Best movies — short on Prime Video : our Top 20

2025 · Steve Windels

Over four formative years, Julie, a young woman caught between turbulent romances and an uncertain professional path, is forced to reassess her ambitions and face an unvarnished truth about who she really is.

With Klaus Teigel, Benedetto Tumminello, Axel Poike, Gina Rutkewitz, Oliver Stojanovic, Theodor Grusdat and Angelika Brinkmann

2012 · Clark Baker

amid the frozen, shell‑pocked expanse between opposing trenches, French and Scottish soldiers stand off against German troops. On Christmas Eve an astonishing incident occurs in that desolate no man's land — a fleeting, humane truce that interrupts the slaughter and forces enemies to recognize one another as men rather than targets. What begins as tentative curiosity blossoms into fragile acts of fellowship that will change those who take part.

With Brandon Bales, Brandy Maasch, Julie Mintz, Walter Phelan, Taylor Pigeon, Alan Pietruszewski and Whit Spurgeon

1972 · Živko Nikolić

Against the fading echoes of its epic past, Zivko Nikolic paints a Montenegrin village in the wake of legend, exposing a stark present inhabited by the poor, the marginalized, and people with intellectual disabilities—lives neglected and left out of the grand heroic narratives.

2011 · Sheila Pye

Meticulously shaped by her mother Aurora from infancy into an emblem of modern womanhood, Hildegart rises in 1930s Spain to prominence as one of the country’s most brilliant minds and a leading European authority on female sexuality.

With Ivana Baquero, Maribel Verdú, Ainara Nieto, Arancha de Juan, Teresa Mencía, Carlos Bravo and Julio Perillán

2013 · Takashi Nakamura

In 1937, as Nanjing falls, a modest postal worker adopts the guise of a photo developer to blend into the occupying forces’ world. Outwardly collaborating, he covertly converts his darkroom into a haven for displaced families, slipping them food and shelter while hiding their presence. As brutality mounts, he gambles everything to guide refugees to safety and to smuggle photographic evidence of the horrors out to the wider world.

2009 · Fabian Busch

Edgar, recently retired and still bearing the weight of his wife's death two years earlier, drifts through the city searching for something to fill the empty hours. His days of aimless wandering are interrupted by a chance encounter with a shop detective, which plants a surprising idea in his mind — a modest, daring project that might finally restore purpose and connection to his life.

With Wilfried Dziallas, Julia Brendler, Charly Hübner and Horst-Günter Marx

2016 · Kristóf Deák

In the midst of the First World War, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes charge of a British choir emptied by the call to arms; as rehearsals and performances bring the town together, they find comfort, purpose and a renewed sense of unity in creating moving music amid the surrounding turmoil.

With Mónika Garami, Dorka Gáspárfalvi, Dorka Hais, Borbála Karádi and Zsófia Szamosi

2012 · Marcus Hearn

Charting her path from the bohemian corners of Camden to worldwide recognition, the film follows Amy Winehouse’s evolution from a hungry, restless talent into a cultural phenomenon. Seen through her perspective and threaded with the raw intimacy of her songs, it chronicles the making of Back to Black and the tumultuous relationship that shaped its most unforgettable tracks, revealing the complicated, fiercely creative woman behind an era-defining album.

With Barbara Shelley, Marcus Hearn, Mark Gatiss, Jonathan Rigby, Francis Matthews, David Huckvale and Jon Mann

1999 · Faouzi Bensaïdi

A retired pirate living in peaceful exile on a secluded island is forced to confront the violent life she left behind when a vindictive ex-captain returns to unleash a brutal siege; to protect her family she must revive the lethal skills she swore to abandon.

2013 · Matt Inns

Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk, three elite American climbers, embark on a high-stakes, adrenaline-fueled quest to complete an ascent long thought impossible, testing their skills, resilience, and the bonds between them amid extreme danger.

