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Free two-day shipping is nice, sure, but have you seen all the movies your Amazon Prime subscription gives you access to? As if all the original content produced by Amazon Studios was not enough, the streamer also boasts one of the most impressive and varied catalogs of other movies available for your viewing pleasure. (For starters, they actually have more than a handful of titles made before the year 2000.) You can both brush up on some classics from Hollywood’s studio era or watch a recent under-the-radar indie sensation. They have plenty of recent crowd-pleasing hits with familiar names as well as a plentiful supply of foreign films should you be looking to do some cinematic tourism. Rather than waste time scouring that extensive catalog for your next watch, let Decider guide you toward the service’s top offerings. Whether it’s catching up with an old favorite or discovering a new one, we’ve found and updated the 50 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (updated for October 2022). Whatever movie-watching mood you’re in, Amazon Prime almost certainly has a title for it. RELATED: NEW ON AMAZON PRIME: OCTOBER 202250 ‘Bridesmaids’ (2011)
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Paul Feig If you have time to read more than a blurb on why Bridesmaids is so great, I argued that its GIF-ability made it the definitive comedy of the 2010s in my Decider column “Smells Like ‘10s Spirit.” Those outsized reactions to everyday absurdity, particularly from leading lady Kristen Wiig, made it the perfect movie to capture the imagination of a culture moving further towards visual rather than text-based communication. But the movie also endures because it’s more than just a collection of outrageous moments – it’s an honest, heartfelt look at female friendships. Watch Bridesmaids on Amazon Prime Video 49 'The Vast of Night' (2020)
DIRECTOR: Andrew Patterson Get in on the ground floor with director Andrew Patterson before he goes supernova. His debut feature The Vast of Night is an enticing sci-fi tale about a young switchboard operator and a disc jockey uncovering what might be an extraterrestrial transmission in the ’50s. This scrappy start shows an impressive mastery of both form and mood – just imagine what he can do with a big budget. Watch The Vast of Night on Amazon Prime Video 48 ‘The Lost City’ (2022)
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Aaron and Adam Nee Is The Lost City basically just doing Romancing the Stone – romance novelist and rugged suitor meet-cute in the jungle – for a new generation? Sure. But if you don’t need novelty and just want to see the sparks fly between a type A Sandra Bullock heroine and a lovable Channing Tatum himbo, then this is a guaranteed great night in. The Lost City delivers on romance and comedy, with a number of cunning belly laughs that far outshine the familiarity of the script. Watch The Lost City on Amazon Prime Video 47 ‘Heathers’ (1988)
DIRECTOR: Michael Lehmann If you think ‘80s high school movies were nothing other than the optimistic comedies of John Hughes, look no further than Heathers. This high-concept satires skewers the conformity of cliques by imagining the popular girls as literally all named Heather. Winona Ryder’s Veronica is good enough to be among the Heathers but also smart enough to realize the group’s inanity. Once that pent-up anger crosses paths with Christian Slater’s volatile J.D., their school will have no idea what hit them. Watch Heathers on Amazon Prime Video 46 ‘Thief’ (1981)
DIRECTOR: Michael
Mann Still mourning James Caan’s passing? Check out his role in Michael Mann’s Thief if you haven’t already. This sleek, stylish heist thriller features Caan as a soulful safe-cracker trying to leave behind a life of crime after one big bust. Mann really charged out of the gate with this movie, and it still sings four decades later. If nothing else, vibe along with the electronic score of Tangerine Dream (which would be on my year-end Spotify Wrapped chart easily were it available on the service). Watch Thief on Amazon Prime Video 45 'Sylvie's Love' (2020)
DIRECTOR: Eugene Ashe Eugene Ashe takes us back to the ’50s with his gorgeous romance Sylvie’s Love – not only in setting but also in sensibility. This is a film that sincerely believes in love at first sight as well as connections that can persevere against all odds, which is exactly what must come to pass for there to be any chance for jazz saxophonist Robert (Asomugha) and aspiring TV producer Sylvie (Thompson). There’s enough old-fashioned sincerity and charm in every sumptuously colored frame to make you swoon. Watch Sylvie's Love on Amazon Prime Video 44 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) DIRECTOR:
