The Best New Movies And Shows Coming To Amazon Prime This Week

Hollywood & Entertainment The Best New Movies And Shows Coming To Amazon Prime This Week Travis Bean Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about movies and TV, with a focus on streaming. New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories.

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[+] press room at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theater on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Dan MacMedan/WireImage) WireImage It’s a new month, which means lots and lots and lots of new movies options on Amazon AMZN Prime. Throughout the course of this week, the popular streaming service will add dozens of new movies and shows to its digital library.

In total, there will be 103 new movies and shows to choose from. And that begs the question: Which one do I watch? Hopefully I can help. Here I’ve compiled some of the most intriguing options available.

And at the end of the article, you can find a full list of every new movie and TV show added to Amazon Prime this week. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1 (September 2) An epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J. R.

R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. Crazy Heart (September 1) MORE FOR YOU ‘Dune’ Tops Foreign Box Office With Promising $77M Cume ‘Shang-Chi’ Box Office: Marvel Movie Tops $360M Worldwide 4 Series Coming To Netflix In October That Are Worth The Binge A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.

An American Werewolf in London (September 1) David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he’s plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns David that he is becoming a werewolf.

When David discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast. Legally Blonde (September 1) Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs.

Warner Huntington III. But there is one thing stopping him (Matthew Davis) from proposing: She is too blond. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back.

Friday Nights Lights: Seasons 1-5 (September 1) A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of the nation’s best high school football teams, and their head coach Eric Taylor. The Usual Suspects (September 1) “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist,” says con man Kint (Kevin Spacey), drawing a comparison to the most enigmatic criminal of all time, Keyser Soze. Kint attempts to convince the feds that the mythic crime lord not only exists, but is also responsible for drawing Kint and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro Harbor – leaving few survivors.

The Descent (September 1) A year after a severe emotional trauma, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) goes to North Carolina to spend some time exploring caves with her friends; after descending underground, the women find strange cave paintings and evidence of an earlier expedition, then learn they are not alone: Underground predators inhabit the crevasses, and they have a taste for human flesh. I’m Still Here (September 1) Director Casey Affleck follows Joaquin Phoenix as he carries out a plan to retire from acting and concentrate on a new career as a hip-hop musician. How to Train Your Dragon (September 1) Hiccup (Donald Reignoux) is a Norse teenager from the island of Berk, where fighting dragons are a way of life.

His progressive views and weird sense of humor make him a misfit, despite the fact that his father (Emmanuel Jacomy) is chief of the clan. Tossed into dragon-fighting school, he endeavors to prove himself as a true Viking. When he befriends an injured dragon he names Toothless, he has the chance to plot a new course for his people’s future.

Fight Club (September 1) A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler’s attention.

Every new movie and show to stream on Amazon Prime this week 1900 (August 31) American Ninja Warrior: Seasons 12-13 (September 1) Friday Night Lights: Seasons 1-5 (September 1) Texicanas (September 1) WAGS Miami: Seasons 1-2 (September 1) 21 Grams (September 1) 23:59 (September 1) A Family Thing (September 1) The Adjustment Bureau (September 1) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (September 1) American Beauty (September 1) American Ninja (September 1) American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (September 1) American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (September 1) American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (September 1) An American Werewolf in London (September 1) Apartment 143 (September 1) Autumn in New York (September 1) Bad Influence (September 1) Big Top Pee-Wee (September 1) Black Sunday (September 1) Blair Witch 2: The Book of Shadows (September 1) The Blair Witch Project Cabin Fever (September 1) Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (September 1) The Clan (September 1) Cold Creek Manor (September 1) Crazy Heart (September 1) The Descent (September 1) The Dilemma (September 1) Dust 2 Glory (September 1) Employee of the Month (September 1) Europa Report (September 1) The Expendables (September 1) The Expendables 2 (September 1) The Expendables 3 (September 1) Failure to Launch (September 1) Fight Club (September 1) Frontera (September 1) The Ghost and the Darkness (September 1) Gorky Park (September 1) Hard Eight (September 1) He Got Game (September 1) Heartburn (September 1) Here Comes the Devil (September 1) How to Train Your Dragon (September 1) I Saw The Devil (September 1) I’m Still Here (September 1) In Time (September 1) Instructions Not Included (September 1) Intersection Jason’s Lyric (September 1) Juan of the Dead (September 1) Legally Blonde (September 1) Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (September 1) Let the Right One In (September 1) The Lifeguard (September 1) Love Story (September 1) Loving Pablo (September 1) Mandrill (September 1) The Mod Squad (September 1) Moonlight & Valentino (September 1) Mother! (September 1) The Motorcycle Diaries (September 1) Mr. Baseball (September 1) My Beautiful Laundrette (September 1) Night Falls on Manhattan (September 1) Open Water (September 1) The Out-of-Towners (September 1) The Package (September 1) Pulse (September 1) The Recruit (September 1) Reign of Fire (September 1) Rescue Dawn (September 1) Rings (September 1) Role Models (September 1) Role Models Unrated (September 1) Ronaldo (September 1) Rookie of the Year (September 1) Roxanne (September 1) The Sacrament (September 1) Save The Last Dance (September 1) Shattered (September 1) The Silence of the Lambs (September 1) Sin Nombre (September 1) Skyfall (September 1) Staying Alive (September 1) Superstar (September 1) Support Your Local Sheriff (September 1) The Transporter (September 1) Troll Hunter (September 1) Uncommon Valor (September 1) The Usual Suspects (September 1) Van Wilder: Freshman Year (September 1) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (September 1) Wanted (September 1) War of The Worlds (September 1) Weekend at Bernie’s (September 1) We’re No Angels (September 1) Wild Bill (September 1) The Young Victoria (September 1) Yours, Mine & Ours (September 1) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1 (September 2) Follow me on Twitter . Check out my website .

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