With Steven Woller and Maggie Watts

1942 · Bill Roberts

A spirited fusion of live-action and animation, this film dazzles with vivid colors, music, and lighthearted adventure set to an infectious samba tempo. Travel from the high Andean passes and Argentina’s wide pampas to the vibrant streets of Rio de Janeiro in the company of two comical explorers, Donald Duck and Goofy. Donald faces off with a stubborn llama while Goofy, nicknamed "El Gaucho," fumbles through the customs and chores of South American ranch life, turning cultural encounters into slapstick charm and warm-hearted fun.

With Fred Shields, José Oliveira, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Lee Blair and Mary Blair

2007 · Vigdis Neilsen

Keeping an extraordinary spider hidden in the attic has been twelve-year-old Charlotte’s secret — but when the arachnid’s uncanny abilities start to surface, she must confront what she’s been sheltering and fight to protect her family from the fallout.

With Glenn André Viste Bøe, Svein Bringsjord Granstrøm, Anne Line Kenan, Glenn André Kaada, Anders Dale and Kristoffer Bjerga

1992 · Jan Švankmajer

An unlikely heir to a Mexican fast-food empire sets off to hunt for the next culinary phenomenon and lands in a sunbaked New Mexico town where gastronomes travel from far and wide to savor the bold, uncompromising dishes of a spirited, fiercely independent local chef.

With Ludvík Sváb, Bedřich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek, Josef Fiala and Karel Hamr

2010 · Bruno Caticha

A sudden, violent storm reduces visibility to almost nothing on the Airport Bridge, triggering a chain of crashes and explosions that leave the span dangerously unstable and dozens of people stranded. Hidden among the wreckage is a secret military shipment of experimental dogs from Project Silence — including one designated Echo — which breaks free in the chaos. With the bridge collapsing around them, the survivors are forced into a desperate fight for survival as the escaped canines turn on the humans, hunting them without mercy.

With Tomás Rezende

1972 · Isao Takahata

An unreliable father dies in a car crash and, a year later, returns mysteriously as a snowman—granted one final chance to mend his fractured relationship with his son before he melts away forever.

With Kazuko Sugiyama, Kazuo Kumakura, Yoshiko Ohta and Yasuo Yamada

2008 · Mira Nair

Sheltered in a Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke ravaged the planet, the Garrity family are forced to abandon safety and undertake a perilous crossing of a shattered Europe, risking everything to claim a new place to call home.

With Shiney Ahuja, Tinnu Anand, Raima Sen, Ashok Beniwal, Sameera Reddy, Sulabha Deshpande and Irrfan Khan

2005 · Géza M. Tóth

A ghostlike cell of elite bank thieves pulls off a string of deadly heists with no forensic trail, drawing the attention of a self-destructive FBI agent who hunts them with a reckless intensity. As he pushes deeper into their world, his investigation exposes a hidden motive behind the killings—one that turns the case from a manhunt into a dangerous unraveling of a larger, more sinister plot.

With Ákos Ambrus, Imre Madácsi and Attila Pacsay

2025 · Julio Rionaldo

A retired footballer living in Brittany brings together his old teammates to train a group of local fishermen and enter them in a series of matches, hoping the winnings will raise the funds needed to save the fleet and protect the community’s jobs.

With Tania Syakira and Isabella Meyer

2014 · Nick Lines

Convinced that Santa is responsible for her ruined life, a heartbroken former sex worker abducts him to exact revenge, only to have the ordeal turn into an unexpected path to healing and a surprising new sense of purpose.

2015 · Nic Stanich

Leah Caldwell is an ambitious TV producer determined to become the first woman to helm New York’s premier morning show — only to discover her ex is competing for the same promotion. As she pours herself into the campaign, a rekindled attraction forces her to confront whether she’ll prioritize the career she’s fought for or the unexpected chance at love.

With Marcy Jarreau, Allison Miller, Drew Tarver, Pam Murphy, John Milhiser and Mike Mitchell