3 best new to Prime Video movies to stream this weekend (April 17-19)

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Prime Video is one of the best streaming services on offer for movie lovers. Amazon's streamer offers a solid library of new shows and movies that's regularly being refreshed but that can mean keeping up with all those releases can be a big challenge — and that's where we come in.

Each week, we put together a quick list of new and noteworthy additions to Prime Video that we think you might want to have on your watchlist. That way, you don't have to waste your weekend scrolling through genres or categories, you can just get straight down to streaming.

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Best new to Prime Video movies to stream now

'Balls Up' (2026)

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OK, yes, "Balls Up" hasn't exactly been received well, but as Peter Farrelly's latest movie is the big new Prime Video release this week, I figured it's worth calling out all the same.

Pitched as a "raunchy, over-the-top comedy," "Balls Up" follows two marketing executives — Brad (Mark Wahlberg) and Elijah (Paul Walter Hauser). Together, they pitch a bold, full-coverage condom sponsorship with the World Cup, but after a drunken celebration in Brazil sparks a global scandal, they find themselves outrunning angry fans, criminals, and power-hungry officials, trying to salvage their careers and escape with their lives.

Stream "Balls Up" on Prime Video now

'The Running Man' (2025)

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If you're after action this weekend, then you might well want to check out Edgar Wright's 2025 take on "The Running Man," which hit Prime Video on Friday, April 17.

Here, we meet down-on-his-luck everyman Ben Richards (Glen Powell). In an effort to earn enough money to buy the medicine his sick daughter needs, Ben signs up for the most popular show on TV, "The Running Man." His task? Go on the run and survive 30 days. Successful "Runners" stand to earn a colossal cash prize if they make it out alive... but as he's pursued by the show's "Hunters," a team of deadly professional assassins who are out to get him, the odds are very much not in his favor. And when our angry antihero proves far more capable than everybody expected, he becomes a fan-favorite with the viewers at home ... making him a threat to the system that "The Network" has built.

Stream "The Running Man" on Prime Video now

'The Zone of Interest'

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I'm rounding out the list this week with a recommendation that was part of last week's list. "The Zone of Interest" arrived on Prime Video last Sunday (April 12), and if you haven't yet checked it out, I'd urge you to consider adding it to your watchlist.

Jonathan Glazer's harrowing, critically-acclaimed watch is based on a 2014 novel by Martin Amis and revolves around the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his wife Hedwig ("Project Hail Mary's" Sandra Hüller) and their family, who lead a charmed life in their house that backs right onto the camp, indifferent to the atrocities being carried out right under their noses.

Stream "The Zone of Interest" on Prime Video now


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Martin Shore
Staff Writer, Streaming

Martin is a Streaming Writer at Tom’s Guide, covering all things movies and TV. If it’s in the theaters or available to stream somewhere, he’s probably watched it… especially if it has a dragon in it. Before joining the team, he was a Staff Writer at What To Watch where he wrote about a broad range of shows that stretched from "Doctor Who" and "The Witcher" to "Bridgerton" and "Love Island". When he’s not watching the next must-see movie or show, he’s probably still in front of a screen playing massive RPGs, reading, spending a fortune on TCGs, or watching the NFL.

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