The Best Movies on Prime Video Right Now (November 2026)

Last updated: November 1, 2026

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Too much to scroll through and not enough time to watch it all. These are the best movies streaming on Prime Video right now, pulled straight from my reviews and updated every month as titles come and go. Every pick is something I’ve seen and stand behind, with a link to the full review if you want the long version.

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (2016)

🍅96%Critics🍿59%Audience⭐6.3IMDb

Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship is a savvy anecdote to the stuffy Victorian costume drama. Hysterical and unpretentious, Stillman’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s work would make the author proud. Additionally, Kate Beckinsale proves that a career spent amongst CGI creations is a monumental waste of her awesome talent as she crafts an unforgettably shrewd feminist heroine in Lady Susan Vernon.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025)

🍅94%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

One Battle After Another is another masterwork from American auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, who turns his incisive storytelling toward contemporary America and uses it as a battle-bound backdrop for a story about fighting for what matters. Every single thing works.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)

🍅96%Critics🍿78%Audience⭐7.8IMDb

Manchester By the Sea is a thoughtfully rendered, grief-loaded New England character study salt-washed in bathos and poised to break hearts. Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan masterful commands the drama while Casey Affleck gives the performance of his lifetime.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

SMALL TOWN CRIME (2018)

🍅82%Critics🍿70%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

A rural gumshoe caper with splashes of Tarantino and the Coen bros, Small Town Crime soars on the wings of star John Hawkes who leads an unforgettable cast as a washed up ex-detective back on the case. Strange, hilarious and immensely entertaining, Small Town Crime is the modern day dusty noir we didn’t know we needed.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

THE WITCH (2015)

🍅91%Critics🍿61%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

Unholy goodness through and through, Robert Eggers’ feature film debut is a horror masquerading as a costume drama that’s as beady, black and misshapen as the center of a goat’s eye. Robert Eggers’ debut is a period-perfect folk nightmare, and Anya Taylor-Joy’s breakout performance (and Black Phillip) leave a mark.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review · Every Robert Eggers Movie, Ranked

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2017)

🍅89%Critics🍿64%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Lynn Ramsey’s disturbing grindhouse thriller takes active interest in cycles of violence and the physical and emotional scars of trauma, showcasing a battering ram performance from Joaquin Phoenix and the director’s sublime eye for beauty amidst chaos.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (2016)

🍅97%Critics🍿91%Audience⭐7.8IMDb

Taika Waititi spreads his wings with Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a genuinely hilarious and emotionally engaging tale of a naughty foster child and his surrogate uncle who venture off into the bush. Sam Neill and Julian Dennison have uncommon comic chemistry in front of the camera while behind it, Waititi shows off some newfound directorial tricks.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review · Taika Waititi’s Movies, Ranked

SHORT TERM 12 (2013)

🍅98%Critics🍿92%Audience⭐7.9IMDb

The truth is often more horrifying than fiction, and although Short Term 12 isn’t based on a true story, it unearths a harsh reality of displaced youth, offset from the spotlight but boiling under the surface of society. Brie Larson’s foster-care supervisor learns the only way to move beyond the cycle of abuse is acceptance, a self-imposed yard sale of everything nasty hidden away. Only when we show the darkest parts of ourselves are we able to start moving towards the light.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

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BLINK TWICE (2024)

🍅74%Critics🍿71%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Blink Twice delivers an electrifying social thriller in the vein of the best of the century that’s not only hugely entertaining but also offers sharp commentary on the sacrifices women are expected to make for a fleeting good time. With standout performances from Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum, Zoë Kravitz’s debut is a must-see crowd-pleaser, anchored by an outstanding ensemble cast that ensures every moment crackles with unsettling intensity.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

SALTBURN (2023)

🍅72%Critics🍿79%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

Emerald Fennel’s venereal second feature is an explosive satire of inheritance and deception framed as a simmering psychosexual thriller. The entire cast is wonderful but Barry Keoghan proves himself as a truly one-of-a-kind talent.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

THE HANDMAIDEN (2016)

