The 45 best movies for Amazon Prime subscribers to watch for free (October 2022)

Here It’s October 2022! And that means it’s time to watch some of the best movies from Amazon Prime once more. These include both classic films and recent releases that the service is bringing back or premiering, as well as comedies, dramas, and everything in between.

1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

It’s the mid-21st century and man has developed a new type of computer that is aware of its own existence. This computer has been utilized to help man cope with the melting of the polar ice caps and the submerging of many of its coastal cities. This form of artificial intelligence has been used in robots, and one such android, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) is about to take an emotional journey to find out if he can ever be anything more than a machine.

Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O’Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas,

Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Jack Angel, Ben Kingsley, Robin Williams

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Steven Spielberg

Screenwriters: Steven Spielberg, Ian Watson

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

2 . Baby Boom

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Star: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, Sam Wanamaker, and James Spader.

Director: Charles Shyer

3. Get Shorty

A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to collect money from Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), a mildly sleazy producer of low-budget horror movies.

4. Edward Scissorhands

A gentleman, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.

Star: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, and Dianne Wiest

5. Bridesmaids

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.

Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Ellie Kemper
Director: Paul Feig
Producer: Judd Apatow

6. Hackers

A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

Star: Jonny Lee Miller, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard

Director: Iain Softley

7. Hannibal

Hannibal returns to America and attempts to make contact with disgraced Agent Starling and survive a vengeful victim’s plan.

8. Heaven Can Wait

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an over-anxious angel before he was supposed to die, comes back to life in the body of a recently-murdered millionaire.

Directors: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Stars: Warren Beatty, James Mason, and Julie Christie

9. Leaving Las Vegas

Synopsis: Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera

Star: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands

Director: Mike Figgis

10. Last Holiday

The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted saleswoman Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. So Georgia withdraws her life savings and jets off to Europe where she lives like a millionaire. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu). The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews (LL Cool J)

Star: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, and Timothy Hutton

11. Jennifer’s Body

When small-town high school student Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, she transitions from being high school evil gorgeous (and doesn’t she know it), stuck up, and ultra-attitudinal to the real deal: evil/evil. The glittering beauty becomes a pale and sickly creature jonesing for a meaty snack, and guys who never stood a chance with the heartless babe, take on new luster in the light of her insatiable appetite. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s best friend, Needy (Amanda Seyfried), long relegated to living in Jennifer’s shadow, must step up to protect the town’s young men, including her nerdy boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons).

Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons

12. Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You

13. My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine stands up with Black Christmas as the best Canada has to offer in the oft-slighted slasher horror subgenre. On Valentine’s Day, someone always loses their heart. Twenty years ago, this small town lost more than that. When supervisors abandoned their posts to attend the town’s annual holiday dance, a tragedy claimed the lives of five miners. The sole survivor, Harry Warden, was institutionalized but returned for a vengeful massacre on the disaster’s first anniversary.

14. Patriot Games

When former CIA agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) hampers an IRA terrorist attack in London, he kills one of the terrorists. The dead man’s brother, another member of the group named Sean Miller (Sean Bean), is arrested but quickly escapes. Vowing revenge against Ryan, Miller travels to the United States, where he forces Ryan’s wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch) into a car accident that badly injures them. This convinces Ryan to rejoin the CIA in order to track down Miller.

Star: Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones

Director: Phillip Noyce

15. Dog

With a dog named Lulu by his side, Army Ranger Briggs races down the Pacific Coast to make it to a soldier’s funeral on time. Along the way, Briggs and Lulu drive each other completely crazy, break a handful of laws, narrowly evade death, and learn to let down their guards to have a fighting chance of finding happiness.

Starring – Channing Tatum, Ryder McLaughlin, Aavi Haas

Directed by – Reid Carolin, Channing Tatum

Produced by – Gregory Jacobs, Peter Kiernan

Written by – Reid Carolin, Brett Rodriguez

16. Shutter Island

In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.

Star: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo

Director: Martin Scorsese

17. Snow White And The Huntsman

In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.

18. Teen Wolf (1985)

Teen Wolf is an outrageous comedy about a shy teenager with more than a changing voice to contend with… he’s a budding young werewolf! When his new-found powers help him score in basketball, and with the popular girls, he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.

Director: Rod Daniel
star: Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Jerry Levine, Matt Adler, Jim McKrell.

19. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backward with bizarre consequences.

Star: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton

Director: David Fincher

20. The Devil Inside

21. The Silence of the Lambs

FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. Unfortunately, her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to his escape, and now two deranged killers are on the loose.

Director: Jonathan Demmea

Star: Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine, Frankie Faison.

22. The Thomas Crown Affair

A titular billionaire, for kicks, would rather steal works of art than buy them. Charged with investigating his crimes, sleuth Catherine instead falls under his spell. Despite the warnings of detective Michael, Catherine moves closer to Thomas and finds herself facing a moral quandary.

Star: Pierce Brosnan, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Frankie Faison, Fritz Weaver

Director: John McTiernan

23. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion

24. Up in the Air

25. Venus and Serena

26. Vanilla Sky

27. Vice

VICE explores the epic story of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.

Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe,

Tyler Perry, Justin Kirk, LisaGay Hamilton, Shea Whigham, and Eddie Marsan.

28. Winchester

Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester, (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren) heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider, it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook), or for the troubled Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters…

29. Zack and Miri Make a Porno

30. World War Z

A U.N. employee is racing against time and fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic

Cast: Brad Pitt, David Morse

Director: Marc Forster

31. The Wolf of Wall Street

32. Brittany Runs a Marathon

A woman living in New York takes control of her life- one block at a time.

Star: Jillian Bell, Jennifer Dundas, Patch Darragh
Director: Paul Downs Colaizzo

33. Marry Me

34. Licorice Pizza

35. House of Gucci

House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of Gucci. Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it’s worth, and how far a family will go for control.

Based on the book by Sara Gay Forden

Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Camille Cottin, Jack Huston, Jeremy Irons, Mãdãlina Ghenea, Reeve Carney, and Youssef Kerkour

Director: Ridley Scott
Story: Becky Johnston
Screenplay: Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna

36. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The former Fellowship of the Ring prepares for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo (Elijah Wood) & Sam (Sean Astin) approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.

Cast: Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Miranda Otto, Liv Tyler

Director: Peter Jackson

Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh

Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh

37. Hellraiser

It will tear your soul apart. An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover; demons are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.

38. Memory

MEMORY follows Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson), an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision. Caught in a moral quagmire, Alex refuses to complete a job that violates his code and must quickly hunt down and kill the people who hired him before they and FBI agent Vincent Serra (Guy Pearce) find him first. Alex is built for revenge but, with a memory that is beginning to falter, he is forced to question his every action, blurring the line between right and wrong.

Cast: Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce

39. The Northman

From visionary director Robert Eggers comes THE NORTHMAN, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder. With an all-star cast that includes Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe.

40. The Tomorrow War

In The TOMORROW WAR, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrives from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is a high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

Star: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin, Sam Richardson, Edwin Hodge,
Jasmine Mathews, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Keith Powers
Director: Chris McKay
Written: Zach Dean
Producer: David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Jules Daly, David Goyer, Adam Kolbrenner
Executive Producer: Rob Cowan, Chris Pratt, Brian Oliver, Bradley J. Fischer

41. The Hunger Games

42. Funny Girl

Barbra Streisand’s debut film won her the Academy Award for her performance as singer-comedian, Fanny Brice. Nominated for seven other awards, this classic musical film contrasts Fanny’s onstage antics with her offstage romance with the dashing gambler, Nicky Arnstein (Omar Shariff)