Frank Capra It need not be Christmas to enjoy Frank Capra’s classic! While the snowy setting certainly gives It’s a Wonderful Life a fun seasonal glow, its message of the power of an individual life to ripple through a community resonates every week of the year. Though some might use the director’s name as an insult to deride maudlin movies – “Capra corn” – this is evidence that sincere emotion can inspire and charm if executed with indisputable earnestness. Watch It's a Wonderful Life on Amazon Prime Video 43 'What the Constitution Means to Me' (2020)
DIRECTOR: Marielle Heller The best of Broadway is available in your living room! Marielle Heller’s rendering of Heidi Schreck’s informative, passionate one-woman show democratizes the play for a global audience to see. And better yet, the camera brings us even closer to the star than possible when sitting in the audience – making the impact of Schreck’s scorching monologue about how the lives of the women in her family interact with the Constitution land with an even more personal impact. Watch What the Constitution Means to Me on Amazon Prime Video 42 ‘The General’ (1926)
DIRECTORS: Buster Keaton, Clyde
Bruckman Tom Cruise’s stunt work has nothing on Buster Keaton, cinema’s original daredevil showman. His silent-era comic caper The General reminds us that there’s no more expressive instrument than the human body. If you can bracket the unsavory plot element that Keaton’s wannabe heroic soldier is on the side of the Confederacy, you’ll find his endearing and epic journey to impress the girl of his dreams a wild ride worth taking. Watch The General on Amazon Prime Video 41 'Selah and the Spades' (2020)
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Tayarisha Poe The world of prep school intrigue gets a stylish upgrade by way of Tayarisha Poe. Unlike the normal precocious protagonists of the genre, Lovie Simone’s Selah is not itching to leave her high school halls. She relishes the power she holds over the social factions too much to relinquish it easily, so she takes great pride in grooming her successor. Selah and the Spades may give heightened, almost Shakespearean, stakes to the action, but Poe resists the urge to turn her characters into easy stereotypes. Watch Selah and the Spades on Amazon Prime Video 40 ‘Heaven Can Wait’ (1978)
DIRECTOR: Warren Beatty Heaven Can Wait fuses two subgenres, the “body swap” comedy and the “new lease on life” drama, for one satisfying and sincere look at what matters most. This is multi-hyphenate Warren Beatty at the peak of his prowess, pulling quadruple duty as producer, co-writer, co-director, and star (and getting Oscar nominations for EACH). As Joe Pendleton, a Rams quarterback who dies too early, Beatty gets to explore what gives our existence meaning when he’s given a second chance in life … in the body of a recently murdered industrialist. While his first instinct is to train for another shot at gridiron glory, some complicating factors intervene to make him reconsider his priorities. Watch Heaven Can Wait on Amazon Prime Video 39 'The Report' (2019)
DIRECTOR: Scott Z. Burns Need any more proof Adam Driver has the range? It’s hard to think of a role more diametrically opposed to Kylo Ren than his modest, unassuming Congressional staffer Daniel Jones in The Report. He’s tasked with getting to the bottom of the CIA’s torture program, an arduous assignment that mostly means he’s left to sort through mountains of documents. The fact that Driver can make this long process both compelling to watch and morally urgent speaks volumes to his talents as an actor. Watch The Report on Amazon Prime Video 38 ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ (2000)
DIRECTOR: Ang Lee Get over the one-inch barrier of subtitles, to quote Bong Joon-ho, and immerse yourself in the glory of global cinema. Besides, great action transcends language anyways, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has that in spades. The martial arts choreography in Ang Lee’s adventure is truly a stunning sight to behold. Watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on Amazon Prime Video 37 ‘Nebraska’ (2013)
