The Best Movies to Stream On Prime Video This Week

If you’re looking for some hot suggestions for what to watch on Prime Video this week, and are feeling more like a movie than a TV show (we have suggestions for those, too), then look no further. I watch a ton of movies, and the five flicks below offer up a mix of everything from dark and psychological to silly and explosive.

Prime Video has one of the largest libraries of any of the major streaming services, with nearly 24,000 movies and TV shows in the U.S., according to JustWatch, and sifting through it all is our pleasure.

5

Nosferatu

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northman) is a master of haunting horror and darkness, and his reimagining of Bram Stoker’s classic book (and original 1922 silent film) is his best. Released on Christmas 2024, no less, Nosferatu features the shape-shifting talents of Bill Skarsgård, best known as Pennywise the clown in It movies.

Skarsgard is masterful as the ancient and powerful vampire Count Orlok, whose psychic bond and obsession with the mysterious Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) draws him from Transylvania to her home in the port town of Wisborg. Orlok wants nothing more than to consume Ellen, and the entire town, for that matter. But not if Ellen’s husband Thomas (Nicolas Hoult) and reclusive professor and vampire hunter Albin Eberhart von Franz (Willem Dafoe) can stop him and save Ellen first.

I love vampire movies, and Nosferatu is one of the darkest, eeriest of them all, with beautifully-shot sequences that feel and look almost like old, faded black and white and sepia-tinged photographs. Watch it in the dark. Let it draw you in. It’ll chill you to the bone.

4

Road House

I didn’t want to like this 2024 remake of one of the late Patrick Swayze’s best movies, ever. But Prime Video’s Road House won me over with its lighter, self-aware take on the original, and more over-the-top action and fight scenes.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s (who trained for a year to get that ripped) Elwood Dalton (no relation), is a disgraced UFC fighter who’s retreated to the Florida Keys to live a quiet life in the sun. He finds a sweet little roadhouse by the water run by Frankie (Shrinking and The Daily Show‘s Jessica Williams), and soon takes a job as the bar’s bouncer to fend off the riff-raff. That riff-raff is sleazy real estate developer Ben Brandt (Billy Magnussen) and his hired enforcer Knox (UFC fighter Connor McGregor), who is sent in to destroy the bar and take down Dalton in an epic fight to the death.

McGregor is terrible. But his over-acting and brutalized dialogue make you hate Knox even more, and it’s fun to watch alongside Gyllenhaal’s cool, cocky, and endearing version of Dalton. Swayze would approve.

3

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Whether you’re watching it for the 100th time or grooming a new generation of Python fanatics, it’s never a bad time to grab a couple of halves of coconuts and clop along with the Knights of the Round Table to this, one of the funniest movies in the history of movies.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, stalwart King Arthur (Graham Chapman) gallops around medieval Britain in a silly quest for the elusive Holy Grail. Enlisting the help of knights Sir Bedevere (Terry Jones), Sir Lancelot (John Cleese), Sir Galahad (Michael Palin), and the cowardly Sir Robin (Eric Idle), they encounter all manner of outrageous, endlessly quotable obstacles.

From killer rabbits and profane French soldiers to the Knights of Nee and a wizard named Tim—the classic scenes go on and on—the film is a brilliant, fourth-wall-breaking masterpiece. Shot on a shoestring budget, with funding cobbled together largely from friends, including members of Led Zeppelin, Genesis, and Pink Floyd, it’s a wonder the film was ever made, but we’re glad it was.

2

Donnie Darko

Widely regarded as one of the best cult films of the 2000s, Donnie Darko was a box office flop, largely due to sensitivities surrounding the 9/11 tragedy.

Those sensitivities are largely due to an early scene in the film in which troubled teen Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal), who’s been out all night sleepwalking, returns home to find a jet engine crashed through the roof of his bedroom. Strangely, the FAA can’t identify the plane it came from. Even more strangely, Donnie would have been in his bed if it weren’t for his imaginary friend Frank, an eerie man in a bunny suit who tells Donnie that the world is going to end in 28 days.

Gyllenhaal is haunting as the erratic Donnie, who teeters on the edge of reality, strange coincidences, time loops, and parallel realities. He’s helped along by his family, girlfriend Gretchen (Jena Malone), therapist Dr. Thurman (Katharine Ross), and sympathetic teacher Ms. Pomeroy (Drew Barrymore) as he fights to make sense of it all while trying to stop the world from ending.

Donnie Darko‘s incredible ’80s soundtrack, highlighted by Echo and the Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon and Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels, adds the perfect backdrop for this must-see psychological thriller.

1

The Fall Guy

Let’s call this the palette cleanser of this week’s list. Prime’s The Fall Guy is a straight-up fun, popcorn action movie with hot stars, loads of explosions, car chases, and the kitchen sink. Put your brain on the coffee table and watch.

Hot off his turn as Ken in Barbie the year before, Ryan Gosling kept the highlights and breathed motion picture life into Hollywood stuntman Colt Severs, based on the iconic ’80s TV character played by Lee Majors.

When Colt nearly dies during a stunt, his career and love life with aspiring director Jody (Emily Blunt) are ruined, and he retreats, never to work again. When Jody gets her chance at directing a big action movie, Colt gets his chance to reignite his career and win Jody back. But soon Colt finds himself caught up in a murder plot involving the film’s egotistical star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and must use all his falling, jumping, crashing, and exploding stunt skills to get to the bottom of it and save Jody’s film.

The Fall Guy wasn’t nominated for any major awards (shocking), but the film is well-regarded for highlighting Hollywood’s often underappreciated stunt community, and it broke the Guinness World Record for most cannon rolls in a car.

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There’s always something to watch on Prime Video, with one of the streaming world’s biggest libraries of movies and TV shows. With roughly 50 new titles added each month (and titles leaving, too), keeping your watchlist fresh can be a bit of a moving target. We’re here to help with our recommendations to make your viewing life easier.