24 of the best Prime Video Originals and Exclusives

You might have initially subscribed to Amazon Prime because you wanted handy next-day delivery (or even same-day delivery), but in recent years, Prime Video has become a key motivator for signing up.

Amazon’s Original and Exclusive movies are not only entertaining and absorbing, but they’ve been smashing it on the awards circuit. Step away from your virtual shopping basket and find out what all the fuss is about with our list of the best films to watch now on the platform. For more details on how to access Prime Video on Virgin TV, scroll to the end of the page.

The After series, based on Anna Todd’s Harry Styles-inspired fan fiction, became a sensation when the first film, After, was released in 2019. Fans of the novels, called “Afternators,” even played a large role in pushing for it to be made. With all that fandom behind it, Todd’s After series now comprises five books!

After We Collided is the second movie adaptation, continuing to follow the tumultuous relationship between bad boy Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince) and Tessa Young (Josephine Langford, Moxie). They are dealing with the fallout of their break-up in After. When Tessa lands her dream internship at Vance Publishing, her handsome co-worker Trevor (Dylan Sprouse, The Suite Life Of Zach & Cody) might just be the guy to take her mind off of Hardin…

Time travellers from 2051 arrive to alert everyone on Earth that, 30 years into the future, humans are locked in a war against a formidable alien species, with no hope of victory. They enlist people to travel to the future in an effort to turn the tide, among them ex-military man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt, Guardians Of The Galaxy).

Kick-butt Kate Beckinsale plays Lindy, a woman with some serious anger issues, which she tempers through an electrode-lined vest. She activates it whenever she wants to calm down, but the vest is coming off when her former lover is murdered and she has to resort to some different shock tactics. Bobby Cannavale, Laverne Cox, Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci also star in this electrifying film.

With a plot similar to Inception and Upload, Bliss dabbles in an alternate reality where it’s unclear what is real. Recently divorced, recently fired Greg (Owen Wilson, Wedding Crashers) meets Isabel (Salma Hayek, Frida), a woman living on the streets who believes the world around them is a computer simulation.

A love story by way of Russian Doll, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things follows teenagers Mark (Kyle Allen, The Path) and Margaret (Kathryn Newton, Big Little Lies), who are stuck in a time loop. They live each day as if it’s their last, except it isn’t – they keep reliving the same day over and over again, discovering all the tiny things that make it perfect. Why would they ever want to leave?

Malcom X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr), pioneers of the civil rights movement, meet up for one night – and only night only – to discuss their beliefs, successes and responsibilities as powerful figures in the public eye. While this is a fictional account, it’s a wonderfully imagined, hugely inspiring one.

Horror master Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television partnered with Amazon Studios to produces eight films that are perfect for the spooky season. The first four in the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” horror anthology are Black Box, The Lie, Evil Eye and Nocturne.

Black Box has a chilling resemblance to the tech in the Black Mirror episode “Playtest” from series 3, as well as the film Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. When Nolan (Mamoudou Athie, The Get Down) loses his wife and his memory in a car accident, he agrees to try a treatment involving a headset called the “Black Box.” It allows him to virtually explore his own mind, but it starts to play tricks on him.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas serves as executive producer alongside Blum on this film based on the Audible Original by Madhuri Shekar. It’s grounded in Indian mythology and features Indian-American actors to tell the story of Pallavi (Sunita Mani, GLOW), who connects with Sandeep (Omar Maskati, Unbelievable) in the US. When she tells her mother (Sarita Choudhury, Mississippi Masala) in Delhi, India what should be good news, Usha isn’t happy. She believes Sandeep is a reincarnation of a man from her past and now wants to protect her daughter at all costs.

Zu Quirke writes and directs in her directorial debut. If you liked The Perfection, you’ll also enjoy this musically inclined thriller. Twin sisters Vivian (Madison Iseman) and Juliet (Sydney Sweeney) attend an elite arts academy as music students, but Vivian is the star of the show. When Juliet finds a notebook that belonged to a classmate who recently died, she begins to steal the limelight, but at what cost?

Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber (The Punisher) play Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, respectively – the real-life white South Africans who carried out anti-apartheid missions for Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. Based on Jenkin’s book, Inside Out: Escape From Pretoria Prison, the film shows how they escaped South Africa’s Pretoria Local Prison in 1979. How? You’ll have to watch to find out.

Ever get freaked out by feelings of déjà vu? Then spare a thought for Frank Grillo (Black And Blue) in this sci-fi thriller that also features Mel Gibson and Michelle Yeoh. Grillo plays an ex-special forces soldier stuck in a time loop that repeats the day of his death again and again. Can he get himself out of his recurring nightmare?

Former couple Sara (Allison Williams, Get Out) and Jackson (Alexander Dreymon, The Last Kingdom) board a single-engine plane for a 99-minute flight to their friend’s island wedding. When their pilot suffers a heart attack, they must weather the storm, in more ways than one.

In 1885 at the Salpêtrière asylum, women who are “hysterical” or considered mad are treated with hypnosis. In reality, they are just strong women, or survivors of abuse, tragically treated as lesser in an uncaring era. As a horrifying case in point, the bourgeoisie are invited to gawk at the “mad women” at the asylum’s annual ball. Based on the novel Le Bal Des folles by Victoria Mas, The Mad Women’s Ball might be a work of fiction, but it is based on events that really did happen in 19th-century Paris. However, there is hope… tune in to find out how this tale ends.

You know what they say – the star that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Is that the case for two dancers at an elite Parisian ballet academy? The roles were written specifically for Kristine Froseth (Looking For Alaska) and Diana Silvers (Space Force), who play the friends that must compete against each other in a bid to be accepted into the Opéra national de Paris. Birds Of Paradise is based on AK Small’s novel Bright Burning Stars.

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