DIRECTOR: Alexander Payne Filmmaker Alexander Payne has set many a movie in his native Nebraskan environs, yet he’s often accused of picking on the salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners with his brutal sense of ironic comedy. Nebraska strikes a beautiful balance, finding the quiet dignity of their commitment to family while remaining unafraid to point out how foolhardy he finds some of their endeavors. The film is quite the career-capper for the legendary Bruce Dern as he masterfully conveys the senility and sincerity of an aging man convinced he’s won a giant prize. Watch Nebraska on Amazon Prime Video 36 'Cold War' (2018)
DIRECTOR: Pawel Pawlikowski Know that feeling of watching a performer for the first time and sensing you’ll follow their career forever? That’s the thought that passed through my head seeing Joanna Kulig in Cold War, a tale of star-crossed lovers trying to navigate love, art, and politics in Communist-controlled Poland. Even in black and white, Kulig’s star burns incandescently as Zula, an entrancing and gifted jazz singer with self-destructive tendencies. Watch Cold War on Amazon Prime Video 35 ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ (2001)
DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson “Epic” only scratches the surface of Peter Jackson’s work bringing The Lord of the Rings to life on screen. Cinema at this scale and scope never ceases to amaze. The Fellowship of the Ring, the series’ kickoff, achieves a remarkable balance between easing us into the world of Middle Earth, introducing the characters and providing a taste of the heavily grounded fantasy action that would follow. Watch The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on Amazon Prime Video 34 'Landline' (2017)
DIRECTOR: Gillian Robespierre Ready for a ’90s period piece? Like it or not, Gillian Robespierre is taking you there in Landline to reflect on some formative years when her understanding of love was forged by dealing with the realities of divorce and infidelity. This dramedy strikes a tricky balance between somberness and silliness, something it navigates nimbly thanks to deeply felt performances by the movie’s entire central family. Watch Landline on Amazon Prime Video 33 'Paper Moon' (1973)
DIRECTOR: Peter Bodganovich Fans of schemers and swindlers on-screen owe it to themselves to watch Paper Moon. This comedy set in Depression-era America embeds us in the grift of two-bit hustler Moze Pray and pint-sized Addie Loggins, a young girl who may or may not be his daughter. The charms of real-life father and child Ryan and Tatum O’Neal are formidable here, and their sweetness provides a powerful countercurrent to the sourness of their scamming characters. Watch Paper Moon on Amazon Prime Video 32 'Annette' (2021)
DIRECTOR: Leos Carax Leos Carax has long been somewhat of an enfant terrible in French cinema, and his biggest effort to date does not back down from the unabashed weirdness that defines his work. This tribute – or perhaps parody? – of the rock opera feature the ironic tunes of cult band Sparks, the prickly brashness of Adam Driver as a self-destructive artist, and a titular baby wonder that simply must be seen to be believed. You may love Annette, or you may hate it. What’s unlikely, though, is that you feel indifferent watching this truly singular piece of cinematic art. Watch Annette on Amazon Prime 31 'His Girl Friday' (1940)
DIRECTOR: Howard Hawks With all due respect to today’s stars, they really don’t make romantic leads like they used to. The chemistry between Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell practically jumps off the screen in His Girl Friday, one of the most beloved screwball comedies of the Hollywood studio era. It’s a madcap blast as Grant’s newspaper editor Walter tries to lure back his lost love/former star reporter, Russell’s Hildy, by giving her one final assignment he knows she can’t resist … and might struggle to escape. Watch His Girl Friday on Amazon Prime Video 30 ‘Wanted’ (2008)
DIRECTOR: Timur Bekmambetov In the Nolan era of comic-book movies, the genre has an aggressive self-seriousness — almost as if there’s a fear of embracing the pulpiness of their origins. Not so in Timur Bekmambetov’s assassin flick Wanted, which just wants to be a barrel of badass fun. It’s high-octane action delivered with undeniable verve in everything from curved bullets to its final mic drop of a line. Watch Wanted on Amazon Prime Video 29 'One Night in Miami…' (2020)