🍅96%Critics🍿91%Audience⭐8.1IMDb

Chan-wook Park’s The Handmaiden smartly blends a historical thriller with a sultry lesbian romance, making for a film that’s as difficult to categorize as it is utterly entrancing. Devious, dark and artful, it may not be as viscerally abducting or ultraviolent as Oldboy but, like any great erotic thriller, it is sure to engage both the cortex and crevices.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

AIR (2023)

🍅93%Critics🍿97%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

Ben Affleck’s Air is an untraditional sports drama that’s both sharp and funny, benefitting greatly from its truly standout cast. Unlike Michael Jordan though, it will not be remembered forever.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

LAST FLAG FLYING (2017)

🍅76%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

Deftly blending snarky comedy and high tragedy in this expertly cast and immaculately performed drama, Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying is a soulful examination of grief, duty, family and love of country that gives no shortage of “all the feels”.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

SOUND OF METAL (2020)

🍅97%Critics🍿90%Audience⭐7.7IMDb

‘Sound of Metal’ jams to a deeply personal and subjective track as audiences experience the isolation and trauma of hearing loss alongside an ex-addict drummer, played by a never-better Riz Ahmed. Having undergone a similar (if much milder) experience, I connected with the story on a deeply personal level.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

WRONG TURN (2021)

🍅64%Critics🍿59%Audience⭐5.6IMDb

Wrong Turn breaks the mold of lame slasher reboots to deliver an unexpectedly awesome road trip into gnarly backwoods insanity. Though a near-complete rebranding of the franchise, the film from director Mike P. Nelson proves there is plenty of gas left in this series’ tank.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

BLACKFISH (2013)

🍅98%Critics🍿90%Audience⭐8.1IMDb

The story of Tilikum, the orca behind multiple deaths at SeaWorld, and the industry that kept him captive. Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary is infuriating and heartbreaking, and it changed how a lot of people think about marine parks.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

BLUE RUIN (2014)

🍅96%Critics🍿79%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

A homeless drifter learns the man who killed his parents is getting out of prison and sets out for revenge, very badly. Jeremy Saulnier’s lean, brutal thriller is all tension and no glamour, and Macon Blair is unforgettable as the world’s least capable avenger.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

BLACK BEAR (2020)

🍅89%Critics🍿64%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Black Bear commits fully to breaking rules of cinema, which may leave some bewildered or frustrated, but between its smart screenplay, saucy technical savvy, and all-around great performances, the odd-duck drama-thriller is absolutely deserving of your attempt to puzzle through it.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

ATOMIC BLONDE (2017)

🍅79%Critics🍿64%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Though not on par with the frequency or creativity of the wet work in John Wick, Atomic Blonde has an action sequence so sophisticated and, frankly, intellectually overwhelming, it not only tops Wick in terms of execution, it’s up there with the very best in the action genre.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

SAINT MAUD (2020)

🍅92%Critics🍿67%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

Expertly building suspense and tension, and popping that bubble perfectly with some of the most effective jump scares of recent memory, Saint Maud has all the markings of a horror great, with a killer ending to boot. Rose Glass’ debut is a slow-burn study of religious obsession, and Morfydd Clark’s performance as a devout nurse is mesmerizing.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

A CURE FOR WELLNESS (2017)

🤢42%Critics🍿42%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness is a deliciously nasty serving of horror-thriller whose oddities amplify as it stretches on. Long-winded but absorbing, it plays like a symphonic homage to familiar themes that still manages to find its own sinister voice in and among the mania.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021)

🍅88%Critics🍿50%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

An adult-oriented challenge to conventional fantasy thrills, David Lowery’s complex, puzzling, and visually triumphant ‘The Green Knight‘ leans into onscreen natural horrors and sexual proclivities to tell the story of a knight of faltering courage.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

CREED (2015)

🍅95%Critics🍿89%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

Creed is vibrant, emotional and exciting as all hell. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite to deliver a spin-off unlike most; a film that’s both crowd-pleasing and objectively excellent. Ryan Coogler revives the Rocky saga with Michael B. Jordan as Apollo Creed’s son, and Sylvester Stallone gives one of the best performances of his career.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

