5 Best Prime Video Movies to Watch on New Year’s Eve: ‘The Naked Gun,’ ‘Sinners’ and More

Amazon’s Prime Video may not be the No. 1 streaming service, but it has something no other streamer can offer on New Year’s Eve.

Several of this year’s top hits from Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount and Universal Pictures are all included with your Prime Video subscription.

As 2026 approaches, Watch With Us has narrowed our selections down to the five best Prime Video movies to watch on New Year’s Eve.

Our picks include an outstanding horror flick, an off-the-wall comedy, a tense thriller and more.

‘Sinners’ (2025)

Vampire movies aren’t often in the Oscar conversation about the Best Picture of the year, but Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners just might get a nomination from the Academy Awards. This original horror film took audiences by storm earlier this year with two great performances by Michael B. Jordan as the Smokestack twins, Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore. The twins have been gangsters and soldiers, but none of that prepared them for the children of the night.

After the twins fulfill their dream of opening a juke joint in their hometown, their crowd is preyed upon by vampires. Just one bite can turn even their most loyal friends into deadly blood suckers. One of the first to fall is Stack’s ex-girlfriend, Mary (Hailee Steinfeld). She won’t be the last, and there may not be anyone living left by the time the sun rises again.

Sinners is streaming on Prime Video.

‘The Naked Gun’ (2025)

Believe it or not, there is a plot in The Naked Gun, a legacy sequel to the incredibly hilarious movies of the ’80s and early ’90s. But it’s largely in service of Liam Neeson following in the footsteps of the late Leslie Nielsen with deadpan humor that’s even funnier coming from such a dramatic actor.

Neeson plays Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Nielsen’s character from the original trilogy. Frank’s a little more competent at catching bad guys than his father, but the chaos he leaves in his wake is a family tradition. Pamela Anderson costars as Beth Davenport, a woman whose brother’s death is ruled a suicide. Romantic sparks fly as Frank and Beth investigate, which has even led to reports that Neeson and Anderson were dating in real life.

The Naked Gun is streaming on Prime Video.

‘Drop’ (2025)

Speaking of dating, Violet (Meghann Fahy) picked the absolute worst time to get back into the dating pool in the thriller Drop. Violet’s son, Toby (Jacob Robinson), and her sister, Jen (Violett Beane), encouraged her to go out on her first date since the death of her husband. She even seemed to hit the jackpot with Henry (Brandon Sklenar).

But in thrillers, there’s always another shoe to drop, and this is it: Someone has targeted Violet for blackmail and taken her son and her sister hostage. Violet doesn’t know who’s doing this to her, but one thing is made perfectly clear. If she doesn’t kill her dinner date, then she’ll never see her family alive again.

Drop is streaming on Prime Video.

‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ (2025)

Everyone’s heard of rom-coms, but The Ballad of Wallis Island is basically a rom-dramedy and the quirkiest selection on this list. Tim Key stars as Charles Heath, a two-time lottery winner who is now a very wealthy man. Charles could do almost anything with his money, but all he really wants is to reunite his late wife’s favorite folk duo, McGwyer Mortimer.

Getting the estranged former lovers/partners, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), to agree to a private show was the easy part. Keeping them together long enough to actually perform is the real challenge, especially since Nell has moved on and married another man named Michael (Akemnji Ndifornyen). Even the beautiful music of McGwyer Mortimer may not be enough to overcome their hurt feelings.

The Ballad of Wallis Island is streaming on Prime Video.

‘Mickey 17’ (2025)

Is a fresh start in life worth dying for? It is for Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) in Mickey 17, the first film by director Bong Joon Ho since his multiple Oscar wins for Parasite. Mickey was so desperate to escape Earth that he took a job on a space expedition to a new colony that gave him the most dangerous assignments, often at the cost of his own life.

Every time Mickey dies, he’s simply cloned again and resumes his place among the crew. Mickey 17 is the clone that doesn’t die, and that causes all sorts of problems, especially for Mickey 18. There are very strict rules about having more than one clone running around on this world, and that may doom both of the surviving Mickeys if the truth about 17’s survival is revealed.

Mickey 17 is streaming on Prime Video.