Amazon Prime Video is like a cinematic jungle, vast, unpredictable, and full of hidden treasures waiting to be discovered. You’ll find everything here: from blockbuster hits to offbeat indies that never got their due. Whether you’re in the mood for something bold, sentimental, or just plain off-the-wall (in the best possible sense), below are 15 of the best and most underrated movies you can stream now, a combination of critical darlings, festival discoveries, and the type of films you’ll regret not catching.
15. The Voyeurs (2021)
A genre that was once a staple of the ’90s has all but gone the way of the mullet, but The Voyeurs brings the heat back. Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith play a young couple who get obsessed with very bad ones with the hot lives of their neighbors. Try to picture Rear Window reimagined on smartphones, neon lights, and moral rot. Sleek, stylish, and actually quite clever, it makes you a voyeur, too, challenging you to keep watching even when you shouldn’t.
14. Afternoon Delight (2013)
Kathryn Hahn delivers a career high in this wise, witty, and deeply humane dramedy about a discontented wife who befriends a stripper (Juno Temple). What begins as curiosity becomes an unsettling examination of lust, identity, and transformation. It’s intelligent and compassionate, a reminder that self-discovery doesn’t necessarily arrive in a tidy package; sometimes it arrives unannounced.
13. The Handmaiden (2016)
Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden is cinematic sin a maze of love, deceit, and manipulation in 1930s Korea. Based on Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, the film winds and turns with each scene, all of them being jaw-droppingly stunning. Each betrayal reads like a verse, each shot an artwork. Dark, erotic, and painstakingly made, it’s one of the most entrancing thrillers of the 21st century.
12. The Tender Bar (2021)
Ben Affleck is most likable in The Tender Bar as a wisecracking bartender who takes on an unlikely mentorship role with his nephew. Directed by George Clooney, this coming-of-age drama is about family, ambition, and finding your path one drink and one tale at a time. It’s warm, nostalgic, and quietly uplifting, the sort of movie that catches you off guard with its honesty.
11. Paterson (2016)
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is a paean to the purity of routine and creativity. Adam Driver drives a bus (named Paterson) part-time and poetically in between shifts, recording tiny miracles that occur in quotidian life. Nothing blows up here except feeling in its mildest expression. It’s peaceful, hilarious, and profoundly moving, with a soulful directness that sticks with viewers long after they leave the theater.
10. Blow the Man Down (2020)
Think Fargo meets Gilmore Girls. This darkly comedic neo-noir tracks two sisters in a coastal Maine town who kill a man by accident, and also discover the dirty secrets of their community. The movie’s blend of offbeat humor, small-town danger, and powerhouse performances by June Squibb and Margo Martindale make it one of Prime’s most criminally overlooked gems.
9. My Old Ass (2024)
Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella lead this sweet, time-traveling dramedy about a teenager who encounters her 39-year-old self while on a mushroom trip. What might have been a gimmick becomes a moving exploration of regret, development, and the bittersweetness of knowing your own future. It’s funny, sad, and deeply serious, a trip it’s worth taking.
8. The Lost City of Z (2016)
James Gray’s sweeping epic tracks the actual explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) into the depths of the Amazon in pursuit of a fabled city. The end product is an otherworldly, visually breathtaking coming-of-age story about obsession and discovery. Half Heart of Darkness, half Lawrence of Arabia, it’s a movie that makes you feel the summons and price of the unknown.
7. Sound of Metal (2020)
Riz Ahmed delivers a stunning performance as a drummer whose life falls apart when he starts to lose his hearing. Immersive sound design and genuine representation of the Deaf community make Sound of Metal more than a movie; it’s an experience. Raw, compassionate, and quietly life-changing, it’s one of Prime’s finest achievements.
6. Suspiria (2018)
Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s horror masterpiece substitutes neon gore for a dark, hellish fever dream. In a Berlin dance school with sinister supernatural origins, Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton (appearing in multiple roles!) lead the cast in a tale of art, manipulation, and witchcraft. It’s long, weird, and mesmerizingly ambitious, a mesmerizing movie that you will never forget.
5. Annette (2021)
Half rock opera, half surreal bad dream, Annette teams Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in a story of fame, love, and jealousy with a singing puppet baby thrown in. Leos Carax’s musical is euphorically offbeat, by turns moving and maddening. It won’t be for all, but for those who give themselves over to its beat, it’s an unshakeable movie high-wire act that never glances down.
4. Deep Cover (2025)
Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, and Nick Mohammed lead this witty British caper about improvisational actors who are recruited by the police to go undercover inside a criminal organization. What ensues is an absolutely superb farce rapid, self-referential, and actually quite funny farce. It’s a testament that comedy as an art form can exist, particularly when the tension is preposterously high.
3. Nosferatu (2024)
Robert Eggers reawakens the undead in his reimagining of the 1922 horror classic. Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok is both monstrous and tragic, while Lily-Rose Depp brings haunting depth as his obsession. Every shadow, every whisper drips with gothic atmosphere. It’s terrifying, elegant, and beautifully deranged, exactly what you’d hope from Eggers.
2. American Fiction (2023)
Jeffrey Wright gives one of the career’s highlights as a disheartened writer whose satirical “Black” book is a huge commercial success. American Fiction skewers the publishing world’s love affair with stereotypes and manages to mix sharp wit and sincere feeling. It’s a far cry to hear that a comedy was this intelligent and this affecting at the same time, and even farther to not be able to stop thinking about it afterwards.
1. Challengers (2024)
Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor set the screen ablaze in Luca Guadagnino’s chic tennis drama of love, competition, and ambition. Real competition isn’t just on the court, it’s in each look, each line, each ricochet of desire. Powered by a pulse-throbbing score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers is as much sensual as taut, as thrilling.
Prime Video’s catalog is a cinematic buffet, a little bit of everything, for every mood. Whether you’re chasing wild stories, emotional gut punches, or bold filmmaking that refuses to play it safe, these 15 films prove the platform is packed with overlooked brilliance just waiting to be streamed.