DIRECTOR: Regina King “Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke walk into a hotel room…” might sound like the setup to a bad joke. But in the hands of Regina King, it’s the starting point for a fascinating debate over how to wield Black cultural power in a world that was finally beginning to accept it. One Night in Miami… nimbly balances an exploration of both who these men were and what they meant. Watch One Night in Miami… on Amazon Prime Video 28 ‘A Hero’ (2021)
DIRECTOR: Asghar Farhadi No one crafts a moral drama quite like Asghar Farhadi. The Iranian master filmmaker won’t just have his works examined among other great artists of the screen – his scripts will be dissected like Shakespeare or Chekhov. A Hero provides an excellent look at Farhadi’s craft in microcosm. Start with a situation that is placid yet unstable, drop in one seemingly small action, and watch the status quo of that world unravel in front of our eyes. Here, it’s imprisoned debtor Rahim appearing to commit a highly moral action that bolsters his case for release … but Farhadi quickly and thrillingly shows how nothing is ever as open-and-shut as it appears. Watch A Hero on Amazon Prime Video 27 'Sound of Metal' (2020)
DIRECTOR: Darius Marder What is gained when a sense is lost? Riz Ahmed’s high-flying metal drummer Ruben finds out as he loses almost all hearing and must contemplate the new limitations and possibilities that come from his condition. Powered by Ahmed’s vulnerable and humanistic performance, Sound of Metal forms a moving tribute to how disability can open up the world rather than shutting it down. (Winner of the 2021 Academy Awards for Best Editing and Best Sound.) Watch Sound of Metal on Amazon Prime Video 26 ‘Let the Right One In’ (2008)
DIRECTOR: Tomas Alfredson If Twilight convinced you that vampires were too sexy to be scary, let Let the Right One In dispel you of such notions. This chilling Swedish film foregrounds its horror in the innocence of youth as a bullied boy strikes up a connection with a beguiling girl next door for psychological support. She’s of course got a dark secret, but the film treats that as secondary to the secret bond she shares with her neighbor. Don’t come expecting schlock as the craftsmanship on display from director Tomas Alfredson is quite exquisite. Watch Let the Right One In on Amazon Prime Video 25 ‘Licorice Pizza’ (2021)
DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson has conjured visions of the 1970s before in Boogie Nights, yet they’ve never had such heart and warmth as this sun-soaked vision of the San Fernando Valley in his youthful years. Licorice Pizza has that ambling, aimless feeling of growing up but not necessarily coming of age. This amusing tale of two youthful spirits finding themselves amidst a pile-up of odd misadventures is as electrifying as the needle-drops powering the film. Watch Licorice Pizza on Amazon Prime Video 24 'The Handmaiden' (2016)
DIRECTOR: Park Chan-wook Get over the one-inch barrier, as Bong Joon-ho memorably dubbed subtitles, and throw yourself into the wacky world of Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden. This tantalizing triptych plays thrice through the story of Korean handmaiden Sook-hee (Tae Ri Kim) as she attempts to swindle her Japanese employer Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee). But the con is far more complicated and complex than initially meets the eye – perhaps because you’ll be distracted by the stunning costumes, set design and camerawork to realize all the sneaky maneuvers happening. It’s a funny, erotic and thrilling ride worth strapping in for. Watch The Handmaiden on Amazon Prime Video 23 ‘Support the Girls’ (2018)
DIRECTOR: Andrew Bujalski As the so-called #girlboss era slips from powerful to parodic, there’s never been a better time to visit (or revisit) Andrew Bujalski’s incisive workplace comedy Support the Girls. Regina Hall shines as a woman just trying to get through the workday despite all the distractions and disruptions caused from the people she serves. Without getting on any kind of polemical soapbox, he effortlessly conveys the kind of emotional labor that so often falls on the female managerial class. And what better vantage point into the wide range of humanity than a Southern “breastaurant” modeled on Hooters? Watch Support the Girls on Amazon Prime Video 22 ‘Jennifer’s Body’ (2009)
DIRECTOR: Karyn Kusama If your recollection of Jennifer’s Body is that of a tawdry, trashy horror flick featuring a solicitous Megan Fox, then you’re precisely the person who needs to see it again. The studio tragically mismarketed Karyn Kusama’s queer-coded teen vampire film to the kinds of teen boys that Fox’s Jennifer lures into her literal thirst trap. But it’s not for or about them; it’s an uncommonly insightful look at female desire and its limited range of expression in the halls of high school. The film is as fun as it is frightening. Watch Jennifer’s Body on Amazon Prime Video 21 'Paterson' (2016)
