Amazon Prime subscribers have long had the extra benefit of a robust library with film and television at its disposal. In August, Main Video Added a number of significant items to their service from acclaimed directors such as Ryan Coogler, Nancy Meyers, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.
Check out the seven best movies coming to Prime Video in August.
“Blow out”
One of several films on this list that is either a cult classic or a favorite among Quentin Tarantino’s, “Blow Out” has gained a significant reputation over the years as one of Brian de Palma’s best films. Neo-Noir follows John Travoltas Jack Terry, a sound man for a low budget that accidentally records evidence that an assumed unintentional tire blowing was in reality a murder effort against a presidential election. Although this thriller is not as common as De Palma’s “The Untouchables”, “Carrie” or “Mission: Impossible”, it is a much appreciated post among the director’s huge, quality filmography.
“Confession”
In 2025, Ryan Coogler made waves with ”Sinner“Another massive blockbuster and culturalven from the filmmaker behind” Black Panther. “Coogler and” sinner “double star Michael B. Jordan has a relationship that goes back to the beginning of the author/director’s career, when Jordan played in Coogler’s first function,” Fruitvale station. “In many ways, both men’s careers strengthened.
“Creed” takes the Rocky franchise back almost a decade after Sylvester Stallone’s return in 2006, “Rocky Balboa.” In “Creed”, Spotlight shifts from Stallone’s heartfelt underdog boxers from School of Hard Knocks for the first time and instead focuses on Jordan’s Adonis “Donnie” Creed, the illegitimate son of Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed. When Donnie tries to start his own boxing inheritance, he gets help from the aging Balboa – now alone, outside the limelight and struggles with his mortality.
By 2025, an older sequel like this may seem like an old hat. Only in 2015, “Creed” fought against Restart “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, “Jurassic World”, “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Terminator Genisys” and a return to the “Vacation” series. To this day too, “Creed” stands out from the packaging as a sharply directed, emotionally arousing film that avoids cheap images and cuts its own way among the franchise. It is perhaps the best “Rocky” movie and a gold standard for Coogler and Jordan’s collaboration that only “sinners” have really challenged.
“Internal”
Quentin Tarantino was right.
Director raved about Nancy Meyers’ The “trainee,” it dubbed one of his favorite films in 2015 and praised Robert De Niro’s performance in Plato-Com. The film has a rather unassuming premise, after De Niro like Ben Whittaker, a widow in the 70s that takes an internship at an online fashion company (run by Anne Hathaway’s Jules Ostin) to put her life back on a schedule. As the film progresses, Ben Jules crackles the focus of exterior and helps her through a period where she is asked to take on a CEO at her fast -growing start.
Still, Meyers, De Niro and Hathaway each involve the movie with a concrete warmth, one that shows that “sentimental” and “inferior” are not synonymous. The movie goes the line to be Treacly and Trite (maybe step over the line for a while or two) without ever going to anything other than fun. De Niro and Hathaway’s chemistry exceeds it too many actual romantic mating in modern film and becomes a surprisingly effective example of cinematic friends.
“Apes Kingdom”
The “Planet of the Apes” series is a franchise of cycles. After the second film, “Under the Planet of the Apes”, the premise of the series was literally blasted, the franchise was forced to develop and expand its core concept through new timelines and new throws. This film structure drives home one of the central concepts behind the franchise: is the past to repeat itself?
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” progresses this idea with a “Yes.” Wes Ball’s 2024 starts around hundreds of years before the events in Matt Reeves “War of the Planet of the Apes”, exploring the world of intelligent, articulated primater generations after the case of Andy Serki’s iconic Emperor. The film introduces viewers to a series of new cultures, such as Noah’s secluded Eagle clan and Proximus Caesar’s intersecting cultists. When NOA (Owen Teague) invests outside his home, he discovers that the core errors infect both humans and monkeys – and how scary as they are. “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is not the strongest entry into this franchise, but it is far from the weakest, which gives the audience another beautiful presentation on the broader world in the iconic sci-fi story.
“Miami vice”
In 2006, Michael Mann, the TV series “Miami Vice” took to the large screen and adapted the famous 80’s crime drama that he produced for NBC. The result was a crime drama that only man could make, a neat, licking dive into an undercover operation fronted by Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. Although other men’s posts such as “Collateral”, “Heat” and “Thief” are more celebrated posts in the crime genre, “Miami Vice” has gained a strong cult reputation over time and become a fan favorite among the director’s hit-to-filmography. The film is wonderful from top to bottom and another exciting directed hit from Mann. Best paired with a mojito.
“Pulp fiction”
Speaking of crime films, Quentin Tarantino’s Massive influential masterpiece “Pulp Fiction” arrives at Prime Video in August, ready to provide a variety of viewers with rewatches and the first time. Crime Film in the 1990s weaves in and out of the interconnected lives in a set of key characters: mainly John Travoltas Vegcent Vega, Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules Winfield, Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace, Bruce Willis ‘Butch Coolidge and Ving Rhaves’ Marsellus Wallace.
“Pulp Fiction” sees that Tarantino finely-cut craftsmanship and style he promised in “Reservoir Dogs”, and created a perfect machine of non-linear dramatic story. The writer/director’s extent has only expanded over time, with some of his most meaningful and fine films that are still coming. Still, it cannot be overestimated how influential – and how quality – “Pulp fiction” was and is. It is a movie that changed movies for future generations.
“Raging Bull”
Prime Video Audiences are greeted with a one-two-place from Martin Scorsese/Robert De Niro Duo in August. In one corner you have “Cape Fear”, the duo’s remake by J. Lee Thompson and James R. Webb’s 1962 web with the same name (both based on John D. Macdonald’s 1957 “The Executions”). Written by Wesley Strick, 1991’s “Cape Fear”, De Niro follows as Max Cady, a psychopath who was recently released from prison and seeks revenge. De Niro got a best actor nomination at Oscars, along with co -star Juliette Lewis as the best supportive actress. It also paved the way for one of the largest sections of “The Simpsons”, entitled “Cape Fear”, a year later.
In the second corner you have “Raging Bull”, a movie that saw De Niro give one of the great performances of all time and delivered him his second Oscar win (and his only statue for best actors). In De Niro and Scorsese’s fourth collaboration, the couple (together with screenwriters Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin) adapt the troubled story of real boxer Giacobbe “Jake” Lamotta, a former average weight master as the nickname “Raging Bull.” The film helped to start the career for Joe Pesci, giving him his first Oscar nomination. It also gave Scorsese its first of many nods for best director, and long saw Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker get her first Oscar win. “Raging Bull” is a Titanic movie with a variety of fantastic performances, rightly helping Elevate Scorsese and Hans Posse even further in their early careers.