NO ESCAPE (2015)

🤢47%Critics🍿62%Audience⭐6.8IMDb

Balls-to-the-walls action thriller No Escape will have you on the edge of your seat for its entire run-time. Though its trailers look genuinely awful, it’s one hell of a ride.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

HEREDITARY (2018)

🍅90%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

Ranking up their with the great contemporary horror movies of our time, Hereditary delivers the scares of The Conjuring with the atmospherics of The Shining all matched to a jaw-droppingly stunning performance from Toni Collette. Now go scare the shit out of yourself with it.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

MY OLD ASS (2024)

🍅90%Critics🍿89%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

A well-acted and poignant piece of coming-of-age filmmaking, My Old Ass uses a genre conceit to explore the concept of do-overs and living in the moment. Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, and Aubrey Plaza all rule the screen.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

PRIMATE (2026)

🍅77%Critics🍿69%Audience⭐5.8IMDb

Johannes Roberts’ brutal, and brutally effective, chimp gone bad horror joint Primate champions unrelenting tension and jaw-dropping gore, making this a January horror movie plenty worth infecting yourself with.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

WHAT MAISIE KNEW (2013)

🍅86%Critics🍿80%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

What Maisie Knew is an emotional powerhouse of a film led by an adorably funny-faced young actress functioning on a purely natural level, allowing the “performance” underneath to disappear entirely. Onata Aprile is remarkable as a little girl caught between her self-absorbed parents, played by Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan, in a quietly devastating custody drama.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

BOOKSMART (2019)

🍅96%Critics🍿77%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

Two nerds walk into a rager in Olivia Wilde’s largely wonderful salvo to the unbreakable bonds of childhood friendship, one that openly apes former teen coming-of-age comedies but works in spite of that. And just like their studious characters, this is Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein’s coming out party.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026)

🤢57%Critics🍿74%Audience⭐6.1IMDb

Not without its issues, Emerald Fennell’s over-the-top take on Wuthering Heights makes for a deliciously devious dark romance with alluring lead performances from Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The production elements are electrifying across the board. Disclaimer: I have never read the book.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

CLIMAX (2018)

🍅68%Critics🍿65%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

A purified blast of masterfully refined schlock, Climax is a depraved and largely unpleasant experience that boasts technical genius, a roaring soundtrack and wholly authentic performances. It’s at once impossible to recommend and one of the most disturbing, effective pieces of filmmaking I’ve seen.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024)

🍅86%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐6.2IMDb

Essentially an art film about a dying woman’s quest for a final slice of NYC pizza, trojan-horsed into a genre flick, A Quiet Place: Day One boasts an excellent performance by Lupita Nyong’o (Joseph Quinn is also outstanding), helping keep this franchise fresh, relevant, and true to form.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

🍅95%Critics🍿95%Audience⭐8.2IMDb

A deeply cinematic and highly effective adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, Project Hail Mary is anchored by a strong lead performance from Ryan Gosling and an engaging blend of crowd-pleasing adventure, camaraderie, and glib humor. It’s a film that understands exactly what makes its source material work and delivers it with confidence. It’s just that, at times, that same fidelity leaves it feeling a little too safe, as if in translating the story so well, it forgets to find its own version of it.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017)

🍅88%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐8.0IMDb

Beautiful and bold with an almost unbelievably satisfying story at its center, Blade Runner 2049 is that rare excellent sequel; a singular vision that expands on the mythology and ideology of its predecessor, crowded with first-class performances, stunning production elements and cautious, rousing direction from Denis Villeneuve.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

LOVE & MERCY (2015)

🍅90%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

Love & Mercy is dark and tender, like a good chunk of turkey, journey into deeper meaning; a filmic psychoanalysis of a man balancing on piano wire at the height of his fame and fortune. Paul Dano and John Cusack share the role of Brian Wilson across two eras, and both are excellent in Bill Pohlad’s inventive biopic.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

SEW TORN (2025)

