Best New Movies on Amazon Prime Video in July 2024

This month on Prime Video, we have a number of outstanding titles on stream. From classic dramas from top Hollywood directors to movies from 2024 you might have missed, these are the movies you don't want to miss. Here are the seven best movies to watch on Prime this July.

'Gladiator'

Available at: July 1, 2024 | Director: Ridley Scott

Distribution: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Spencer Treat Clark

Ridley ScottThe epic takes us back to ancient Roman times, telling the story of a once powerful general (Russell Crowe) forced to become a regular gladiator. The emperor's son is angered when he is passed over as heir in favor of his father's favorite general. He kills his father and arranges the assassination of the general's family, and the general is sold into slavery to be trained as a gladiator, but his subsequent popularity in the arena threatens the throne. gladiator is one of Scott's greatest works and might be Crowe's best performance. With a sequel on the way, now is the perfect time to revisit this classic.

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'Rocky'

Available at: July 1, 2024 | Director: John G. Avildsen

Distribution: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith

Arguably the best sports movie ever made is coming to Prime Video. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a small, working-class boxer from Philadelphia, is arbitrarily chosen to face the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) when the undefeated fighter's scheduled opponent is injured. While training with former bantamweight Mickey Goldmill (Burgess Meredith), Rocky tentatively begins a relationship with Adrian (Talia Shire), the wallflower sister of his meatpacking friend Paulie (Burt Young).

Rocky changed the way we perceive sports movies and is the pinnacle of the underdog trope. It's a great movie worth checking out, and if you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for?

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“Saving Private Ryan”

Available at: July 1, 2024 | Director: Steven Spielberg

Distribution: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Vin Diesel, Tom Sizemore

Steven SpielbergPrime Video's masterful war drama is heading to Prime Video. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) leads his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have died in combat. Surrounded by the brutal realities of war while searching for Ryan, each man embarks on a personal journey and discovers his strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. Saving Private Ryan it often flies under the radar, but it remains one of Spielberg's strongest films.

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'taxi driver'

Available at: July 1, 2024 | Director: Martin Scorsese

Distribution: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd

Suffering from insomnia, loner Travis Bickle (Robert de Niro) takes a job as a taxi driver in New York City. He roams the streets every night, increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the dirty city. When Travis meets campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), becomes obsessed with saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate and then turning his attention to rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).

The psychological thriller delves into Bickle's psyche as it shows us his descent into madness. Helped by Martin Scorsesestar direction, taxi driver is a 1970s drama that every movie buff should check off their bucket list.

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“Bob Marley: A Love”

Available at: July 23, 2024 | Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green

Distribution: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, Michael Gandolfini, James Norton

We have another musical biopic, this time focusing on the iconic artist Bob Marley. Directed by Kingsley Ben-AdirThe film tells a simple story about Marley's life as he overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.

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“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning”

Available at: July 25, 2024 | Director: Christopher McQuarrie

Distribution: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby

The seventh Mission Impossible film sees Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF team track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race across the globe begins. Faced with a mysterious and all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission, not even the lives of those he cares about most.

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'Lisa Frankenstein'

Available at: July 30, 2024 | Director: Zelda Williams

Distribution: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Jenna Davis

In 1989, a misunderstood gothic teenager named Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) revived a beautiful corpse (Cole Sprouse) from the Victorian era during a lightning storm. She begins to turn him into the man of her dreams using a broken tanning machine in her garage. After undergoing a playfully horrific transformation, the romantic duo embark on a murderous journey to find true love, happiness, and some missing body parts along the way.

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