Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video UK: January 2023
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
Harold and Maude (January 1)
There’s a metric buttload of wonderful films arriving on Prime Video this New Years Day (Indy!! Ethan Hunt!! Sorry To Bother You, and multiple Oscar winners!!). But the one that’s closest to my heart is this absolutely enchanting cult comedy, directed by Hollywood hippy Hal Ashby with wisdom and whimsy. Dark and sentimental all at once, it chronicles the unlikely romance between a suicidal spoiled kid (Bud Cort) and the octogenarian Holocaust survivor (Ruth Gordon) who inspires him to appreciate life. The Cat Stevens soundtrack of folky, bittersweet melodies has never been bested in terms of perfectly matching a film’s tone, especially one this eccentric.
The Rig: Miniseries (January 6)
One of the world’s most extreme working environment only gets extremer-er in this limited series, following a communication crisis on an oil rig off the coast of Scotland. GoT stars Iain Glen and Mark Addy already have plenty on their hands—a mysterious fog obscuring the shore, supplies dwindling, no rescue in sight—before their crew start to turn on each other, paranoia rising after a devastating accident turns things from bad to worse. Prime promises a “character-driven mystery thriller”, with the merciless North Sea roiling in the background as a reminder of just how small and petty our human workplace squabbles can get.
Shotgun Wedding (January 27)
This action rom-com completely sold itself with the trailer’s scene of Jennifer Coolidge with a machine gun, so hopefully the gags and setpieces live up to that delirious grab at memedom. Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel star as a couple trying to reconcile their boisterous families whilst at their glam destination wedding, only for the whole event to turn very Die Hard when they’re all taken hostage. We’re sure that their cold feet and last-minute regrets will get warmed up by a few explosions, ending the whole thing in a well-earned “I do”.
All titles arriving on Prime Video UK in January
January 1
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Mission: Impossible
Dharma & Greg: Season 1-5
Invader Zim
Nella the Princess Knight
Shimmer and Shine
12 O’Clock High: Season 1-3
Welcome to Flatch
50/50
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
After Earth
Akeelah and the Bee
Ali
Antwone Fisher
Are We There Yet?
Baby Boy
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Beauty Shop
Black Dynamite
Blankman
Blue Chips
Breakdown
Breakin’ All the Rules
Broken City
Brown Sugar
Clue
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Downsizing
El Dorado
El Mariachi
Election
Employee of the Month
Europa Report
Failure to Launch
Forces of Nature
Frankie & Alice
Friday the 13th (1980)
Gamer
God’s Not Dead
Guess Who
Harold and Maude
Higher Learning
Home for the Holidays
I Am Not Your Negro
If Beale Street Could Talk
In My Country
In the Heat of the Night
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold
Juliet, Naked
Just Wright
Love the Coopers
Mad Love
Mean Creek
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol
Mississippi Burning
Mo’ Money
Money Train
Mr. 3000
Muscle Shoals
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paycheck
Poetic Justice
Private Parts
Rec
Rec 2
Rec 3: Genesis
Red Dawn (1984)
Rejoice and Shout
Rosemary’s Baby
School Daze
Serpico
She Hate Me
Six Degrees of Separation
Sorry to Bother You
Tangerine
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The Big Wedding
The Brady Bunch Movie
The Butler
The Devil’s Backbone
The Duchess
The Foot Fist Way
The Gospel According to Andre
The Love Guru
The Peacemaker
The Running Man
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Two Jakes
Three Can Play That Game
To Sir, With Love
True Grit
Walking Tall
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Witness
You Got Served
January 3
Endeavour: Season 8
Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul
January 6
Cosmic Love France
The Rig: Miniseries
Jurassic World Dominion
Black and Blue
Power Rangers
January 8
The Winter Palace
January 10
Snitch
January 13
Hunters: Season 2
The Test: Season 2
January 15
The Steve Harvey Show: Seasons 1-6
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Road Trip
January 17
Vengeance
January 20
The Legend of Vox Machina: Season 2
January 21
Hercules
January 27
Shotgun Wedding
The King’s Speech
January 31
Nate Bargatze: Hello World
Orphan: First Kill
Killing Them Softly