10 Best Amazon Prime Original Movies Right Now

CJ Entertainment

Last Updated: April 24th

It’s simple to neglect that Amazon does greater than merely provide free transport and high quality TV reveals to its Prime members. The streaming platform additionally seems high quality content material within the movie division fairly recurrently. Sometimes, their motion pictures might hit theaters first or achieve a few Oscar nods come awards season, each legitimate causes for pondering their flicks, movies like Manchester By The Sea, The Big Sick, and The Handmaiden are the work of some blockbuster studio, not the streaming service you could have entry to at house. Well, we’re going to appropriate that false impression with this checklist of the very best authentic Amazon Studios movies on the market proper now. Get to streaming.

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You Were Never Really Here (2017)

Run Time: 89 min | IMDb: 6.8/10

Joaquin Phoenix stars as a troubled hitman with a darkish previous on this thrilling crime flick from Lynne Ramsay. Phoenix performs Joe, a gun for rent, former navy man and FBI agent, who spends most of his time rescuing victims of intercourse trafficking. He’s recruited to avoid wasting a Senator’s daughter from a brothel that caters to high-end clientele, however the job thrusts him into the middle of a conspiracy that prices him the whole lot and ends in blood and tragedy. It’s a relentless slog to make sure, but it surely works as a result of Ramsay is extra thinking about profiling the person, not the hits he makes.

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The Handmaiden (2016)

Run Time: 144 min | IMDb: 8.1/10

Based on a historic crime novel set in Victoria-Era England, Park Chan-wook’s lavish, mesmerizing thriller focuses on two younger girls combating to flee oppression by the lads of their lives. Chan-woo has traded the stuffy British countryside for Japanese-occupied Korea, telling the tales of Lady Hideko and her handmaiden, Sook-hee, in three components, weaving a story of ardour, betrayal, darkish secrets and techniques, and revenge with grander themes of imperialism, colonial rule, and patriarchal corruption. The two girls are the draw of the movie with each resorting to illicit, unlawful, morally compromising schemes with a view to achieve their freedom, however love is an unintended consequence that leaves the third act — one you may suppose you could have found out midway by way of the movie — utterly unpredictable.

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The Lost City of Z (2016)

Run Time: 141 min | IMDb: 6.6/10

Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson star in an adventurous retelling of the true-life drama of Col. Percival Fawcett. Fawcett (Hunnam) was a British explorer who disappeared whereas trying to find a mysterious metropolis within the Amazon within the 1920s. This adaptation of David Grann’s well-liked ebook is the slowest of burns and takes liberties with Fawcett’s story if solely as a result of nobody actually is aware of what occurred to the person and his son after they went lacking within the jungle, however stick round for some improbable cinematography and some thrilling motion sequences — together with the sense of thriller that comes with a have a look at old-world exploration expeditions.