🍅95%Critics🍿68%Audience⭐6.0IMDb

A crafty midnight movie about the choices we make inevitably leading to doom, Sew Torn is a ripping calling card for director Freddy Macdonald and his future storytelling prowess.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

ANTLERS (2021)

🤢59%Critics🍿67%Audience⭐5.9IMDb

This traumatic horror movie from Scott Cooper and Guillermo del Toro digs into the Indigenous legend of the Wendigo to tell a sobering human-level story of abuse while delivering top-shelf genre thrills. The production is as handsome and as bleak as any American horror movie dares to be, making for a horrifying and thoroughly scary experience that’s sure to linger in your nightmares long after.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

LONE SURVIVOR (2013)

🍅75%Critics🍿87%Audience⭐7.5IMDb

Also commendable is Berg’s sensitive attention to “the other.” There is no attempt to stir the crowd into a “f*ck the Taliban” frenzy. It doesn’t even feel like us vs. them. It just feels like hell. Peter Berg’s harrowing account of a doomed Navy SEAL mission in Afghanistan is brutal and relentless, with Mark Wahlberg leading a committed cast.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING (2025)

🍅80%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

A fitting sendoff, Mission: Impossible, The Final Reckoning represents everything the mega-franchise has come to represent in its nearly thirty-year run. The over-the-top plotting and loose editorial prowess keeps its from scraping the best that the series had to offer but the towering practical stunts and genuine team camaraderie make this a mission well worth accepting.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review · Every Mission

PEARL (2022)

🍅93%Critics🍿83%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

An electrifying improvement over X, Ti West’s Technicolor slasher is a darkly funny thirst trap; a gory origin story that sees Mia Goth give an absolute scene-stealing performance as the titular Pearl. Mia Goth co-wrote the film with Ti West, and her unbroken monologue and that end-credits smile are the stuff of horror legend.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

THE NIGHT HOUSE (2021)

🍅88%Critics🍿69%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

Rebecca Hall gives a commanding turn as a widow in the midst of a haunting in this kaleidoscopic maelstrom of scares. Director David Bruckner uses all the tools at his disposal to crank the terror up to extreme levels in The Night House while still delivering a movie that’s grounded in earnest human emotion.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

THE NAKED GUN (2025)

🍅88%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐6.3IMDb

Spoof comedy is back, and the unlikely team of writer-director Akiva Schaffer with stars Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson might just be the chaotic salve modern comedy desperately needed. By singularly focusing on delivering as many laughs as possible, many of them very, very dumb, The Naked Gun pulls no punches. It honors the original while making room for a new version of this kind of comedy to exist again. I laughed a lot.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

ROOFMAN (2025)

🍅87%Critics🍿85%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

Channing Tatum is great as a charming criminal on the lamb in this surprisingly crowd-pleasing crime dramedy from Derek Cianfrance. Roofman may not be his most heavy-hitting feature but it shows a director willing to experiment with not always taking himself so seriously, and delivering something quite pleasant in the process.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

SMILE 2 (2024)

🍅86%Critics🍿81%Audience⭐6.7IMDb

Despite featuring some truly grade-A kills, solid jump scares, and an electrifying scream queen in Naomi Scott, Smile 2 can’t quite manage to land this possessed plane without cheating, leaving this viewer with a bit of a sour taste. Some major issues aside, though, this savage sequel possesses all the ingredients a great horror haunt should.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

SUPERMAN (2025)

🍅83%Critics🍿90%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

Superman returns to the big screen in mostly triumphant fashion. David Corenswet makes a strong impression as 2025’s new Man of Steel, while James Gunn proves himself an intriguing steward of this new DC vision, both of this fresh take on the character and the sprawling universe that’s starting to form around him.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies on Prime Video right now?

This month’s top picks include Love & Friendship, One Battle After Another, Manchester by the Sea, Small Town Crime, and The Witch.

How often is this list updated?

Every month. Films that leave Prime Video are removed, and newly added movies we’ve reviewed are added. Last updated November 1, 2026.

What are the best horror movies on Prime Video?

See our separate guide to the best modern horror movies on Prime Video: the best horror movies on Prime Video

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