In the depths of Amazon Prime's vaults are plenty of films worth your time. We've picked out 20 of the best films on Amazon Prime in Ireland which are available to stream at the moment. They range in genre from crime thrillers to science fiction to comedy.
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The best films on Amazon Prime Video in Ireland
Rocky
Year: 1976
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Plot:
A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Rating: 8.1 (IMDB)
Parasite
Year: 2019
Cast: Song Kang-Ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong
Plot:
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Rating: 8.6 (IMDB)
Dating Amber
Year: 2020
Cast: Fionn O'Shea, Lola Petticrew, Sharon Horgan
Plot:
Two school friends decide to start a pretend straight relationship in an effort to fit in.
Rating: 7 (IMDB)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Year: 2020
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks
Plot:
Follow-up film to the 2006 comedy centering on the real-life adventures of a fictional Kazakh television journalist named Borat.
Rating: 6.7 (IMDB)
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Fight Club
Year: 1999
Cast: Ed Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter
Plot:
Discontented with his capitalistic lifestyle, a depressed man meets a soap salesman and forms an underground fight club. The project becomes something much more.
Rating: 8.8 (IMDB)
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Straight Outta Compton
Year: 2015
Cast: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
Plot:
The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Rating: 7.8 (IMDB)
Gone Girl
Year: 2014
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
Plot:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Rating: 8.1 (IMDB)
7500
Year: 2019
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Omid Memar, Aylin Tezel
Plot:
When terrorists try to seize control of a Berlin-Paris flight, a soft-spoken American co-pilot struggles to save the lives of the passengers and crew while forging a surprising connection with one of the hijackers.
Rating: 6.3 (IMDB)
Nowhere Boy
Year: 2009
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Brodie Sangster
Plot:
A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
Rating: 7.1 (IMDB)
Short Term 12
Year: 2013
Cast: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr.
Plot:
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
Rating: 8.0(IMDB)
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Year: 2011
Cast: Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Colin Firth
Plot:
Set in the 1970s, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy finds George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service.
However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage.
Rating: 7 (IMDB)
1917
Year: 2020
Cast: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
Plot:
April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Rating: 8.3 (IMDB)
What We Do In The Shadows
Year: 2014
Cast: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, Jonny Brugh
Plot:
Viago, Deacon and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane - like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
Rating: 7.7 (IMDB)
The Founder
Year: 2016
Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch
Plot:
Michael Keaton delivers a powerhouse performance in the outrageous true story of Ray Kroc, the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious entrepreneur who turned the McDonald brothers' roadside burger joint into a multi-billion dollar fast-food empire.
Rating: 7.2 (IMDB)
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Palm Springs
Year: 2020
Cast: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, JK Simmons,
Plot:
Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.
Rating: 7.4 (IMDB)
Monster
Year: 2003
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern
Plot:
The true story of Aileen Wuornos (Theron), a woman with a tortured past who turns to prostitution for money, and who eventually turned her anger into a motive for murder, becoming one of America's most infamous serial killers.
Rating: 7.3 (IMDB)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Year: 1993
Cast: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis
Plot:
A young man in a mid-western town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness. (IMDB)
Rating: 7.8 (IMDB)
Margin Call
Year: 2012
Cast: Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey
Plot:
The key players at an investment bank become entangled during 24 hours in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Rating: 7.1 (IMDB)
The Revenant
Year: 2015
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter
Plot:
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Rating: 8.0 (IMDB)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Year: 2014
Cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Norton, Emma Stone
Plot:
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Rating: 7.7 (IMDB)
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