adir), singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), and football star Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) gathered to enjoy each other’s company, debate, and discuss their roles in affecting change in Black America. Working from an unfinished Baldwin manuscript, director Raoul Peck has created I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary examining Baldwin’s views and how they apply not only to the tumults of the ’60s but to modern America as well. Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson Ultimately, murderer Monte (Robert Pattinson) is left alone with his daughter, trying to survive and thrive as they hurtle toward certain death. It was a hit in summer 2019 and, if you’re up for a nearly 2.5-hour movie where the scares consistently and constantly creep up on you, it won’t take long to understand why. Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy Lysistrata gets a modern update in this 2015 film directed by Spike Lee. Phoenix stars as a traumatized veteran who harnesses his trauma into hunting down missing girls for a living. The premise is beautiful in its simplicity: The good-for-nothing Elder brothers — John, an infamous gunslinger (Wayne), Tom, a washed-up gambler (Rat Packer Dean Martin), hardware merchant Matt (Earl Halliman), and youngest son Bud (Michael Anderson, Jr.) return after years to their hometown of Clearwater, Texas, to attend their mother’s funeral. Runtime: 115 minutes. Director Robert Eggers was initially moved to adapt Edgar Allan Poe’s The Light-House as a film, but The Lighthouse ultimately went in its own direction as one of 2019’s most unusual movies. The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer's powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated The Act of Killing. All rights reserved. Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman each took home Oscars for Best Director and Best Actor, respectively, for this touching drama that will have you crying in your popcorn by the time it’s over. Stuck 40 years in the past, Marty enlists the help of the younger Doc (who has yet to invent time travel) to retrofit the DeLorean and get him back to 1985. Runtime: 118 minutes. But as Robert’s career begins to take off and Sylvie is torn between her own ambitions and obligations, the two go their separate ways … for a little while, anyway. Davis’ struggle, set against the frost-glazed backdrop of New York, is a tragic one. Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Rating: PG Get ready for a tear-jerker of a drama that’s full of both pain and beautiful redemption in this Amazon Original film that won the Human Rights Film Award at last year’s Dublin International Film Festival. Rotten Tomatoes: 83% Rating: PG-13 Goddard and co-writer Joss Whedon toyed with and twisted the conventions of the genre in ways that no one saw coming, and the result was a film that’s as funny as it is terrifying and packed with hidden elements that demand multiple viewings. Not every DreamWorks animated film is an instant classic, but How to Train Your Dragon lives up to the hype and exceeds it. Rotten Tomatoes: 99% Runtime: 91 minutes. Runtime: 118 minutes. Their turbulent romance, set against a backdrop of paranoia and repression, is messy but moving. The stunning animation still takes our collective breath away a decade after this film came out. Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent Little does the former know, though, that the latter is conspiring with a con man to defraud the woman out of her inheritance. Written by The Magicians author Lev Grossman, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a sweet exploration of youth and the fear that comes with taking that leap of faith to get out of our own ruts and move forward with life.