50 Best Movies To Watch On Prime Video In 2023 (Ranked Movies)

Are you looking for the Best Movies to Watch on Prime Video? We got your back. Here we have listed 50

Amazon Prime is a booming streaming treasure chest of some of the most unusual, extraordinary, and underestimated films of the past 80 years, while outstanding selections may seem nearly impossible to filter from the often overpowering abundance of oddly bad titles buried in Prime’s nether realms.

10 Best Movies to Watch on Prime Video (2023)

Here I have listed the best movies to watch on Prime Video.

Sr.No	Movie Name	IMDb
1	Candyman	7.8/10
2	Manchester by the Sea	7.8/10
3	Small Axe	7.6/10
4	We Need to Talk about Kevin	7.5/10
5	One Night in Miami	7.1/10
6	You were never really here	6.7/10
7	Emma	6.7/10
8	The lost city of Z	6.6/10
9	Support the Girls	6.4/10
10	The Wolf of Snow Hollow	6.2/10

Let’s go through the movies one by one in detail:

1. Candyman

Release Date: 2021

Director: Nia DaCosta

A paranormal classic horror drama film titled Candyman starred Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Colman Domingo. Nia DaCosta’s direction lately ignited its spark on the big screen in 2021. The screenplay was also shared with famous actors, namely Vanessa Williams, and how can we forget Tony Todd bringing back their roles from the original film? There’s a concept in the movie that if someone says Candyman five times, the person will be killed. Candyman has a lot of exciting ideas, and it cleverly continues the vintage original.

2. Manchester by the Sea 

Release Date: 2016

Director: Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan wrote and directed the 2016 American psychic drama film Manchester by the Sea. This movie is a remedy for profound grief, from which recovery is challenging or impossible. The show revolves around a depressed and anguish man who was unintentionally liable for the death toll of his three young kids and must care for his adolescent nephew just after the death of his brother, and is centered on the concepts of depressive episodes, guilt, despair, blame, family dysfunction, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

3. Small Axe

 Release Date: 2020

Director: Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen’s 2020 historical epic film Red, White, and Blue was founded by McQueen as well as Courttia Newland. It stars the best-looking and most remarkable actor in Hollywood, John Boyega, named Leroy Logan; He was portrayed as a London Metropolitan Police officer who established the Black Police Alliance and tried to reform the force from within. The real story of Leroy Logan, who witnessed his father being assaulted by two police officers at a young age, inspired him to enroll in the Metropolitan Police and modify their racist attitudes from the inside out.

4. We Need to Talk about Kevin 

Release Date: 2012

Director: Lynne Ramsay

We Need to Talk About Kevin has always been a tremendous and outstanding movie from 2011, a big screen mental and emotional suspense drama film produced by Lynne Ramsay from a film adaptation co-written with Rory Stewart Kinnear and based on Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel of the same title. A long and complex development and financing process was initiated in 2005, with filming early part in April 2010. The film’s heartbreaking nature is perfectly illustrated by a scene wherein Kevin, as a child, partially or entirely declines his sociopathic traits while ill, giving Swinton’s role a brief opportunity to feel like a dearly held mom, only to physically and psychologically shut her out once more as shortly as his health and lifestyle returns, striking her hopes of a breakthrough

5. One Night in Miami 

Release Date: 2021

 Director: Regina King

One Night in Miami is indeed a mythologized story that raises challenging questions. The film told in the form of a single night’s episode story in a hallway at Hampton House in Miami, examines four leading people of the Black American Progression in 1964 and their contributions to the struggle. This outstanding movie, with the title One Night in Miami, seems difficult to watch. It spreads like wildfire with a plethora of valuable themes, and each one has a profound impact on its audience. The film demonstrates the preeminence of four significant men whose contributions will impact the civil movement in the United States through a series of scenes.

6. You were never really here 

Release Date: 2018

 Director: Lynne Ramsay

You Were Never Really Here is a must-watch movie in Hollywood times.  Lynne Ramsay wrote and directed this 2017 neo-noir crime psychic thriller film. It’s a terrifying portrayal of life as just a trauma survivor. Moreover, the rescuer in inquiry, a foreboding, quiet veteran titled “Joe (Joaquin Phoenix)— tries to purge his demons by rescuing everyone else from traumatic situations. Joe, in particular, searches for lost girls who are sex trafficking victims. He saves them and then viciously murders their kidnappers and abusers. Joe moves around like a ghost because he works for money outside the legal system, promising his clients shelter and execution.

