Best Movies on Prime Video – August 2026

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

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Director

Michael Showalter

Starring

Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter

After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

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Director

Chris Sanders

Starring

Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

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Director

Kenneth Lonergan

Starring

Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.

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• Philo

Director

Phil Lord

Starring

Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

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• Prime Video
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Director

Joel Coen

Starring

Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.

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Director

Ben Affleck

Starring

Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck

Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.

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Director

Stephen Merchant

Starring

Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, Nick Frost

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

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• Fubo

Director

Quentin Tarantino

Starring

John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons -- and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the ruthless dragon conqueror Drago Bludvist rises to seize control of both dragons and people alike, Hiccup must step into his role as a true leader and, alongside his friends and Toothless, protect Berk from a devastating war.

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Director

Dean DeBlois

Starring

Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell, and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.

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• Prime Video
• Criterion Channel

Director

Roger Donaldson

Starring

Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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• Philo

Director

Ridley Scott

Starring

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

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• AMC+
• Philo
• TCM

Director

Norman Jewison

Starring

Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring

Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

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• Hulu

Director

Adele Lim

Starring

Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu

Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she’ll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you’ll go for someone you love.

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• Starz
• YouTube TV
• Philo

Director

Paul Feig

Starring

Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

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Director

Will Merrick

Starring

Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

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Director

Luca Guadagnino

Starring

Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

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• Prime Video
• Cinemax
• YouTube TV

Director

Bryan Singer

Starring

Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

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• YouTube TV

Director

Ben Stiller

Starring

Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

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• Philo

Director

Tim Story

Starring

Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

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• Prime Video

Director

Dean DeBlois

Starring

Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

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• Philo

Director

Donald Petrie

Starring

Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.

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Director

Robert Luketic

Starring

Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

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Director

Christopher Nolan

Starring

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine

One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.

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Director

David Ayer

Starring

Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

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Director

Marc Forster

Starring

Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Cameron Britton

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.

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Director

Chris Weitz

Starring

Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

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Director

José Padilha

Starring

Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

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Director

Rupert Wyatt

Starring

Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson

A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

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Director

Roland Emmerich

Starring

Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley

After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.

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Director

Irvin Kershner

Starring

Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan

A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.

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Director

Rob Greenberg

Starring

Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbez, Eva Longoria

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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Director

Chris Addison

Starring

Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp

A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost brother.

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• Hulu
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Ruben Fleischer

Starring

Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Sophia Ali

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.

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Director

Doug Liman

Starring

Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor McGregor, Billy Magnussen

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

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Director

Darius Marder

Starring

Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

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• Prime Video
• Hulu
• Peacock
• AMC+
• Philo

Director

Christopher Nolan

Starring

Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano