3 Best Movies To Watch on Prime Video This Week

After weeks at the top of Prime Video’s movie charts, Shane Black’s Play Dirty has finally been dethroned by a new contender: the latest Tyler Perry movie, Finding Joy. Starring Shannon Thornton, the film follows a New York City fashion designer who finds unexpected love while stranded in Colorado after a holiday getaway gone wrong. It’s an exciting new release for Perry’s fans, but if you’re in the mood for something else, there are still a lot of other great films you could watch on the service. So, without further ado, here’s a look at three great movies we think you should watch this week on Prime Video.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.

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‘Till’ (2022)

Co-written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, Till is a period biographical drama based on the true story of Mamie Till and her quest for justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in August 1955. Danielle Deadwyler stars as Mamie with Jalyn Hall as Emmett. The film also features Kevin Carroll, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Whoopi Goldberg in supporting roles.

Though it had a disappointing theatrical run, Till was critically acclaimed after its world premiere at the 2022 New York Film Festival and was named one of the best films of the year by the National Board of Review. A moving biography charged with emotion and the weight of systemic injustice, it’s a difficult but necessary film anchored by Deadwyler’s heartbreaking performance in the lead. Her performance earned the actor several accolades, including Best Actress nominations at the BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice Awards, and SAG Awards.

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‘Love Hurts’ (2025)

Directed by Jonathan Eusebio in his directorial debut, Love Hurts is an action comedy movie starring Ke Huy Quan as Marvin Gable, a former hitman who now lives as a realtor. When he unexpectedly reunites with his former partner (Ariana DeBose), Marvin finds himself targeted by fellow assassins working for his estranged brother (Daniel Wu). The movie also stars Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Cam Gigandet, Marshawn Lynch, and Sean Astin in supporting roles.

A fun Valentine’s Day comedy at heart, Love Hurts wasn’t critically or commercially successful when it premiered in February 2025, but the film has been getting a lot more attention ever since it hit streaming. While the movie may not have much of an original plot or particularly well-written characters, its action scenes are quite thrilling, and Quan is as charming as ever in the lead role. It’s basically Nobody with a hint of Kill Bill, and while it may not be on par with those films, it’s still a very entertaining watch.

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‘Vertigo’ (1958)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Boileau-Narcejac’s 1954 novel D’entre les morts, Vertigo is a noir psychological thriller that’s widely regarded as one of the acclaimed auteur’s masterpieces. James Stewart stars as John “Scottie” Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective who is forced to retire after he develops vertigo following a traumatic incident. When an old friend hires him to investigate his wife (Kim Novak), Scottie finds himself drawn into a twisted game of love, deception, and tragedy.

Vertigo wasn’t very well-received by critics when it first premiered in 1958, but it was still an undeniably groundbreaking film even then, as it introduced new, never-before-seen filmmaking techniques like the dolly zoom, an effect that would go on to become widely used and synonymous with the movie. An ambitiously artistic mystery anchored by Stewart’s complex, emotionally and psychologically layered performance, the film is now regarded as one of the greatest of all time, and it has been an inspiration to all subsequent generations of filmmakers. In 1989, it became one of the first movies to be selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, cementing its status as a cultural landmark.