Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video UK: November 2024

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: TV

Citadel: Honey Bunny: Season 1 (November 7)

Amazon still has its fingers crossed that the super-expensive Citadel series can rise to take over the world, following up last month’s spin-off Diana with this new, Mumbai-set edition of espionage thrills. The iteration has a few things going for it, namely a vibrant 90s setting and some Bollywood flavour, courtesy of Indian directing team Raj and DK. It’s also a prequel, showing the origins of the duelling spy factions that have dominated the world of the show…if not the memories or small screens of viewers. Hopefully newcomers to the “Citadel universe” who missed last year’s first chapter can jump right in without too much research to be done.

Cross: Season 1 (November 14)

A family man, a detective, a PHD in psychology, and—at various points ever since James Patterson first wrote him into existence, Morgan Freeman, Tyler Perry, and now Aldis Hodge: Alex Cross is truly a man of many facets. With Hodge suiting up as the determined cop for this episodic adaptation, literary crime fans will get an extended session with one of the most dependable thriller protagonists around. This time, the D.C. homicide cop is on the trail of a sadistic serial killer, with Cross obviously uncovering a dark connection between the fresh slayings and his late wife’s passing. Hodge is one of those talents who’s deserved a big, juicy lead role for a while now, able to switch fluidly from sympathy to intimidation: he’ll certainly do Patterson’s much-adapted hero justice.

Cruel Intentions: Season 1 (coming soon)

Don’t be too mad that your fave, misanthropic 90s teen drama is getting remade in TV form, replete with a dancey cover of The Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” soundtracking the above trailer: after all, even that biting movie was a modernised adaptation of a dirty French novel from the 1780s. Some things never go out of style, it turns out, such as college rivalries and the cruel games that bored, rich, attractive people can play. “You know that there are no lines between us, dear brother”, purrs one of the new Belmont step-siblings to the other: “that’s what makes it so fun.” Expect classic moments of backstabbing and seduction, with some new social mores and inclusive characterisations thrown in.