Amazon’s Prime Video to Add 135 New Movies In April 2025 – Here Are the 10 Best

By Phillip Swann
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Amazon’s Prime Video this month plans to add 135 movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the 10 best, in my humble opinion.

Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video April 2025

Annie Hall (1977)
Woody Allen’s comedy masterpiece is based loosely on the actor/director’s romance with Diane Keaton, who plays the title character. The film, which captured the 1978 Academy Award for Best Picture, combines Woody’s comic brilliance with an insightful take on relationships and human foibles. Such a great movie and one that filmmakers have tried to replicate ever since with varying degrees of success. (Looking at you, Rob Reiner, director of When Harry Met Sally.) Debuts April 1.

Fargo (1996)
The Oscar-winning film from the Coen Brothers stars William H. Macy and Frances McDormand (wife to Joel Coen) who both turn in career performances as a bumpkin car salesman and pregnant police chief respectively. Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare are equal parts funny and creepy as two kidnappers who bungle the job. This is comedy as black as a 6 a.m. 7-Eleven coffee and no film buff should wait another day before seeing it. Brilliant, brilliant stuff from all involved. You betcha! Debuts April 1. 

Bull Durham (1988)
Bull Durham, the 1988 baseball comedy from director Ron Shelton (a former minor league baseball player in the Orioles organization), stars Kevin Costner as a career-long minor leaguer who’s summoned to tutor a talented but dimwitted pitcher (Tim Robbins). Like Platoon, Shelton’s personal experience in the bush leagues brings a realism to this fun film.  Debuts April 1. 

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Hoosiers (1986)
Based on a true story, the late great Gene Hackman stars as the basketball coach at a small Indiana high school who inspires his team to dream it can win the state tournament despite being undersized and under-appreciated. One of the greatest sports movies ever made, Hoosiers over the years has also inspired viewers with its simple but powerful message that anything can happen if you just believe in yourself. In addition to prime Hackman, Dennis Hopper is touching as his booze-soaked assistant coach as is Barbara Hershey as a fellow teacher. Debuted on April 1.

Lost in Translation (2003)
Lost in Translation is a hidden gem from director Sofia Coppola (Priscilla) who captures the human need for connection through the weary eyes of an over-the-hill TV actor (Bill Murray) and a beautiful ingenue (Scarlett Johansson). Set in the over-crowded but still isolating city of Tokyo, the film’s delicate exploration of cross-cultural encounters, coupled with Murray and Johansson’s on-screen chemistry, evokes an indelible and bittersweet emotional resonance. Beautiful, charming movie. Debuts April 1.

The Big Lebowski (1998)
The 1998 cult comedy from the Coen Bros. features an iconic Los Angeles slacker (Jeff Bridges) named ‘The Dude’ who accidentally becomes the focus of a murder investigation.  Only Joel and Ethan Coen could take this farfetched plot and turn it into a cultural mainstay and masterpiece that resonates with multiple generations. The flawless supporting cast includes John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Huddleston, Julianne Moore, and John Turturro as Jesus, a bowler with a strange fetish for his ball. Debuts April 1.

Rain Man (1988)
Tom Cruise stars in this Barry Levinson-directed comedy/drama about a hustler (Cruise) who kidnaps his autistic long-lost older brother (Dustin Hoffman) when he learns their late father left an entire inheritance to him. The film becomes a lesson in blood ties and personal awakenings when the two set out on a cross- country trip to Los Angeles. In lesser hands, and a lesser cast, Rain Man could have resulted in a run-of-the-mill buddy movie albeit with a twist (autism.) But Cruise and Hoffman are so great together that their relationship touches your heart as well as offer some life lessons. Levinson also shows why he was one of the great directors of the 1980/90s (although highly underrated) with some fabulous set pieces (particularly the Vegas scenes). Great film! Debuts April 1.

Out of Sight (1988)
Out of Sight, the 1998 comedy/drama from director Steven Soderbergh which stars George Clooney as a bank robber who’s tracked (and, uh, pursued) by a federal agent played wonderfully by Jennifer Lopez. The great cast also includes Michael Keaton, Albert Brooks, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Nancy Allen, Samuel L. Jackson…and too many more wonderful folks to name here. Watch this movie. It’s classic Soderbergh. Debuts April 1.

Dazed And Confused (1993)
Dazed and Confused, the charming and now iconic 1993 comedy from director Richard Linklater about the last day of school in a small Texas town. Linklater has a gift of making the small things in life seem larger than life and there’s no better showcase for his talents than this classic. Debuts April 1.

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Directed by Woody Allen, this is a funny and sometimes poignant examination of complex relationships and human frailties. Set in New York City, the film weaves together the lives of three sisters, played brilliantly by Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest. Their stories, marked by love, jealousy, and existential crises (a consistent Woody theme), are portrayed with sensitivity and depth. Debuts April 1.

Full List of New Movies Coming to Amazon’s Prime Video In April 2025

April 1
1984
12 Strong
2 Guns
A Fistful of Dollars
A Guy Thing

All Dogs Go to Heaven
Annie Hall
Baby Boy
Basic Instinct 2
Battleship

Be Cool
Beauty Shop
Bones and All
Bull Durham
Cheech & Chong Get Out of My Room

Dazed and Confused
Death at a Funeral
Death Warrant
Death Wish 3
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Death Wish II
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
Dog
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Dunkirk

Fargo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fighting With My Family
For a Few Dollars More
Ford v Ferrari

Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Get Shorty
Green Zone
Hackers
Hair

Hang ‘Em High
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannibal
Harvey
Hoosiers

Hot Pursuit
Hot Tub Time Machine
Hotel Rwanda
Igor
Jeepers Creepers

Jerry Maguire
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joe Dirt
King Solomon’s Mines
Kung Fu Panda 3

Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lars and the Real Girl
Last Tango in Paris
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Legion

Lifeforce
Lions for Lambs
Lost in Translation
Max
Max 2: White House Hero

Meet Joe Black
Mermaids
Missing in Action
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible IV Ghost Protocol
Moonstruck
Mr. Mom
Navy Seals

Original Sin
Out of Sight
Out of Time
Over the Top
Overboard

Passengers
Pineapple Express
Quigley Down Under
Rain Man
Red Dawn
Return to Me

Rob Roy
Robin Hood
Safe House
Sense and Sensibility
Sleepover

Soul Plane
Spaceballs
Speak No Evil
Species
Species II

Species III
Stigmata
Street Fighter
The Amityville Horror
The Aviator

The Benchwarmers
The Big Country
The Big Lebowski
The Boy Next Door
The Cutting Edge

The Deer Hunter
The Delta Force
The Eiger Sanction
The Game
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Great Escape
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Menu

The Poughkeepsie Tapes
The Prodigy
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Unforgiven
The Visit

The Way West
The Young Messiah
Thelma & Louise
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Till

Titanic
Top Gun
Uptown Girls
Wargames
West Side Story

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Women Talking
Yours, Mine & Ours

April 13
Conclave

April 14
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

April 22
Gladiator II
Teenage Kraken

April 29
Nickel Boys

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