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The remarkable film load has somehow managed to sneak into the system without being noticed and has slipped by the wayside for Prime Video. Eight such classics have premiered on the platform and had Rotten Tomatoes scores of 90 percent or higher for all in May 2026. Your weekend watchlist has undergone a complete makeover.
GoodFellas -93%
It’s a gangster masterpiece, Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film that hits Prime Video shelves on May 1. The best mafia movie ever occurs, in fact, is the rise and fall of the Henry Hill mafia associate, as the audience sees them through Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci.
Do the Right Thing – 99%.
As fresh as ever, Spike Lee’s classic from 1989 has now come in for 99% of its fans, who love it, to abandon their approval ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. It is one of the largest, most pointed, and most energizing takes on racial and community strife in an American movie made during a hot August in Brooklyn.
Babe -98%
The talking pig isn’t to be deceived! Babe received nominations for seven Academy Awards in 1996, and that’s why it’s nominated on Rotten Tomatoes. It was directed by Chris Noonan and was one of the first movies to utilize digital mouth replacement technology using real animals in the picture.
Annie Hall – 97%
The film self-consciously and insightfully understood the genre of romantic comedy, and was the beginning of one that would be personified by Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. Of course, Annie Hall won four Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, and the loose narrative with no fourth wall that it tells still seems like so much fresh and inventive (but free-wheeling) storytelling today.
Hot Fuzz -97%
The 2007 Edgar Wright parody, for which the action comedy romp is the true standout, is pretty hilarious to say the least, and it’s well-deserving of its 97 percent RT rating. It’s set to be one of the best films in the hugely popular Three Flavours Cornetto franchise, with Nick Frost being teamed with big city cops, Simon Pegg.
Dallas Buyers Club -91%
Here you can experience a biographical drama in which Matthew McConaughey earned the Best Actor Academy Award for his incredible physical and emotional metamorphosis. He’s the Texas doctor, Ron Woodroof, who’s an AIDS sufferer and has brought these unapproved and illegal medications across the border to heal himself and to establish an off-the-books buyers club.
In the Heat of the Night – 99%
A 1967 Oscar winner, Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger star in two of the greatest performances in American cinema history. It has an approval rating of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and has become one of the best stories and stories about society.
Gosford Park -90%
Robert Altman cast Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and others to star in 2002 in a lavish English country house for a murder mystery that was rife with class tensions and black humor. It has garnered a fair 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Stream Them Now
Now, you can watch all eight movies on Prime Video for free, apart from the regular subscription fee. That there’s really no such thing as a bad choice in this regard with any one of these movies this weekend, as you can be Scorsese’s gangsters, Lee’s Brooklyn streets, or Babe’s heartwarming farm.
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