David Farnor | On 24, Jul 2021

As the UK continues to navigate its way through the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon Prime Video’s sizeable library of movies and TV shows is a useful resource for keeping entertained indoors. But before you start bingeing through the line-up, don’t miss out on catching up with some modern gems before their rights expire.

This is your last chance to stream the following with Amazon Prime UK:

The Magicians: Season 5 – 25th July

Don’t miss your chance to catch the fifth and final season of Syfy’s fantasy drama.

Crazy, Stupid, Love – 29th July

A promising landmark on the road to the perfect redemption comedy-drama. With Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.

Psycho – 30th July

hockingly effective in 1960, the brilliance of Hitchcock’s horror remains undimmed to this day.

A Monster Calls – 31st July

A hugely moving tribute to the profound power of storytelling.

Channel 4 Comedies – 1st August

Don’t miss your chance to binge through some Channel 4 classics, including Black Blooks, Spaced, Teachers and Trigger Happy TV.

20th Century Women – 1st August

Annette Bening, Elle Fanning and Greta Gerwig are superb in drama about Dorothea Fields, a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home, and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help.

Ex Machina – 1st August

A smart thriller that raises provocative issues of gender and control.

Tamara Drewe – 1st August

From versatile British director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen) comes this comedy unexpectedly based on a graphic novel inspired by Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, wherein a small community is turned upside down by a new (old) arrival. Featuring a stellar turn from Gemma Arterton.

Robot and Frank – 1st August

Robot & Frank is a smart, sweet look at ageing, memory, death… and robots.

War of the Worlds (2005) – 1st August

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise team up once again for this underrated sci-fi.

The Social Network – 1st August

David Fincher’s take on the founding of Facebook is a gripping drama of petty politics.

The X-Files: Season 1 to 11 – 1st August

Don’t miss your chance to binge through the original and new episodes of the long-running sci-fi, which has a new home on Disney+.

Whiplash – 2nd August

“Not quite my tempo…”

The Hateful Eight – 4th August

Quentin Tarantino goes all Agatha Christie with this gripping, surprising lockdown thriller.

Carol – 5th August

Gorgeous, uplifting and heartbreaking, Carol is an elegant portrait of desire and restraint.

The Imitation Game – 6th August

The excellent Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley elevate this moving, if formulaic, Alan Turing drama.

Let the Right One In – 6th August

A haunting meditation on friendship and devotion, this is one of the best horrors of the last 10 years.

The Woman in Black – 6th August

Daniel Radcliffe impresses in this enjoyably creepy ride through haunted house conventions.

The Ides of March – 6th August

Ethics and idealism collide in Beau Willimon’s gripping political drama with an impeccable cast.

Paddington – 7th August

A charming, funny film that embraces everyone in the audience, regardless of age or origin.

The Edge of Seventeen – 7th August

This hilarious, heartfelt teen movie is a classic addition to the genre.

 

Other titles leaving Amazon Prime in July / August 2021:

24th July
Rock of Ages
The Dare
Body of Deceit
Marcel Pagnol’s Time of Secrets & Time of Love

25th July
The Wedding Singer
The Bounty Hunter

27th July
Shaft (2000)

28th July
Olympus Has Fallen
London Has Fallen
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Poseidon
xXx
xXx: The Next Level
The River Wild

29th July
Hasta Que La Boda Nos Separe

30th July
Blades of Glory
The Star

31st July
See No Evil: Season 1 to 4
The Sweeney
Weekender
Hit and Run
Gary the Tennis Coach
The Crew
Montana
Damage (2010)
Welcome Home
Franklyn
Drug Wars: Season 1
Welcome to Sweden: Season 1
Matador: Season 1
The Warriors: Season 1

1st August
Black Books: Season 1 to 3
Spaced: Season 1 to 2
Teachers: Season 1 to 4
Rhod Ghilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie
Rhod Ghilbert and the Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst
Rhod Ghilbert: The Man with the Flaming Battenberg Tattoo
Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy: Season 1 to 2
Trigger Happy TV: Season 1 to 2
Crashing: Season 1
Bad Robots: Season 1 to 2
Derren Brown: The Specials
School of Comedy: Season 1
The Rich Kids of Instagram: Season 1
Faking It: Season 2 to 5
Dirty, Sexy Things: Season 1
Dark Money: Season 1
My New Best Friend: Season 1
Sorority Girls: Season 1
Guilt: Season 1
Desmond’s: Season 1 to 6
Tom Stade: Season 1
Desperate Scousewives: Season 1
Love Shaft: Season 1
The Work Experience: Season 1
Raised by Wolves: Season 1 to 2
Absolutely: Season 1 to 4
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind: Season 1
Taking New York
Carla’s Song
Hear My Song
Dancer in the Dark
Some Voices
The Driver
To Write Love on Her Arms
Gerry
The Silencers
Welcome to the Punch
Saving Face
Torture Garden
Mr Calzaghe
The Best of Me
The Railway Children
The Life of David Gale
Something New
The War Zone
Rise of the Footsoldier: Extreme Extended Edition
U-Turn
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters (2016)
Sausage Party
2 Guns
The LEGO Ninjago Movie
Click
My Mom’s New Boyfriend
Hope and Glory
The End of the Affair
All the Pretty Horses
Beautiful and Twisted
The Magdalene Sisters
Runaway (1984)
The Intruders
Paul
Enders Game
Hysteria
Free Birds
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Principles of Lust
High Hopes
The Red Violin
Threesome (1994)
Gambit
Lawless
Wish You Were Here
Marooned
Unthinkable
Death Tunnel
The Jungle Bunch
Miss Potter
Bobby
Ghostbusters II
Elysium
Decoys 2: Alien Seduction
Close My Eyes
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
The Producers
Hellraiser: Judgement
Tracers
Crush
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Acid House
Supersonic
A Month in the Country
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Company You Keep
Dead Snow
Buffalo Soldiers
The Low Down
The Fortune
Being AP
Poor Cow
Blue Juice
With or Without You
Another Country
Ladybird Ladybird
Birthday Girl
Funny Ha Ha
Little Otik
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
Alice
Hunky Dory
The Warrior (2002)
Those Glory Glory Days
Scenes of the Crime
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Comrades
Angel (1982)
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Dr M
Insitute Benjamenta
Zarafa
White Sharks Outside the Cage
Mutual Appreciation
It’s All About Love

2nd August
Geostorm
Disconnect
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
The Mule
Allied
Elvis & Nixon
3rd August
John Wick Chapter 2
Bullet to the Head
Risen
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Haunt
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Freeheld

4th August
13 Going on 30
Italy’s Mystery Mountains

5th August
The Devil You Know: Season 1 to 4
Haven: Season 1 to 5
The Sapphires
Rango
Awakenings
Warm Bodies
So You Said Yes
Memory Book
The Rebound
Relative Values

6th August
Hindsight: Season 1
Ice: Season 1 to 2
Very Bad Men: Season 3 and 4
Primeval: New World: Season 1
The Hole (2010)
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
Insidious
Insidious: Chapter 2
Sorority Row
Revolt
The Devil’s Rejects
V/H/S
The Dark

7th August
Arthur and the Minimoys: Season 1
Conviction: Season 1
England Is Mine
Tactical Force
The Love Punch
Erin Brockovich
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Sukiyaki Western Django
I Love You Phillip Morris
The Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered
The Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man
The Chronicle Mysteries: The Vines That Bind
Pawn Sacrifice
Northmen: A Viking Saga
Ballerina
The DUFF
Young Victoria

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