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
Don’t Make Me Go (July 15)
Get ready to cry real ugly, because John Cho is dying of a fatal brain tumour in this weepie road trip dramedy. Having promised his teen daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) driving lessons, the pair take off from California to New Orleans, bumping into familiar faces such as Jemaine Clement and Kaya Scodelario along the way.
Their final destination is his 20-year college reunion, and another, more secret reunion that Wally might object to: meeting the estranged mother that left the father-daughter family long ago. You won’t want the road trip to end, bringing back bittersweet memories of bickering with your own dad in his beat-up car.
Anything’s Possible (July 22)
“I hate when people say I’m brave”, trans teen Kelsa groans at her crush Khal. He has the perfect response: “it’s not that brave if you’re just being who you are.” Queer fashion icon Billy Porter directs this sweet and necessary new high school romance, with Broadway star Renee Elise Goldsberry bringing some glam as Kelsa’s loving mum.
It looks pretty dang typical of the whole boy-meets-girl teen genre, which is quietly revolutionary in its own way. But how can the romance between our young heroes flourish when he’s accused of “only dating her for the woke points”? If we know anything about Porter’s fairy godmother energy, it’s that there should be a happy ending—and some incredible Gen Z fashion moments.
Paper Girls (July 29)
I don’t remember too many of the particulars of Brian K. Vaugan’s graphic novel series Paper Girls: but what still resonates is its earthy, retro feel, another Stranger Things-esque tale about bike-riding teens getting caught up in interdimensional mayhem. Sent cavorting through time and space on Halloween night 1988, four paper girls will forge an eternal bond, even as their future selves present troubling visions of what will inevitably be.
The young cast playing Erin, Mac, KJ and Tiffany are all relatively unknown, but Ali Wong and Nate Corddry will show up as older figures helping—or hindering—the girls as they try to defeat the militant anti-time-travel faction the Old Watch.
All titles arriving on Prime Video UK in July
July 1
6-Love
1UP
52 Pick-Up
A Feral World
A Hologram for the King
A Very Brady Sequel
Adventure Boyz
Aeon Flux
Ali
Ali Director’s Cut
All Roads to Pearla
Alternatino With Arturo Castro: Season 1
As Long as We Both Shall Live
Attack of the Unknown
Awaken The Shadowman
Barry Munday
Betrayed
Blown Away
Blue Jay
Body of Evidence
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Broadway Danny Rose
Cadillac Man
Call of the Wolf
Cedar Rapids
Changeland
Chasing Molly
Clueless
Coffy
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Coyotaje
Criminal Law
Cruel Hearts
Cruiser
Dark Blue
Dark Waters
Dave Made A Maze
DC Noir
Dead Ringers
Drillbit Taylor
Easy Does It
Europa Report
Eye Of The Needle
Four Feathers
Forev
French Postcards
Frisky
Futureworld
Gino’s Wife
Gladiator
Good Neighbors
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Here Comes the Devil
High-Rise
Hobo with a Shotgun
Hot Dog…The Movie
Hot Fuzz
In Action
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
Internal Affairs
Into the Blue
Iris Warriors
Jacob’s Ladder
Jamie Marks Is Dead
Jennifer’s Body
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
John Dies at the End
Kiltro
Lincoln
Little Man Tate
Loves Spell
Lust For Love
Mandela
Midnight in Paris
Moments in Spacetime
No Way to Live
Party With Me
Patriot Games
Pieces of April
Play the Game
Pretty Ugly People
Racing With The Moon
Raging Bull
Revolutionary Road
Rosemary’s Baby
Runner
Say Your Prayers
Slash
Son of God
Speed
Stay
Stuff
Sunset Song
Swiped
Switchback
The Arbors
The Fighter
The Fighting Temptations
The General’s Daughter
The Gospel According to Andre
The Honor Farm
The Hunted
The Italian Job
The Mongolian Connection
The Pirates! Band Of Misfits
The Posthuman Project
The Queen of Versailles
The Republic of Two
The Rest of Us
The Sum of All Fears
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Terminal List: Season 1 Premiere
The Time Machine
Tucked
Unicorn City
Venus and Serena
Very Cavallari
Virtuosity
Wargames
We Love You, Sally Carmichael!
We Take The Low Road
When Icarus Fell
Yentl
July 2
House of Gucci
July 8
Warriors on the Field
July 15
Don’t Make Me Go
Forever Summer: Hamptons: Season 1
July 22
Anything’s Possible
Prizefighter
July 29
Paper Girls: Season 1 Premiere
