Last updated: November 2, 2026
Prime Video’s library is enormous and its homepage is terrible at surfacing anything good. These are the underrated films worth digging for: movies I graded B or higher that most people haven’t seen (each has fewer than 60,000 ratings on IMDb), all streaming on Prime Video right now.
HER SMELL (2019)
Elisabeth Moss gives an exhaustive show-stopping performance in Alex Ross Perry’s strenuous ’Her Smell’, a thoughtfully terrorizing depiction of soured showbiz success, one that creepily uses horror movie techniques to embolden a disquieting and headsplitting character study. Someone give this lady an Oscar.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
SMALL TOWN CRIME (2018)
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
SAINT MAUD (2020)
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.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (2016)
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
LAST FLAG FLYING (2017)
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
ANTLERS (2021)
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
THIRST STREET (2017)
A hallucinatory psychosexual-thriller/twisted-rom-com Thirst Street will undoubtedly remain one of the year’s best undiscovered gems. With an ace up his sleeve in star Lindsay Burdge, director Nathan Silver tells this story of unrequited love with splashes of startling comedy, dreamlike imagery and a prevailing sense of dread and watching it is nothing short of a rare treat.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
MEMORIES OF THE SWORD (2015)
Fans of martial arts movies will discover much to love in Memories of the Sword, a progressive swords-in-the-ancient-East movie starring a strong female warrior.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
BLACK BEAR (2020)
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
WRONG TURN (2021)
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
MY OLD ASS (2024)
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
GOAT (2016)
Frat bros and Jonas bros populate Andrew Neel’s taxing melodrama Goat, an impregnable profile of the imposing weight of masculinity and the mental bill of fraternal hazing.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
THE LIGHT OF THE MOON (2017)
A confident study in victim’s guilt, Jessica M. Thompson’s The Light of the Moon tells a challenging story with great nuance and fierce detail to character work as lead Stephanie Beatriz’s comedic impulses only serves to amplify the drama’s most heart-rending elements.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
FLOWER (2017)
Max Winkler’s dirty-minded Flowers is rude and sweet and offputting and bitterly funny – while featuring an absolutely star-making turn from Zoey Deutch – though it’s got enough narrative quirk to keep you from craving sloppy seconds.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
THE ENDLESS (2017)
Moorhead and Benson’s The Endless is a riveting trip down the rabbit hole, fastened with a smarter-than-average and genuinely thrilling script and impossible to predict plotting. Suffers in the acting and special effects department but remains a strong recommendation for sci-fi fans looking for some original flavor.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
HIGH LIFE (2018)
Claire Denis mans a spiritual reawakening aboard a vessel of violent criminals in this poetic, beautiful, and at times rather long-winded, portrait of science vs. man. Challenging in form and function, this humanist sci-fi places character and plot secondary to tone and obscured questions about meaning and destiny.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
SYNCHRONIC (2020)
Sci-fi indie filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have done it again with the trippy, drug-fueled time travel experiment Synchronic, which benefits from a strong leading man and an arresting balance of body horror and temporal experimentation.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
LAMB (2021)
A24’s unsettling and atmospheric horror-hybrid incites an unholy matrimony of humankind’s domination of the natural world and their need to belong within it. Peculiar, menacing, and strongly-acted, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb is an off-kilter fairy tale that fascinates and frustrates but remains steadily committed to its brand of odd-duck pathos.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
SEW TORN (2025)
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
PRIMATE (2026)
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
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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