Anchored by outstanding performances from Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield, the film works well within the mainstream liberal discourse. The 21-year old black activist was under FBI surveillance and eventually assassinated by them. Shaka King’s historical drama on Fred Hampton and Black Panthers reverberates with high energy and passion. Brazil’s entry in the Foreign Film category, City of God was nominated for four Academy Awards. Flush with violence and corruption, the film’s gritty portrayal of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro contribute to its formidable reputation. The film documents the beginnings of a poor neighborhood, set up to rehabilitate people who had formerly been cast out from Rio’s slums ahead of the city’s beautifying drive. The iconic Brazilian gangster film City of God is based on the semi-autobiographical eponymous novel by Paulo Lins. The brilliant cinematography keeps intact the dark and macabre tone of the narrative. Similar to his existential drama A Ghost Story, Lowery deals with themes of time, life, inevitability, and death. Patel’s Gawain is indeed charming but also very vulnerable unlike the heroic medieval knights. The casting of Dev Patel as Sir Gawain is a very interesting one. Though Green Knight sounds like a conventional quest story, director Lowery constantly overturns our expectations. Gawain goes on a quest to the Green Chapel to confront a mysterious creature. These films were playing as of February 24, 2022.īased on a 14th century poem, David Lowery’s sumptuous medieval drama tells the tale of Sir Gawain, nephew of King Arthur. We’ve sifted through it all and bring you some of the best movies on Amazon Prime India across languages and genres.īookmark this list to keep track of fresh titles out on Amazon Prime every month.
Instead, they discovered and duly appreciated hidden gems on Amazon such as Minari and Titli.
This was especially evident with the Covid-19 pandemic when audiences were no longer able to access traditional methods of watching films. Newer releases have also been making their way to the streaming platform, giving audiences a good mix of blockbuster cinema and thoughtful films to choose from. While Netflix boasts more international content, Amazon has gone big on ramping up its local content library.
It is steadily growing its catalogue of films and TV shows, featuring indie gems and character-driven stories from across languages and genres. George Lopez: The Wall - Live from Washington, D.C.With Amazon Prime strongly pitted against Netflix, there’s so much the streaming giant has to offer lately.Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally: Summer of 69: No Apostrophe.Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery.Babe Winkelman's Outdoor Secrets 2014: Quarter 4.DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge, season 5.Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo.Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, season 3.My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, season 7 (episodes 1–13).Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, season 1.But mostly, the crown jewel for the service is going to be the same as it was last month: Game of Thrones, which will have its seventh season finale on August 27th. HBO Now is adding several films as well, including Oscar nominees like Nocturnal Animals and Jackie, as well as the Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The service will also be adding a number of titles appealing to genre fans (the entire Saw franchise), Johnny Depp fans ( Benny & Joon), stoner time-travel fans (both Bill & Ted movies), and werewolves surfing on top of vans fans (the original Teen Wolf and Teen Wolf Too). On the surprise release front, the service will also premiere the Orphan Black-esque What Happened to Monday?, featuring Noomi Rapace playing seven different sisters who have to hide each other’s identities in a dystopian sci-fi future.Īmazon Studios is also delivering on another show it hyped at Comic-Con with the August 25th release of the first season of The Tick, starring Peter Serafinowicz as the titular superhero. On August 25th, Adam Wingard’s adaptation of the manga Death Note will make its debut, fresh off a Hall H appearance at San Diego Comic-Con, and on August 4th the service will release the first season of Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later. The show is just one of several pieces of splashy original programming that Netflix is touting for the end-of-summer movie season. And on August 18th it is finally coming to the streaming service.
When Netflix announced four years ago that it was partnering with Marvel Studios for a series of television shows, the ultimate end game was going to be a team-up series called The Defenders.