DIRECTOR: Jim Jarmusch Want to wrap yourself in a warm blanket of a movie? Look no further than Paterson, starring Adam Driver as a modest New Jersey bus driver with a passion for writing poetry. There’s no artificial conflict, no cliched struggling artist tropes — just a thoughtful and earnest look at how people can carve out space for artistic fulfillment in the midst of mundanity. Watch Paterson on Amazon Prime Video 20 ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ (2011)
DIRECTOR: Lynne Ramsay A decade out, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin only grows in relevance. Our society continues to struggle in reckoning with the “mother of a monster” figure given the plague of disaffected young men committing acts of unspeakable violence. Ramsay never gets preachy or didactic in her exploration of the nature vs. nurture debate, instead letting her propulsive visuals pull us deep into the tortured psyche of Tilda Swinton’s Eva Khatchadourian. Don’t expect easy answers from the film, but Ramsay’s challenges and provocations will undoubtedly deepen your emotional understanding of this new cultural archetype. Watch We Need To Talk About Kevin on Amazon Prime Video 19 'The Big Sick' (2017)
DIRECTOR: Michael Showalter If it weren’t based on a true story, the concept of The Big Sick might sound too ridiculous to believe. A couple in the throes of puppy love breaks up, and a guy decides to stay by that ex-girlfriend in the hospital as she falls into a coma from an unexplained illness? Not a usual stop on the way to “happily ever after,” but the unconventional love story of Kumail Nanjiani (playing himself) and Emily V. Gordon (played by Zoe Kazan) is all the stronger for leaning into the unconventional and unique. The alchemic mix of humor and heart is perfectly calibrated for an exuberant watching experience. Watch The Big Sick on Amazon Prime Video 18 ‘American Beauty’ (1999)
DIRECTOR: Sam Mendes American Beauty is something of a punching bag for the film literate now, but guess what? Try as Kevin Spacey might to make this movie unwatchable (it is incredibly icky), this dark suburban satire is still resonant and riveting. This pitch-perfect distillation of a late-‘90s ethos treats the upper-middle class anxieties with the scorn and sincerity they deserve. It’s so obviously reaching for profundity, and you may be surprised how much it manages to grasp in spite of itself. Watch American Beauty on Amazon Prime Video 17 ‘Man on Fire’ (2004)
DIRECTOR: Tony Scott Hell hath no fury like a Denzel Washington character scorned. He’s – well, on fire – in Man on Fire as a bodyguard who’s ready to take some names after the abduction of a young girl under his watchful eye. Man on Fire is supercharged with the trademark maximalism of its director Tony Scott. Adrenaline is coursing through this film’s veins, so much so that you’ll find the two-and-a-half-hour runtime flies right by. Watch Man on Fire on Amazon Prime Video 16 'Lovers Rock' / 'Small Axe' (2020)
DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen Is it a movie, or is it TV? Let’s just leave that Twitter debate aside for now and say one thing is certain: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, a collection of five feature-length films, is absolutely outstanding. If you only have time for one piece of his chronicle memorializing London’s West Indian community as it pushed back against discrimination, make it Lovers Rock. This slender volume documents an unheralded form of resistance: collective joy. Here, that bliss all takes place on the dance floor where Black Britons congregate defiantly in a space all of their own. Watch Lovers Rock on Amazon Prime Video 15 ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (2010)
DIRECTORS: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois How many animated films can claim they have Academy Award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins (frequent DP for Denis Villeneuve and the Coen Brothers) as visual consultant? It’s clear to spot his influence in How to Train Your Dragon, which features soaring aerials that still dazzle even on the small screen. This story of a young Viking who seeks to help the very creatures his village seeks to hunt has a keen eye for action and a big, beating heart of compassion. Watch How to Train Your Dragon on Amazon Prime Video 14 'You Were Never Really Here' (2018)