7. Emma 

Release Date: 2020

Director: Autumn de Wilde

Emma (stylized as Emma.) is a 2020-time frame romantic comedy film produced by Autumn de Wilde, by a screenwriter by Eleanor Catton, focused on Jane Austen’s 1815 narrative of the same title. It starred Anya Taylor-Joy as Miss Emma Woodhouse, a rich and powerful, and elegant young woman living in Regency-era England with her father. She is portrayed as a girl who amuses herself with matchmaking as well as showing constant interference in the dating lives of those nearest to her and following the vulnerabilities of Emma Woodhouse, a young woman who lives in Georgian and Regency-era Britain and spends her days matchmaking in the lifestyles of her friends and family in a sometimes misguided, often complicated manner. This film received generally positive reviews, with performance levels and production design receiving special mention.

8. The lost city of Z 

Release Date: 2017

Director: James Gray   

The Lost City of Z is an outstanding American contemporaneous epic journey drama of 2016, directed and written by James Gray and based on David Grann’s 2009 novel of the same title. It tells the tale of British navigator Percy Fawcett, who traveled to Brazil to search for a rumored primitive mythical land in the Amazon. Charlie Hunnam plays Fawcett, Robert Pattinson plays his fellow adventurer Henry Costin Sienna Miller plays his wife, Nina Fawcett, and Tom Holland plays his son, Jack. A true-life drama centered on British discoverer Major Percival Fawcett, who mysteriously disappeared in the 1920s while trying to search for a shadowy city in the Amazon.

9. Support the Girls 

Release Date: 2018

Director: Andrew Bujalski

Andrew Bujalski wrote and directed the 2018 American comedy movie Support the Girls. The outstanding performers Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, as well as James LeGros, and AJ Michalka, are among those who appear in the film. Lisa, played by Regina Hall, is the managing partner of the sporting events restaurant and bar Double Whammies. She takes her responsibilities seriously, shielding staff members from inappropriate customer interactions. Despite her dedication to the café, her inept ceo, Ben Cubby, has threatened to terminate her numerous times. Over a long, pretty weird day, the general manager of a highway-side “sports bar with curvatures” has her incurable sense of hope and faith in her girls, her clients, and herself tested.

10. The Wolf of Snow Hollow 

Release Date: 2020

Director: Jim Cummings

Despite The Wolf of Snow Hollow’s shaky switches between comedy and horror, writer, director, and star Jim Cummings delivers an unexpectedly spooky combination. A stressed-out police detective struggles to escape, surrendering to the hysteria that engulfs his little mountain village as bodies start to pop up after every full moon, according to how the scenario was presented.

40 Best Movies to Watch on Prime Video In 2023

Here is the list of the best Prime Video movies that you should try in 2023

Sr.No	Movie Name	IMDb Rating	Released Year
1	The Godfather	9.2/10	1972
2	The Shawshank Redemption	9.2/10	1994
3	The Dark Knight (2008) – 9.0/10	9.0/10	2008
4	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	8.8/10	2001
5	Parasite	8.6/10	2019
6	Goodfellas	8.7/10	1990
7	Forrest Gump	8.8/10	1994
8	Blade Runner 2049	8.0/10	2017
9	Mad Max: Fury Road	8.1/10	2015
10	The Prestige	8.5/10	2006
11	Inside Llewyn Davis	7.5/10	2013
12	The Big Sick	7.5/10	2017
13	The Handmaiden	8.1/10	2016
14	Manchester by the Sea	7.8/10	2016
15	The Departed	8.5/10	2006
16	The Social Network	7.7/10	2010
17	A Quiet Place	7.5/10	1018
18	Knives Out	7.9/10	1019
19	The Silence of the Lambs	8.6/10	1991
20	The Grand Budapest Hotel	8.1/10	2014
21	Moonlight	7.4/10	2016
22	Her	8.0/10	2013
23	Hell or High Water	7.6/10	2016
24	Little Women	7.8/10	2019
25	Get Out	7.7/10	2017
26	La La Land	8.0/10	2016
27	The King’s Speech (2010) – 8.0/10	8.0/10	2010
28	The Revenant	8.0/10	2015
30	The Matrix	8.7/10	1999
31	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	7.8/10	2011
32	The Big Lebowski	8.1/10	1998
33	One Night in Miami	7.1/10	2020
34	The Last Black Man in San Francisco	7.3/10	2019
35	Marriage Story	8.0/10	2019
36	The Farewell	7.6/10	2019
37	I Am Not Your Negro	7.8/10	2016
38	Honey Boy	7.3/10	2019
39	BlacKkKlansman	7.5/10	2018
40	Sound of Metal	7.8/10	2019
41	The Big Sick	7.5/10	2017

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Conclusion: Best Movies to Watch on Prime Video 

We hope that the list of 50 best prime video movies you will like to watch in your free time. My favorite and very well-looking paranormal horror drama movie is Candyman, so check it out if you’re interested.

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