Amazon’s Prime Video to Add 162 New Titles This Week – Here’s My 3 Most Interesting

By Phillip Swann
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Amazon’s Prime Video this week (October 27-November 2, 2024) plans to add 162 new TV shows and movies to streaming lineup. Here are the three most interesting, in my humble opinion:

The Godfather & The Godfather II (1972 and 1974)
The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II, arguably the two greatest films ever, not just added to Amazon.  Director (and co-writer with Mario Puzo) Francis Ford Coppola paints a cinematic masterpiece in each film, chronicling the rise of the Corleone crime family from its early immigrant roots at the turn of the 20th Century to its powerful reign in 1950s and 60s America. The cast is one to die for, pun intended, with Marlon Brando somehow even eclipsing his greatest roles in the 1950s (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire) as family head Vito Corleone and a here-to-then unknown named Al Pacino as his son, Michael Corleone, who’s corrupted by family loyalties and power. And there’s the supporting crew. James Caan. Robert Duvall. Diane Keaton. John Cazale. Sterling Hayden. Robert DeNiro (!). My goodness, I can talk about these movies all day long. But let me close here by saying that Amazon is also adding the third in the trilogy, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corelone, and that’s enough said about that film. (Even geniuses misfire sometimes.) Debuts Friday, November 1.

Carrie (1976)
The 1976 classic horror film stars Sissy Spacek as the high school girl who can move objects (among other things), particularly when taunted and teased by her fellow students. Directed by Brian DePalma, Carrie is a rich and pulpy satire of high school life and the difficulties some have in fitting in. Look for the young John Travolta in an amusing supporting role as one of the evil students who unwisely make Carrie their target. Debuts Friday, November 1.

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 
The spooky 1968 drama from Polanski stars Mia Farrow as a pregnant young woman who suspects a mysterious group wants to kidnap her baby. Farrow is brilliant and haunting as the paranoid (or is she?) mother and film auteur John Cassavetes plays her loving (but possibly suspicious) hubbie to perfection. Made before the horrific Manson family murders, the film now takes on overtones of the massacre that took Polanski’s wife (Sharon Tate) in 1969, a parallel that has haunted the director throughout his life. The connection only makes the film more powerful and poignant in retrospect. Debuts Friday, November 1. 

Complete List of New Titles Coming This Week to Amazon’s Prime Video

Wednesday, October 30
Buy It Now (2024)

Thursday, October 31
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024)
Thursday Night Football: Texas vs. the Jets. Coverage starts at 7 p.m. ET.

Friday, November 1
2 Days of Christmas Eve
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
50 To 1
A Knight’s Tale
Absolute Deception

Across The Universe
Agent Cody Banks
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Airplane II: The Sequel
Airplane!

All Saints
Almost Christmas
Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid
Anger Management
Apache

Bad Company
Battlefield Earth
Battleship
Big Night
Blizzard

Blown Away
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Boomerang
Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star
Carrie (1976)

Carrie (2013)
Casualties Of War
Catch Me If You Can
Catch-22
Children of Men

Cold Mountain
Comes A Horseman
Cowboys & Aliens
Crazy In Alabama
Dear Christmas

Dear John
Death Wish 3
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Death Wish II
Die Hard

Disturbia
Double Team
Driven
Dumb And Dumber To
Dune

Equals
Escape From Alcatraz
Exodus
F/X
Fame

Flash of Genius
Flight
Gladiator
Gone Baby Gone
Good Boy!

Good Will Hunting
Gorky Park
Gosford Park
Guns Of The Magnificent Seven
Harriet the Spy

Hell is for Heroes
Hour Of The Gun
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Identity Thief
In & Out

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
It Takes Two
Jacob’s Ladder
Jingle All the Way
Escape from L.A.

John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Johnny Mnemonic
Just Like Heaven
Kill Your Darlings
Kingdom of Heaven

Les Miserables
Leviathan
Libre
Loch Ness
Lords of Dogtown

Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
Margot At The Wedding
Mean Girls
Meet John Doe
Men

Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Midnight in Paris
Mr. Mom
Murphy’s Law
Neighbors

Of Gods and Men
One Direction: This Is Us (Extended Cut)
Pan’s Labyrinth
Play Misty For Me
Popeye

Radio Flyer
Rambo III
Reba McEntire’s Christmas In Tune
Return Of The Seven
Ride Along With Gag Reel

Rio Lobo
Roboshark
Rosemary’s Baby
Roxanne
Run Lola Run

Rust
Santa Claus: The Movie
Saving Silverman
School of Rock
Scrooged

She’s So Lovely
Silver Linings Playbook
Slackers
Small Soldiers
Sonic the Hedgehog

Star Trek VIII: First Contact
Steel Magnolias
Steve Jobs
Still of the Night
Straw Dogs

Surviving Christmas
Target
The Animal
The Apartment
The Aviator

The Christmas Edition
The Eiger Sanction
The Family Stone
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II

The Good Shepherd
The Great Escape
The Holiday
The Italian Job
The King’s Man

The Lady In The Van
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven Ride
The People vs. Larry Flynt
The Pursuit Of Happyness

The Saint
The Soloist
The Spectacular Now
The Swan Princess And The Secret Of The Castle
The Swan Princess Christmas

The Terminator
The White Buffalo
The Wonderful Country
The Theory of Everything
To Sleep With Anger

Tom & Jerry
Tower Heist
Turbulence
Ultraviolet
Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning

Walk of Shame
Walking Tall
War of The Worlds
Zona Mortal
Bones S1-16

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