DIRECTOR: Lynne Ramsay Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here plays out almost like the response to an unspoken prompt: how much can you strip away from a revenge movie and still have it satisfy as an action flick? Her minimalistic response is a chillingly sparse look at how a tortured soul busts up a ring of sex traffickers and nearly loses himself in the process. This role is the brooding ball of anger that should have won Joaquin Phoenix his Oscar. Watch You Were Never Really Here on Amazon Prime Video 13 ‘Legally Blonde’ (2001)
DIRECTOR: Robert Luketic A look back at turn-of-the-millennium comedies often yields cringe-worthy results, but one that has aged quite flawlessly is Legally Blonde. This female empowerment tale of Elle Woods rising from flippant fashionista to high-powered Harvard Law graduate is remarkably ahead of its time in many ways. Here is a comedy that refuses to make easy punchlines out of its protagonist’s intelligence or insist she has to change herself completely to ascend to her position; the prowess and possibility has been within Reese Witherspoon’s iconic character all along. (And the film does not pit her against other women to achieve her success, either!) Watch Legally Blonde on Amazon Prime Video 12 'Time' (2020)
DIRECTOR: Garrett Bradley Many documentaries can make us understand the cruel realities of the American prison system. But few manage to translate the way the institution can seep into every facet of a person’s life quite like Garrett Bradley does in Time, her documentary chronicle of Fox Rich’s decades-long crusade to be reunited with her incarcerated husband. The film smothers you in the purest form of love as it champions the virtues of fair justice and just mercy. Watch Time on Amazon Prime Video 11 ‘Up in the Air’ (2009)
DIRECTOR: Jason Reitman The passing of the Great Recession might have dulled some of the topical sting from Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, an irony-rich dramedy about a man who finds professional satisfaction in firing people he doesn’t know. But separated from the immediate context of its release, the poignancy of its emotional story really shines. Its themes about making connections and finding the humanity in unexpected places have a timeless resonance. Watch Carrie on Amazon Prime Video 10 ‘Fight Club’ (1999)
DIRECTOR: David Fincher So, you think you fully understand Fight Club. Give it another watch, honestly. There is no end to peeling back layers of its trickery, commentary, and irony. With time and distance, this satire of masculinity and consumerism only shows more of its devilishly grinning face to the world. Watch Fight Club on Amazon Prime Video 9 ‘The Hunt’ (2013)
DIRECTOR: Thomas Vinterberg No director knows how to command the screen presence of Mads Mikkelsen quite like his Danish compatriot Thomas Vinterberg. Their mightiest collaboration remains Cannes prize-winner The Hunt, a moving moral drama where Mikkelsen plays a modest schoolteacher accused of an unspeakable crime. He observes the frightening speed at which a lie can erode the trust and faith he built up over decades in his town … and wonders how much he can push back before he’s pushed out of polite society altogether. Check your simplistic ideas about “cancel culture” at the door and let Vinterberg absorb you in the thorniness of a complicated situation. Watch The Hunt on Amazon Prime Video 8 ‘A.I.: Artificial Intelligence’ (2001)
DIRECTOR: David Frankel With a decade and change of distance, it’s safe to say The Devil Wears Prada is the millennial workplace movie. The adventures of Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs as she tries to please her demanding and mercurial boss, Meryl Streep’s sinfully savvy magazine editor Miranda Priestly, are a crash-course in how to navigate the corporate world. The lessons Andy learns as she tries to find that delicate balance between work and life are timely to the emergence of a new generation in the workforce and also timeless to mull over. That’s all. Watch The Devil Wears Prada on Amazon Prime Video 7 ‘The Hunger Games’ (2012)
DIRECTOR: Gary Ross The Hunger Games author Jennifer Collins claims she originated the idea for her series while toggling between reality TV shows and footage of the Iraq War on cable news. Her unique understanding of the fusion between spectacle and violence gives the film’s relevance beyond merely being another fad YA adaptation or the vessel that officially launched Jennifer Lawrence into superstardom. This is a blockbuster with surprising brain and brawn. Watch The Hunger Games on Amazon Prime Video 6 ‘Days of Heaven’ (1978)
