3 Underrated Prime Video Movies I Can’t Wait to Watch This Weekend (September 12-14)

If you want a little bit of everything, Prime Video is the streaming service for you.

The platform has all types of films, from comedies to horror to crime thrillers, and this weekend is the perfect time to watch some of them.

Watch With Us has selected three underrated movies to stream right now: the gothic romance Crimson Peak, Oliver Stone’s drug drama Savages and the Jennifer Aniston film Rumor Has It.

All three movies are guaranteed to entertain you and take your mind off all the chaos happening right now.

‘Crimson Peak’ (2015)

Director Guillermo del Toro is about to release his new gothic horror, Frankenstein, later this year, but it won’t be his first time dabbling in the genre. The Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker embraced his inner Brontë sister with the dark and disturbing romance Crimson Peak, which stars Mia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing, a young heiress and wannabe novelist who marries the respectable but poor British aristocrat Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston).

Thomas appears to love Edith, but he loves his sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain), just as much — if not more. The siblings want Edith to support their new digging machine invention, and they might just do anything to persuade her — including murder. But is Edith’s imagination just getting the best of her? Or is the man she married the one who will put her six feet under?

Crimson Peak is an extravagant romance filled with plenty of suspense, some ghosts and maybe an incestuous relationship. Everything is dialed up to 11, which is appropriate given the pulpy material everyone is dealing with. The movie is purposely ridiculous, but it’s also oddly charming in its own innocent way.

Crimson Peak is streaming on Prime Video.

‘Savages’ (2012)

Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) are best friends who run a lucrative cannabis business. Already rich, they plan on getting out of the drug business and retiring in Indonesia with their mutual girlfriend, Ophelia (Blake Lively). But a ruthless drug cartel run by Elena (Salma Hayek) has other plans for them. Elena wants Ben and Chon to help run her drug trade, and she kidnaps Ophelia as an incentive. Ben and Chon have no choice but to accept Elena’s offer, but how long will their tenuous relationship last?

Directed by Oliver Stone, Savages is a wild crime caper filled with beautiful people doing some pretty ugly things. The narrative takes some pretty unexpected turns, with at least one fake-out twist you won’t see coming. The stacked cast, which also consists of Benicio del Toro, John Travolta and Ali Wong, is clearly having a lot of fun, even while they shoot each other. You’ll have to reach the ending to understand what the movie title really means and who it’s referring to.

Savages is streaming on Prime Video.

‘Rumor Has It’ (2005)

Everyone’s seen The Graduate, the classic film about a college student, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), who sleeps with one of his parents’ married friends, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft). But what if that movie was based on real people who actually, you know, did it? That’s the hook behind Rumor Has It, a comedy about a woman, obituary writer Sarah (Jennifer Aniston), who begins to suspect her grandmother, Katherine (Shirley MacLaine), might be the real Mrs. Robinson. Even worse, her dad might not be her real father; instead, it could be Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner), a Silicon Valley tycoon who slept with Sarah’s mother and grandmother.

What’s a girl to do? Well, if she’s the lead in a comedy movie like this one, she tries to solve the mystery herself by questioning all of her relatives and even Beau himself. Aniston is totally believable as a woman simultaneously perplexed and creeped out by her parents’ behavior, while MacLaine gets some easy laughs as Sarah’s unrepentant nana. The movie is lightweight, breezy and is best enjoyed by those who have seen The Graduate at least once.

Rumor Has It is streaming on Prime Video.