As the second-fastest movie to hit the $1 billion mark at the box office and the highest-grossing opening weekend movie in domestic box office history, it’s fair to say that Spider-Man: Brand New Dayis a triumph. The webslinging return of Tom Holland‘s Peter Parker has now earned almost $1.2 billion worldwide in less than a week, with its second weekend hoping to be another record breaker. But if you’ve already caught Brand New Day and are looking for how else you should fill your weekend, then why not turn to one of the world’s best streamers? With that in mind, here’s a list of three Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend.
Right now, it’s fair to say that there is no more relevant actress than Zendaya, as she features in the two biggest movies of the summer (The Odysseyand Spider-Man: Brand New Day). But her best performance of this decade came in a steamy 2024 sports movie that you should watch on Prime Video this weekend.
Also Luca Guadagnino’s best movie to date, Challengers stars tennis players and former best friends Patrick (Josh O’Connor) and Art (Mike Faist), who are both on opposite ends of the career spectrum. About to play each other in a match, the pair’s journey to this moment is explored in detail, including their fiery love triangle with Zendaya’s Tashi. Featuring a pulsating score, impressive cinematography, and a trio of remarkable central performances, you won’t regret serving yourself up a film feast this weekend.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% | IMDb: 8.8/10
Sometimes, the obvious choice is the best one. One of the best movies of all time, Quentin Tarantino‘s cinema-altering Pulp Fictiontells the non-linear tale of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster, and his wife, as their lives all intersect in a chaotic maelstrom of violence, revenge, and Big Kahuna Burgers.
A film that everyone should watch at least once in their lives, this inventive, utterly enthralling crime flick is as dramatic as it is darkly hilarious. The film features one of the finest ensembles ever put together, including John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and more, as well as one of cinema’s best screenplays from Tarantino. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
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‘The Devil’s Mouth’ (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 34% | IMDb: 4.7/10
One of the newest movies on Prime Video is also one of the most popular in its streaming ranks, so why not just watch it with the rest of the world this weekend? The Devil’s Mouth, a new horror flick that debuted in late July, follows a group of friends exploring an underwater cave system, as their trip is thrown into danger when they become the target of a deadly bull shark.
Is The Devil’s Mouth revolutionary? No, and it certainly makes plenty of mistakes. But what it lacks in quality, it makes up for in easy-viewing chaos that will keep you gripped to the edge of your seat. Directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring Kathryn Newtonand Lana Condor, the film has been torn apart by critics but won itself a place as one of the most popular movies on Prime Video, with that set to continue this weekend.