DIRECTOR: Terrence Malick Much of what made Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven such a watershed in cinematography – early use of Steadicam to stabilize a moving camera, insistence on natural lighting outdoors – is rather commonplace now. All the same, this impressionistic tale of twentieth-century Texas lovers is still breathtaking as ever because Malick knows how to capture a grace note like few others have. Something about his imagery just stirs the soul on a spiritual level, and it truly must be seen to be believed. So long as you focus on his brushstrokes and not a traditional story, you’ll be captivated. Watch Days of Heaven on Amazon Prime Video 5 ‘Role Models’ (2008)
DIRECTOR: David Wain Role Models is in a rare echelon of movies that I’ve had to pause multiple times at home. And that’s not so people can go to the bathroom, mind you, that’s so people have time to catch their breath between belly laughs that last a distractingly large amount of time. The comedy flies fast and furious in David Wain’s film about two energy-drink salesmen doing court-ordered mentorship of children. Be it in the form pithy one-liners or a hold on Paul Rudd’s skeptical scowl just a second longer than you think it should, there’s always more to discover here. Watch Role Models on Amazon Prime Video 4 ‘Skyfall’ (2012)
DIRECTOR: Sam Mendes In the cultural imagination, James Bond is a figure of youth and vitality disarming nefarious villains and bagging beautiful women. What Skyfall presupposes is … maybe he isn’t. Daniel Craig’s third outing as 007 provides fascinating insight into a character and a legacy by portraying him as a fading, aging figure. Director Sam Mendes crafts something remarkable here, a high water mark in the espionage series that comments on the franchise while also delivering everything fans could want. Watch Skyfall on Amazon Prime Video 3 ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991)
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Demme That Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for best leading actor despite only appearing in 16 minutes of The Silence of the Lambs speaks to just how powerful his portrayal of psychopathic Hannibal Lecter really is. This exquisitely executed thriller plays like a cat-and-mouse game between Dr. Lecter and Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling as she tries to hunt down another serial killer with his help. Who’s the predator and who’s the prey in any given situation can shift an instant, which is part of what makes the film so exciting to watch unfold. Watch The Silence of the Lambs on Amazon Prime Video 2 ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (2008)
DIRECTOR: David Fincher Though it’s widely regarded as the “one for them” David Fincher had to make for Paramount to get financing for Zodiac, his work on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is far from workmanlike studio hackery. This is an emotionally and visually heart-stopping journey backward through life with Brad Pitt’s titular character who is fated to age in reverse. All the technical wizardry in which Fincher excels all works in service of a story that shows a different way to live and live. It’s a commitment to watch nearly three hours, but an epic story deserves a canvas this grand. Watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Amazon Prime Video 1 'Manchester by the Sea' (2016)
DIRECTOR: Kenneth Lonergan Yes, it’s a bruising watch to see Casey Affleck’s Lee Chandler try to overcome the emotional baggage of his hometown and all his memories within it in Manchester by the Sea. But it’s a rewarding, uplifting one as well given that filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan paints an honest, human portrait of what it means to be there for the ones we love. This may very well be a perfect movie – I challenge anyone to name a single misjudged moment or a scene out of key. It’s less like watching a movie and more like paratrooping into a real scenario populated with authentic people. Marshall Shaffer is a New York-based freelance film journalist. In addition to Decider, his work has also appeared on Slashfilm, Slant, Little White Lies and many other outlets. Some day soon, everyone will realize how right he is about Spring Breakers. Watch Manchester by the Sea on Amazon Prime Video
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