Prime Video is home to thousands of movies so it can be difficult to know where to start. From originals to classics, recent favourites and forgotten gems, you’ll find it on the streaming service.
That is why we have found some of the best new additions to Prime Video coming in August 2025. Some of these are originals, some recent films you may have missed at the cinema and others classics you should have already seen.
War of The Worlds (2025)
A new imagining of HG Wells science fiction classic sees Homeland Security Officer Ice Cube take on an alien invasion from behind his computer screen. Despite a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, this reimaging of the classic story is on its way to becoming a so bad its good masterpiece.
Taking place entirely through a computer screen, there are hackers, product placement and the iconic tripod aliens. While the concept of watching an invasion unveil itself via video chat and news footage isn’t a bad one, the execution and performances are something special. It’s one of those, you have to see it, to believe it films.
The Pick Up (2025)
Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson team up for action comedy which sees the reluctant armoured truck drivers try to take down Keke Palmer’s mastermind criminal. She ultimately forces the classic experienced driver and rookie sidekick to help her with her casino heist.
While critics have not jumped for joy for The Pick Up, there is no doubting the trio’s comedy skills. The talented cast make this film an entertaining comedy heist that likely won’t make best of 2025 list but will entertain you this August.
The Map That Leads to You (2025)
Outer Banks’ Madelyn Cline and Riverdale’s KJ Apa play two young lovers on a European trip in The Map That Leads to You. Think YA Before Sunset, the film follows the pair as they embark on a journey to visit all of the places his grandfather wrote about in his journal.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by J.P. Monninger, expect romance in stunning European settings as the couple decides if their connection can survive being separated by distance after their trip ends.
The Siege at Thorn High (2025)
The Siege at Thorn High became the highest-grossing Indonesian action-thriller when it landed in theatres earlier this year. Now, Americans get to see why it gained so much acclaim when it lands on Prime Video this August.
Set in 2027, The Siege at Thorn High follows a man desperate to fulfil his sister’s dying wish of finding her long lost child. After his hunt leads him to an unruly high school, he and his now teenage nephew are trapped during a riot. This thrilling action flick sees the duo trying to fight for survival amidst a violent group of rioting students.
Last Breath (2025)
If you missed this survival thriller released earlier this year, check it out on Prime Video. Based on a real-life story, Last Breath follows a group of deep-sea divers who race to rescue a stranded teammate after an accident. Based on an unbelievable true story, Last Breath's saturation-diving accident really took place off the coast of Scotland in 2012.
Starring Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu, Last Breath is a tense thriller about a commercial diver stranded on the seabed with five minutes of oxygen. Not for the faint-hearted, this spectacularly shot film will have you on the edge of your seat. Once you watch this, go check out Richard da Costa's 2019 documentary of the same name.
Wolf Man (2025)
Leigh Whannell’s quiet follow up to 2020’s The Invisible Man saw Christopher Abbot try to protect his wife (Julia Garner) and daughter from a werewolf. While it came and went from cinemas with minimal chatter, it’s entirely worth your time now that it’s landed on Prime Video.
The visually striking film focuses on the transformation from man to werewolf and is as much about family trauma as it is lycanthropes. While it’s not as good as The Fly, Wolf Man is an effective body horror about fatherhood and transformation.
Blow Out (1981)
Brian De Palma’s Blow Out has earned cult status in recent years, despite being largely ignored during its release. The neo-noir thriller follows John Travolta’s sound man who inadvertently records evidence of a presidential assassination.
Directly based on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 Blowup, the film replaces photography with sound recording to create an effective mystery thriller. A favourite of Tarantino, Blow Out has only become more relevant as time goes on as societies sinks deeper into conspiratorial thinking and media manipulation.
Cape Fear (1991)
1991’s Cape Fear remake directed by Martin Scorsese is one of his best and has one of Robert DeNiro’s best performances (which is saying something!) The psychological thriller follows a convicted rapist who uses his newfound knowledge of the law to seek vengeance against a public defender.
Cape Fear is an unsettling watch and vengeance and guilt. A high energy remake of J Lee Thompson’s Hitchcock-inspired thriller. Gregory Peck’s flawed lawyer is replaced by Nick Nolte, as his intentionally poor defence comes back to bite him. DeNiro adds menace to Mitchum’s role in the masterclass on how to reinvent a classic.
Death Becomes Her (1992)
A recent Broadway hit (and TikTok meme) Death Becomes Her started life as a Meryl Streep comedy. Only more relevant in the world of filters and fillers, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn play two frenemies trying to one-up each other personally and professionally. Their competitiveness is taken up a notch when they discover a magic potion which promises eternal youth.
The Robert Zemeckis-directed film was originally panned by critics but thanks to drag culture and cosplayers, Death Becomes Her has lived on in the pop culture zeitgeist. It’s part satire on Hollywood’s obsession with youth, part farcical comedy and part witchy absurdism.
The Conversation (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 Palme d’Or winning film perfectly sums up the paranoia of Watergate era America. The Conversation stars Gene Hackman as a San Francisco surveillance expert hired to record an adulterous couple who meet in public to avoid suspicion. He soon suspects these recordings could have fatal consequences for the couple.
The Conversation is Coppola, the late great Hackman and editor/sound designer Walter Murch firing on all cylinders. While politics and scandals have moved on, the paranoia has not. Society has never been watched more, which is why a character study about watching and listening feels a must-watch in 2025. The Conversation is still so relevant to modern cinema, it was regularly mentioned when talking about Marvel films like Captain America: The Winter Soldier.