Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video UK: August 2022

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video’s UK library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks

Thirteen Lives (August 5)

Combining a cast of recognisable stars playing heroic rescue divers with experienced Thai producers, Ron Howard’s dramatisation of the Tham Luang cave incident should hopefully function somewhere between gritty realism and Hollywood wish-fulfilment. It’ll be best watched with the lights off, making the third act’s gripping rescue feel all the more claustrophobic.

Viggo Mortenson, Colin Farrell, and Joel Edgerton are among the stars playing the reclusive diving enthusiasts who were called in from around the world to pull off a rescue that even Navy SEALs found fatal. We already know how the inspirational tale ends, but ever since the news first broke a heartstring-tugging adaptation was inevitable nonetheless: maybe Howard can make it feel fresh and thrilling again.

A League Of Their Own: Season 1 (August 12)

Broad City comedian Abbi Jacobson is bringing together a new batch of broads to take on another kind of fight, whilst their community’s men are overseas fighting in WWII. Remaking the sweet 1992 sports comedy of the same name with all-new characters, the show could be a home run if it really does manage to infuse that story with some more modern perspective.

After speaking to surviving players in the original women’s baseball league, Jacobson and her team found it essential to include stories of more diverse and discriminated female ballers—there’s no way at least some of these sporty, rebellious gals weren’t gay AF. Look out for sitcom star D’Arcy Carden as one of the loveable new characters, giving Jacobson a flirty grin as she makes first base. Not a metaphor in this case, sorry.

Samaritan (August 26)

Australian director Julius Avery helms this original superhero flick, in which Sly Stallone gets to borrow a page from his rival Arnold Schwarzenegger’s playbook. Samaritan, after all, sounds a bit like The Last Action Hero, with a plucky underdog kid discovering that his gruff, anti-social neighbour could be a masked hero who was presumed dead long ago.

This thing was filmed ages ago back in 2020, and was meant to be theatrically released in November of that year. Instead Prime subscribers are getting it at the end of August, which could be a sign that it is perhaps not very…good?? I’m going to eagerly tune in anyways, as even Stallone phoning it in is a muscular delight, and I’m always keen to give non-Marvel, non-DC hero tales a try.

All titles arriving on Prime Video UK in August

August 1

(500) Days Of Summer
1 Buck
16 To Life
3000 Miles To Graceland
5 Star Day
59 Seconds
A Dark Place
A Fish Called Wanda
A Night At The Roxbury
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Aaron’s Blood
Absolution
Acid Horizon
Already Gone
Alright Now
Anguish
Annapolis
Any Day
Assimilate
Baby Boom
Backstage
Backwoods
Bad Frank
Bad Therapy
Basic
Battle Scars
Before Midnight
Big Brother Volcano
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cartel Crew
Clockstoppers
Courage Under Fire
Crossed the Line
Dating My Mother
Derek’s Dead
Disappearance
Don’t Click
Downhill Racer
Drive Me Crazy
Eadweard
Escape From Alcatraz
Everybody Loves Somebody
Evil Dead
Face/Off
Filth
Firewalker
Follow the Prophet
Fright Night
Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos
Game of Spy
Go, Diego, Go!
Getting to Know You
Gonzo
Goodbye Butterfly
Grand Cru
Happy Yummy Chicken
Hardball
Here On Out
He’s Way More Famous Than You
I Am A Ghost
I Like Me
I Love You, Beth Cooper
Iceland Is Best
I’m Still Here
Impossible Monsters
International Falls
I’ve Got Issues
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
King Arthur
King Kong
King Of Knives
Kingpin
Leaving Las Vegas
Letter from Masanjia
Line of Descent
Lopez
Lost Bayou
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Man from Reno
McLintock
Mermaids
Misma Luna (Under The Same Moon)
Mr. 3000
Neil Young Heart of Gold
Never Heard
New Money
Obey
Once
Once Upon a Time in the West
One and the Same
Paradox Lost
Perfect Sisters
Pet Sematary
Prophecy
River’s Edge
Rockaway
Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion
Ronin
Safe Inside
Scary Movie 5
Serpico
Single White Female
Soldiers of Fortune
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek: Insurrection
Step Up Revolution
Still Today
Surrogate Valentine
The Atoning
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Devil Wears Prada
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Feels
The Haunting
The Hornet’s Nest
The Killer Elite
The Machinist
The Middle of X
The Missouri Breaks
The Saint
The Shootist
The Wrong Todd
The Yards
Thief
Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
To Tokyo
Trail of Ashes
Trickster
Trigger
Two Ways Home
Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman – The Play
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail
Under the Tuscan Sun
Undertow
Vampires Suck
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Wayne’s World II
We Were Soldiers
Weepah Way for Now
White on Rice
Wild Honey Pie!
Writer’s Block
Wuthering Heights
Yinz
Yours, Mine & Ours