Those of you with streaming subscriptions will find plenty of options newly available to you this week, as both Netflix and Amazon Prime added a ton of new movies and TV shows — many of them classics and popular favorites — to their lineups. There’s a little something for everyone, whether you’re looking for heady sci-fi (2001: A Space Odyssey), explosive action (The Bourne Identity and Supremacy), classic horror (White Zombie), Oscar-winning drama (Million Dollar Baby), raunchy comedy (American Pie), or pretty much anything else you can think of. Check below for a select list of this week’s releases.
Season three of this CW drama premieres on Friday, October 9, so if you missed any episodes from last season, now’s the time to catch up with the teenaged Mary, Queen of Scots (Adelaide Kane) and the intrigue that surrounds her marriage to Prince Francis (Toby Regbo).
Available now on: Netflix
William Holden and Ernest Borgnine headline this classic Sam Peckinpah western about a band of outlaws on the run from the Mexican government and an old rival after they successfully stage a train robbery.
Available now on: Netflix
Stanley Kubrick’s thought-provoking space opus is a beautifully shot meditation on morality, mortality, and mankind’s search for truth. It’ll probably blow your mind.
Available now on: Netflix
Risky Business is Ground Zero for Tom Cruise’s superstardom, but it also benefits from Paul Brickman’s intensely stylish direction, Tangerine Dream’s classic score, and Rebecca De Mornay’s adolescent fantasy of a performance.
Available now on: Netflix
I Believe in Unicorns is a drama about a teenage girl with an active imagination who gets in over her head when she falls in love with an older boy.
Available now on: Netflix
Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, and Al Pacino star in this endlessly compelling, bile-drenched free-for-all about the office from hell, brilliantly scripted by David Mamet.
Available now on: Netflix
Paul Thomas Anderson’s ensemble opus about life in the porn industry made a movie star out of Mark Wahlberg and benefited immeasurably from great performances by Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, Luis Guzman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and William H. Macy.
Available now on: Netflix
This Certified Fresh drama tells the tale of an erotic relationship between two entomologists in a lavish country estate.
Available now on: Netflix
Clint Eastwood’s sports drama took home four Oscars — including Best Picture and Best Director — for its honest portrayal of a down-on-his-luck trainer (Eastwood) who reluctantly agrees to work with an aspiring female boxer (Hilary Swank, who won Best Actress) when her tenacity wins him over.
Available now on: Netflix
Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black satire, set in a brightly-colored but antiseptic futuristic England, features eye popping production design and a terrifically maniacal lead performance from Malcolm McDowell.
Available now on: Netflix
Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo earned Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominations for their portrayals of hotelier Paul Rusesabagina and his wife Tatiana, who together helped save the lives of over a thousand refugees during the Rwandan conflicts of the mid 1990s.
Available now on: Netflix
Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft star in Mike Nichols’ iconic, influential comedy, which features cinema’s most famous May-December romance and and bunch of classic Simon & Garfunkel tunes.
Available now on: Netflix
The first entry in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Batman trilogy explores Bruce Wayne’s (Christian Bale) origins and finds the caped crusader fighting back against organized crime in Gotaham City.
Available now on: Netflix
Tim Burton always had a thing for stop motion animation, and Corpse Bride is his first directorial effort in that genre. Longtime collaborators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter lend their voices to a young man named Victor and the undead woman he unwittingly marries while practicing his wedding vows in the woods.
Available now on: Netflix
Warehouse 13‘s Joanne Kelly stars in a drama about a woman who engages in an illegal scheme as part of a last ditch effort to save her family’s farm.
Available now on: Netflix
Matt Damon established himself as a credible action hero in Doug Liman’s adaptation of the eponymous Robert Ludlum novel, about a super-efficient sleeper agent with amnesia who slowly regains his memory and begins to uncover the dark truth behind his training.
Available now on: Netflix
Paul Greengrass took over behind the camera for the second installment of the Matt Damon superspy franchise, which initially finds Bourne off the CIA grid before he’s compelled to come out of hiding and face the agency head-on in an attempt to find closure.
Available now on: Netflix
Probably the most notable example of the recent resurgence of R-rated sex comedies, this coming-of-age story follows a group of high school buddies who make a pact to lose their virginity before their senior year ends.
Available now on: Netflix
Nina Dobrev (in her final season), Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder lead an ensemble cast in the CW’s wildly popular supernatural drama, centering on a fictional Virginia town where a teenage girl falls in love with a vampire and sets into motion a series of dramatic events.
Available now on: Netflix
Great Scott! This year marks the 30th anniversary of director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale’s beloved time travel franchise starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, and Amazon Prime has all three films available to stream. I hope we don’t need to tell you the plot here.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. BTTF II is notable for the absence of Crispin Glover (contract disputes) and original “Jennifer” Claudia Wells (family issues), but it’s a wacky romp back and forth between multiple timelines in 1985, 2015 (say whaaat?), and of course, 1955.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Nobody calls me chicken! Why does BTTF III work, even as a third installment in a potentially complicated time travel franchise? Because it minimizes the time travel element and has a lot of fun just being a solid sendup of westerns. Marathon all three movies and have a blast. Or just be a butthead.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, and Mark Ruffalo star in Michel Gondry’s mind-bending, deeply yearning sci-fi dramedy.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Taking a breather from Count Dracula, Bela Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a malevolent vooodoo master, with an entourage of undead minions in this low-budget chiller from 1932.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
A goofy road comedy in which Pee-Wee searches desperately for his prized bicycle, the Certified Fresh Pee-wee’s Big Adventure marked the feature debut of fellow oddball Tim Burton.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
The fourth season of FX’s horror anthology series focuses on a troupe of traveling carnival performers in the 1950s who arrive in Jupiter, Florida, and face an unknown entity who begins terrorizing the community. Also, there’s a pretty scary clown in it.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Don’t feed these suckers after midnight, and don’t get them wet! Joe Dante’s beloved horror-comedy stars Zach Galligan as an unsuspecting office drone who adopts a strange creature in Chinatown, names him Gizmo, and promptly discovers that his new pet — as cute as he is — is plagued by some horrific allergic reactions.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Nancy Meyers wrote the script for this comedy, which stars Diane Keaton as a high-powered executive who finds herself caring for the infant child of some distant relatives.
Available now on: Amazon Prime
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Vincent Price star in Otto Preminger classic film noir mystery, the story of a talented advertising executive and the intrigue left in the wake of her murder.
Available now on: Netflix, Amazon Prime
Back in the 1980s, Sam (Adam Sandler) and his buds were masters of the arcade. But when a race of aliens mistake Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and the like for a threat — and reverse-engineer said icons for destructive purposes — its up to our slacker heroes to save the day.
Available now on: Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne star in this adaptation of the John Green (The Fault in Our Stars) novel, about a teen who embarks on an adventure through his town when his quirky neighbor disappears and leaves him a trail of clues to follow.
Available now on: Amazon, Google Play, Vudu
