Amazon’s Prime Video to Remove 55 Movies In 13 Days – Here Are the 5 to Watch Before They Leave

By Phillip Swann
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Amazon’s Prime Video plans to remove 55 movies from its streaming lineup after September 30, 2025. Here are the five to watch before they leave, in my humble opinion:

LA Confidential (1997)
The 1997 Curtis Hanson-directed neo-noir drama about corrupt cops in the City of Angels in the 1950s is the best of pulp fiction on screen. Rapier dialogue, over-the-top action, stylish cinematography and juicy performances from Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, Kevin Spacey and Kim Basinger, among many, many others. It’s based on the James Ellroy novel, which was smartly pared down by Hanson and co-writer, Brian Helgeland. (Although Ellroy didn’t like the film; he’s wrong. It’s great.)

Licorice Pizza (2021)
The brilliant 2021 comedy/drama from director Paul Thomas Anderson stars Cooper Hoffman (Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son) and rock queen Alana Haim (Haim) as two oddly connected young souls trying to find their place amid the weirdness of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in the mid-1970s. Bradley Cooper chews the delicious scenery as the real-life movie producer, Jon Peters, who seems obsessed with being Barbra Streisand’s boyfriend (he was) while engaging in rants and rages over every trivial matter. And Sean Penn plays Jack Holden (a William Holden cut-out), a whiskey-swilling veteran actor who never knows when to get off the stage. Licorice Pizza is Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, The Master) at his best and it should have won the 2022 Academy Award for Best Picture. (It was nominated.) PTA shows once again that he’s the Robert Altman of this era, weaving a tale of joy and heartbreak featuring some of the most interesting characters you’ll ever see on screen.

Mississippi Burning (1988)
The 1988 crime drama was based loosely on the real-life murders of three civil rights activists in the 1960s Jim Crow South. The film captured an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture as did Gene Hackman for Best Actor. While director Alan Parker took significant liberties with the real story, Hackman is the reason to watch. His performance is part Popeye Doyle from The French Connection and part Coach Norman Dale of Hoosiers. A total force of nature as he corrals the people responsible for the murders.

A Most Violent Year (2014)
Oscar Isaac stars as a 1980s New York heating oil executive whose business is overrun by criminal elements, and a ruthless prosecutor looking for high-profile scalps. His wife, played with panache by Jessica Chastain, implores him to fight fire with fire, figuratively if not literally, but he resists until he can resist no more. And that’s when it becomes…a most violent year. The film, directed and written by J. C. Chandor (Margin Call, All Is Lost), is a throwback to the great gritty dramas of the 1970s that made stars out of Pacino, Hoffman, De Niro and others. Isaac is perfect for the role and it’s a shame he doesn’t get a chance to do more films like A Most Violent Year instead of yet another Star Wars clone.

The Master (2012)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2012 drama starring Joaquin Phoenix as a directionless World War II veteran whose life suddenly takes focus when he meets the head of a cult religious group, played flawlessly by the late and great Philip Seymour Hoffman. Based partially on the Scientology movement, and its leader, L. Ron Hubbard, The Master is a master work from PTA who chronicles the human need to discover the meaning of life, and those who falsely claim to hold the key.

Movies Leaving Amazon’s Prime Video After September 30, 2025

Nixon
25th Hour
Licorice Pizza
Manhunter
The Master
A Most Violent Year
LA Confidential
Midnight Cowboy
The Good Thief
The Last Waltz
Patton
Mississippi Burning
The Falcon and the Snowman
An American Werewolf in London
King of New York
The Usual Suspects
The Wicker Man (1973)
Capote
Cape Fear (1962)
The Party
Paths of Glory
All Is Lost
Miami Vice
Blue Velvet
The Apartment
Sixteen Candles
Out of Time
Horsemen
24 Hours to Live
Long Gone Heroes
Crypto
The Contractor
Siberia
A Bridge Too Far
Billy Bathgate
The Ninth Gate
The Ghost Writer
American Pastoral
13 Hours
Shot Caller
Red Dragon
Bad Influence
Street Kings
Misconduct
Eden Lake
Blown Away
The Substitute
Shadow Conspiracy
No One Lives
The Sentinel
Shattered
Fear of Rain
The Girl Next Door
Fatal Instinct
Last Dance
Jungle
A Vigilante

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