Best movies — short on Prime Video : our Top 20

1965 · Jiří Trnka

Luke Jackson, a small-time crook sent to serve two years on a Florida prison farm, refuses to submit to the cruelty of the vindictive warden or the yard's dominant enforcer, Dragline. Rather than bending under pressure, Luke endures repeated spells in the dreaded solitary cell known as "the box," and his unshakable defiance earns Dragline's grudging respect. His bold resistance quickly turns him into a symbol of rebellion for the other inmates and a persistent problem for the prison authorities.

With Ladislav Fialka

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

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

2024 · Garth Jennings

A Broadway star takes over a fading film icon’s comeback, reshaping it into an ultra-artsy production that collapses both critically and at the box office.

With Matthew McConaughey, Tori Kelly, Nick Kroll, Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, Garth Jennings and Eric Hayes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 · Rod Blackhurst

Forced into early retirement by a progressive illness, former baseball pro Ray Waller and his wife move with their two children into a new house, banking on the backyard pool as both a playground for the kids and a place for Ray’s rehabilitation. But the home harbors a sinister history, and whatever was buried in its past soon awakens, pulling the family into a relentless, inescapable nightmare.

With Megalyn Echikunwoke

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

2012 · Mark A. Walsh

Hailing from the culturally rich city of Jeonju in South Korea, Lee Soo-man rose from performer to visionary producer, shaping the creative and business forces that turned K-pop into a global cultural phenomenon. This film follows his journey from local roots to pioneering architect of a worldwide musical movement.

With Wallace Shawn, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Corey Burton, Tony Cox, Donald Fullilove and Emily Hahn

2018 · Marius Myrmel

A close, unguarded look at a group of teenage boys for whom status rules every interaction and living up to a hardened ideal of masculinity is the highest goal. The film follows three boys as their suppressed desires and inner struggles intensify, leading to decisions that expose how deeply the culture they help shape controls their lives.

With Jakob Fort, Albert Lamin Janko, Rebekka Kjølle and Alfred Ekker Strande