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Recommended movies on Amazon Prime

Started by Johnboy, September 04, 2021, 11:19:02 PM

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Johnboy

Got a free year's subscription to Amazon Prime and I´m not finding it that easy to find decent movies.

I´ve watched some good stuff in there but I've run into a few clangers too.

Any recommendations? thanks.



dissolute ocelot

There's some good stuff hidden. Algorithms totally fail to show it. Scrolling through the crap I see some I'd recommend, in various genres (although quite
a lot of horror and horror-adjacent):

* Fellini's 8 1/2 - classic indulgent Italian nonsense
* Assault on Precinct 13 - classic John Carpenter action
* Tangerine - low budget slice of life drama about trans women in LA
* Scanners - and a bunch of other David Cronenberg
* Anna and the Apocalypse - Scottish zombie comedy
* Saint Maud - recent sinister careworker drama
* Shazam! - silly superhero fun
* Suspiria - notably Dario Argento's original but also the overlong remake
* Primer - absurdly complex low-budget sci-fi
* Upstream Colour - even weirder than Primer; less popular but I thought it was amazing
* Crank 2 - dumb but amazing Jason Statham action
* My Big Fat Greek Wedding - always a few big romcoms
* Re-animator - classic horror comedy
* Ghost World
* Amelie
* Parasite
* Battle of Algiers
* Colour out of Space
* Snowpiercer
* Sicario
* Escape Plan
* Strictly Ballroom
* We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Extremely unrelatedly, just noticed they have terrible far-right melodrama Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 on there! (And possibly more?)

Dex Sawash


Atlas Shrugged makes a fun weekend with some of the Left Behind films.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: dissolute ocelot on September 05, 2021, 11:07:16 AM
There's some good stuff hidden. Algorithms totally fail to show it. Scrolling through the crap I see some I'd recommend, in various genres (although quite
a lot of horror and horror-adjacent):

* Fellini's 8 1/2 - classic indulgent Italian nonsense
* Assault on Precinct 13 - classic John Carpenter action
* Tangerine - low budget slice of life drama about trans women in LA
* Scanners - and a bunch of other David Cronenberg
* Anna and the Apocalypse - Scottish zombie comedy
* Saint Maud - recent sinister careworker drama
* Shazam! - silly superhero fun
* Suspiria - notably Dario Argento's original but also the overlong remake
* Primer - absurdly complex low-budget sci-fi
* Upstream Colour - even weirder than Primer; less popular but I thought it was amazing
* Crank 2 - dumb but amazing Jason Statham action
* My Big Fat Greek Wedding - always a few big romcoms
* Re-animator - classic horror comedy
* Ghost World
* Amelie
* Parasite
* Battle of Algiers
* Colour out of Space
* Snowpiercer
* Sicario
* Escape Plan
* Strictly Ballroom
* We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Extremely unrelatedly, just noticed they have terrible far-right melodrama Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 on there! (And possibly more?)

That's a great list, I've got a month free at the moment so shall definitely check some of those out. And I'd echo the recommendations for Anna And The Apocalypse, Crank 2, Amelie, Tangerine and Re-Animator, all of which are movies I love a lot.

steveh

Random list of watches in the past year or so that were okay:

The Beyond (Fulci horror with gates of hell opening in a New Orleans Hotel)
Watch Out We're Mad (Terrence Hill / Bud Spencer daft comedy)
Interstate 60 (Odd, underrated comedy set along a non-existent highway)
Lucky Grandma (Grandma from NY Chinatown gets lucky at casino but...)
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Time loop drama but still finds a few new angles)
The Vast of Night (Alien encounter thriller set in 50s small town)
Dating Amber (Fun Irish coming-out story set in the 90s)
Lucky (Harry Dean Stanton playing a curmudgeon at the end of his life)
The Bank Job (One of the better Brit gangster films, by Clement / La Frenais)
Telstar (The Joe Meek story, though shows its theatre origins)
Amazing Grace (Aretha Franklin gospel album recording)
Mary and Max (Nice animation about a lonely girl and her odd penpal)

Phil Colons

There's loads of decent stuff on Prime if your prepared to sift through the crud.

* Mystery Men
* Splinter
* The Dead Zone
* The Beyond
* After Midnight
* The Changeling
* Spring
* Animal Factory
* Affliction
* Dark Blue
* Pusher

phantom_power

Palm Springs is a really good comedy from a year or so ago with Andy Samberg
I Care a Lot is a good dark comedy with Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage

Johnboy

Thanks for these, yes this was the kind of thing I was looking for.

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neveragain

Wake In Fright's on there. I did a whole thread about it.

Lord Mandrake

'Class of 1984' escalates to hysterical levels of violence and grime in a pitch perfect denouement. Extra points for chubby M.J Fox getting chibbed in a canteen.

thenoise


Dr Rock

Thanks for the tips, I don't have Amazon Prime but a helpful pirate sorted me out with these for a start

Tangerine
Palm Springs
I Care a Lot

If anyone hasn't seen Parasite they really should.

steveh

Amazon have launched the ad-supported IMdB TV in the UK which has some reasonable films and TV shows. This is the channel version or there's also an app you can install.

Pete23

Quote from: steveh on September 30, 2021, 10:44:49 AM
Amazon have launched the ad-supported IMdB TV in the UK which has some reasonable films and TV shows. This is the channel version or there's also an app you can install.

Cheers for this - Babylon 5 free at last!