The Most Watched Movies On Amazon Prime In 2022

You are what you watch, so picking movies on prime video that push you out of your comfort zone is a great way to both educate and entertain yourself. Even if viewing a movie on a big screen is currently out of the question, you can still watch one at home.

As a result, we’ve taken the effort to filter through Amazon Prime Video to find the greatest movies on Amazon that you can watch without leaving your house. Critically renowned films like The Father and The Silence of the Lambs, indie treasures like Palm Springs and Compliance, and foreign language masterworks like Parasite are among them.

You’re losing out if you just use your Amazon Prime subscription to get a crate of toilet paper delivered to your house.

Best movies on Amazon Prime

1. The Father

   

   Look no farther than the darkly comedic Dick Johnson is Dead, Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut Falling, the subversive horror-thriller Relic, and, of course, The Father. The Father stars Antony Hopkins alongside Olivia Colman in the storey of a dad opposing his daughter’s aid as he fights with frontotemporal dementia, for which he won his second-Best Actor Oscar — but he didn’t log on to get it. Director Florian Zeller told Esquire, “The film replicates the unsettling feeling of losing your hold on reality while your mind plays tricks on you.” “I wanted the viewers to make their way through this maze. Attempting to comprehend with your brain while acknowledging that you are not capable of comprehending everything.”

2. The Usual Suspects (1995)

   

   The Usual Suspects is a mystery thriller that lures you into a complicated maze. It was the picture that performed strange flashbacks and tricks with time before Nolan was at it, and it was the plot that made Keyser Söze a name to be dreaded. Only two figures are left to put together what occurred during a brutal siege aboard a burned-out ship that claimed the lives of 27 people. The issue is how much of what they say you can believe.

3. Point Break

   

   Swayze, Keanu. Surfboards. Heists. Presidents’ masks. Mooning. If you haven’t seen Kathryn Bigelow’s crime drama in a while, these are the scenes that will linger with you. But it is much more than that. Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), a noob FBI agent (and quarterback), goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing subculture related to a spate of bank robberies. There are some very breathtaking surfing and sky-diving moments woven within the heist-procedural storey, as well as a philosophical core behind it all.

4. Once Upon a Time in America

   

   Sergio Leone’s epic Prohibition-era crime thriller was originally 10 hours long before being edited down to just three and a half. It’s important to note that it’s rather long. You will be rewarded if you give it time. Robert de Niro plays Noodles, a homeless youngster from New York City’s Lower East Side who joins a gang of minor thieves who run whiskey and steal other things. Things, on the other hand, progressively become considerably more serious. The master of the Western brings all of his romanticism to a gloomy city, yet it’s a vivid, cruel vision – especially for its women – that continues to divide critics.

5. A Hard Day’s Night

   

   Begin with this scene on the train assuming you’re on a Beatles film kick subsequent to seeing The Beatles: Get Back. As he confiscates Ringo’s radio, an old colonel grumbles, “I fought the war for your kind.” “I’m sure you’re sad you won,” Ringo retorts.

   Alun Owen, the Welsh writer who wrote the 1959 television play No Trams to Lime Street – a favourite of the band, not least because it was quite Scouse – was picked to follow them on their tour of Ireland, trying to pick up on their jokes, vocabulary, and attitude.

   Dick Lester’s wild direction and some excellent hilarious lines from the band – notably George, who scoffed at a teen TV show: “She’s a drag queen, and one of the most well-known drag queens in the world. We turn down the music and make filthy remarks to her.”

   There’s no shortage of bangers to go around. For more information on the Fab Four’s on-screen escapades, see our complete guide to the Beatles on film.

6. Joker

   

   Joker is either a wonderfully radical departure from standard comic book format or a ridiculously po-faced couple of hours of portentous shallowness, depending on how much stomach you have for what is practically mid-Seventies Scorsese fan fiction. Even if you don’t like the pompousness that creeps in, you have to admit Joaquin Phoenix is excellent in the starring role, his maladjusted Travis Bickle-alike Arthur Fleck interesting. However, many people appreciate it! It brought in a billion pounds! So there you have it!

7. Django Unchained

   

   Quentin Tarantino’s final unmistakably belting film, in our opinion. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood has its moments, and the ellipse fans’ favourite Once Upon A Time in… Brad, Leo, and one excellent 25-minute narrative were in Hollywood, but there were also seven or eight very bland ones. But Django Unchained, an action-oriented neo-Western, pairs OUATIH’s enjoyably hammy Comedy Leo with Jamie Foxx’s utterly barnstorming lead performance. Dr King Schulz (a brilliant Christoph Waltz) buys Django, an enslaved man because he has information on the Brittle Brothers, overseers on Django’s former plantation. They soon track down Django’s wife, Broomhilda, to DiCaprio’s moustache-twirling Calvin Candy’s mansion. It’s a flurry of exploding, righteous, and immensely hilarious material.

8. The Green Knight

   

   Dev Patel’s performance as the super-serious decapitator Sir Gawain has received a lot of praise, and the film was released on Amazon Prime at the same time that it was in theatres. Gawain must find a means to survive while retaining his honour after a challenger whose head he hacked off unexpectedly jumps up from the floor and claims he’ll face Gawain in a year for his swing. Gawain’s journey takes on a fiery urgency thanks to David Lowery’s enormous, immersive graphics. One minor quibble: the original poet wrote in a Wirral dialect, so it’s a shame no one took advantage of the opportunity to go full mediaeval Scouse.