11 movies to check out on Prime Video in January

Mad Max, Foe, The Passenger, Fast X, and Superman II lead the offerings from Amazon's streaming platform

By Robert DeSalvo | December 31, 2023 | 3:00pm

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11 movies to check out on Prime Video in January

Clockwise from left: Foe (Amazon Studios), Mad Max (American International Pictures), The Passenger (Paramount Home Entertainment) Image: The A.V. Club

Amazon’s Prime Video revs up the new year with new originals and several movies focused on automobiles and other modes of transportation. A few short months before Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga races into theaters, check out George Miller’s original postapocalyptic adventure Mad Max starring Mel Gibson to see why Max became so mad. Johnny Berchtold and Kyle Gallner leave a trail of destruction in the rearview mirror in The Passenger. Vin Diesel and Aquaman star Jason Momoa face off in Fast X. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video film library this January include Non-Stop, Pulp Fiction, Superman II, Foe, Transformers: Rise Of The Beast, The Other Zoey, and many more.

Mad Max (1980, available January 1)

Mad Max Official Trailer #1 - Mel Gibson Movie (1979) HD

George Miller’s postapocalyptic classic stars Mel Gibson as cop-turned-vigilante “Mad” Max Rockatansky in near-future Australia. Max goes “mad” after a motorbike gang destroys his family. Grossing more than $100 million worldwide on a budget of only $400,000, Mad Max set a Guinness record for movie profitability. The action-packed origin story spawned four sequels all directed by Miller, including this May’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

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