Amazon’s Prime Video Adds 129 Movies Today – Here’s the 6 Best

By Phillip Swann
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Amazon’s Prime Video today has added 129 new movies to its Prime membership lineup. The list of classics is long here, but here’s the six best new films on Prime, in my humble opinion:

Malcolm X (1992)
Spike Lee’s evocative 1992 drama starring Denzel Washington as the 1960s civil rights leader is the director at the peak of his powers (Denzel, too.). The film chronicles the amazing life of Malcolm X from his days as a Detroit drug dealer to his transformation as a religious leader and civil rights icon. Beautiful film in more ways than one.

On the Waterfront (1954)
Marlon Brando is a force of nature as former boxer turned longshoreman Terry Malloy in this Eliz Kazan-directed allegory on the evils of Communism. Kazan, who provided names of purported Communist members to the U.S. House Commitee on Unamerican Activities in the 1950s, here uses his exceptional skills to portray Malloy as a hero when he turns states evidence against the corrupt union. Regardless of your views of Kazan and the politics of his time, the film is powerful and thought provoking. There are also great supporting performances from Rod Steiger as Malloy’s brother, Eva Marie Saint as his girl and Karl Malden as the neighborhood priest.

Psycho (1960)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho changed moviegoers’ view of the horror genre with a mid-narrative twist that’s as frightening today as it was 64 years ago. The film follows Marion Crane, a secretary who embezzles money and checks into a remote motel run by the enigmatic Norman Bates. Hitchcock’s masterful direction, combined with Bernard Herrmann’s iconic score, creates an atmosphere of suspense that is palpable throughout the film.

Rear Window (1954)
Hitchcock exploits the human impulse to snoop with this suspenseful masterpiece starring Jimmy Stewart as a wheelchair-bound photographer who thinks he’s uncovered a murder after spying on his neighbors from his window. It’s a great film filled with subtle psychological messages about our worst and best instincts. (mostly worse).

Serpico (1973)
The drama is based on the real-life New York police officer Frank Serpico who exposed widespread corruption on the force. Al Pacino is at his messianic best as Serpico in this iconic film directed by Sidney Lumet. But the supporting cast is overflowing with some great New York-based actors including John Randolph, Judd Hirsch, Tony Roberts and F. Murray Abraham.

Fatal Attraction (1987)
The 1987 drama from director Adrian Lyne that did more to curb adultery than any 1,000 sermons. Michael Douglas plays an attorney whose life is turned upside down when he has an affair with a disturbed book editor (Glenn Close) who’s never met a rabbit she liked. The film is a taut and juicy depiction of what people will do when emotions are stretched and temptation is dangled.

Honorable mentions go to Airplane!, Some Like It Hot, Glory, 12 Angry Men, Rope, Panic Room, Gilda, Schindler’s List, Rolling Thunder, Shampoo, The Deer Hunter, The Big Chill, and Vertigo. (It’s a packed lineup!)

Complete List of New Movies Added Today By Amazon’s Prime Video

12 Angry Men (1957)
3:10 To Yuma (1957)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Airplane! (1980)

All That Heaven Allows (1955)
American Me (1992)
Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
Atonement (2008)
Bachelor Party Vegas (2006)

Beautiful And Twisted (2015)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Because I Said So (2007)
Ben Hur (2013)
Biloxi Blues (1988)

Blame It On Rio (1984)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Breach (2007)
Breathless (1983)

Brigsby Bear (2017)
California Suite (1978)
Call Me By Your Name (2018)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Capote (2006)

Chocolat (2001)
Clockstoppers (2002)
Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Cry Macho (2021)

Dead Reckoning (1947)
Death Race (2008)
Death Race 2 (2011)
Death Race 3: Inferno (2013)
Delta Force (1986)

Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)
Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012)
Emma (2020)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Europa Report (2013)

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Fire In The Sky (1993)
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
Fluke (1995)

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1992)
Gattaca (1997)
Gilda (1946)
Glory (1990)

Harley Davidson And The Marlboro Man (1991)
Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992)
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
Hellraiser V: Inferno (2022)
Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker (2002)

Hellraiser VII: Deader (2005)
Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld (2005)
Imagine That (2009)
In A Lonely Place (1950)
Indecent Proposal (1993)

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Isle Of The Dead (2016)
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
Knock On Any Door (1949)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Lassie: The Road Back (1970)
Lizzie Borden Took An Ax (2014)
Lone Wolf Mcquade (1983)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Malcolm X (1992)

Men At Work (1990)
Night School (2018)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1969)

Open Wide (2024)
Pal Joey (1957)
Panic Room (2002)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Pompeii (2014)

Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
Reindeer Games Homecoming (2022)
Repo Men (2010)
Roboshark (2015)

Rolling Thunder (1977)
Rope (1948)
Run Lola Run (1999)
Schindler’s List (1994)
Serpico (1973)

Shampoo (1975)
Sliver (1993)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Soul Plane (2004)
Stargate: Continuum (2008)

Stargate: The Ark Of Truth (2008)
Steel Magnolias (2012)
Steppin’ Into The Holiday (2022)
The Accused (1988)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)

The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999)
The Advocate’s Devil (1997)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Birdcage (1996)

The Birds (1963)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Change-Up (2011)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Deer Hunter (1979)

The Harder They Fall (1956)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
The Last Detail (1974)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Mountain Men (1980)
The Night of The Hunter (1955)
The One (2001)
The Ring (2002)
The Swimmer (1968)

The Tarnished Angels (1957)
The Wiz (1978)
Tom & Jerry (2021)
Undercover Brother (2002)
Vertigo (1958)

Virtuosity (1995)
Whiplash (2014)
With This Ring (2015)
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)

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