Prime Video is stacked with new movies in October 2025. With over 120 new arrivals set to land this month, I’ve picked out five with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes from the critics worth watching – and there’s something for everyone here.
This month’s standout picks include two classic romantic comedies, one with Hugh Grant and the other with the icon Cher herself. There’s also the sci-fi thriller Companion, which came out just this year and is already finding a home on one of the best streaming services.
You can also catch a surrealist drama from Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, in addition to one of the best sci-fi action movies from the ’80s with a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. See the movies below, along with the full list of new films arriving on Prime Video in October.
Companion (2025)
RT score: 93%
Age rating: R
Runtime: 97 minutes
Director: Drew Hancock
Arriving on: October 18
Earlier this year, Drew Hancock’s directorial debut made a lasting impression on movie lovers with his sci-fi thriller Companion, which was produced by Barbarian’s (2022) Zach Cregger. It’s one of the highest rated movies of the year, and it’s finally finding a home on a streaming platform.
Young lovers Iris and Josh meet at a supermarket, and it’s love at first sight. Now they’re an item, the two are invited to spend the weekend at Josh’s friend’s luxury secluded lake house. Though Iris thinks that Josh’s friends dislike her, her anxieties disappear and she ends up having a great night – until the group discover a dead body.
What was a night of fun and games is now a different story, and the group are left fighting for survival – but Iris makes a shocking discovery about herself that changes everything.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
RT score: 94%
Age rating: R
Runtime: 113 minutes
Director: Spike Jonze
Arriving on: October 1
Charlie Kaufman is a master of surrealist fantasy as seen with his scripts for Adaptation (2002) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – and the same goes for Being John Malkovich, which is one of the new Prime Video movies I can’t wait to tick off my list.
Struggling puppeteer and street entertainer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) takes a job in a low-ceiling office in Manhattan to support his marriage to pet store clerk Lotte (Cameron Diaz). Things change when he discovers a hidden tunnel on the 7½ floor in his office, which leads people directly into the mind of actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes, spitting them out next to the New Jersey Turnpike.
Along with his wife and co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener), the three see a business opportunity and start selling the experience for $200, but results in a complex triangle leading certain characters to question their identity.
Moonstruck (1987)
RT score: 90%
Age rating: PG
Runtime: 102 minutes
Director: Norman Jewison
Arriving on: October 1
Moonstruck was one of my favorite movies I streamed in February, and after months of it being absent from Prime Video it’s finally coming back. If you haven’t watched Moonstruck yet, take my word for it, it’s one of the best romantic comedies out there – and not just because of Cher.
Set in New York, Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini (Cher) is convinced that she’s been hexed with a marriage curse. She decides to remarry and accepts a proposal from her boyfriend Johnny – but she’s not really in love with him.
When Johnny sends her to convince his estranged brother Ronny (Nicholas Cage) to attend the wedding, the two unexpectedly fall in love under the influence of a full moon. Faced with a tough decision to make, her life becomes even more complex when she uncovers other cases of infidelity within her own family.
The Terminator (1984)
RT score: 100%
Age rating: R
Runtime: 107 minutes
Director: James Cameron
Arriving on: October 1
With a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, The Terminator is considered one of the best sci-fi movies ever – there’s a reason why it sparked a huge blockbuster franchise consisting of six movies.
In a dystopian 2029, computer system Skynet finds itself loses the war against the humans that created it. Before it’s exterminated, Skynet sends a powerful cyborg assassin known as the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back to 1984 for an important mission; to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton).
At the same time, human solider from the future Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is sent back to protect and save Sarah. Unbeknown to her, her unborn son will grow up to lead the humans in the war against Skynet, and is their only hope for victory.
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
RT score: 92%
Age rating: R
Runtime: 117 minutes
Director: Mike Newell
Arriving on: October 1
Another one of the best romantic comedy movies ever is Mike Newell’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, which exudes stereotypical Britishness that you can’t help but love. It was one of my favorite movies I streamed in June, and I think it’s time to revisit it in October.
Hugh Grant stars as Charles, a English bachelor who always seems to be at weddings, but is never the groom. When Charles serves as best man in the wedding of friends Angus (Timothy Walker) and Laura (Sara Crowe), he meets American woman Carrie (Andie MacDowell) and instantly falls in love. But despite their one very memorable evening together, that’s all it turns out to be.
Over the movie, we see Charles and Carrie run into each other over different social events and his awkward, failing attempts to win her back while all his friends find love in the meantime.
Everything new on Prime Video in October 2025
Arriving on October 1
1984
17 Again
A Shot in the Dark
A View to a Kill
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Accepted
Argo
Argo: Extended Edition
Bad Words
Basic Instinct 2
Beauty Shop
Being John Malkovich
Blazing Saddles
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Braveheart
Bride of Frankenstein
Bruce Almighty
Bull Durham
Candyman
Casino Royale
Cat People
Crank
Crank 2: High Voltage
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Curious George
Dead Man Walking
Death at a Funeral
Diamonds Are Forever
Die Another Day
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dr. No
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dracula
Easy A
End of Days
Erin Brockovich
For Love of the Game
For Your Eyes Only
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Frankenstein
From Russia with Love
Ghost Story
GoldenEye
Goldfinger
Hair
Hang ’Em High
Holmes and Watson
Hotel Rwanda
House of Gucci
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers 2
Judy
Knight and Day
Legends of the Fall
Licence to Kill
Live and Let Die
Lucy
Max
Max 2: White House Hero
Moonraker
Moonstruck
No Time to Die
Octopussy
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Overboard
Pixels
Play Dirty
Quantum of Solace
Quigley Down Under
Return to Me
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Scoot and Kassie’s Christmas Adventure
Skyfall
Soul Plane
Southpaw
Spartacus
Spectre
Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Big Country
The Boy
The Breakfast Club
The Change-Up
The Commuter
The Family Man
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Invisible Man
The Living Daylights
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther 2
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Shack
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Terminator
The World Is Not Enough
Thelma & Louise
Thunderball
Tomorrow Never Dies
Tremors
Us
Vacation Friends
Vacation Friends 2
Waterworld
West Side Story
You Only Live Twice
Arriving on October 5
The Boogeyman
Arriving on October 8
Maintenance Required
Arriving on October 10
John Candy: I Like Me
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Arriving on October 16
Culpa Nuestra
Dracula Untold
Arriving on October 18
Companion
Arriving on October 23
Host
Arriving on October 24
Migration
The Beast Within
Arriving on October 27
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Arriving on October 29
Hedda
Arriving on October 31
The Woman in the Yard
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