Best movies on Prime Video (Canada) : our Top 20

2019 · Todd Phillips

In 1980s Gotham City, a struggling stand-up comedian crushed by rejection and isolation spirals into madness, shedding his former life to become a calculating, unhinged criminal whose theatrical violence and anarchic schemes plunge the city into fear.

With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham and Bill Camp

1982 ·

A remote Antarctic research station becomes a nightmare when its crew realizes an extraterrestrial predator is stalking them—one that perfects the appearance and behavior of those it slays, turning colleagues into indistinguishable threats and plunging the survivors into paranoia as they struggle to survive.

With Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart and Charles Hallahan

2017 · Denis Villeneuve

In a smog-blanketed, dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, retired blade runner Rick Deckard is summoned back to duty to hunt four escaped replicants who have returned to Earth seeking their maker and a way to extend their engineered, short lives.

With Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Jared Leto and Mackenzie Davis

2015 · Tom McCarthy

Based on true events, Boston Globe reporters expose a widespread pattern of child sexual abuse and systematic concealment by leaders of the local Catholic archdiocese, igniting a scandal that reverberates throughout the global Church.

With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci and Brian d'Arcy James

2015 · Lenny Abrahamson

After seven years confined to a cramped, sealed room, a mother and her young son are finally freed, thrusting the child into the vast, unfamiliar world beyond the walls for the first time.

With Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Sean Bridgers, Tom McCamus and Amanda Brugel

1983 · Bob Clark

Set in the 1940s, a spirited young boy named Ralph embarks on a series of humorous schemes to persuade his skeptical parents, stern teachers, and even Santa Claus that a Red Ryder BB gun is the one true Christmas wish. Through earnest pleadings, slapstick misadventures, and neighborhood exploits, his single-minded campaign mixes childhood innocence and stubbornness with moments of tenderness as he chases the perfect holiday gift.

With Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley, Jean Shepherd, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz and Tedde Moore

2016 · Denis Villeneuve

A relentless cybernetic horde sets its sights on Earth. Ignoring orders to stand down, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the newly commissioned USS Enterprise-E pursue the invaders through time, racing to stop them from rewriting Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tzi Ma, Mark O'Brien and Julia Scarlett Dan

2013 · Dean Parisot

Valentine, a part-time model with a restless streak, accidentally hits an elderly man’s dog and, surprised by his apparent indifference, takes the animal with her. The dog’s owner—a crotchety, retired judge—initially seems unconcerned, but when Valentine returns to his house she discovers him secretly eavesdropping on his neighbors’ phone conversations. This odd revelation becomes the unlikely catalyst for a fragile friendship that slowly softens both of them.

With Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lee Byung-hun

1998 · Terrence Malick

A band of soldiers from an Army rifle company known as "C‑for‑Charlie" is tested to its limits on Guadalcanal, undergoing physical and emotional transformations as the campaign grinds on. Their voyage begins with an eerily easy landing, but soon gives way to relentless, brutal engagements that strip away illusions and force each man to confront fear, loss, and what it means to endure. Through confusion, comradeship, and sacrifice, they are remade by war — and the story closes with the quiet, hard-won departure of the handful who survive.

With Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, John Cusack and Woody Harrelson

2009 · Michael Haneke

An elderly tailor looks back on his time as the village schoolteacher in a small community in northern Germany, remembering a series of eerie, inexplicable events that unsettled the town in the year leading up to the First World War.

With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Burghart Klaußner, Steffi Kühnert, Maria Dragus, Susanne Lothar and Rainer Bock

2000 · Mary Harron

A successful, well-heeled investment banker in New York projects a flawless public image while secretly harboring a psychopathic alternate personality; as his detached, increasingly irrational impulses grow bolder and more gratuitous, he conceals the mounting danger from colleagues and friends.

With Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross and Bill Sage

2004 · Eric Bress

Haunted by buried memories, a young man uncovers a technique that lets him slip back into his own past and reinhabit his childhood body. At first the chance to correct mistakes and confront old wounds seems like salvation, but each decision he makes sends unexpected ripples through the present—altering relationships, identities and the very life he thought he knew. As consequences accumulate, he must decide whether reshaping history is worth losing the person he has become.

With Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, Melora Walters, Ethan Suplee, William Lee Scott and Elden Henson

2005 · Steven Spielberg

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, a Palestinian militant group abducts and murders eleven members of the Israeli delegation; in the aftermath, the Israeli government quietly assembles a covert Mossad team to track down and take out those behind the attack.

With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Mathieu Amalric and Geoffrey Rush

2004 · Martin Scorsese

From 1927 to 1947, this biographical drama traces Howard Hughes’s ascent from ambitious filmmaker to a towering figure in both Hollywood and the aviation industry, charting his inventive productions and daring aeronautical endeavors. As his influence and wealth grow, his private life frays—he struggles with intensifying obsessive-compulsive disorder that gradually undermines his relationships and stability.

With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alan Alda, Danny Huston and Ian Holm

2010 · Eli Craig

A group of college students on a camping trip near a remote West Virginia cabin become convinced that the two reclusive locals living there are behind a string of killings. As unexplained deaths begin to pile up, suspicion fractures the group and fear gives way to a violent hunger for payback. What started as a weekend escape spirals into a chaotic hunt for revenge, where panic, rumor and bloodshed blur the line between truth and terror.

With Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden, Philip Granger, Jesse Moss, Bill Baksa and Christie Laing

2003 · Sylvain Chomet

After her grandson is snatched during the Tour de France, determined Madame Souza, aided only by her loyal dog Bruno, turns to the Belleville Sisters—a faded trio of song-and-dance veterans from the Fred Astaire era—to help mount a bold rescue.

With Suzy Falk, Lina Boudreau, Betty Bonifassi, Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Mari-Lou Gauthier and Charles Linton

2006 · John Curran

A British physician stationed in a remote Chinese village struggles to contain a cholera epidemic while enduring the isolation of a loveless marriage, his wife's infidelity deepening his sense of helplessness.

With Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong and Juliet Howland

1988 · Martin Scorsese

A humble Judean carpenter starts to suspect he is the Son of God, and is gradually pulled into a revolt against the Roman occupiers by Judas, even as he insists that compassion, not violence, will save humanity. The expectation that he must be mankind’s redeemer becomes an ever-present burden, wearing on him throughout his life and sowing deep doubts.

With Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Steve Shill, Verna Bloom, Barbara Hershey and Roberts Blossom

2002 · Julie Taymor

A cinematic portrait of Frida Kahlo, depicting how she transformed the trauma of a debilitating injury and the upheaval of a tumultuous marriage into powerful, deeply personal works of art.

With Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Diego Luna, Roger Rees and Ashley Judd

2008 · Scott Derrickson

In the aftermath of World War II, an alien and its robotic envoy arrive on Earth to deliver a stark ultimatum: humanity must abandon violence and choose peace, or be destroyed.

With Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, John Cleese and Kyle Chandler